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Chapter 1
We are not instinctual creatures. We develop and learn from each other. To discover solutions to troubling problems, you need to have help, whether from parents, friends, books, etc. You need to learn the social and behavioral tools and skills that can assist you in coping with lifes daily challenges.
Emotional freedom allows you to handle any situation. It will let you feel comfortable under any condition. It will provide you with self-confidence that will empower you to take care of problematic circumstances. Emotional freedom will allow you to realize your full emotional growth as a complete, mature human being. When you become emotionally free, youll develop a disposition and character of merit that will transform you into someone whom others will find interesting, provocative, and inspiring.
We may be advanced technologically, educationally, and intellectually, but our culture functions at a superficial level of social development. If all men are created equal, then emotional freedom has the potential to make this famous saying a possibility. An egalitarian culture can raise the social development of a society to a very high functional level.
It is only with the emotional growth of the individual that we evolve as a group, as a community, or as a society. It will never happen from the top down. It can only happen from the bottom up.
The problem is, we have not had the guidance that would allow us to discover the many layers and the deep complexity of ourselves. And we have not been given the knowledge to enable us to be master of our emotions and, that would make us successful and achieve our intentions.
With help, you can thrive and achieve emotional growth to become a confident person who is free of fear, free of anger, and free of insecurities. Advice is given that will show you how you can be proficient at anything you wish. Copious behavioral skills are described to help you do this and to help you build relationships and friendships.
When troubles arise in a relationship, knowledge is provided to resolve those problems to establish a stable bond. You become an emotionally free person when you use these behavioral skills to achieve a mastery of yourself. To be a commander of the self is an aspiration you can acquire with knowledge and guidance.
The intention is to guide and explain the skills that will strengthen your character, to allow you to handle stressful conditions. This information will give you the confidence in yourself, so you can become a person who is emotionally free of stressful, emotional drama. You are not truly a free person until you have command of yourself. There is an adage that says, He that rules the self is greater than he who captures a city. You rule the self when you are free of fear, free of anger, and free of insecurities.
The more significant purpose of this book is to enable you to enhance your character, your rational, creative mind, and your personality to generate connections with others in a supportive environment.
This book should be reread because there will be changes to your approach, attitudes, beliefs, and ideas about whats important in life so that each additional perusal will take on new and more significance understanding and meaning, that you will want to experience and live.
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The ego wants to control and rule you. It does that by keeping you distraught with undesirable difficulties like guilt, restlessness, boredom, regret, irritability, depression, fear, anger, and insecurity. Only the nuclei and neural pathways located in the limbic brain of the ego can create these negative emotions. (See the following illustration.) You, the conscience self, have no neural networks in your brain to generate these stressful feelings. When the egos thoughts are in your head, it takes control of your mind. The ego needs control of your brain before these stressful feelings can affect you. These disruptive effects disappear when you block the egos thoughts with the behavioral tools provided for you to use and practice.
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The hippocampus is your memory bank and acts as the neocortex of the egos limbic brain.1,2. This separate brain of the ego means that its an independent entity. It has different beliefs and attitudes that are the very opposite of yours. The ego will manipulate you to fulfill its agenda and desires. Its greatest craving is to control you and to control others.
The ego wants to be the boss who dominates. It can do this as long as it remains incognito and hidden, so we are unaware and ignorant of its abilities and skillfulness to be in charge of us. If we were to try to investigate further to learn about our ego, the egos of many people would become scared, angry, or insecure which they may experience as extreme uneasiness. Any attempt to gain knowledge about their ego will usually result in agitation, stress, and tension to cause them to back away and avoid developing any knowledge about their ego. This routine is how the ego stays in command of our mind to create most of our problems and this way it continues to control of us.
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The ego has an obsessive-compulsive drive to be thinking all the time. When the egos thoughts are in your head, it takes over control of your mind with thoughts about the past or the future. Thoughts are important. Thoughts are things that describe who you are. For a thought to come from you, it takes exertion or work on your part. The egos thoughts come into the head without effort. When the ego is thinking, it takes command of the mind and its agenda and beliefs rule, as you become a bystander.