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Working Beneath the Surface boldly challenges popular thinking in human development and provides a new perspective for realizing the souls hidden agenda and deep need for wholeness and fulfillment. Going beyond todays popular psychology, success-based self-help formulas, and new age spirituality, this book helps you feed the soul. Riskas uses his own experiences to help you discover why your best efforts and intentions for effective relationships meet with repeated failure. He teaches how to clear the past of spiritual obstructions, calm the demons within, integrate the personality, and attend to the deep needs of the soulto reclaim the creative power of the spirit.
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"I saw the angel in the marble, and I just chiseled until I set him free." Michelangelo
This inspiring sculpture, created by Gary Price of Springville, Utah, is symbolic of working beneath the surface. Those who embark upon this great work become "sculptors" of their own souls, working from within to discover and shape their identities and destinies. The vision, power, and will to become who we really are is within each of us. We chip away all that is not us, using chisels and mallets to bring the truth of ourselves to light. The work is difficult and at times even painful, but the sculptor within us, what I call the soul's hidden agenda, will not rest until the work is finished. The soul will ultimately be whole, with or without our conscious participation.
Many thanks to Gary Price for allowing rile to include this exceptional piece of art in this book.
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Working Beneath the Surface
Attending to the soul's "hidden agenda" for wholeness, fulfillment, and deep spiritual healing
Thomas Riskas
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1997 Thomas Riskas. All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without written permission from the publisher, except for brief quotations used in critical reviews and certain other noncommercial uses permitted by copyright law. For permissions requests, write to:
Executive Excellence Publishing 1344 East 1120 South Provo, UT 84606 phone: (80l) 375-4060 fax: (801) 377-5960 e-mail: execexcl@itsnet.com web: http://www-eep.com
First edition: August 1997
Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 102 01 00 99 98 97
ISBN: 1-890009-15-6
Cover sculpture and sculpture photo by Gary Price Author photo by Bryant Livingston Cover design by Ginger McGovern Printed by Publishers Press
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To my beloved companion, Annette: Thank you will never be enough.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
9
Preface: Personal Reflections
13
Introduction: Attending to the Soul's Hidden Agenda: Essential Perspectives and Overview
21
Chapter One: All the King's Horses... Why Popular Approaches to Human Development Don't Result in Sustained Effectiveness or Personal Wholeness
31
Chapter Two: Damning the Flow: How We Get Stuck in Life and Stop Growing
45
Chapter Three: Living a Lie: How and Why We Unconsciously Undermine Our Relationships
65
Chapter Four: Breaking Reactive Cycles and Getting "In Relationship" with Others
83
Chapter Five: Rising Above by Descending Below: The Personal Quest for Self-Knowledge and Wholeness
111
Chapter Six: Beyond Habits... Responding Honestly to Our Needs for Deep Spiritual Healing and Renewal
181
Chapter Seven: Emerging from the Darkness: Toward a Higher Vision of Living and Leadership
213
Epilogue: The Hope for Tomorrow
237
Notes
239
About the Author
275
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Acknowledgments
I feel deeply indebted to those who have in some way played a significant role in this work.
My wife, Annette, has been a tremendous inspiration and force for good in helping me work beneath the surface in my own life. She has encouraged me, endured me, and been my greatest support and most helpful critic.
My childrenNicole, T. J., Tyson, and Tessahave also played a greater part than they know. They have put me to the test, revealed me to myself, and helped me learn humility and patience. Most of all, they have taught me how to love and have renewed me with their love.
My mother and my father, who is deceased, gave me not only the gifts of life and of love, but their own special gifts. From my mother I received a free spirit, from my father a disposition for risk-taking, together with a deep sense of responsibility and of the need-to balance the demands of internal and external authority in following my own path.
To my brothers, Dean and Jim: You have been like a mirror to my soul and a touchstone in my quest for self-understanding. I love you both more than I can say.
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