Secret of Maturity, Fourth Edition


Book Description

Read Secret of Maturity to Discover— • How To Live a Mature Life • How To Own the Power of Emotional Responsibility • How To Stop Owning Garbage that Feels Bad • 12 New Tables of Information • More than Twice as Long as the Third Edition Secret of Maturity, Fourth Editon • This book describes maturity in understandable and practical terms. • If you want to know what it means to be mature, this book is for you. • If you want to know how to live a mature life, this book is for you. • If you want to grow up or know what it means, this book is for you. Education Lacking • With all our means of communication and education, how is it possible that many fundamental concepts and principles continue to remain a secret or a mystery to most people? • What kind of educational system can call itself “education” and fail to discuss and explore fundamental human qualities like maturity? • The research for this book uncovered many ways of approaching the same basic answer for the secret of maturity: maturity is responsibility. • Most of the answers to “What is maturity?” come from either psychology or philosophy. • The answers are listed or briefly described throughout the text, but you must decide what to do with all the answers. • So be responsible for how you assimilate the answers and put them into practice. Condensed Material • Quite a few of this book’s paragraphs summarize concepts expounded in entire volumes elsewhere. • Since this book is so condensed, it will be most effective after it has been read and studied many times. • Might we suggest that you first pursue those concepts that are personally relevant? • That will do you the best today because those concepts will be emotionally valuable. • Read the suggested references to those concepts, and locate other related works at the library or through Internet searches. • If you learn and apply the lessons contained in this book, results are guaranteed. Great Results • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that they are in better health because they can handle stress better. • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find that they have a better love life because they can handle interpersonal relationships and communication better. • Anyone who learns to live maturely will find a better career or work experience because they can better handle challenges, conflicts, stressors, work politics, and work pressures.




The Seventh Way, Second Edition


Book Description

Rediscover Ancient Christianity • How to Practice Christianity • How to Follow Christ’s Teachings • How to Read the Bible • How to Interpret the Bible • How to Find the Right Way Spiritual Life Is Not Violent • Repression Is Violence • Aggression Is Violence • Depression Is Violence • Presumption Is Violence • Destruction Is Violence • Promotion Is Violence Practice the Seventh Way • Flee Evil • Resist Evil • Meditate Evil Out • Freedom from Evil Four-Valued Thinking • Understand Spiritual Errors • Understand Ego vFocus on Solutions Scripture Lists • Scripture Is Easy & True • Scripture Describes Believers • How to Interpret Scripture • How to Hold a Christian Service • Christians & Communism Share Christianity to Make the World Better • Start Support Groups for Christianity • Start Communities for Christianity Short Description of the Book from the Book • This book is a Christian exposition on having the right relationship with God. • This right relationship is explained through having the right relationship with your identity, mind, and thoughts. • The understandings expressed herein apply to other spiritual practices despite emphasizing the Christian path. • In particular, the preferred way of being promoted herein (The Seventh Way) is helpful for those who meditate, seek to be present or mindful, and eliminate their ego. • This book focuses on evil and sin existing in the form of self-constructions. • The actions of sin are considered the acceptance, sharing, and promotion of self-constructions. • However, this book does not claim that focusing on self-constructions as the source of evil is the only way to focus on evil or sin. • To understand better and develop the spiritual skills taught in this book, you should also read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills.




Christian Idols


Book Description

Christian & Religious Idols • This book reveals how religions serve idols instead of God. • This book challenges Christians to give up their idols for Christ. • You will finally understand what idols are. • You will understand why idols hurt you mentally and spiritually. • You will face the problems of self-constructions in all of life. • You will understand how Christians, Buddhists, and Islamists use idols. Self-Constructions Are the Underlying Problem • This book focuses on idols existing in the form of self-constructions. • Another focus is on evil and sin existing as self-constructions. • The actions of sin are considered the acceptance, sharing, and promotion of self-constructions. • Your most important spiritual task is to end your self-constructions about yourself and others. Now End All Self-Constructions • End self-constructions and be happier and healthier. • End self-constructions, and you can also help others become free of the ego. • End self-constructions because the ego keeps us separate from God. • Reduce and remove self-constructions and live sanely in an insane world run by the ego. Read More • To develop your spiritual skills, read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills and Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps. • To rediscover the Christian life, read The Seventh Way, Second Edition. • To understand Christian scripture, read Christian Scripture.




Feeling-Intention Therapy


Book Description

Read Feeling-Intention Therapy to Discover— • FIT Incorporates REBT & CBT to Go Beyond Both Master Your Intentions & Feelings • Master Your thoughts & Responses 17 Diagrams & 8 Tables Make It Easy • Master Your Heart & Mind New Comprehensive Therapy System • This book presents the most comprehensive model available for understanding human feelings, intentions, thoughts, and responses. • This book presents a new therapeutic system to advance the counseling profession. • However, anyone familiar with Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) or Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) will find it comparatively easy to understand because FIT subsumes and builds upon those two models. • We have made this book accessible for professional practitioners and those seeking personal improvement, self-help, and self-knowledge. Do you dare face your inner demons? • Do you intend to overcome your inner demons? Then this book is for you. • Do you dare to prioritize the intention to be awake, aware, and alive? Then this book is for you. Want to Finally Map and Understand Your Mind? • Are you consumed by a desire to fully understand the workings of your mind? Then this book is for you. • This book will help you to discover a revolutionary psychological approach for both self-help and professional help. 5 or 12 Factors Controlling Human Responses • Feeling-Intention Therapy (FIT) will teach you the twelve main factors controlling, influencing, and motivating human behavior. • However, you only need to focus on five to make your life better. • When you know and understand why you do what you do, you will also learn why other people do what they do. • When you understand why you did what you did, you can more effectively and efficiently improve what you do next time. • When you know how to change the factors controlling your behavior, you can help others change their behavior by teaching them to change the same factors. • When others see you living a centered and meaningful life, then they will want what you have. Advanced & Exhaustive Psychology • Psychology has never been so complete or as clear and precise as it is in Feeling-Intention Therapy (FIT) because the order of psychological events is fully delineated. • While being a major advance in psychological understanding and application, FIT does not claim to work on biological or sociological issues except insofar as they are secondary issues and side effects of what FIT does address. • However, FIT is more than willing to work using a team approach wherein a group of professionals work together when helping a client, each one focusing on a different issue, communicating with and assisting each other as needed. FIT provides the map. You provide the territory. • Your counseling practice provides the experience. • Your experience of receiving FIT counseling provides the evidence. • Your contribution provides the needed help for both the theory and others.




Christian Scripture


Book Description

Christian Scripture • This book focuses on evil and sin existing in the form of self-constructions. • The actions of sin are considered the acceptance, sharing, and promotion of self-constructions. • To develop your spiritual skills, read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills and Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps. • To rediscover the Christian life, read The Seventh Way, Second Edition. Rediscover Ancient Christianity • How to Practice Christianity • How to Follow Christ’s Teachings • How to Read the Bible • How to Interpret the Bible • How to Find the Right Way • Overcome Ego for God Scripture Chapters Include • Christian Scripture • Scripture Is Easy & True • Scripture Describes Believers • Born of the Spirit • Scribes & Pharisees • How to Interpret Scripture • How to Hold a Christian Service • Christian Communities




Problem Solved! 3Rs


Book Description

Read Problem Solved! 3Rs and You— • Discover How to Problem-Solve Simply • Discover How to Problem-Solve Completely • Discover How to Make Problem-Solving a Life Skill • Results: Let Others Whine While You Fix It • Results: Let Others Worry While You Fix It • Results: Let Others Waste Time While You Fix It Problem-Solve with 3Rs • This book is about problem-solving using the 3Rs (Recognize, Remove, Replace). • There are 31 illustrations counting tables. • The 3Rs is a three-step solution that promotes effective and efficient problem-solving. • While the 3Rs are most natural to apply and understand as a method of problem-solving, the 3Rs are not limited to applications involving problem-solving. 3Rs for Planning • You can use the 3Rs to find closer approximations to some dream or ideal, fix something that is broken or not working, improves current business practices or systems, makes action plans for your life, plan for change or disaster, and cope with difficulties. Chapter Contents • A complete explanation of the 3Rs, along with definitions, is provided in the first chapter. • The second chapter provides examples of the 3Rs in practice. • The third chapter applies the 3Rs as a metatheory for counseling, shows how to use the 3Rs for relapse prevention and recovery, and demonstrates an advanced form of the 3Rs known as the 7Rs. • The fourth chapter applies the 3Rs to the issue of self-esteem and how to thrive despite self-esteem. • The fifth chapter helps with understanding and using emotions constructively. Solutions that Work Long-Term • In this book, you are encouraged to solve problems genuinely by not only removing symptoms but also by removing the underlying intentions, maintainers, payoffs, reinforcements, supports, supporters, and sustainers for problems. • Examples of some of the issues addressed include attitudes, ego, expectations, feelings, mental blocks, self-defeating habits, and self-esteem. Understand Feelings • A new paradigm or model for understanding feelings is also provided. The 3Rs are applied to that model to help you increase and reduce your unhealthy feelings. • Many tables are included throughout the book to simplify and reinforce your discovery, learning, and problem-solving skill development. The tables can remind you of critical insights and the contents of entire sections, if not whole chapters. Better Problem-Solving Now • Better problem-solving produces better living and working. • Solve problems better and live better today with the 3Rs.




Satan Stories


Book Description

Satan Stories • Satan’s Other Names • Satan’s Appearance • Satan’s Desire • Satan’s Nature • Satan’s Powers • Satan’s Story • Satan & God Christian Culture • We will bring Christianity back to life. • Discover the 4 Commandments of the Apostles. • Understand how Christians foolishly use idols. • Don’t eat blood or strangled meats. • How to raise children. • Jesus versus Muhammad. • Proper physical appearance. • Tattoos and immodesty are forbidden. God Is a Spirit • God cannot lie. • God cannot sin. • God cannot be tempted. • Only God is good. • All good is from God. How to Interpret Scripture • God said what He meant to say. • God meant what He said. • God’s Word is eternal. • God is direct and honest. • God is reliable and trustworthy, How to Live a Christian Life • How to hold a Christian service. • Christian communities. • Bishops and deacons. • Right government. • No idolatry. Description from the Book • This book is about how the Bible describes Satan; for example, he was evil from the beginning, and what the Bible says about his story. Christian culture occupies the largest chapter in the book and is modified from previous books. Topics include the commandments of the Apostles and the proper physical appearance in society. • A chapter on the nature of God follows the chapter on culture. Next is a chapter on the use of idols and how people love to lie about their idol usage. Instructions on how to and how not to interpret scripture compose the next chapter, followed by a chapter on how to hold a Christian service or meeting. Also, information designed to help you start a Christian community is provided. • The purpose of this book is to assist in bringing back to life Christianity. We differentiate Christianity from Chruchianity and religions claiming to be Christian. For example, those who extort money from you with guilt, shame, and false promises to build their own wealth, power, and legacy are neither honest Christians nor true believers. • This book focuses on the Christian story of Satan. • To develop your spiritual skills, read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills and Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps. • To rediscover the Christian life, read The Seventh Way, Second Edition, Christian Idols, and Christian Scripture. Read More 7 Spiritual Books Recommended 1. Self: Who Am I? 2. The Story of Life 3. Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps 4. Buddha Failed: 25 Reasons 5. Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills 6. The Seventh Way, Second Edition 7. Christian Sex 7 Christian Books Recommended 1. Christian Idols 2. Christian Scripture 3. Sinners Anonymous: Group Rules, Second Edition 4. The Seventh Way, Second Edition 5. Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps 6. The Story of Life 7. Self: Who Am I?




Jesus Speaks About Jesus


Book Description

Jesus Speaks • Names of Jesus • Jesus Speaks About Jesus • Apostles Speak About Jesus • Jesus Speaks on Topics • Jesus’s Story • Old Testament on Jesus Christian Culture • We will bring Christianity back to life. • Discover the 4 Commandments of the Apostles. • Understand how Christians foolishly use idols. • Don’t eat blood or strangled meats. • How to raise children. • Jesus versus Muhammad. • Proper physical appearance. • Tattoos and immodesty are forbidden. God Is a Spirit • God cannot lie. • God cannot sin. • God cannot be tempted. • Only God is good. • All good is from God. How to Interpret Scripture • God said what He meant to say. • God meant what He said. • God’s Word is eternal. • God is direct and honest. • God is reliable and trustworthy, How to Live a Christian Life • How to hold a Christian service. • Christian communities. • Bishops and deacons. • Right government. • No idolatry. Description from the Book • The focus of this book is what Jesus said about Jesus. It also includes some of what His disciples and Father said about him. Christian culture occupies the largest chapter in the book and is modified from previous books. Topics include the commandments of the Apostles and the proper physical appearance of Christians in society. • A chapter on the nature of God follows the chapter on culture. Next is a chapter on the use of idols and how people love to lie about their idol usage. Instructions on how to and how not to interpret scripture compose the next chapter, followed by a chapter on how to hold a Christian service or meeting. Also, information designed to help you start a Christian community is provided. • The purpose of this book is to assist in bringing back to life Christianity. We differentiate Christianity from Chruchianity and religions claiming to be Christian. For example, those who extort money from you with guilt, shame, and false promises to build their own wealth, power, and legacy are neither honest Christians nor true believers. • This book focuses on the Christian story of Jesus. • To develop your spiritual skills, read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills and Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps. • To rediscover the Christian life, read The Seventh Way, Second Edition, Christian Idols, and Christian Scripture. Read More 7 Spiritual Books Recommended 1. Self: Who Am I? 2. The Story of Life 3. Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps 4. Buddha Failed: 25 Reasons 5. Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills 6. The Seventh Way, Second Edition 7. Satan Stories 7 Christian Books Recommended 1. Christian Idols 2. Christian Scripture 3. Sinners Anonymous: Group Rules, Second Edition 4. The Seventh Way, Second Edition 5. Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps 6. The Story of Life 7. Self: Who Am I?




Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps


Book Description

Discover the Spiritual System for Surrender— • How To Understand Surrender • How To Surrender to God • How To Avoid Spiritual Ego • How To Use The Seven Steps for Freedom • How To Find Help to Surrender Seven-Step System • This book presents the seven-step system of surrender to God. • The seven-step system is an accurate and reliable map of how surrender to God takes place. Map of Surrender • You can use the map to prepare yourself for the appearance of the seven steps in situations in which they do not yet exist within you. • You can use the map of the seven steps to know if you have surrendered to God or not. Become Aware of Surrender • Using this map, you can become aware of when you are already following the seven steps. • Yes, when you have success and healing, the seven steps are already occurring in you. Understand Surrender • We will first explain the seven steps, and then provide additional information toward the goal of complete understanding. • Further chapters delve deep into some of the individual steps before providing helpful practices for becoming aware of the seven steps in yourself. More Help with Surrender • Related concepts and issues are also explored in order to provide you with a comprehensive understanding and context for opening yourself up to the seven steps. Chapter One • This chapter presents the main focus of the book: the seven steps to surrender. • However, you will need the information in the chapters that follow in order to understand the seven steps and some of their concepts, practices, and terms, so you’ll likely want to return to this chapter later. • Initially, a brief outline of the seven steps is provided, followed by a more developed outline, and then the same seven steps, are presented in two different ways. • Finally, at the end of the chapter, you will find a table outlining the seven steps. Chapter Two • This chapter provides a deeper and more complete understanding of the seven steps of spiritual surrender. • Each step is explained in greater detail. Chapter Three • This chapter provides more detailed information about the parts and processes of the seven steps that were only mentioned or briefly covered in the previous two chapters. • Relevant concepts, such as our two awarenesses and two natures, are introduced and expanded upon. Chapter Four • This chapter first provides some more information about the intricate workings of the seven steps, then goes deeper into steps two, three, and six of the seven steps. Chapter Five • This chapter is about practices that you can use to help bring you closer to experiencing and living in the seven steps.




Sinners Anonymous: Group Rules, 2nd Ed.


Book Description

Rediscover Ancient Christianity • How to Practice Christianity • How to Follow Christ’s Teachings • How to Read the Bible • How to Interpret the Bible • How to Find the Right Way Scripture Lists • Scripture Is Easy & True • Scripture Describes Believers • How to Interpret Scripture • How to Hold a Christian Service • Christians & Communism Share Christianity to Make the World Better • Start Support Groups for Christianity • Rules for Support Groups • Skills for Support Groups • Resources for Support Groups • Start Communities for Christianity • Resources for Communities Short Description of the Book from the Book • This book contains instructions for forming and holding support groups for Christians. • The material in this book can also be found in The Seventh Way, Second Edition, which is available on Amazon and Play Google in various formats (ebook, paperback, hardback, audiobook). • This book focuses on evil and sin existing in the form of self-constructions. • The actions of sin are considered the acceptance, sharing, and promotion of self-constructions. • To develop your spiritual skills, read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills and Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps.