Emotional Chaos to Clarity: Move from the Chaos of the Reactive Mind to the Clarity of the Responsive Mind

by Phillip Moffitt

Overview

The groundbreaking psychology and self development book with step-by-step plans to achieve emotional health and clarity.

“Emotional Chaos to Clarity is a masterwork. Be inspired by the possibilities it opens.” —Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., author of The Wise Heart

Despite our best-laid plans, life is difficult, and we sometimes experience anger, anxiety, frustration, and doubt. This emotional chaos can negatively affect the way we live our lives. Yet, Phillip Moffitt shows us that by cultivating a responsive mind rather than a reactive one, we can achieve a state of emotional clarity that allows us to act with a calm mind and a loving heart.

Drawing on both Western psychology and Buddhist philosophy, Moffitt’s step-by-step exercises help us to:

 • Know and act from our core values at all times
 • Gain wisdom from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences
 • Free ourselves from the past
 • Achieve a peaceful inner life, even if our outer life is filled with challenges

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780142196762
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	07/30/2013
Pages:	304
Sales rank:	664,735
Product dimensions:	8.20(w) x 5.40(h) x 1.20(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

PHILLIP MOFFITT is currently director of the Life Balance Institute. He lives in Northern California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

A Note on the Cover xi

Introduction: Emotional Chaos to Clarity xiii

Part I Practices That Empower You to Achieve Clarity

Chapter 1 Beginning Your Journey to Clarity 3

Chapter 2 Getting to Know the Real You 15

Chapter 3 Living an Intentional Life 33

Chapter 4 Starting Over 43

Chapter 5 Letting Go of Expectations 57

Chapter 6 Balancing Priorities 67

Part II Developing Skillful Behaviors

Chapter 7 Starting Your Day with Clarity 83

Chapter 8 Knowing What's Really Happening 93

Chapter 9 Making Skillful Decisions 104

Chapter 10 Cultivating the Qualities of Loving-Kindness and Compassion 118

Chapter 11 Living into Life through Gratitude 130

Chapter 12 Overcoming Attachments through Generosity 143

Chapter 13 Doing the Right Thing 155

Chapter 14 Bringing Mindfulness to Making Major Life Changes 165

Part III Removing the Sources of Chaos

Chapter 15 Keeping Boundaries 179

Chapter 16 Ending the Cycle of Self-Violence 191

Chapter 17 Practicing Self-Restraint 202

Chapter 18 Overcoming Ordinary Compulsiveness 213

Chapter 19 Living Skillfully with the Difficult 227

Chapter 20 Practicing Forgiveness and Reconciliation 247

Epilogue: What Next? 262

Online Resources 269

Index 271

Editorial Reviews

[A] masterwork. Be inspired by the possibilities it opens.”—Jack Kornfield, Ph.D., author of A Path with Heart
 
“Phillip Moffitt takes the profound insights of the wisdom traditions and translates them into simple and effective steps to stable inner strength, happiness, and peace.”—Rick Hanson, Ph.D., author of Buddha’s Brain

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