Half-Lived Life: Overcoming Passivity And Rediscovering Your Authentic Self

Half-Lived Life: Overcoming Passivity And Rediscovering Your Authentic Self

by John Lee
Half-Lived Life: Overcoming Passivity And Rediscovering Your Authentic Self

Half-Lived Life: Overcoming Passivity And Rediscovering Your Authentic Self

by John Lee

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Overview

“So this is my life? What happened to the person I thought I might be at this stage of the game?  Where did that person go?  Why am I feeling like I’m just treading water, trying to stay one step ahead of my bills and obligations.  Anyway, I’m just too tired at this point to try to figure out where that other person went.  But I sure expected to be living a different life than this one.”

Most people in their forties, fifties, and beyond catch themselves saying something similar to this. Everyone has a mental image of the person they want to be, but few of us actually fulfill these wishes. Once people realize they are living a completely different life than they’d envisioned, they often think it is too late to change and carry on with the same old habits. Too many people settle for a half-lived life.

Best-selling author John Lee has long been addressing the fallacy of this attitude in talks and workshops—and now he sets this program into book form. In The Half-Lived Life, he introduces and explains how passivity holds us hostage to old ways of doing things—and provides solutions on escaping this paralyzing state of mind, body, and spirit while increasing our emotional intelligence (EQ). He also shows the freedom to be gained via compassionate assertiveness—an outgrowth of setting boundaries and enforcing limits. Just as Lee’s seminars have successfully led many to find their authentic self in the second half of their life, so too will this book.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780762772520
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date: 12/20/2011
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 5.80(w) x 7.60(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

John Lee is a best-selling author of seventeen books with more than 500,000 copies sold to date—including The Anger Solution and Flying Boy. He has been featured on Oprah, Dr. Oz,20/20, The View, CNN, PBS, and NPR, and has been interviewed by Newsweek, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Among the organizations and health facilities he has consulted on issues of emotional well being are the Betty Ford Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, and the New York Open Center. He also teaches workshops and give lectures worldwide, appearing in more than forty cities each year.

The Anger Solution (Da Capo Press, Sept. 2009, 978-0738212609; 2,294 RTD);

The Missing Peace (HCI, June 2006, 1,590 RTD)

Growing Yourself Back Up (Three Rivers Press, Jan. 2001, 7,997 RTD)

Writing from the Body (St Martin’s Griffin, Nov. 1994, 1,677 RTD)

Facing the Fire (Bantam, June 1993, 5,343 RTD)

At My Father’s Wedding (Bantam, Oct. 1992, 24 RTD)

Recovery: Plain and Simple (HCI, Oct. 1990)

The Flying Boy (HCI, Feb. 1989, 3,137 RTD)

Self-Published Books:

The Secret Place of Thunder (Sept. 2004)

Doctor, I’m Scared (Sept. 2004)

Courting a Woman’s Soul (Nov. 2003)

Table of Contents

Introduction: Your Authentic Life Awaits ix

Part 1 Solving the Problem of Passivity 1

Identifying Passivity

What Passivity Is Not

Men and Women Under the Influence

The Symptoms of Passivity

Three Types of Passivity in Children

Causes of Passivity

Passivity in Men

Passivity in Women

Part 2 The Solutions 51

Remembering Who You Wanted to Be

Infidelity of the Heart

Silencing the Detractors and Ceasing the Distractions

Overcoming the Five Great Fears

Stopping the Lying

Solving the Abandonment Problem That Leads to Passivity

Rage as a Form of Passivity

Grieving: A Four-Step Model to Treat Abandonment

Working with Abandonment Issues in Therapy

Now for the Good News About Abandonment

Active Loving as a Solution to Passivity

Further Thoughts on Active Loving: The Four Forms of Love

Authentic Contact

Compensating Actions Versus Inspired Actions

Active Thinking

Enhancing Emotional Intelligence

Setting Boundaries

Finding Your Limits

Part 3 Becoming Compassionately Assertive in the Second Half of Life 145

Becoming Compassionately Assertive

Getting Rid of the Word You

The Four Compassionately Assertive Statements

Detaching Versus Disconnecting

Regression and Regressive Behaviors

The Brain and Regression

Emotional Regression

Part 4 What Now? 177

Where Are You Going?

What Are You Going to Do When You Get There?

The Five Things to Do While Discovering Your Authentic Self

Who Are You Going With?

What Are You Waiting For?

Making a Miracle List

Going into the Future with Gratitude

Conclusion: Being Who You Really Are 194

Acknowledgments 201

Index 202

About the Author 207

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