A Path to Power: A Master's Guide to Conquering Crisis - Softcover

Newton, Mack; St. George, Michele

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0965982130 ISBN 13: 9780965982139

Publisher: Ntkd Pub, 1997

Synopsis

What do they all have in common? A sixty-seven year old woman with illium cancer....an eight-year old boy whose classmates bully him mercilessly....a businessman facing a health crisis.... a young woman with an abusive boyfriend....a sports superstar facing the end of his career.....

All their stories are in a provocative new book called A Path to Power: A Master's Guide to Conquering Crisis by Mack Newton, a nationally recognized motivational speaker and rehabilitative expert.

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About the Author

Mack Newton is a sought-after motivational speaker who appears regularly on television and radio, as well as being the subject of numerous newspaper and magazine articles. Mack is a health and fitness consultant, rehabilitative specialist, body conditioning expert, a seventh degree black belt and a two-time World Champion in Taekwon-Do. He is ranked as a master Taekwon-Do instructor, one of only a handful in the United States. In 1995, he was inducted into the World Martial Arts Hall of Fame.

Mack Newton has become known as "The Champion's Champion" for his work with athletes such as Bo Jackson, Neil Lomax, Jay Novacek, Seth Joyner, Anaeas Williams and Roy Green. He was conditioning coach for the Oakland A's for nine years and the Dallas Cowboys for three years, and continues to serve as consultant for top athletic teams across the nation. As President and CEO of NTKD Rehabilitative Services, Inc. in Phoenix, Arizona, he continues to motivate peak performance in clients from four years of age to eighty. In addition to athletes, Mack coaches people with debilitating arthritis, hip replacement or other joint trauma, and injuries due to surgery or auto accidents. He inspires those who have endured crisis and defeat to empower themselves, to relish life, and realize their dreams.

Michele St. George is an award-winning freelance writer who has published over 150 articles in such magazines as Woman's Day, Mature Outlook, American Health and Entrepreneur. She is also co-author of the book "The Shaman Bulldog," released by Warner Books in 1996.

From the Back Cover

"Mack Newton's new book is jam-packed with meaningful gems for high achievement. I recommend it unreservedly." (Don Hutson. Author of "The Sale" and CEO of U.S. Learning Inc.)

"Mack Newton is inspiration! His teachings build strength we never knew we could possess. This work is a must for anyone interested in 'getting busy' living." (Pat Murphy, Head Coach, ASU Baseball Team)

Explore a provocative and vital path that will stretch your mind and challenge you to unleash the extraordinary person inside you. You owe it to yourself to read this book if you are: *Suffering a crisis or defeat that threatens health, happiness or peace of mind. *A professional aiming for success and satisfaction in your career. *An artist or creative thinker striving for self-actualization and the ability to believe in yourself and your talents. *A parent who wants to teach your children how to face loss without losing their sense of self-worth

Mack Newton is a sought-after motivational speaker who appears regularly on television and radio. He is a health and fitness consultant, rehabilitative specialist, body conditioning expert, a seventh degree black belt master instructor of Taekwon-Do and a two time world champion. Despite two artificial hips and a steel plate in one knee, necessitated by Vietnam injuries, Mack remains in peak physical condition and trains athletes such as Bo Jackson and Jay Novacek, and teams such as the Oakland A's and Dallas Cowboys. He also motivates peak performance in clients of every age with debilitating arthritis, hip replacements and other joint trauma, as well as injuries due to surgery or auto accidents.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.

Imagine yourself waking early one morning and studying your reflection in the mirror. Ask yourself: "What challenges do I face today? What circumstances are manipulating my life? Perhaps you are struggling in a chaotic relationship or your career is faltering or finances dwindling, or your health is deteriorating. Or maybe you have reached a state of powerless passivity from too many demands and never enough time.

Fix your gaze firmly on your reflection for a moment longer. You are confronting the most powerful enemy you will ever encounter. If you know how to challenge and transform that person staring back at you in the mirror, you create an indomitable power that can roar in the face of defeat, failure or loss: I will survive and I will thrive.

Inside you is what the poet Tagore referred to as the Spirit of fight. You have an incredible force within you that will overcome anything that is thrown at you. Call it consciousness, mental power, the grace of God, or soul-use whatever name you like, but realize that when your body, mind and spirit is working in harmony for you instead of against you-you will discover an audacity and strength that will astound you.

It is my firm belief that it is your mission on earth to succeed, to use all your talents, to be a success organism if you like. Every defeat and crisis in your life contains the seeds for a new goal, a new journey, a new adventure.

Why Do You Need Power? The mere mention of the word power often scares the pants off people. We've been trained from childhood to mistrust our own power. Brute power is so often misused, it corrupts, it asserts its authority over others. Hitler, Nero and Mussolini had power. Yet so did Gandhi, Jesus, Mother Teresa and Martin Luther King Jr. Power is simply another of the universe's energies. How you use it shapes the difference between creation and destruction. Inner power arises from the ability to understand mental, physical and spiritual laws-then work in harmony with them to direct events rather than using crude force.

Without power, you are tossed about helplessly in the maelstrom of life's events. You become resentful, fearful and hostile to the changes in your life. With personal power, you wake up fired and ready to take on the world. You learn to cooperate with and incorporate change when it occurs. Crises become the problems you eat for breakfast.

With undisciplined power, there are only winners and losers, predators and prey. With authentic inner power, you radiate an intuitive knowledge and compassion. Your attitude becomes a magnet for others, influencing them to realize their own strengths. There are no losers.

The purpose of this book is to guide you down a path of self-knowledge and attainment that will empower you to face that person in the mirror without fear or doubt, with the quiet assurance and positive attitude of someone who can say: "I know who I am and what I am capable of accomplishing. I am in control of my life."

Facing Challenges Many pitfalls lay in your path. Life can be difficult and at times incredibly cruel. You may even feel ambivalent about what you really want, riddled with inner doubt about what you can accomplish, trying to make sense of your life. Your opposing dreams, fears, hopes and doubts become armies clashing in the night. Your inner conflicts spark all your outer conflicts with a spouse, children, parents, a boss.

This is not a book about how to make someone fall in love with you, how to get your boss to appreciate you, or how to get people to like you and respect you. These will occur naturally as you find your own inner power, but they cannot be forced or finessed. Attempts to manipulate events or other people will always flounder. The only person you can change is you. This book will teach you to fall in love with yourself and with life. As you transform your inner self, the outer world will change its response to you.

Through forty years in the martial arts I have learned and applied the ancient wisdom of Taekwon-Do, as well as what might be called the modern Western technology of quantum thinking.

Philosophy and science can be distilled into a powerful mental technology that is a blueprint to personal power and peak performance, whether as an athlete or business professional, a parent or spouse. It's not mystical, it's not magical thinking or a quick-fix for what ails you. It does require considerable effort on your part. It will empower you to face all of life's storms head on, as master of your own ship.

Edition details

• Publisher: Ntkd Pub
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0965982130
• ISBN 13: 9780965982139
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 181