Overcoming all your problems can be very simple; all it requires is a willingness to take an honest look at yourself. The secret to happiness, confidence, and real inner peace is a light-hearted attitude toward self-discovery.
The adventure of all adventures is self-discovery. Yet this journey, like life itself, is full of dangers and traps - hidden pitfalls, and land mines. Navigating the pathways to life successfully is not a matter of mere luck, hard work, or good intentions; it is a matter of understanding.
In this book, Roy Masters provides the road map.
In practical and common-sense terms, Masters describes many of the major "land mines" of life, and how to avoid them. With such insightful chapters as "Rebellion and Conformity," "How To Have A Perfect Marriage," "Sex: The Substitute Love," "Be Still and Know," and "No One Has To Die," Masters communicates with insight that can be found nowhere else.
To millions of people, Roy Masters is a daily voice of sanity and conscience.
Born April 2, 1928, by the age of four, young Roy was already aware of the plight of human existence. "I remember looking down upon the street from the window of our apartment, and watching the people walking back and forth from their homes to their work," he recalls. I clearly remember the expressions of unhappiness on their faces and thinking to myself, 'There must be more to life than this.'"
Masters' father died of a heart attack when Roy was fifteen. In 1948, Roy left England for South Africa, where he worked as a diamond cutter for a little over a year. At age 24, Masters married his wife, Ann, and eventually settled down in Houston, Texas, where he established the Institute of Hypnosis. In 1961, Roy had become aware, as a result of his work with hypnosis, that the reason why he was so successsful with his patients was that he was actually DE-hypnotizing them. Needless to say, he was eager to share his discovery with as large an audience as possible.
In 1963, Roy formed the Foundation of Human Understanding, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping people resolve their problems using the knowledge Roy had discovered. Soon, he decided to buy a small amount of air time and go on the radio. The program was a success from the very beginning.
Today, Roy continues to spread his message not only to his five children and (at last count) eleven grandchildren, but to millions who listen to his radio show every day.
The Foundation has achieved modest success by worldly standards. But for the thousands whose lives have been changed through their contact with the Foundation, however, the organization has achieved the greatest success possible.
