Positive Directions: Shifting Polarities to Escape Stress and Increase Happiness

Ryder PH.D., John

ISBN 10: 1600373658 ISBN 13: 9781600373657

Publisher: Morgan James Publishing, 2008

How do you refocus on the positive under any circumstance? Positive Directions is about the specific changes you can easily make that will result in the biggest differences in your life. Dr. Ryder explains how to develop nine psychological skills that empower the individual to conquer problems such as stress, fears, frustrations, misery, lack of energy, sabotaging patterns, and bad decisions. The book simplifies our complex nature and identifies the polar opposites which either swing in the negative (bad) or positive (good) direction. When you are going the wrong way, learn how to turn in the opposite - positive direction. This system gives you the knowledge and skills to know how to reverse any negative direction in your life and propel you towards greater success and fulfillment - the positive direction! This Self-Development book contains a great deal of useful information, fascinating ideas, and fun exercises with helpful tables, graphs, and instructions that can improve your life and relationships.

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From the Publisher:

EDITORIAL REVIEW: What limits our ability to keep going in positive directions? This book presents a straight forward system to help us return to a positive focus when we get negative. John Ryder is not a typical psychologist: he integrates Western science with Eastern wisdom of psychology. His style is crystal clear, easy to understand and engages the reader with his optimistic vision of a better life. His major premise is that we are all excessively prone to stress and psychological problems. He presents a convincing argument that it is not intelligence, luck, money, or talent that really protect us from stress and hardships. Instead, he describes a set of nine skills anyone can learn and that the most successful people use to escape stress and steer towards a more positive life.

The author simplifies our complex nature into four psychological factors: judgment, emotions, energy, and patterns that keep us swinging either towards stress or happiness. To deal with this struggle, he offers an original approach. First, one must develop nine key skills to build personal strength. Then, the system explains how to apply those skills to reverse any negative path by "shifting polarities" to go in the opposite - positive direction. By using these skills, people can eliminate sabotaging patterns; move towards healthy emotions; enjoy greater energy; and make better decisions. This comprehensive book contains much useful information, fascinating ideas, many good exercises, great quotations, with helpful tables, graphs, and instructions that can improve your life and relationships.

From the Author:

I invite you to read and apply the techniques that I describe in this personal development book. I guarantee that it will make your life easier and more positive.

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