Healing the Addictive Personality Freeing Yourself from Addictive Patterns and Relationships

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ISBN: 9781587613159 | 1587613158
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Copyright: 1/1/2008

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Since the publication of Healing the Addictive Mind in 1991, discoveries in the fields of biochemistry and genetics have dramatically changed our understanding of addictive behaviour. With a trustworthy blend of authority and empathy, Dr. Jampolsky offers a path to inner peace that complements therapeutic recovery. Founded on teachings from A Course in Miracles, as well asfirsthand personal and clinical experience. Updates include new findings on the effects of neurochemistry on addiction.

Introduction	p. 1
The Path to Happiness and the Road to Misery Are Easily Confused	p. 3
Recognizing an Addictive Personality and the Purpose of Healing	p. 4
Healing Begins with the Invitation to Love	p. 7
The Four A's: Achieving, Acquiring, Approval, and Accomplishing	p. 7
When the Solution Becomes Another Addiction	p. 8
Where to Find the Answers and How to Recognize the Smoke and Mirrors	p. 9
Biological Factors and Addiction	p. 10
Is There Really an Addictive Personality?	p. 11
How to Use the Power of Choice to Heal	p. 12
Your Teacher Is Standing Right in Front of You	p. 12
Who We Are Versus Who Our Addictive Personality Tells Us We Are	p. 15
The Truth about Happiness	p. 17
Three Healing Words: "I Am Enough"	p. 20
Denial: The Not-So-Little Secret	p. 22
The Addictive Personality's Plan: Deny It and It Will Disappear	p. 23
Projection: The Illusion That Keeps On Rolling	p. 24
Special Hate and Special Love Relationships	p. 26
The Thought System of the Addictive Personality	p. 29
How the Addictive Personality Uses Fear to Control You	p. 30
How to Break the Addictive Personality's Cycle of Fear	p. 33
How the Addictive Personality Uses the Past and the Future to Prevent Positive Change	p. 35
How the Addictive Personality Uses Judgment to Maintain Conflict-Centered Relationships	p. 40
The Peaceful Alternative to Judgment	p. 42
How the Addictive Personality Uses Scarcity	p. 43
The Thirteen Core Beliefs of the Addictive Personality	p. 45
I am separate from everybody else	p. 45
If I want security and success, I must judge others	p. 47
My perceptions are always correct and my way is the right way	p. 48
Attack and defense are my only safety	p. 48
The past and the future are real and must be worried about	p. 48
Guilt is inescapable because the past is real	p. 49
Mistakes require judgment and punishment	p. 50
Fear is real	p. 51
Other people and situations are at fault for my feelings and failures	p. 52
Another's loss is my gain	p. 53
I need someone or something else to complete me	p. 54
My self-esteem is based on pleasing you	p. 54
I need to control everyone and everything around me	p. 55
How These Beliefs Combine Forces	p. 55
The Two Forms of Communication	p. 57
The Structure of the Truth-Based Personality	p. 59
How the Truth-Based Personality Uses the Power of Love	p. 62
How the Truth-Based Personality Uses the Present Moment to Set You Free	p. 64
Peak Performance and the Present Moment	p. 66
Six Principles to Peak Performance and Realized Opportunity	p. 68
Six Old Patterns of the Addictive Personality and Six Truth-Based Alternatives	p. 69
Watching the Breath	p. 70
How the Truth-Based Personality Uses Acceptance to Create Deep Change and Peace-Centered Relationships	p. 70
Recognized Essential Value	p. 71
Deep Change Versus Surface Change	p. 75
The Power Over Approach	p. 76
The Power of Powerlessness Approach	p. 77
Hard Honesty	p. 78
Hitting Bottom	p. 79
How the Truth-Based Personality Creates Opportunity and Miracles	p. 80
Creating Opportunity and Abundance: What Is Valuable and What Is Not	p. 82
The Myth about True Abundance	p. 83
The Thirteen Core Beliefs of the Truth-Based Personality	p. 85
What I see in others reflects my own state of mind	p. 85
My safety lies in my defenselessness	p. 86
Love is unconditional	p. 88
Forgiveness, with hard honesty, ensures peace	p. 89
Session	p. 90
Only the present is real	p. 92
To change my experience, I must first change my thoughts	p. 93
Mistakes call for correction and learning	p. 94
Only love is real	p. 95
I am responsible for my life	p. 95
I receive what I want by giving what I have	p. 96
I am complete right now	p. 97
My self-esteem comes from within	p. 98
I can't change others, but I can change how I perceive them	p. 99
The Core Beliefs of the Addictive Personality and the Truth-Based Personality	p. 100
Beliefs of the Addictive Personality	p. 100
Beliefs of the Truth-Based Personality	p. 101
The Addictive Personality and the Fear of Intimacy	p. 103
The Confusion between Freedom and Imprisonment	p. 104
Accepting and Embracing the Life We Have Lived	p. 108
Finding Freedom and Opportunity through Responsibility	p. 109
The Big Myth: "I'm Not Okay the Way I Am"	p. 110
The Misuse of Goals	p. 111
Stopping the Cycle of Attack and Defense	p. 111
A Truth-Centered Approach to Life	p. 113
The Truth about Anger, Guilt, Attack, and Defense	p. 114
Trust Versus trust	p. 118
Learning to Recognize Our Essential Value	p. 119
What the Addictive Personality Wants You to Believe	p. 120
Irrational Beliefs of the Addictive Personality	p. 128
Alternate Messages from the Truth-Based Personality	p. 129
Being Compulsively-Other-Focused	p. 130
Ten Core Beliefs of Being Compulsively-Other-Focused	p. 132
Healing through Forgiveness	p. 134
Letting Go	p. 134
Affirming Who You Are	p. 135
Truths about Myself	p. 136
Healing Relationships: Growing Beyond the Addictive Personality in Our Interactions with Others	p. 137
Six Core Truths of Truth-Based Relationships	p. 138
Patterns That Create Conflict and Traps	p. 140
Patterns That Create Peace and Opportunity	p. 140
You Are Not Alone: An Introduction to the Daily Lessons	p. 142
Daily Lessons	p. 145
An Eleven-Week Action Plan for Continued Healing	p. 168
Epilogue	p. 171
Index	p. 173
About the Author	p. 178
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Healing the Addictive Personality Freeing Yourself from Addictive Patterns and Relationships

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