When you want to change but don’t know why you’re struggling to make it happen, the best course may be to seek answers within. From award-winning, best-selling self-help and spirituality author Carl Greer, PhD, PsyD, comes a workbook for tapping into a forgotten resource we all have: our hidden wisdom. Go Within to Change Your Life offers transformational techniques inspired by shamanism and Jungianism and poses questions that will get you thinking more deeply about what’s stopping you from moving forward.

Regardless of where you are on your journey, the abundance of exercises and guidance here will help you:

• gain insights and energy that will motivate you
• discover what’s holding you back
• work with powerful tools for establishing new habits
• attain the momentum you need to change your life, habits, and path

Along with journaling prompts, you’ll find exercises for:

• Interpreting dreams
• Doing guided visualizations
• Taking journeys to transpersonal realms
• Dialoguing with the help of your unconscious
• Creating a nature painting
• Writing a death poem and a life poem
• Dancing for insights

Exploring an array of life issues you might want to address, from experiencing fewer conflicts in relationships to improving your health and wellness to strengthening your connection to nature and Spirit, Go Within to Change Your Life offers the promise of genuine breakthroughs wherever you may be stuck.

 

"Carl Greer’s book Go Within to Change Your Life is a treasure trove of sage wisdom, ideas, instructions, and suggestions offered by a teacher who has explored multiple paths in his search to become a total conscious human being. While reading his book I recalled the proclamation of the Swedish Film maker Victor Sjostrom (1879-1960) who once stated, “when I die, I want my heart and soul to be in full blossom.” I believe that that is what Dr. Greer provides – a guide to the blossoming of a completed soul. Be advised however, that this is not just another self-help improvement book. It requires, as it should, lots of work – work that will pay off if you are willing to stay the course. In that regard I believe that this book would be a helpful adjunct to psychotherapy – a way to deepen one’s personal efforts within and between therapy sessions. It could also be a workbook for a group of like-minded individuals working together to support each other’s growth."

--Peter W. Demuth, PsyD, President of the C. G. Jung Institute of Chicago, Jungian analyst and author of Monsters in Life and Literature

Book Contents for Go Within to Change Your Life:

A Hidden Wisdom Workbook for Personal Transformation

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Introduction: You Have the Power to Change Your Life for the Better

Part 1: Learn to Access Your Hidden Wisdom and Its Treasures

Chapter 1: The Secret of Hidden Wisdom Within You

Overcoming Any Fear

Encountering and Engaging Energies

Stories and Archetypal Energies

On Being Pushed Out of Your Comfort Zone

You Have More Power to Change Than You Think

Chapter 2: Meet the Archetypal Energies You’ll Engage

Which Archetypal Energies Are Affecting You?

Multiple Archetypal Energies Can Affect You

The Changing Influence of Multiple Archetypal Energies

Identifying More Archetypes That Are Influencing You

The Shadow

The Animus and Anima

The Persona

Roles You Play

Who Cast You in Your Roles?

Identifying Your Story

Chapter 3: Hidden Wisdom in Dreams, Visualizations, and Journeys

Working with Dreams

Beginning to Interpret What You Experienced and Encountered

Journeys and Visualizations

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Journey to the Room of Contracts to Change a Hidden Belief

Sidebar: When You Get No Response from Your Unconscious

Chapter 4: Working with Your Wise Inner Self

The Wise Inner Self and the Archetypes

What Your Wise Inner Self Can Express to You

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Journey to the Room of Treasures to Gain Insights and Energy for Change

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Dialoguing

Chapter 5: Your Story and How You Can Change It

Stories That Aren’t Working for You

What Will Your New Story Be?

Give Yourself Credit and Have Some Faith

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Depict Your Story with a Changeable Nature “Painting”

 

Part II: Making Changes

Chapter 6: Know Your Values and Priorities and Be True to Them

Identifying Your Values and Priorities, the Foundations of Your Goals

Freeing Up Energy

Contemplation and Self-Discovery

Your Story of Happiness

Making Difficult Changes

Chapter 7: Pause and Become Mindful

Become Mindful Through Observing and Appreciating Moments

Discover the Potential for Change in One Short Pause

Pause to Reflect on How You Make Decisions

Pause to Reflect on Your Role in a Situation

Pause to Make an Inner Shift

Pause to Connect with Nature

Chapter 8: Take Wise Action to Establish New Habits

New Habits Start with Achievable Goals and Accountability

One Healthy Change Leads to Another

Making New Habits Stick

Hook a Habit onto a Habit

Make Your New Habit Convenient

Give Yourself Structure and Flexibility

Hold Yourself Accountable

Be Mindful at Choice Points

Chapter 9: If You’re Not Meeting Your Goals

Do Your Goals Match Your Values?

Getting Unstuck

Chapter 10: Resolve Conflicts

Conflict Resolution Using the Martial Arts Wisdom of Kime and Ma

Use Your Words, Choose Your Words—and Pause Before Responding

Chapter 11: Create the Life You Desire

Access Your Creativity, Vitality, and Sense of Adventure

Express Yourself through the Arts, Without Judgment

Try Doing Everyday Activities Differently

Aim to Expand Your Life

Let Vitality Cross Over from One Chapter of Your Life to Another

Allow Yourself to Be a Little Uncomfortable as You Make Changes

In Your Imagination, Visit the Past and the Future

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Visualization to Observe Yourself in the Past

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Visualization of a Future Day

Begin to Design a New Future for Yourself

Find Resources for Change

Chapter 12: Resilience When Presented with Life’s Suddenlies

Use a Setback as an Opportunity to Learn Something New

Address Any Sense of Tiredness or Lethargy

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Receiving Wisdom with Help from the Earth_

Let Go of Any Anxiety or Pessimism

Exercise: Walk in Nature to Release Anxiety

Play with Metaphors to Help You Gain Insights about Transformation

Don’t Be a Perfectionist Who Is Too Hard on Yourself

Exercise: Ritual for Energy-Releasing and Energy-Absorbing

Accept the Need to Move on from Losses

 

Part III: Transformations Regarding Spirituality, Health, and Your Mortality

Chapter 13: Connecting with Your Spirituality and with Nature

Your Relationship with Source and Its Benefits

Your God-and-Religion Story

How Nature Helps You Feel More Connected to Source

Doing Rituals and Using Hidden-Wisdom Techniques Outdoors in Nature

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Engaging Nature for Wisdom

Ayni and Nature

Special Places in Nature

Exercise: Writing Poetry or Drawing in a Natural Spot That Draws You

How You Can Commune with Nature Despite Limitations

A Goal for Connecting with Nature and with Spirit

Chapter 14: Hidden Wisdom About Health

Discovering Your Health Story

Hidden Obstacles to Optimal Health

Your Genes Don’t Have to Determine Your Health Story

Further Exploring Your Health Story

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Journey to the Upper World to See Your Future Health

A Balance Between Battling Toxins and Building Immunity

Dance for Health, Dance for Healing

Hidden-Wisdom Technique: Dancing for Insights

The Truth About “Healing”

Four Levels of Awareness Regarding Health and Healing

Chapter 15: Contemplating Your Life and Mortality

Back to Basho

What Are You Willing to Let Go Of?

When You Have Unfinished Business with Someone

Exercise: Ritual to “Let It Go”

Your Bucket List

The Poem of the Life You Would Like to Have Lived

Appendix: Additional Goals

 

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