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Ending Unnecessary Suffering: How to Create a Powerful, Complete, and Peaceful Life

Ending Unnecessary Suffering: How to Create a Powerful, Complete, and Peaceful Life

          
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A guide to freeing yourself from self-induced suffering • Provides contemplative practices and exercises to help you recognize how you cause your own suffering • Explores the dynamics of the mind and how it sets the stage for distress • Explains how mental states of suffering are created and how to control your mind to stop those thought patterns and assumptions Most of us believe that suffering is inevitable. Stress, shame, depression, grief, loneliness, disappointment, the feeling that life is incomplete—every negative experience contributes to the emotional and psychological pain that impedes our ability to live happy, fulfilling lives. But what if most suffering could be avoided? Is there an antidote to inner turmoil that can be learned and applied to everyday life? In this groundbreaking work, Peter Ralston reveals how to free yourself from mentally created suffering. He explains how most creatures don’t experience suffering the way we do. They don’t worry or fret, fear the future, or imagine they are somehow flawed or less than they should be. Exploring the dynamics of the mind that set the stage for distress and that get us into trouble, he explains how mental states of suffering are created, how to recognize when you cause them, and how to stop suffering-inducing thought patterns and beliefs. Sharing contemplative practices and exercises to help you end your inner turmoil and foster growth, awareness, and freedom, Ralston provides an empowering way to create a more complete, powerful, and peaceful life experience.

Table of Contents:
PREAMBLE Stop Putting Your Hand in Boiling Water PART I Foundations of Our Experience CHAPTER ONE Concept versus Experience What Is a Concept? Exercise for Identifying Concepts What Is an Experience? Incorporating an Assertion How Does Concept Dominate Your Experience? Suggestions for Contemplation: Recognizing Your Beliefs Interpretation and Meaning Concepts Held As If They Are Objective Reality Suggestions for Contemplation: Objectification of Concepts Overlooked Conceptual Influences on Experience Image Exercise Suggestions for Contemplation: Overlooked Conceptual Influence Being Incomplete CHAPTER TWO Awakening Overlooked Consciousness You versus Your Self-Experience Ignorance Inventions versus Direct Encounter The Inner-Self Is an Invention The Nature of Mind Distinctions within the Self PART I I Getting Free from Unnecessary Suffering CHAPTER THREE Conceptualizing versus Being CHAPTER FOUR Mental Activities behind Most Forms of Suffering Dissatisfaction Depression Stress Worthlessness Loneliness Disappointment Flawed Vulnerable Alienation Inner Turmoil Shame Grief Bringing It Home Mind Exercise CHAPTER FIVE Transforming the Mind to End Suffering Conceptual-Action versus Conceptual-Activity Aligning What Isn’t with What Is Choosing a Path Forward Our Fear of the Mundane The Search for Meaning Being Complete No Perspective Is True Suffering and Consciousness PART I I I Investigating Our Experience CHAPTER SIX About Mind Thinking Existential Thinking Emotion Rethinking Emotion Mastering Emotions Exercise CHAPTER SEVEN Beneath the Surface Clarifying Existential Assumptions and Bottom Lines Transcending Your Self-Agenda Suffering Causation “Religion” Suggestions for Contemplation: Cause of Suffering More on Impulses and Drives PART I V New Perspectives and Powerful Distinctions That Change Experience CHAPTER EIGHT Creating New Experiential Abilities Investigating Existentially Completion Turning-Into Communication Purpose Creating a Purpose Exercise Staying on Point Increasing Awareness Creativity and Change CHAPTER NINE Powerful Life-Enhancing Principles Practice, Principle, Being Excellence and Mastery Responsibility Intention and Commitment Honesty, Honor, Integrity Correction Empowerment PART V Practice CHAPTER TEN Doing the Work Life Practices Center Breathing Mastery and the “Effortless” Component Unusual Interactive Perspectives Necessary Suffering? ADDENDUM A Principle That Could Change Humanity Index About the Author


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  • ISBN-13: 9798888501184
  • Publisher: Inner Traditions Bear and Company
  • Publisher Imprint: Park Street Press,U.S.
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 312 gr
  • ISBN-10: 8888501185
  • Publisher Date: 24 Apr 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: How to Create a Powerful, Complete, and Peaceful Life
  • Width: 152 mm


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