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Dear Human: Master Your Emotions
What would it be like to be your best self every day, all day? Really great, right?
Clearly, that’s hard to do when faced with so many daily demands, conflicts, and challenges. For most people, emotions like stress, anger, frustration, anxiety, and disappointment are an exhausting daily struggle. That makes it tough to consistently be the leader, parent, mate, colleague, friend, and person you truly want to be. The happy news is you can now become the very best version of yourself with the help of this user-friendly guide to emotional mastery.
Mark Youngblood— Inner Mastery teacher, facilitator, and executive coach—has studied for decades what it takes to lead a successful and fulfilling life. One of his greatest lessons has been the power to change our world—to make it what we want—exists within each of us . And through these powerful insights, strategies and life skills, the journey can be faster and easier than you ever imagined.
Come and see for yourself!
Clearly, that’s hard to do when faced with so many daily demands, conflicts, and challenges. For most people, emotions like stress, anger, frustration, anxiety, and disappointment are an exhausting daily struggle. That makes it tough to consistently be the leader, parent, mate, colleague, friend, and person you truly want to be. The happy news is you can now become the very best version of yourself with the help of this user-friendly guide to emotional mastery.
Mark Youngblood— Inner Mastery teacher, facilitator, and executive coach—has studied for decades what it takes to lead a successful and fulfilling life. One of his greatest lessons has been the power to change our world—to make it what we want—exists within each of us . And through these powerful insights, strategies and life skills, the journey can be faster and easier than you ever imagined.
Come and see for yourself!
226 pages, Paperback
Published September 5, 2017
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July 28, 2017
Mark Youngblood opens the book by saying, “The purpose of this book is to provide you with a user-friendly guide to your emotions.” He points out, “We are emotional beings and our emotions have a profound effect on our individual and societal health and well-being. Gaining a new healthier relationship with your emotions will transform your life for the better in almost every possible way.” He goes on to say, “People work hard to conceal the emotional messiness of their real lives, but that false image comes with a high price tag.”
Let’s be honest. Life and people irritate us. We can’t seem to get our way. Those crazy people who are standing in our path, preventing our forward progress, are holding up what could be the best thing ever. If they would only let us tell them what to do everything would work out for the best. Unfortunately, everyone else feels the same way and yet none us can really be honest with how it makes us feel. We are judgmental, demanding, complaining, but hardly ever transparent.
Youngblood want to change this reality. He states, “The primary objective is to stop reacting to life and start creating the life you want.” In order to help us get there, he has mapped out a dynamic pathway which helps us better understand ourselves and those around us.
As we own up to our own emotions we begin to understand what is going on in us and how it us affects us. This knowledge helps us to stop reacting and turn off the autopilot (subconscious) of our life which accounts “for 95-98% of [our] thoughts and behaviors.” That’s right, according to the author, most of what we do in life is routine and we do it automatically without ever giving it any thought.
With the guidelines outlined in this book we can change. We can take control of our lives and begin to move forward toward the goals we want. We can learn to take difficult situations and people in stride, and turn what otherwise can be a negative into a positive. We can learn to live fulfilled meaningful lives.
As the author points out, “Fulfillment is a much more useful goal than happiness. Fulfillment come from being filled with life - embracing the richness and complexity of your life in its totality.” But it is not just about us, as Youngblood points out, “Learning to be in community with others is one of the essential life skills our society so dearly needs.”
Owning our emotions and then helping those around us come to terms with their own, we can begin to build the world in which we were meant to live rather than reacting to the world we have inherited.
Let’s be honest. Life and people irritate us. We can’t seem to get our way. Those crazy people who are standing in our path, preventing our forward progress, are holding up what could be the best thing ever. If they would only let us tell them what to do everything would work out for the best. Unfortunately, everyone else feels the same way and yet none us can really be honest with how it makes us feel. We are judgmental, demanding, complaining, but hardly ever transparent.
Youngblood want to change this reality. He states, “The primary objective is to stop reacting to life and start creating the life you want.” In order to help us get there, he has mapped out a dynamic pathway which helps us better understand ourselves and those around us.
As we own up to our own emotions we begin to understand what is going on in us and how it us affects us. This knowledge helps us to stop reacting and turn off the autopilot (subconscious) of our life which accounts “for 95-98% of [our] thoughts and behaviors.” That’s right, according to the author, most of what we do in life is routine and we do it automatically without ever giving it any thought.
With the guidelines outlined in this book we can change. We can take control of our lives and begin to move forward toward the goals we want. We can learn to take difficult situations and people in stride, and turn what otherwise can be a negative into a positive. We can learn to live fulfilled meaningful lives.
As the author points out, “Fulfillment is a much more useful goal than happiness. Fulfillment come from being filled with life - embracing the richness and complexity of your life in its totality.” But it is not just about us, as Youngblood points out, “Learning to be in community with others is one of the essential life skills our society so dearly needs.”
Owning our emotions and then helping those around us come to terms with their own, we can begin to build the world in which we were meant to live rather than reacting to the world we have inherited.
March 17, 2021
Their heart is in the right place. While I agree with some of what is written... overall these ideas were not challenging for me, additionally, it was filled with assumptions and some complete nonsense. Confronting biases, accepting blame, practicing forgiveness and responsibility, all things I believe many of us actively work on regularly in adulthood (of course we are not perfect, but anyone relatively healthy is often mindful of these areas to improve.) It was a good refresher, but didn’t provide me much unique insight or push *me* enough.
I think for me, this book just isn’t currently where my life is at, but that’s absolutely not to say it’s of no benefit to others, as I very much believe it could be. The use of the term “drama” overall didn’t sit well with me, it can be heavily subjective, and situational. Additionally it just felt incredibly juvenile. Drama could mean facing conflict that requires a mature resolution or communication, it could also mean the habit of allowing that which does not serve you, along with many other things. The focus on this word just didn’t resonate with me.
The “drama triangle” felt extremely like pseudoscience, especially considering everyone is the hero to their own story and various perspectives weren’t considered to challenge potential cognitive distortions.
As a student of clinical mental health, this book provided very little reliably or validity, and very few things that I would include in my practice.
I absolutely do not trust anyone who claims meditation is a form of escapism and keeps individuals dependent/stuck, that’s utter nonsense and clearly the words of someone very ignorant to mindfulness techniques. That’s when this book lost me completely. I was extremely disappointed to read that and decided this was just not for me. An unfortunate add to the list of books I could not finish.
I think for me, this book just isn’t currently where my life is at, but that’s absolutely not to say it’s of no benefit to others, as I very much believe it could be. The use of the term “drama” overall didn’t sit well with me, it can be heavily subjective, and situational. Additionally it just felt incredibly juvenile. Drama could mean facing conflict that requires a mature resolution or communication, it could also mean the habit of allowing that which does not serve you, along with many other things. The focus on this word just didn’t resonate with me.
The “drama triangle” felt extremely like pseudoscience, especially considering everyone is the hero to their own story and various perspectives weren’t considered to challenge potential cognitive distortions.
As a student of clinical mental health, this book provided very little reliably or validity, and very few things that I would include in my practice.
I absolutely do not trust anyone who claims meditation is a form of escapism and keeps individuals dependent/stuck, that’s utter nonsense and clearly the words of someone very ignorant to mindfulness techniques. That’s when this book lost me completely. I was extremely disappointed to read that and decided this was just not for me. An unfortunate add to the list of books I could not finish.
June 1, 2018
This book provides practical tools for mastering emotions and responses that can negatively impact you, your team, your family, and any relationships you have. Some scenarios seem slightly superficial and simplified. Overall, the tips provided should prove useful. Tame It, Name It, and Reframe It.
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