{"title":"JP Sears","description":"\u003cp\u003eJP Sears offers a fresh and often humorous perspective on self-help and personal development. His works explore mindfulness and emotional growth with a blend of sincerity and wit, inviting readers to question conventional approaches to wellness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect insightful reflections that challenge traditional self-improvement narratives, encouraging a lighter, more authentic path to inner peace and self-awareness. His writing is both thought-provoking and accessible, perfect for those seeking a new angle on personal growth.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-no-self-help-book-by-kate-gustin-9781684032174","title":"The No-Self Help Book","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBy breaking free of your own self-limiting beliefs, you'll discover the unlimited potential of who you really are. It's time to get over your self!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is an insidious, global identity theft occurring that has robbed people of their very recognition of their true selves. The culprit—indeed the mastermind of this crisis—has committed the inside job of creating and promoting the idea that we are all a separate self, which is the chief source of our daily distress and dissatisfaction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNo more than a narrative of personhood pieced together from disparate neural activations, the self we believe ourselves to be in our own minds—although quite capable of being affirming, inspiring, and constructive—often spews forth a distressing flow of worry and second-guessing, blaming and shaming, regret and guilt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book offers an antidote to this epidemic of stolen identity, isolation, and self-deprecation: no-self (a concept known in Buddhist philosophy as \u003cem\u003eanatta\u003c\/em\u003e or \u003cem\u003eanatman\u003c\/em\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe No-Self Help Book\u003c\/em\u003e turns the idea of self-improvement on its head, arguing that the key to well-being lies not in the relentless pursuit of bettering one's self but in the recognition of the self as a false identity born in the mind.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eRather than identifying with a small, relative sense of self, this book encourages you to embrace a liberating alternative—an expansive awareness that is flexible and open to experiencing life as an ongoing and ever-changing process, without attachment to personal outcomes or storylines.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo help you make this leap from self to no-self, the book provides forty bite-sized chapters full of clever and inspiring insights based in positive psychology and non-duality—a philosophy that asserts there is no real separation between any of us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo, if you're tired of self-help and you're ready to explore who you are beyond the self, let \u003cem\u003eThe No-Self Help Book\u003c\/em\u003e be your guide.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Bookreps NZ Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47900661776620,"sku":"9781684032174","price":49.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781684032174-the-no-self-help-book.jpg?v=1783419777"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/jp-sears.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}