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The No-Self Help Book

Forty Reasons to Get Over Your Self and Find Peace of Mind
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The No-Self Help Book challenges the conventional self-help narrative by exploring the Buddhist concept of anatta, or no-self. Authors Kate Gustin and JP Sears argue that the self is a constructed identity that limits well-being and breeds distress. Instead, the book guides readers towards embracing an expansive awareness beyond personal storylines and attachments. Through 40 insightful chapters drawing from positive psychology and non-duality, it offers a liberating perspective to overcome self-limiting beliefs and discover true potential.
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This book suits readers interested in self-help and personal development who are seeking an alternative approach rooted in mindfulness and philosophy. It is ideal for those curious about Buddhist teachings, positive psychology, and non-duality, and for anyone ready to move beyond traditional self-improvement to deeper self-awareness.

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The No-Self Help Book is the first to take the "self" out of "self-help." Written by a clinical psychologist and student of Eastern philosophy, this guide offers a radical solution to readers struggling with self-doubt, self-esteem, and self-defeating thoughts: get over your self-it's time for "no-self help"!

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By 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!

There 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.

No 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.

This book offers an antidote to this epidemic of stolen identity, isolation, and self-deprecation: no-self (a concept known in Buddhist philosophy as anatta or anatman).

The No-Self Help Book 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.

Rather 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.

To 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.

So, if you're tired of self-help and you're ready to explore who you are beyond the self, let The No-Self Help Book be your guide.

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Praised by experts such as Marci Shimoff and Sharon Salzberg, the book is described as a refreshing antidote to loneliness and a profound guide to recognising true identity beyond the mind's stories. It has been called insightful, playful, and wise, providing transformative perspectives on the root causes of unhappiness and insecurity by revealing the illusion of separateness.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781684032174

Publisher: New Harbinger Publications

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 31 January 2019

Country: United States

Imprint: New Harbinger Publications

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 18.0mm

Width: 126.0mm

Height: 176.0mm

Weight: 200g

Pages: 200

About the Author

Kate Gustin (Author)
Kate Gustin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her doctorate in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2001, and has worked in a range of clinical settings including community mental health clinics, VA hospitals, college counseling centers, and Kaiser Permanente's department of psychiatry. Gustin presently conducts individual and group psychotherapy in her private practice and offers trainings and workshops on positive psychology for patients, students, and health professionals.

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