The Tools

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Jeopardy - When you don't want to use the tools, picture yourself having run out of time. This is a tool to give willpower to keep focused on the next task. The Grateful Flow - When you are filled with worry, self-hatred, or negative-thinking. List at least 5 things you are grateful for, including things you may take for granted, then feel the physical sensation of gratefulness.

So I'm feeling a lot of cognitive dissonance about my favorable review of this wonderful and problematic and wonderful book. But the good news is, there's even a tool for dealing with cognitive dissonance. BRING ON THE PAIN! (You'll have to read the book to know what that means). The tools in Coming Alive help you connect to the Life Force and harness the energy and will to combat Part X. These are tools of ascendance—they activate your aspirational self; they spark creativity and resilience; they help you to transcend the mire of negative thoughts and circumstances and align with a powerful ally that unites us in our common desire to live lives of meaning and engagement. A good feature that this book does provide is a helpful summary, and a Q & A session, on each tool at the end of chapters. In Coming Alive, Barry Michels and Phil Stutz describe how to identify and master the enemy within, which they call Part X. They offer four Tools to connect you to your life force and harness the energy and will to combat Part X.We have decided to continue our monthly Shadow Support group, so as to maximize on our momentum and support your ongoing Shadow work. I was going to give this book 5 or 4 stars, because first 4 techniques are elegant, enjoyable, easy to use and do seem to make a real difference in one's daily life. I encourage everyone to familiarise themselves with the presented techniques. Active Love, or how to escape loops of revenge and feelings of injustice by tapping into a much greater force and using it to rid oneself of toxicity. Really useful after getting riled up on social media. Active Love: A way to quell anger, prevent yourself perseverating on injustice, or prepare yourself for confronting a difficult person

In their book _The Tools_, Phil Stutz and Barry Michels share the tools that have worked for them (and their clients) in dealing with this painful existential given. Their fours tools (and the “higher forces” which power them) are: PHIL: This is not a curative approach that says, let's get rid of the problem and go on living. Instead, the problem itself is the foundation of creating meaning in your life. You start to see that problems are meaningful.Barry received his A.B., magna cum laude, from Harvard College in 1975, his J.D. (law degree) from University of California Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), in 1979, and his M.S.W. from U.S.C. School of Social Work in 1984.