Pulling Your Own Strings

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Harper Collins, 1994 M02 4 - 320 pages

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER, WITH OVER 3 MILLION COPIES SOLD

From the #1 bestselling author of Your Erroneous Zones, a directed and practical book that shows you how to stop being manipulated by others and start taking charge of your own life.

Wayne Dyer reveals how we all can prevent ourselves from being victimized by others and begin to operate from a position of power at the center of our own lives. Asserting that we alone are responsible for how much we will be controlled by others, Dyer offers his practical plan for developing new attitudes toward the most common sources of victimization and manipulation, such as family members and authority figures in the workplace.

For example, families can be tremendously coercive and demanding, but they can also be an immensely rewarding part of your life. Dyer shows how to cope with the negative side and contribute to the positive. In their working life, many people stay in unfulfilling jobs because they feel constrained by their present experience or because they fear change. Dyer shows that by being enthusiastic and flexible, you can find the work to be happy. Life, Dyer says, is a beautiful thing as long as you hold the strings. Pulling Your Own Strings will give you the dynamic strategies and tools to master your own fate.


 

Contents

Getting Out of Your Victim Habits
6
In Closing
27
CHAPTER 2
28
Experience as an Antidote to Fear
36
Isnt It IronicPeople Respect Strength
44
Summary Thoughts
54
You Can Victimize Yourself by Wallowing Around
67
Summary Thoughts
75
In Closing
165
The Results of Too Much Competition
174
On Winning and Losing
180
Some Common Institutional Victim Games
186
Strategies for Eliminating Institutional Victimization
196
Never Victimize Yourself by Reality
205
How Beliefs Work Against You
207
Being vs Thinking About Being
213

The Concept of Existential Aloneness
81
Some Strategies for Overcoming Your Victimization
95
The Absurdity of Having to Prove Yourself
114
InConclusLon
132
What Do You Expect from a Drunk?
145
Some Common Categories of People You Have
151
Strategies for Teaching Others How
159
Some RealityBased Techniques for Eliminating
220
CHAPTER 9
226
There Is No One Way to Do Anything
234
Action vs Inaction
241
Some Examples of Creatively Alive Behavior
247
In Summary
255
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About the author (1994)

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer was the bestselling author of 20 books and had a doctorate in counseling psychology. He lectured across the country to groups numbering in the thousands and appeared regularly on radio and television. He passed away in August of 2015.

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