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The Inner Game of Stress
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A unique and empowering resource to overcoming stress and stabilizing your mental health in today’s volatile world—part of the bestselling Inner Game series, with more than one million copies sold!
“Tim Gallwey is one of the great teachers of our time. In this day, when many talk of accelerating learning in organizations but few have actually done it, the words of a master are timely indeed.”—Peter M. Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
Renowned sports psychology expert W. Timothy Gallwey teams up with two esteemed physicians to present an invaluable guide for managing everyday stress. Gallwey explains how negative self-talk undermines us and leaves us feeling helpless and unhappy—and he shows that we have the means to build a shield against stress using our abilities to take childlike pleasure in learning new skills, which can help us rest, relax, and trust our own judgement.
With his trademark mix of case histories and interactive worksheets, Gallwey helps us tap into our inner strengths with these practical tools:
• the STOP technique: Learn how to Step back, Think, Organize, and Proceed with a more conscious choice process, even in the most chaotic circumstances.
• the Attitude tool: If you’re feeling resentment, try gratitude.
• the Magic Pen: Develop the ability to open up your intuition and wisdom.
• the Transpose exercise: Imagine what the other person thinks, feels, wants—and develop empathy, kindness, and better relationship skills.
• the PLE triangle: Use your goals for Performance, Learning, and Experience to redefine success and enhance enjoyment.
You don’t have to be an athlete to keep your life in perspective and your performance at its peak. A one-of-a kind guide, The Inner Game of Stress allows anyone to get in the game and win.
“Tim Gallwey is one of the great teachers of our time. In this day, when many talk of accelerating learning in organizations but few have actually done it, the words of a master are timely indeed.”—Peter M. Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization
Renowned sports psychology expert W. Timothy Gallwey teams up with two esteemed physicians to present an invaluable guide for managing everyday stress. Gallwey explains how negative self-talk undermines us and leaves us feeling helpless and unhappy—and he shows that we have the means to build a shield against stress using our abilities to take childlike pleasure in learning new skills, which can help us rest, relax, and trust our own judgement.
With his trademark mix of case histories and interactive worksheets, Gallwey helps us tap into our inner strengths with these practical tools:
• the STOP technique: Learn how to Step back, Think, Organize, and Proceed with a more conscious choice process, even in the most chaotic circumstances.
• the Attitude tool: If you’re feeling resentment, try gratitude.
• the Magic Pen: Develop the ability to open up your intuition and wisdom.
• the Transpose exercise: Imagine what the other person thinks, feels, wants—and develop empathy, kindness, and better relationship skills.
• the PLE triangle: Use your goals for Performance, Learning, and Experience to redefine success and enhance enjoyment.
You don’t have to be an athlete to keep your life in perspective and your performance at its peak. A one-of-a kind guide, The Inner Game of Stress allows anyone to get in the game and win.
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“I received this book from Goodreads and I really enjoyed it. I found I was already using some of their tools form the toolbox portion of the book and I found at least 2 more tools that I will use in the future.
The best thing about this book is it does not read like a textbook or a paper. It's like having a conversation with the author. I also enjoyed reading the examples from the two doctors who contributed to the book. Real life examples really hit home.
This book is broken into three parts - 1. The Game of Stress, 2. Outsmarting Stress, 3. The Inner Game Toolbox.
In the first part of this book it talks about self 1 and self 2. Self 1 is the stress maker - the voice in your head that creates the running commentary either good or bad. Self 2 is your natural, creative, talented self that doesn't need the running commentary. I really didn't how much the stress maker really plays a role in my life and how I really need to stop listening and just be.
Part 2 talks about prioritizing your life so you may enjoy it. Life is about enjoyment and if your not enjoying yourself what really is the point? Through ACT - Awareness, Choice, and Trust you can can then find your foundation to get you through stressful times. It seems really simple, but when you're on auto-pilot it's hard to capture the awareness and make choices that will get you through in the future.
Part 3 is the some tools to get help you reduce your stress. I personally liked the first 2 best. Stop and Being the CEO. Stop means when your in the moment - stopping and taking a step back and getting your thoughts organzied before your respond. How many times do we shoot from the hip when confronted or when someone says a remark off the cuff to us. Being CEO is taking control of your life and making decisions. As the CEO what do I want, where to I want to go, how do I want my life to precede... then you can decide. I think taking back control and enjoying your life is really the key to this book.
I've already started down this road of saying no to too many obligations and promises and not taking things so seriously, so it was nice to have it clearly written out and to learn some new tools to stop listening to the stress maker.
Thank you Random House and Goodreads for a very nice book.”
About W. Timothy Gallwey
W. Timothy Gallwey has produced a series of bestselling Inner Game books, which set forth a new methodology for the development of personal and professional excellence in a variety of fields. For the last twenty years Gallwey has been introducing the Inner Game approach to corporations looking for better ways to manage change. He lives in Malibu, California.
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