No Anesthesia: Provocations for the SELF (re)discovery, understanding, healing, development ...

This book presents a comprehensive guide towards self-discovery, self-understanding, self-healing, self-development and more... Written by an experience psychologist, psychotherapist with more than 20 years of practice with real-life cases, this book serves as a roadmap to dealing with the challenges of the everyday life.

Whenever we face personal challenges or go through emotional pain and suffering, it's often connected to an inner imbalance - like a kind of emotional unsteadiness. If we look closer inside ourselves, we might find that, for various reasons, it's hard to express who we are or just be ourselves. In a way, this emotional pain can be seen as a sign of something inside us being out of balance, caused by the difficulty of expressing our true selves.

When we try to solve a personal and tough situation, we're basically looking for a way to deal with the discomfort and bring our feelings back into balance. Balancing our thoughts and feelings is an interesting task, but it's just an intermediary step toward more discoveries and achievements.

These moments of 'inner shake-ups' (whenever we face something uncomfortable) could be like steppingstones for our personal growth, making us more flexible and successful. It's important to pay attention to what's happening, the desire to overcome it, how much responsibility we take for ourselves, and to some extent, the curiosity to find our place on the map of our own life and just BE.

Table of Contents:
For This Book
No Anesthesia
The Healing "No"
Personal Choices
Another Way of Understanding Philosophy
Love - Neurotic or Natural
The Trap of Life Strategies
Reminder
Is Loneliness Scary?
The Drive for Control and Dealing with Disappointments
The Loss of Color in Life
Little Steps Towards Ourselves
Efforts Against Inaction
The Shortcuts in Life
The Ability to Give and Receive
The Challenges of the Conflict
"Must" is Unavoidable
Relationships and Pain
Emotional Dependency
Parental Roles in the Child's Life
Emotions - Friends or Enemies?
Healthy Relationships
The Energy Reserves of a Person - A Pledge for Success
Fixating on the Idea of "Saving" the Relationship
Who Is More Important?
Everyone Is a Different Universe
Extremes - Differences or Manifestations of the Same Thing?
The Role of the Convictions
What Are Men and Women Looking for In Their Relationships?
When the Soul Grows...
Life Is A Workout
Emotional Burnout - An Inward Perspective
States Of Uncertainty
Illusions - On the Benefit of Loss
In Search of Tranquility
Trust and Betrayal
The Path of Difficult Decisions
On Obedient Children, Incorrect Programs, and Debugging
The Multifaceted Nature of Happiness
The Secret Levers of Life's Ups and Downs
The Game of Opposites
Material and Spiritual - Beyond the Frame
Attachment as Both Opportunity and Limitation
The Mirages of Love
The Powerlessness of Motivational Quotes
The Age of the Soul /Questions for Self-Reflection/
Children as Teachers
How to Make "Life Movement" Strategies Effective?
The Body and the Inner World
The Winning "Doses" of Patience
From Words to Actions
Passion
Gentle Approaches and Active Investments
Flexible Perseverance
It doesn't matter what happens, but how we perceive it
How? - The Most Important Question
In Search of 100% Guarantee
What Happens in Silence?
On the Benefits and Harms of Manipulation
How to Prevent the Drainage of Vital Energy?
"Yes" or "No" - A Brief Navigation Exercise
Negative Emotions are Internalized
Overcoming Stress
Reality versus Fantasy
What Breeds Misunderstanding?
Peeking into the Page of Ready Answers...
Kindergarten for Adults
On Patience and Impatience