Live a Happier A.N.T. Free Life or Your Money Back

Lindsay O'Brien John

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This book is presented as a coaching guide to explain how your author's more than fifty-year personal struggle to find the Holy Grail of personal development, emotional health, and a happier life has come true, as it will for you!

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• Assertiveness

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• Publié par: First Edition Design Publishing
• Date de parution: 23 avril 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781937520816
• Langue: English

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LIVE A HAPPIER
A.N.T. FREE LIFE
Or Your Money Back!

by
John Lindsay O’Brien, Ph.D.
Automatic Negative Thinking
“ Mankind’s Most Unrecognized and Powerful Emotional Enemy”



Introducing the Principles of
THINKIATRY ® COACHING & A.N.T. EXTERMINATION GUIDE

www.happierantfreelife.com
ISBN 978-1-937520-81-6
Published by
First Edition Design Publishing
April 2012
www.firsteditiondesignpublishing.com

Copyright, 2012 by John Lindsay O’Brien




Also available in print.
9781937520809 – Paperback

Cover Design – Deborah E Gordon / First Edition Design

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. No portion of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopy, recording, scanning, or other – except for brief quotations in critical reviews or articles, without prior written permission of the publisher and author.
The comments, opinions and viewpoints presented here are solely those of the author as derived from his personal and professional experiences.
To Alice:
My friend, my love, my wife, my life!
The only thing worse than not reading a book
In the last ninety days –
Is not reading a book in the last ninety days
And thinking it doesn’t matter.
— Jim Rohn
CONTENTS

-INTRODUCTION
Neuroplasticity
A.N.T. Automatic Negative Thinking
Our Normalcy Biases
Thinkiatry – Not the “Positive Thinking” Myth
Thinkiatry’s Birth
Money-Back Guarantee

-OVERVIEW
Thinkiatry’s Principles and Living a Happier Life
Our Habitual Thinking Process
Non-Stop ANTS
ANTS—the Price We Pay
Thinkiatry’s Principles and Our Habitual Thinking Process
Thinkiatry’s Goal
Coaching Guide

-PART ONE:
-THE COACHING PRINCIPLES

-Coaching Principle # 1: THINKING
The Normalcy Bias
Learning to “Watch What We Think”
“ Switching Away” ANTS
Overcoming Our Normalcy Bias
Principle #1: The Way We Think—Summary

-Coaching Principle # 2: OUR FEELINGS
Two Examples of Our Thought to Feeling Speed
The Thinkiatry Process Begins
Why Some Will Choose To Do What They Have Always Done
Thinkiatry Principle #2: Feeling—Summary

-Coaching Principle # 3: MOODS
Highs and Lows
Understanding Our Moods
Low Moods: Helpful Coaching Tips

-Coaching Principle # 4: SEPARATE REALITIES
What Are Separate Realities?
The Futility of Trying To Change Others
My Separate Reality Experience
The First Four Principles: A Brief Summary

-Coaching Principle # 5: THE PRESENT MOMENT
What Is Living in the Moment?
How Do We Achieve This Spiritual Goal?
My Living Life in the Moment Experience

-THINKIATRY’S COACHING PRINCIPLES: REVIEW
Overview
Principle #1 Thinking
Principle #2 Feelings
Principle #3 Moods
Principle #4 Separate Realities
Principle #5 The Present Moment

-PART TWO:
-APPLYING THINKIATRY’S PRINCIPLES

-Applying the Principles: OVERVIEW
How Times Have Changed
Applying Thinkiatry’s Principles Today
There Is Hope for All of Us

-Applying the Principles: DEPRESSION
Statistics: How Many Are Afflicted?
Depression Can’t Exist Without ANTS
Our Past and Future
A Low Mood with No End

-Applying the Principles: OBESITY
Treatment: A New Focus and Method
Adult Obesity Statistics
Childhood Obesity Statistics
Why Aren’t Treatment Methods More Successful?
Using Thinkiatry’s Principles and Process to Treat Obesity

-Applying the Principles: HABITS and ADDICTIONS
How Many Americans Are Addicts?
The Stars, the Media, and Rehab
How Do We Help Approximately 40 Million U.S. Addicts?
Today’s Treatment Dilemma

-Applying the Principles: ANGER
Not All Anger Is Unhealthy
When Anger is Unhealthy and Why
A Personal Perspective

-Applying the Principles: STRESS
What Is Stress?
Unhealthy Stress
Eliminating Stress

-Applying the Principles: SOLVING PROBLEMS
Changing Circumstances and Intense Focused Thinking
Thinkiatry’s Problem-Solving Process
My Favorite Problem Solving Technique
Past Problems
Future Problems

-Applying the Principles: RELATIONSHIPS
The Closer We Are, the Harder It Gets
How the Principles Improve Our Relationships
Separate Realities and Relationships
Relationships in the Workplace
Workplace Choices

-Applying the Principles: MARRIAGE
National Marriage Debate
The Way the Two of Us Habitually Think
Applying Each Principle
About the Two of Us

-Applying the Principles: PARENTS & OUR KIDS ANTS
Reflecting on my Childhood
Kids Today
FREE Coaching for Kids

-Applying the Principles: HAPPINESS
Happiness Cannot Be Found in the Past
Happiness Cannot Be Found in the Future
Happiness Test

-Applying the Principles: LIVING LIFE IN THE MOMENT
How Do We Do It?

-MONEY BACK GUARANTEE

-ABOUT THE AUTHOR

-CONTACT INFORMATION
INTRODUCTION



Thinkiatry’s Principles & Process have been created to coach and teach self-therapy techniques anyone can use to eliminate the LEARNED automatic negative thoughts (ANTS) that control our emotional health and happiness.
Some mental health and emotional issues may also be the result of GENETIC or other MEDICAL causes. Medical diagnosis may reveal treatment required before Thinkiatry’s coaching principles can provide effective self-treatment. ALWAYS consult your primary care physician to make sure you have no pre-existing medical condition(s) impacting your mental and emotional health .

Neuroplasticity:
Medical research in this relatively new field of study has only recently discovered that we can literally, physically alter the neuro-pathways in our brains and change our life-long negative thinking habits. Thinkiatry’s A.N.T. extermination principles and process are now a valid medical research supported self-therapy and coaching objective process millions can discover and use to alter the emotional landscape of their lives for the better, forever.

A.N.T. – Automatic Negative Thinking. . .
. . . is something all of us do every day; yet, almost all of us are totally and, as you will soon learn, tragically unaware of how this centuries old, life-long, human habit controls our emotional well-being, physical health, and the quality of each individual’s day-to-day life.
On a broader scale, human ANT colonies, like snowflakes, are unique; dramatically and collectively influencing world politics, governments, economies, religions and the quality of life for billions of people around the world.
Based upon the preceding statements, only briefly introducing the importance of ANTS to billions of lives, most would logically expect that they would be a universal core subject of study and discussion for young and old alike in schools, universities, media commentary, and daily human interaction throughout the world. However, the odds are about 99% that you have never heard of an ANT without more than two legs to walk on.
To your author’s knowledge, after more than fifty years of personal emotional struggle, research and study, we have for centuries ignored our ANTS as nothing more than a function of being alive just like our breathing, heartbeat, and other bodily functions – “It’s just the way life is.” It’s not anymore!
The following is merely a partial list of emotional conditions that can be self-treated and significantly reduced, or in some cases eliminated, as we learn to use Thinkiatry’s Principles and Process to exterminate our individually unique ANT Colonies to experience lasting emotional health and happiness in our lives:

DivorceWeight problemsStressAnxiety
AddictionsAngerSadnessHatred
ObesityJealousyInsecurityBullyingLonelinessArroganceHypocrisyFear

This book is presented as a coaching guide to explain how your author’s more than fifty-year personal struggle to find the Holy Grail of personal development, emotional health, and a happier life has come true, as it will for you!

Our Normalcy Biases
It’s very difficult for our species to try new things or to understand something completely different from our previous life experiences I call this the normalcy bias , and we all have it to varying degree. All of us struggle with the difficulty of change and simply cannot conceive of ideas and practices that are too far outside what we perceive as “normal” or “just the way life is.” It can be very difficult, even frightening, to even consider trying something new outside their nine dots. As an example, Henry Ford spent several years preaching that the automobile would replace the horse as the primary mode of future travel, millions laughed. Similar stories exist regarding the television, home computers, and the internet.
The content of this coaching guide may push your normalcy bias to the limit because the way we currently think and allow our automatic negative thoughts (ANTS) to control our emotional health and the direction of our lives, has caused millions of people to unknowingly, and sometimes tragically, suffer lifelong emotional consequences.
It took me more than fifty years to put together the pieces of this discovery and I will spend the rest of my life continuing to study and coach as many people as possible in order to improve the emotional landscape of their lives, forever. More on the normalcy bias and how to overcome lifelong habits is to come later, but please attempt to break your normalcy bias because we don’t know what we don’t know !

Thinkiatry - Not the “Positive Thinking” Myth

Thinkiatry’s principles and process will enable you to understand why expecting to live a happier life through attempting only positive thinking can be virtually impossible for most, and whose failure to achieve any lasting results actually may cause the “believer” even more extensive emotional consequences and ANTS.

Thinkiatry’s Birth
Because of very personal family issues my thinking and corresponding emotional issues began to manifest themselves physically when I was about seven years old. I began