Acid Test

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• How To Improve Your Creativity

• How To Improve Your Flexibility

• How To Improve Your Openness

• How To Improve Your Mental Perception

Counseling Posters

• This book is a compilation of posters from the author’s counseling practice.

• Some posters were designed to hang in the office, some in the waiting room, and some for clients to take home.

• Additional sayings have been added, and many posters have been rewritten and modified.

Chapter Contents for 1–3

• The first chapter consists of sayings related to right and wrong thinking patterns.

• You are helped to discover how thinking can easily lead to misperception.

• You are encouraged not to make thinking the screen between you and life.

• Thought can be either a wall or a door depending on how you use it.

• Chapter Two contains sayings that help make the difference between being a container and being the contents of a container.

• You are helped to rediscover your child nature as a container in favor of your adult nature as contents.

• Understanding the nature of self makes it easier to choose to live in authentic moments.

• The third chapter gathers sayings that help point to what is and what is not genuine self.

• You are helped to discover and live in self instead of ego.

Chapter Contents for 4–8

• Chapter Four mainly concerns how and why you are responsible for your feelings.

• You are helped to become more mature by owning and accepting responsibility for your feelings.

• Owning your feelings is necessary for awareness and honesty.

• Being responsible for your feeling is necessary for leading an empowered life.

• The fifth chapter collects sayings that did not easily fit into one of the first four chapters.

• Most of those sayings continue ideas presented in the previous chapters.

• You will discover as much meaning as your ego defenses will allow.

• Chapters 1–5 contain 365 sayings making them suitable for daily reflection or a calendar.

• Chapter Six consists of longer posters that could and should not be reduced to sayings.

• The seventh chapter consists of poems related to the book’s ideas.

• Chapter Eight is the final chapter, which includes end matter, such as a recommended reading list.

Benefit from Aphorisms

• Pithy sayings can be either instantly helpful or meaningless.

• Often, the best results from sayings or aphorisms come after they have grown slowly in the garden of your mind.

• Ideas you may reject at first can come to have more meaning in time.

• Aphorisms that make no sense today can suddenly reveal themselves to you years later.

• Some sayings can follow and teach you for a lifetime. For example, “Drink from your own well” has taught the author repeatedly for many years.

• Making yourself contemplate a saying you do not understand can reveal much about your thinking styles.

• Is it the saying or your lack of openness that is cold?

• Feeling your way to the inside meat of a saying is the best approach.

Sayings Bring Stillness

• Focus on the sayings that bring stillness.

• Listen beyond the words.

• Feel, rather than think, the sayings through.

• Sense, rather than think, the music behind the words.

• Manage to touch the energy behind the words, and your heart will be touched.

• If you are interested in quotations, then please visit the author’s website.

• There, you will find lists of quotations organized by topic.

• If you find quotations intriguing but not fulfilling, then please examine some of the author’s other works listed at the end of the book.

• Read and enjoy!