Many Lives, Many Masters, by Brian L. Weiss
"The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past-Life Therapy That Changed Both Their Lives"
Self-help
alchemical hypnotherapy
"opens you to your inner world and attunes the body to the higher frequencies that the inner self provide. It teaches you to access your own unique spiritual guides and learn to work and interact with them daily to make changes in your life" -- alchemyinstitute.com
Emotional Blackmail, by Susan Forward
When the people in your life use fear, obligation, and guilt to manipulate you. The author provides a practical guide to better communication that will break the blackmail cycle for good. --Amazon
having a beard vs. being clean shaven
Calibrated: the level at which this is a question of significance. Levels lower or higher likely don't care much one way or the other.
“Do what makes you happy”
Pretty good life advice.
learning from your mistakes
Are mistakes just valuable life lessons?
Codependent No More, by Melody Beattie
How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself. A self-help book that has helped millions of readers understand codependency, the concept of losing oneself in the name of helping another -- biblio.com
abdicating one’s power
request: also, what is a good way to mitigate this? It often occurs to me, that even by fighting to reclaim it you have already bought the premise that your power is vulnerable?
T/F: All depression is a consequence of negative beliefs
Request: Is the idea of ‘clinical depression’ a seductive rejection of responsibility or a well-founded diagnosis?
Stop Fixing Yourself, by Anthony De Mello
"People ask me, what do I need to do to change myself? If you're one of those people, I've got a big surprise for you! You don't have to do anything."
Not Nice, by Aziz Gazipura
stop people pleasing, staying silent, & feeling guilty... and start speaking up, saying no, asking boldly and unapologetically being yourself.
Marijuana Anonymous (MA)
Priority request: Curious if all self help groups calibrate at 540 or if the 12 step movement itself does. This question can benefit those who feel they are powerless over marijuana but are unsure about joining a program specifically for it.
Disconnected Kids, by Robert Melillo
The Groundbreaking Brain Balance Program for Children with Autism, ADHD, Dyslexia, and Other Neurological Disorders
"Cry it out" / Ferber method
It involves "sleep-training" children to self-soothe by allowing the child to cry for a predetermined amount of time at intervals before receiving external comfort -- wikipedia
the law of reverse effect
Aldous Huxley first described the ‘Law of Reverse Effect,’ saying that “The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed.” So, could it really be that when we stop consciously trying to succeed, we increase our chances of success?