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Energizing Self-Trust 7 Steps for Reclaiming Your Power
A Book Review by S. Tariq Masood
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Introduction:
On 12th May 1990, Star Trek: The Next Generation, in its third season released the 23rd
episode SAREK.
Spock's father Sarek, a legendary 200 year old Vulcan ambassador, boards the Enterprise to
finalize negotiations with a race of beings that only trusts him. His two personal aids who
accompany him on the Enterprise continually monitor, stabilize his mental state and advise
Sarek maximum rest in view of his debilitating health. Only Sarek insists to remain active to
oversee the details of these sensitive negotiations.
Vulcans are known to exhibit no emotions. According to them We dispose emotional states. They are illogical. When there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.
Actually, Vulcans are not devoid of emotions; they've simply
learned to suppress them from the early childhood. This
behavior becomes a part of their physiology which gives them
(arguably) greater problem-solving abilities, less confusion
about personal issues and no conflicts over irrational concepts
that cannot be proven.
The very next day, for reasons unknown, crew members of the ship exhibited unprovoked
aggression, even towards personal friends and colleagues. After numerous such incidents,
the Enterprise crew got concerned, investigated and finally concluded that ambassador
Sarek is inflicted with the rare 'bendai syndrome', which causes old Vulcans to lose their
most-prized emotional self-control. In such a state, they telepathically spill the intense emotions everywhere they go. These strong emotions then get absorbed by humans
affecting their behavioral response and needless fights and arguments ensue.
As a temporary solution, Captain volunteers himself to mind-meld with him. This way Sarek
would have Picard's emotional control for the duration of negotiations. Sarek is reluctant at
first warning Picard that this would cause him to be overwhelmed by extremely powerful
Vulcan emotions. Knowing the risks, Picard remains adamant and Sarek grudgingly agrees.
After the mind-exchange is performed by Sarek, Captain Picard, who is a human, is indeed
overpowered. Under the deluge of extreme emotions Captain exhibits a personality change
and pours out the contents of Sarek's anguished soul; accumulation of his suppressed
emotional experiences, his regrets of never showing Love to his son Spock or his late wife.
Captain cries uncontrollably and remains in agonizing depression having received Sareks mind. In the meantime, a restored and rational Sarek, who has exchanged the emotional
stability from the Captain, successfully concludes his negotiations.
The Book:
The above example was necessary because that is exactly what happens in real life when
profound emotions are deliberately suppressed or snubbed. In his fifth book, ENERGIZING
SELF TRUST: 7 Steps to Reclaiming Your Power; author J. Lawrence Maerz has
sacrificed all pretensions to literary style to secure felicity of diction. He has an important
message to deliver and does it sagaciously without any nebulous writing. He conscientiously
starts from the origin where the bent occurs in our emotions which changes our outlook on life. He presents his readers practical solutions which even a layman can comprehend.
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We are all creatures of emotions, passions, circumstances and accident. What the mind
will be, what the heart will be, what the body will be; are problems that are
shaped to the drift of life. Think about it for a while and you will be surprised to know how
much of your life has been a mere drift; polluted with hive consciousness spewing out
clichs with boring regularity.
The writer is a psychological counselor, professional speaker and has been an investigator of
EMOTIONAL TROUBLESHOOTING subject for many years. His most recent 5th book is
an attempt to give to his readers the principles; fundamental to advanced, derived from his
own investigations, painstaking research work and experiential knowledge of adult and child
psychology. He recognizes and advocates the need of personal accountability and coaches
his clients on achieving balanced emotional states.
Excerpts from ENERGIZING SELF TRUST: 7 Steps to Reclaiming Your Power
We have spent many years building emotional inertia that has led to our arrival at the place where we find ourselves now. We all feel that there were pivotal points in our lives
where, if we had gone another way, we might not be where we are now. We see those
experiences as choices we had to make based on circumstances. But those choices had
everything to do with how we felt about ourselves at the time. And how we felt at that time
had everything to do with the way we were taught about how the world perceived us, our
values and worth as an individual. The underlying point is that we have allowed our value
and worth to be determined by people outside of ourselves, thus continuing the training we
received in childhood.
We still see ourselves now much the same way we believed the world saw us then, except that, now it is a long history of reinforcement through repeating the same beliefs and
patterns we were taught, over and over.
The way the world sees and responds to us is deeply rooted in our opinions of ourselves. This is our personal inertia. The way the world values us is well integrated in our psyches. It
could be compared to a systemic infection permeating the body and the only way to
eliminate it is to kill the host it survives on.
Mr. J Lawrence Maerz advocates the use of positive affirmations but with a serious warning.
There is a thought, and a sponsoring thought, which runs parallel or directly behind the first thought. For instance, if I am using an affirmation to germinate a new belief inside my
subconscious mind and saying I am a great communicator. My clients appreciate what I say, give me business and referrals. The sponsoring thought could say Dont kid yourself Your clients back out at the last minute You have never excelled in Public Relations You will lose again You cant speak and have no clarity of thought - etc.
The sponsoring thought then becomes an adversary. It incinerates the initial thought
instantly along with any positivity. Why? Because it drags past emotional experiences into
the present moment and how we identified ourselves with the judgments that were placed
upon us when we were growing up. Since we never let go of those outdated beliefs, the
emotional navigation brings us vis--vis with a darker side of ourselves. It is when we
choose to cloak our shining self in the present moment covered in the rags of FEAR of the
past. The bottom line is that our thoughts and the sponsoring thoughts must not collide with
one another. Once both stand in congruence, new beliefs are formed and life begins to
change.
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Conclusion:
Humanity is hemmed in by so many influences that, from time immemorial, no real effort
has been made to gain control of the emotions and impulses that run loose in the world
within. It has been, and still is, easier to let things go rather than exert a degree of personal
will to direct them. The dividing line between success and failure is found at that stage
where aimless drifting ceases.
With so many simultaneous realities and parallel possibilities than our minds could conceive
or the pen could write in figures; we choose to keep ourselves locked in a status-quo.
ENERGIZING SELF TRUST: 7 Steps to Reclaiming Your Power releases readers from
the dogmatic labels and bondage of the past. Through practical exercises, the book helps
readers usher into a new mindset where you start to understand the bludgeoning of
shadows and finally eliminate the victim-based mentality which infests the soul.
Depression, isolation, loneliness, anxiety, irritability, helplessness, impoverishment and
failures which frequently repeat themselves - all represent mental inertia. They are not
diseases but only states of mind. They have an origin; symptoms to a much deeper cause.
Eliminate the cause and the whole picture changes. Whenever we spill fear based emotions in key moments or areas of our lives; disappointments follow. The only way out is
to accept the responsibility of correcting the misconceptions and commit to doing something
different to get a different result.
ENERGIZING SELF TRUST: 7 Steps to Reclaiming Your Power provides a working
model of belief management by virtue of which things can change for the better. It is not an
overnight transformation; rather a gradual process which hammers your mind to
courageously cross the line and experience what lies on the other side of the fence.
Please visit his websites:
http://johnmaerz.com/
http://awakeandthinking.com/
J. Lawrence Maerz fourth book: A MILE IN YOUR SHOES: The Road To Actualization Through
Compassion is about child rearing practices which stigmatize and leave behind a mark of
shame. It is also a must read work.
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ISBN 978-0986436451
Self Trust Intro Video 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm993r77GPM
Self Trust Video 2:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeIq70AYSGc
Good Reads Book Club:
http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5190893.John_Maerz
Contact the Author
3542 Green View Court
Sarasota, Florida 34231
(941) 286 1562 [email protected]