If You Want To Change Your Life, Find Out Why You Need To Put Down Your Mirror
Do you want to live a happier, more successful, more fulfilling life? Are you looking for how to have, be, and do what you truly desire? What strategies and methods have you tried to accomplish your goals and achieve your dreams? Did they help get what you wanted?
If your efforts did not accomplish your goals and achieve your dreams, why didn't they work for you? Why don't you have what you truly desire to have? Why aren't you the person you truly desire to be? Why don't you do what you truly desire to do? What's the secret? What are you missing? What's standing in your way?
Do You Have a Hidden True Self?
If you are asking yourself these questions, you have probably heard about Michelangelo's sculpture of David as a metaphor of how to live the life you truly desire to live.
As the story goes, Michelangelo was asked how he made his statue of David. Michelangelo said that it was easy. All he had to do was chip away any part of the stone that didn't look like David.
These words of Michelangelo about carving his statue of David have become a familiar cliché for self help work. According to this idea, you can discover your True Self by chipping away at your False Self. Your False Self is the reason why you don't live the life you desire to live. Your False Self blocks you from having, being, and doing what your True Self truly desires. Your False Self prevents you from living the life you want to live.
What if the whole idea of having your True Self hidden away by your False Self is a trap that keeps you from living the life you desire to live?
Heroic Stories to Change Your Life
How to Get Out of the True Self Trap: The Life Changing Secrets of Heroic Stories is a series of essays about how heroic stories can offer a liberating perspective on creating the life you choose:
- Part 1: Transforming Your Life Stories
- Part 2: Your Flat Tire Stories
- Part 3: Who Are You in Your Stories?
- Part 4: How Heroic Stories Change Your Life
- Part 5: What Do Your Life Stories Cost?
- Part 6: Stories on Your Life Storywheel
- Part 7: Creating Your Life Stories
If you want to change your life, heroic stories reveal secrets about how to turn your attention away from fixing yourself to what you can do to create the life you desire to live.
You begin by putting down the mirror that keeps you focused on getting rid of the parts of you that you consider flawed in a quest to discover your ideal True Self.
How to Get Out of the True Self Trap is the first book in the "Heroic Stories to Change Your Life Series." The purpose of the series is to use heroic stories to focus on creating the kind of life you choose to live.
Free Bonus
How to Get Out of the True Self Trap also includes a free bonus: Is Your True Self Meant to Be An Ant or a Mockingbird? Assumptions in Traditional Christian Religion and New Age Spirituality about Your True Self. It's available for download in PDF format.
Is it time to put down the self help mirror and create the life you choose? Find out how in How to Get Out of the True Self Trap.
About the Author: Dr. Kalinda Rose Stevenson is an award-winning author, whose published writings include both academic and non-academic books.
She earned her Ph.D. at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California, in cooperation with the University of California at Berkeley.
She is a former teacher of university and theological seminary students. Most of all, she is a writer who loves to write.
She currently lives with her husband in the Las Vegas area of Nevada, where she writes books, tends to her sometimes neglected websites, works out in the gym, hikes in the desert with camera in hand, and stays out of casinos.
