STEPS TO EMOTIONAL CONTROL

The following is an outline of a plan for implementing the information contained in this report. The order in which you take these steps is not important. If you tackle the items on this list with sincerity and seriousness, you will be well on your way to achieving emotional control.

• Continue to study this report. Make notes and add anything it might be missing. (If you see that it is missing something, please inform me!)
• Acquire and study the following books: Cognitive Therapy and the Emotional Disorders, Freeze-Frame, Multimind, and The Path of Least Resistance. I consider these required reading. The other books listed in the bibliography section of this report are optional.
• Consider keeping a daily journal tracking your emotional states. You could also include the following: automatic thoughts, command phrases and mood contagion. Journaling is also a good tool for flushing out emotional garbage; when you write about your negative feelings and moods, you externalize them.
• Begin implementing the ideas in this report and the books listed above.
• Begin ridding yourself of your command phrases — the destructive unconscious programs installed in your brain during moments of emotional upset. Read the books by Wetherill listed in the bibliography.
• Begin monitoring your automatic thoughts.
• Observe the identification process in yourself, especially when you identify with your negative emotions.
• Start monitoring yourself for mood contagion.
• Begin practicing the freeze-frame technique.
• Use the Callahan Techniques (Thought Field Therapy) to take care of any psychological problems you may have, such as phobias, addictions or depression. To find out about Dr. Callahan’s books and tapes, visit his website. I (Mark Lindsay) am a certified practitioner of Thought Field Therapy. You are welcome to contact me if you have any questions regarding the Callahan Techniques or would like TFT treatment.
• Learn more about Idenics and consider undergoing a few sessions. Contact Mike Goldstein at 1-800-IDENICS.
• Continue to strengthen and expand your self-control and personal freedom.

Whatever the reasons, we do not pursue emotional development with the same intensity with which we pursue physical and intellectual development. This is all the more unfortunate because full emotional development offers the greatest degree of leverage in attaining our full potential" [my emphasis].
It is the idea of emotional development as providing the greatest leverage in actualizing our full potential which strikes me as being of great significance. For, most all adult humans are quite immature when it comes to their emotions. It’s as if, emotionally speaking, they stopped growing at about the age of ten or eleven. And some of us have not even reached that far. I say this in all seriousness. The vast majority of us are grossly immature when it comes to our emotions.
And if that is indeed the case, then how can we expect to attain our full potential to any significant degree? At most we could expect a lop-sided development: for example, we may have acquired advanced thinking skills yet remain an emotional child.
It is clear that part of the task of the Personal Power Institute needs to be to teach people how to continue developing their emotional maturity.