The Tools

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Phil Stutz (born in 1947, age: 75 years) is an author, doctor, psychiatrist, and therapist from America. Phil is also known as Dr. Phil Stutz who has been working as a leading psychiatrist and a coach for the last 40+ years. He has given therapies to some of the famous Hollywood’s most elite actors, businessmen, and executives. Phil raises to fame in 2023 when his book “The Tools” became a trending book of the years. Phil’s experience, struggle, and life story have been portrayed by the directorJonah Hill’s documentary titled “Stutz”. Can't recommend it enough - like Eugene Gendlin's book "Focusing" it moves psychology away from speculation and into real life. Instead of offering yet another new way to chart or understand someone's inner life, it offers a simple and practical way to grips with and overcome difficult, frightening or debilitating emotional states. The emphasis is always on immediate and felt change. Tap into the life force to deepen your emotional and spiritual experience and realize your full potential with this transformative book by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Tools(and the resident shrinks on Goop). In The Tools, Barry Michels and Phil Stutz revolutionized the world of personal growth and self-actualization by offering doable, dynamic actions that transformed challenges into opportunities for change. Now, in Coming Alive, they provide four vital tools for tappinginto the Life Force that resides within each of us—a wellspring of positive energy that is the source of creativity, renewal, confidence, and engagement.

Can you imagine what your life would be like if you could tap into a new source of power – one that has been inside you all along – to solve your own problems and become the master of your life? They have identified four fundamental problems that prevent people from living the lives to the fullest: The book has several principles, following which should make our life much better; if only we could just follow them! The first one being, basically, 'love your enemies'. I mean, yes, I've heard this recommendation before, I trust it works for those who can do it, and yet I so do not love some people... Ich habe das Buch relativ bald einmal nur noch überflogen, weil für mich nichts Hilfreiches erläutert wurde und es reicht, wenn man sich die Kapitelzusammenfassungen am Ende durchliest. Spätestens als von einer höheren Macht die Rede ist, war bei mir die Schmerzgrenze erreicht und ich habe das Buch endgültig abgebrochen. Can you imagine what your life would be like if you could tap into a new source of power - one that has been inside you all along - to solve your own problems and become the master of your life?Barry has given workshops at a variety of venues, including In goop Health summits in Los Angeles in 2017, in Vancouver in 2018, and in London in 2019. He has given a Google Talk, and has spoken at 20th Century Fox Television, the University Club of Chicago, the Omega Institute, the Writers’ Guild, the 92nd Street Y, and the Endeavor 2019 annual retreat. The Reversal of Desire: Uses the force of Forward Motion to directly face pain instead of attempting to avoid it by hiding in a comfort zone. However, even the readable part should be read selectively. Get the techniques, skip the rest. Keep your critical thinking on. I could not bring myself to finish the book, the pain was too great, and the tools did not help in this specific instance of intellectual torture.

Each tool is pretty solid and easily implemented, even if you don’t buy into its fueled-by-a-higher-power premise. Overall, the book is worth the read, but I’d recommend taking with you an additional tool of “take-what–fits-and-leave-the-rest-behind.” At times, the authors’ explanations and conclusions can feel a bit forced and hand-waved, but nothing that the tools of The Reversal of Desire and Grateful Flow (see above) can’t handle. I really liked this, more than I thought I would. Partially I think I liked it because I'd read the New Yorker piece, so I was primed to be open to these guys. I would never had read this book with Netflix. The cover features an endorsement from Dr. Oz, which alone makes it worth not touching, but again, thanks to my soft spot for Jonah Hill, I gave it a go anyway.

Our next meeting will be Sunday, November 12th from 10-11:30am PT.We will spend the time answering questions and working with as many people as possible.