Overcoming Emotional Chaos: Eliminating Anxiety. Lift Depression and Create Security in Your Life

330 Pages·2002·10.2 MB·English

by  Doc Childre

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Copyright 0 2002 by Doc Childre and Deborah Rozman
HeartMath, Cut-Thru, Heart Lock-In, Emotional Virus, Overcare, and
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Overcoming Emotional Chaos provides insight into new research on the
heart, emotions and health that can be applied to daily life. There are a
number of new or unusual words used in the book to describe the techniques
and tools to help people understand the language of the feeling world. New
word combinations are needed because nothing in the common vernacular
adequately conveys the feeling experience the authors are trying to give the
reader.
The authors of this book do not dispense medical advice or prescribe the
use of any techniques as forms of treatment for physical or medical problems
without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of
the authors is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in
your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any
of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right,
the authors and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.
Book design by Charles McStravick
Editorial supervision by Chad Edwards
CIP data available from the Library of Congress
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First printing, September 2002
Printed in the United States of America
This book is dedicated to helping people
find the power of hope
in their own heart.
And they can.
From there,
individual and collective peace
can unfold.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Emotions: The Next Frontier
Chapter 2: Overcare, Over-identity, and Over-attachment:
How to Overcome the Draining Cycle
Chapter 3: Understanding Emotional Vanity
Chapter 4: The Heart of the Matter
Chapter 5: The Cut-Thru Technique
Chapter 6: The Heart Lock-In Technique
Chapter 7: Tools in Action
Chapter 8: Managing Overwhelm
Chapter 9: Eliminating Anxiety
Chapter 10: Relieving Fatigue
Chapter 11: Lifting Depression
Chapter 12: Creating Security in Relationships
Chapter 13: Emotional Management in the Workplace:
Unlocking Creativity, Innovation,
and Satisfaction
Chapter 14: The Global Opportunity
Appendix: Worksheets and Exercises
References
Index
Learn More About the HeartMath Experience
About the Authors

If
we don't change our direction, we will end up where we are
heading, reads an ancient Chinese maxim. Current wisdom
offers a similar maxim, If we keep doing what we've done,
we'll continue to get what we've gotten. Many think this is not
a hopeful prospect.
There is an ongoing nervousness and underlying anxiety
in the world today. We turn on the news to see and hear
the latest on terrorism, biological and nuclear weapons,
ethnic and religious conflict, new strains of infectious
diseases-and the list goes on. With our advanced tech-
nology, it is a matter of fact that every crisis comes into our
homes and impacts us deeply.
The next field of advancement in human evolution is
the emotional frontier. It will take new intelligence-heart
intelligence-to direct where the world is heading into
beneficial outcomes. Heart intelligence starts with the
power to manage one's emotions, and many doubt that
human beings as a whole are capable of achieving this. The
task is to learn how to intelligently resolve our emotions for
our own and others' benefit, to enrich our experience of life.
When change feels out of our control, stress happens-on
personal and societal levels. Overcare, over-identity, and over-
attachment become the results, and ultimately rule. Emotional
management has been attempted through religions, moral
codes, and laws throughout history. But since emotional man-
agement involves individual choice, it can never be totally