Escaping Emotional Entrapment is a useful, dynamic approach to help you gain control of your emotions, your actions and ultimately your life.  This innovative method is easy to understand and simple to apply.  Intuitive.  Insightful.

Escaping Emotional Entrapment:  It's about you!

This book is about you.  It is about  your feelings, your attitudes and you maintaining a positive direction in life.

Michelangelo said that in a mound of clay the statue of perfection already exists, he simply removes the clay that hides the masterpiece.  Escaping Emotional Entrapment is about removing the emotional clay that hides a masterpiece: you.  You really are a masterpiece, unique and exceptional in many ways.  Believe in yourself.  Trust in yourself.  And in the same vein as Socrates: Know yourself... there is no-thing and no one more important to know.

I. Forget Me Not - I'm in love again!

The vast majority of people seek out love to various degrees.  Virtually all people are happier with it than without it.  Although being loved has its emotional and practical benefits, why do some people seem to absolutely need to be loved, while others enjoy it when it arrives but don't particularly crave it?  The answer to that question resides in one's ability to love one's self and have unconditional self-acceptance.

II. The Unintentional Entrapment

Out of all the very important things we formally learned, no one ever taught us how to control our emotions.  Our parents never had a heart-to-heart with us to teach the dynamics of emotional control.  Emotional control was not taught because no one knew how emotions could be controlled.  It is time to travel inwardly and to become acutely aware of that which, for most of us, we have been previously unaware: our thinking process.

III. Insistent Entrapment

The emotional entrapments caused by insistence can inflict some of the most intense emotional pain.  It would be virtually impossible to sustain any serious emotional distress without utilizing this concept of insistence.  It is the foundation of emotional entrapments.

IV. Awful Entrapment

For Some people, life seems to be a never-ending series of hassles and problems with an occasional tragedy thrown in.  Other people seem to find most of life a joy.  It is not that these people do not have problems; some have very serious ones at that.  This section is for Some people who want to become the Other people.  It's a chapter for those who want to understand how to take life as it comes, to roll with the punches and to make the most out of life, even when things get really rough.

V. Worth Entrapment

Regardless of whether your anger is directed at others or yourself, the fundamental problem is the erroneous assumption that one's behavior and one's value, worth or intrinsic significance are somehow connected.  Throughout this section, you will come to understand how to escape the emotional entrapments caused by appraising a person's worth.

VI. Depression Entrapment

Depression is energy-absorbing, so people simply find themselves doing less over time; being less involved in life as they get older, being less active, less creative, less enthusiastic, bored.  Whether depression shows itself in its mildest form of just laughing less or whether one is crying throughout the day and is severely depressed, it is important to apply several approaches at the some time.  When the attitudes and the behavior coincide for a period of time, the emotions begin to change.

VII. Worry Entrapment

Feelings of apprehension occur when we believe our happiness or well-being is being threatened.  Anxiety, worry and fear may show itself when we anticipate future pain or displeasure, foresee a potential for loss of love and approval or when envisioning a failure that produces a lessening of self-acceptance.

VIII. Anger Entrapment

Anger is an intensely strong emotion of displeasure, antagonism or hostility.  Being rigidly dogmatic, Anger imposes will or opinion as though it were beyond challenge, and thus is oppressively and rudely domineering.  This section is about winning our struggle to calm the beast.

IX. Fun and Fulfillment

Play is a way of socializing as well as developing and practicing skills that will eventually be used as an adult.  Without playfulness, there is a noticeable increase in solitary or aggressive behavior.  Once free from negative thinking and unhealthy emotions, we cannot only generously drink from the river of life but also dive in and go for a swim.  

X. Bringing It All Together

As a psychologically healthy person, you want excellent physical health combined with a strong sense of self-love and appreciation.  You want to believe in yourself and to lead a long, happy and fulfilled life.  You want to maximize positive emotions and to love, laugh, grow, learn and excel.  You want to be a positive, productive, committed and valued individual within your society.  You want to be confident, social and friendly.  You have all of these wonderful qualities within you and many more.  If you believe these qualities to be desirable, then make it your explicit goal to advance them within yourself daily.

Take the ingredients for happiness and fulfillment, stir in the spices of imagination, belief and expectation and generously add the qualities of effort, commitment and determination.  Set the time on "practice" to allow for the creation of an outstanding, flavorful and delicious life to be enjoyed immediately!