There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions
There Must Be More Than This: Finding More Life, Love and Meaning by Overcoming Your Soft Addictions
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Manufacturer: Broadway
Author: Judith Wright
Binding: Paperback
Publication Date: 2003-12-30
Publisher: Broadway
Label: Broadway
Number Of Pages: 256 Features:
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There IS more than this and you can have it! What keeps us from living the rich, fulfilling lives we desire? Judith Wright has found that too often we are tripped up by our dependence on seemingly harmless habits like shopping, watching TV, gossiping, and surfing the net. These are soft addictions, and they form a powerful net that traps us, preventing us from having more love and meaning in our lives. They fill up our time, but leave us feeling empty, asking, “Is this all there is to life? There must be more than this.”
Judith Wright’s fresh perspective and proven program invite you to overcome your soft addictions and discover MORE–a full, engaging life of more intimacy, purpose, joy, satisfaction and love. She promises a life in which you advance your goals and your vision every day. You will live more purposefully and feel more intensely, stop asking the small questions and start asking the big ones. You will fill your life with meaningful activity, and your soft addictions will fall away.
Educator and life coach Judith Wright coined the term soft addictions™ after years of working with students who came to her courses to get more out of life. They would experience insights in class but be unable to fully apply them to their lives. Wright found that her students were limiting their experience and enjoyment of life by engaging in unsatisfying routines. She discovered that these time wasters and draining habits, which she named soft addictions, have a powerful hold on us because they satisfy certain wants–to zone out, feel busy, numb painful feelings, or avoid anxieties–but ignore deeper hungers for love, beauty, spirituality and meaning. They substitute a superficial high or sense of activity for a sense of genuine purpose and fulfillment. In a very real sense, we become hooked on these habitual behaviors. But unlike drugs or alcohol, our soft addictions arrive in the seductive guise of a “normal,” socially acceptable activity.
There Must Be More Than This helps you identify and fulfill the deeper longings behind your soft addictions. Judith Wright’s eight-step program has now been used by hundreds of her students to overcome their soft addictions and open up their lives to a greater sense of purpose and happiness. There Must Be More Than This shares her methods, along with real-life, inspirational stories of success. Invite More into your life and know that you are living the life you were meant to live.
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We Should Strive to Just Be Ourselves. 2005-04-25 When I picked this book up at the library, I was reminded of the Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is to Love?' I enjoyed the quotes interspersed by Mark Twain, Margaret Mead, Albert Schweitzer, Clarence Darrow and especially liked "The proper function of a man is to live, not to (merely) exist" by Jack London.
Soft addictions are described as unhealthy habits, unlike hard addictions (certain foods, alcohol, medications, cigarettes, bad thoughts, game playing), but they serve to drain our energies and sense of fulfillment. We use them as time wasters to provide a sense of activity to feel that we are achieving something -- but actually we are using these traps to avoid real problems. What we are doing appear "normal" (shopping, t.v. for company, computer games) but we are left with a feeling of emptiness and being unsatisfied.
The author, Judith Wright, confessed: "Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth." A man you trusted and loved in the beginning can inflict real damage to your whole being with his criticism and harshness. A man does not have to act tough to be a man (nor does he have to wear cowboy boots), but he shouldn't talk like a woman, either. It seems we have a need for elocution teachers again to show a young adult male how to lower his voice and not just act like a man but sound like one as well.
Being the mother of three sons, growing up with a brother three years older than I with only a father at home, I can honestly say I've been around men most of my life, and accepted each as an individual. Guess I was lucky that none were effeminent in any way. Returning to East Tennessee to 'retire' the first thing which bothered me was the way the men here talk in the higher register, and I commented that their wives had deeper voices than they. I don't (never did) sound like a man, but I have a definite Southern drawl unlike the Knoxville harshness -- which I developed while I was away. We talk like the people around us, everybody knows that. I look Knoxville (short, dark eyes, a natural wave in my natural hair, a fighting spirit for doing "what's right"), but I don't sound Knoxville, and the twain shall never meet.
Ms Wright lists various activities she says when overdone become soft addictions such as media, buying/shopping, sexual, risk taking, card games, crossword puzzles when done alone. Moods, self-pity, chameleon-like behavior, sarcasm, crankiness, evading and escaping social interrraction, oversleeping, isolation AND things (edible & consumable) like fast foods, coffee, snack foods, cigarettes, and brand-name merchandise: all can turn into addictions.
This book is interesting in the fact of learning these facts. After twenty years of developing personal growth programs, she and husband, Bob, have developed MORE through seminars, now on a web site and the eight-step program spelled out in this book.
Book is based on Christian values 2005-03-14 There are some interesting ideas presented here. However it isn't a book for everyone: it is written from a devout Christian point of view.
If the authors were more clear about that on the cover and in the description, then that would be fine. But there weren't any clues until I started reading the text.
Here's an example from page 139: "We are meant to be addicted to God, but we develop secondary addictions that temporarily appear to fix our problem."
As an alternative, I'd suggest an awareness practice. They tend to be based on the same core material, and can work hand-in-hand with any set of spiritual beliefs.
Compassion for People with Soft Addictions 2004-09-20 Judith Wright has put together a unique way of creating more success in your life by getting rid of the small things which rob you of time and energy. Being a slave of soft addictions is a much larger problem than people realize. She writes with a warm voice of compassion for those who are struggling. She give examples in the book which completely illustrate the problem and possible solutions. She isn't asking people to institute extreme practices in their lives. She offers real insight to the real needs the person's behavior reveals. This is one book you will be glad
Our Next Step 2003-05-15 Judith Wright outlines for us the next step in our evolution as spiritual beings in a human body. No, it is not meditating till we ascend. It is paying attention to the details of our everyday life. As an author and director of The School of Spiritual Psychology, I know the rigors of making genuine change in one's life. Judith leads us to making the major decision needed to take this leap. Then she gives practicle steps to fulfillment along our path. We supply the commitment and grit to stay with her on the road. This is the real thing. Thank you, Judith.
Surprise 2003-05-02 I'm not big on self help books, well most books. There are two I keep in my favorites shelf: 'The Little Guide To Happiness' and 'How To Win Friends And Influence People'. Both great books. The rest on my shelf is all fiction. But this book was a pleasant surprise. I wasn't looking for it. Instead a friend gave it to me. I'm glad she did. What a wonder!!
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