«Погружение в себя» — Exploring Your Inner World

A mindful life is one in which thoughts, feelings and actions play together like a well-rehearsed jazz band, rather than separate instruments. I compare the journey to diving into water: depth lies beyond psychological defences and childhood wounds. Reaching it means learning not to flee pain, rationalise it or numb it with food or drink, but to accept it a drop at a time.

I do not promise that life will become easy after this book. I once believed in a magic pill too. There is none: change involves pain and rethinking what matters. What the book offers instead is an understanding of where your decisions come from. Through cases from my practice, I show how childhood patterns become adult life: why a successful executive enters a meeting like a schoolchild in trouble, why a caring wife repeatedly ends up alone, and why someone can understand and feel everything yet still walk out and light a cigarette.

• 14 techniques in the third part: anxiety, procrastination, self-esteem, money, dependence and accepting your age
• Over thirty cases from practice, with names, ages and outcomes rather than anonymous references to “a client of mine”
• What a psychologist can and cannot offer, and how to avoid a heavily promoted charlatan