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# Interactive real-life vignettes Techniques to spot your mental gremlin 6 keys to emotional balance Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition): A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

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## Summary

> 🧩 Outsmart your mind’s mischief-maker and reclaim your peace of mind!

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## Key Features

- • **Master Your Inner Nemesis:** Discover simple yet powerful methods to outsmart self-defeating thoughts and behaviors.
- • **Emotional Resilience Toolkit:** Unlock six essential keys to maintain calm and balance even during life’s upheavals.
- • **Engage with Real-Life Stories:** Relate to vivid, interactive examples that make psychological concepts accessible and actionable.
- • **Illuminate Your Mind’s Shadows:** Learn to create a sliver of light between your true self and the ‘gremlin’ sabotaging your mindset.
- • **Timeless Wisdom Meets Modern Psychology:** Benefit from a unique blend of Taoist philosophy, Zen theory, and evidence-based psychology.

## Overview

Taming Your Gremlin (Revised Edition) is a modernized classic self-help book by Rick Carson that offers a practical, psychologically grounded system to identify and manage self-sabotaging thoughts. Featuring updated interactive exercises, relatable stories, and a fusion of Eastern wisdom with Western psychology, it equips readers with six key strategies to maintain emotional balance and transform inner conflict into clarity and calm.

## Description

This is a completely updated edition of the 1983 classic that introduced a powerful method for gaining freedom from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs. Rick Carson, creator of the renowned Gremlin-Taming™ Method, has revised the book to include fresh interactive activities, real-life vignettes we can all identify with, and new loathsome gremlins ripe for taming. Carson blends his laid-back style, Taoist wisdom, the Zen Theory of Change, and sound psychology in an easy-to-understand, unique, and practical system for banishing the nemesis within. Among the things you will learn are: Techniques for getting a sliver of light between the natural you and the monster of your mind. The extraordinary power of simply noticing and playing with options. Six keys to maintaining emotional balance amid upheaval.

Review: Powerful ideas on taming your mind and becoming more peaceful - Very good book which helps to understand better yourself and your bad thoughts about yourself and the world. The idea of a gremlin is very powerful as it helps without going to much into the theory, even though it is solidly based on psychology, to win the peace of mind and tame baded thoughts appearing in one's head. There are some repetitions in the book which are slightly anoying, however finally they help to easy remember key messages. I struggled a bit with the vocabulary since I am not a native English speaker. Even though I often read books in English I found some of the wordings in that book difficult. Excellent material for coaches. I used it in the sessions and clients appreciated the idea of gremlins, even though discovering that your life is populated by creatures not necessarily nice, is itself an unpleasant surprise. Working to tame the gremlins (they usually come not individually) is a lot of fun and at the same time hard work. I definitely recommend the book to everybody!
Review: Externalized my gremlin...awesome book - Rick did a wonderful job covering most of the negative chit chatters in our mind. The book is a great ally to put in your arsenal of fighting equipment and tools for the good life. As rick said, do not grapple with your gremlin. Just ignore it and move on with your life. The best summary I could give is what the last and final messenger said: “Satan gives thought to the son of Adam (i.e. the human), and the angel also gives thought to the son of Adam. As for the thought of Satan, it is by his threatening with evil repercussions and rejecting the truth. As for the thought of the angel, it is by his promise of good and believing in the truth. Whoever finds the latter, let him know that it is coming from God and let him thank God for it. Whoever finds the former, let him seek refuge – with God – from Satan”. For me personally whenever I get the "you suck, you are done, things will never go your way...etc etc just about any negative feeling about the future , the past or the present" i simply say "I seek protection with God from Satan" and I happily move on with my life. You are not alone we all have gremlins and we are all in this together. Embrace faith and life is beautiful. Whoever you are reading this right now. I love you and I wish you a life of contentment and invigorating victory against your gremlins. SMASH HIM lol

## Features

- Techniques for getting a sliver of light between the natural you and the monster of your mind.
- The extraordinary power of simply noticing and playing with options.
- Six keys to maintaining emotional balance amid upheaval.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #1,999,075 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #490 in Self-Esteem (Books) #808 in Happiness Self-Help #989 in Success Self-Help |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,156 Reviews |

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Powerful ideas on taming your mind and becoming more peaceful
*by A***R on July 22, 2013*

Very good book which helps to understand better yourself and your bad thoughts about yourself and the world. The idea of a gremlin is very powerful as it helps without going to much into the theory, even though it is solidly based on psychology, to win the peace of mind and tame baded thoughts appearing in one's head. There are some repetitions in the book which are slightly anoying, however finally they help to easy remember key messages. I struggled a bit with the vocabulary since I am not a native English speaker. Even though I often read books in English I found some of the wordings in that book difficult. Excellent material for coaches. I used it in the sessions and clients appreciated the idea of gremlins, even though discovering that your life is populated by creatures not necessarily nice, is itself an unpleasant surprise. Working to tame the gremlins (they usually come not individually) is a lot of fun and at the same time hard work. I definitely recommend the book to everybody!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Externalized my gremlin...awesome book
*by Y***D on November 8, 2016*

Rick did a wonderful job covering most of the negative chit chatters in our mind. The book is a great ally to put in your arsenal of fighting equipment and tools for the good life. As rick said, do not grapple with your gremlin. Just ignore it and move on with your life. The best summary I could give is what the last and final messenger said: “Satan gives thought to the son of Adam (i.e. the human), and the angel also gives thought to the son of Adam. As for the thought of Satan, it is by his threatening with evil repercussions and rejecting the truth. As for the thought of the angel, it is by his promise of good and believing in the truth. Whoever finds the latter, let him know that it is coming from God and let him thank God for it. Whoever finds the former, let him seek refuge – with God – from Satan”. For me personally whenever I get the "you suck, you are done, things will never go your way...etc etc just about any negative feeling about the future , the past or the present" i simply say "I seek protection with God from Satan" and I happily move on with my life. You are not alone we all have gremlins and we are all in this together. Embrace faith and life is beautiful. Whoever you are reading this right now. I love you and I wish you a life of contentment and invigorating victory against your gremlins. SMASH HIM lol

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Practical, easy to read
*by B***B on May 27, 2020*

Three Keys to Taming your Gremlin 1. Simply notice. • Show up, relax and gently pay attention. • I free myself not by trying to be free, but by simply noticing how I am imprisoning myself in the very moment I am imprisoning myself. • Simply notice the natural order of things. • Work with it rather than against it. For to try to change what is only sets up resistance. • Simply notice how you are—not why you are how you are, but how you are. • Awareness is a tool - you can choose to focus your awareness on any one of three realms: o Your Body o The World Around You o The World of Mind 2. Choose and play with options. • Breathe and fully experience o If you take the time to relax and simply notice what you are feeling, reminding yourself that you do not have to do anything with your emotions and that emotions are not dangerous, you will experience a sense of relaxed power. o This sense has been described many ways, including feeling self-actualized, integrated, whole, happy, loving, centered, in the zone, high, good, and hunky-dory. • Change for a change o On occasion, you might make decisions/experiment in ways that are totally out of character for you. Play. Fool around. o If you tend to be timid when complimented, next time someone so much as implies it’s good to know you, deeply breathe, enjoy the moment, say, “That feels good! Tell me more.” o If tempted to suppress anger, consider honestly describing your current experience - try out these statements:  “There is something that I want to say to you, but I’m afraid that you will throw a fit. Are you willing to hear me out?”  “I’m angry with you. What is also true is that I respect you and value our relationship.”  “You’re important to me and I want us to remain friends, and there are some things you’re doing that are driving me nuts.”  “I’m hesitant to talk with you about a certain sensitive issue, but I don’t like feeling what I’m feeling and would like to clear the air. Are you open to a frank discussion?”  “I’d like you to hear all of what I am about to say to you and really consider it before you respond.”  “I want to really listen to you and I want you to listen to me.”  “This may be a tough conversation for us because my tendency may be to talk ugly and yours may be to give me that sneer of yours. As we have this conversation, let’s make an effort to treat each other with love and respect.” • Accent the obvious o The brighter the light you shine on old fears, outdated ideas, and cumbersome habits, the better you can detect the absurdity in them. Gestalt Therapy. • Just imagine it o Listening to your gremlin feels a helluva lot worse than affirmative self-talk. And it’s a damn sight worse for you. Shattering old concepts and replacing them with affirmative inner talk and images toward the goal of sweetening your very own life not only feels good, but is good for you. Used in conjunction with common sense and planning and doing, it can make for a noble transformation. • Revisit and re-decide o Stay conscious of what part you want the characteristic to play in your life. o Simply notice the characteristic as it pops up in your own personality. o Be at choice and play with options. • Center yourself, remembering that special place behind your heart and making use of your “I’m taming my gremlin” mantra. 3. Be in Process. • See your Gremlin-Taming™ as an ongoing adventure that will be forever in process Four simple questions to diagnose fear: • What’s so? o Separate what you know with absolute certainty from what you imagine. • So what? o Notice your catastrophic expectation. • So what? o If your catastrophic expectation comes true, what’s the worst that will happen? o Get to your bottom-line fear, which will always have something to do with severe pain, abandonment, or death. • What now? o The options are infinite. The Basics of Pleasure 1. Make being centered and feeling good a top priority. 2. Remember that doing so is primarily an inside job. 3. Remember where you end and all else begins—that miraculous sheath known as your skin. 4. Breathe, dammit, breathe. 5. Relax your pact to keep your act intact. 6. Establish the here and now as home base from which you consciously direct your spotlight of awareness. Other Tidbits: The soul cannot rest so long as the identity denies it. Anxiety is the gap between now and then. Entering a potentially risky conversation: • “I have an idea I want to share with you and I’m not sure how open you would be to my suggestion. Would you like to hear it?” • “I have an idea I’m considering sharing with you. When and how would be the best way to do that?” • “I have an idea I’d like to share with you and get your thoughts on. It needs some refinement. I think it might benefit the company in the long run if you will apply your expertise to it.”

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