[Neurons] Information about INSIDE--OUT: EMPOWERED FROM WITHIN

Sat Dec 18 17:56:51 EST 2021

From: L. Michael Hall

meta at acsol.net

With the announcement of the latest book, Inside-Out: Empowered From Within
(2022), several have asked about the content of the book and the preface.
So I have here put the Preface and the Table of Contents.

PREFACE

"The good life is a process, not a state of being.

It is a direction, not a destination."

Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person

Y

our life is inside-out.  It may not seem that way.  You may think and feel
that your life is the result of a thousand outside influences and factors
and that you don't have much control over it.  But that's a lie.  It is not
only a lie, it is a dark deception that presents a destructive hallucination
that will do you great harm if you don't turn it around.

Life as outside-in makes a lot of sense given that you were born without a
developed inside.  While you were not a blank slate, you did have all sorts
of predispositions, talents, and possibilities clamoring within-you were
also without any information about how to live and deprived of any skills to
do anything.  Then the adventure of life began-you started to think, to
experience, and to learn.  Today your life is a result of what you thought,
experienced, and learned.

Do you live inside-out?  Have you reversed the original outside-in
orientation and pattern of childhood?  Have you become the author of your
life so that you "write the script?"  Or, do you live as the victim of your
circumstances?  These are the questions I address in this book.

What you will discover in Inside-Out will richly empower you to live your
life on your terms.  Inside-Out will hold up a mirror to give you a view of
how you are currently living your life.  You could be living it inside-out
from your own meanings, values, visions, and passions.  Or you could be
living outside-in.  If outside-in then you are living a life that has been
given you-by family, school, religion, culture, etc.  If so, to that extent,
it is not truly yours, not genuinely authentic.

Because culture is an outside-in phenomenon, we all begin life in the
outside-in mode (chapter 6).  To become fully alive / fully human this has 

to change.  To live your highest meanings with integrity and passion, you
have to shift to the inside-out mode.  When you do, you move from merely
"having" to being, and you then live with an energizing vitality and zest
toward becoming-becoming your best self.  As your motivation shifts from
extrinsic to intrinsic, you experience a never-ending rejuvenating
motivation. 

I've written Inside-out to serve as a blueprint for building a
self-actualizing life-style, one in which you become more authentic, more
integrated, and more whole.  The design is that as you read through the
chapters, you will become much more aware of the Inside-Out Principle.  When
you can do that, you will be able to catch yourself-when you're living
inside-out and when you are living outside-in.  To catch those moments then
propels you to a critical choice point: 

What shall I do?  What is best for me, and for those I care about, in this
moment?

Living inside-out empowers you to be the author of your life, the architect
of your future, and the spiritual core of your self.  It vanishes all of the
victimhood games and emotions and enables you to step up to being and
becoming the best version of you. 

With the inside-out orientation, you have an inner aliveness and vitality
that enables you to take charge of your life, an inner gyroscope for
stability and mindfulness.  This is orientation is a rich life since you
live out of your own inner abundance.  Without this orientation, you live in
a world of human domestication-being domesticated by the outside world of
culture and events.

When you live inside-out, you are more alive and more awake to yourself, to
others, to the world, and to the possibilities before you.  You can no
longer be a victim of others or a zombie of despair.  And when you set up
the continuous loop of inside-out-inside, all of life becomes a marvelous
adventure of discovery.

INSIDE-OUT

Preface
4

Part I:
8

Your Inside-Outside Situation

1. The World as You Know it
9

              The Big Delusion

2. The Hidden World Inside
15

    The World You May Not Know

3. When the Outer World 

    Prevails
23

4. Lost in the Inner World
31

Part II: 

Inside / Outside Variables
41

5. Dynamics
42

    Inside Meaning Dynamics

6. Culture
52

     The Outside-In World 

7. Orientations
62

    Being and Having Orientations

8. Directions
71

   Inner / Outer Directed

9. Boundaries
80

     The Twilight Zone 

Part III: Applications
86

The Art of Living Inside-Out 

10. Living Inside-Out
87

      First Steps

11. Actualizing Inside-Out
99

      Deepening the Inside Self 

12. Synergizing Inside-Out
109

       The Inside-Out Zone

13. Consumerism
118

      When Having Becomes Toxic 

Part IV: 

The Inside-Outside World
127

14. Motivation: Inside-Out
128

15. Change: Inside-Out
134

16. Joy - Inside-Out
143

17. Getting to Your Center
151

18. A Being Induction
156

Appendices
159

A: Inside-Outside Contrasts 

B: Taking a Person Inside Pattern

C: Bringing Your Authority Inside

D: Inside-Outside Experiences

E: Inside-Out Presuppositions

Bibliography
171

Author
176

This book is in the format of a PDF file.  You can find it on The Shop --- 

https://www.neurosemantics.com/product/inside-out-empowered-from-within/

It will be the theme of the January 8 "Neuro-Semantic Wisdom."

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Executive Director, Neuro-Semantics

P.O. Box 8

Clifton CO. 81520 USA

www.neurosemantics.com 

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