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Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One by Joe Dispenza
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Breaking The Habit of Being Yourself: How to Lose Your Mind and Create a New One

Self-help
Print length
360 pagesHay House Inc., 2013

Description

Joe Dispenza argues that a familiar personality is not a fixed identity but a pattern sustained by inherited beliefs, repeated thoughts, and habitual behavior. To explain how people might interrupt that pattern, he combines scientific ideas with spiritual perspectives and translates them into a sequence of practical exercises. The book asks readers to examine the assumptions and emotional routines that keep reproducing the same choices, then practice new ways of thinking and acting until change becomes more than an intention. Its step-by-step structure is designed for readers seeking substantial personal transformation rather than a temporary burst of motivation. The central question is whether deliberate inner work can loosen the past’s hold on the life a person creates next.

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2 / 5

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3 / 5
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2 / 5
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2 / 5

Themes

FreedomIdentityKnowledge and truthMental healthReligion and faithTransformation

Book details

For the print edition listed above.

Publisher
Hay House Inc.
Language
English
ISBN
9781401938093
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