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    See the complete picture. This is a layman's guide to life.
    See the complete picture. This is a layman's guide to life.
    See the complete picture. This is a layman's guide to life.
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    See the complete picture. This is a layman's guide to life.

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    This book will open your eyes to the fact that our perception of reality is largely a function of where we focus our eyes, ears and most importantly our thoughts. Each of us has a unique personality that tends to lead us to focus on certain aspects of reality more than others. Where and our degree of focus deeply affects our moods and attitudes in life. Once we understand what our own personal biases are in focus, we can adjust them to see reality as it really appears. This leads to serenity, balance, stability and general mental well being.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJonny
    Release dateAug 8, 2012
    ISBN9781476306902
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      See the complete picture. This is a layman's guide to life. - Jonny

      See The Complete Picture!

      The layman's guide to life

      and how to achieve the balance you seek

      By

      Jonny Brown

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      See The Complete Picture!

      The layman's guide to life

      Copyright Jonny Brown 2012

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      This book may not be reproduced, copied or distributed for any purpose.

      Your support and respect for the property of this author is appreciated.

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      I hope you enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed writing it.

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      See The Complete Picture!

      The layman's guide to life

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      Chapter 1

      You don’t have to be a Psychologist to Understand People.

      Have you ever heard of William Shakespeare, Mark Twain, or Will Rogers? These are just a few of the many well known people throughout history who have made accurate observations about how and why people act the way they do. These three commentators on the human condition, (and I am sure you could come up with a few hundred more names) all had at least one thing in common. Each lacked a formal education in the field of psychology. Not one of them had a phd in psychology!This astounding fact is because the subject of human behavior is unlike any other field of study.

      In almost any other field of study you can name, one must spend years in the classroom before one can even familiarize oneself enough to feel comfortable that one knows the subject matter at all.

      Human behavior, though, is open for all to see and understand. Everyone is familiar with this subject since everyone is living it everyday! No, you can not learn about life in the sterile narrow environment of a school room. You can not be expert in the ways of the world from a distance. To understand life, you have to live it, observe it up close and personal, and draw on your own experiences and the wisdom of others who understand how to live life well. The purpose of psychology, as I see it, is to understand human behavior in order to have peace of mind, get along with others, and live a full and productive life.

      The Role of Psychology

      You lose your calm and serenity when you are faced with bothersome behavior from yourself or others. When many people want to know how to deal with these behaviors, they go to analysts to solve these problems. The psychologists' job is to identify the root of the problem, and then some how solve these problems based on their supposed expertise in understanding human behavior.Since life is such that you must deal with yourself and others every day, these behaviors can so bother you that it leads to distracting you from doing what you want and being the type of person that you want to be.

      This is why it is imperative for your well being to understand how you and other people act. If it takes formal training in psychology to deal adequately with everyday life, then how do you account for all of the successful, well adjusted, wise -in -the -ways of life people like Shakespeare, Twain and Will Rogers; people in the world who never took a course in psychology in their lives? And what did people do before there was a formal study of psychology, say forget it, I'll wait until psychology comes along?

      And also, other than the therapeutic benefit of discussing your problems with others, what insights have you or your friends gained from a psychologist that has had a significant positive and long-term affect on your life? Probably few if any.

      The reason that they have not been more helpful is that psychologists attempt to understand the human mind;which is really for all intents and purposes a study of life itself and how to best function within it. And such a study is incomplete and must fail unless it is grounded in practical down to earth living experience and not ivy tower postulating and pontificating.

      Real Human Understanding

      The Guides to Truly Understand Yourself: Your Common Sense and Your Conscience

      No, here, the guides you are given to aid your journey through life, when you feed them the correct nformation are your common sense and your conscience. These are what this book is based on, and why I don't need a PHD in psychology to help you. My only guides are my common sense and conscience which I use to articulate for you what your common sense and conscience would tell you would you only give yourself the time to sit and observe as I have.

      The Foundations of Human Reality…

      This book is based on several premises.

      There is a Creator. You didn’t get here by yourself.

      Your Creator is Good

      Any reality your Creator creates for you is good; anything that appears bad is a man made facade, but the inherent reality is still completely good. If your reality does not appear good, it is because your view of it is in some way incomplete.

      A person has free choice to do what he wants.People can only choose among those things they are able to get.

      What people think they are willing and able to get are based on the extent of their ability to perceive reality as it actually is.

      To the extent that you see all of reality as it actually is, is the extent that you can use your common sense, conscience and experience to make a beneficial choice and the plan (decisions) necessary to get these choices.

      A person always looks out for one's best interest, meaning one's own physical pleasure, and or spiritual happiness.

      A person has a conscience wich is The Creator's way of guiding you to do what is good, and which leads to your ultimate and everlasting happiness,

      There is a pain of going against what your conscience guides you to do, since a person, to live inherently knows that their life comes fronm their Creator, and to not listen is in effect not living up to their responsibilities, to show their appreciation for this life. In effect a person feels embarrased with themselves that they are not doing the right thing and a person has an inherent need to feel as if they are doing the right thing, that they are justified in what they are doing.

      A person has a need to do the right thing, that which their Creator expects of them. Absent that, a person feels they are getting something-life-for nothing, and are embarrased by that fact. What did I do to deserve this?.

      In some situations what you want and what your conscience tells you to do coincide.There are other times though when what you want is different than what your conscience tells you to do.

      A person who contemplates thoroughly what they really want long term over all and is honest with themselves will realize the pain of denying themselves the temporary pleasure and follow their conscience will lead to more overall happiness, what they really want, will choose to follow their conscience.If instead, they are lazy in their thinking and want a quick fix of pleasure, and don't appreciate that their overall best interst is to follow their conscience, will choose to go after their immediate pleasure instead.

      People are creatures of habit.The more they choose to follow their conscience over pleasure, where the two conflict, the more they become good people. The more a person chooses pleasure over conscience, where the two conflict, the more they become bad people. In short, good and bad in the world are not some esoteric things that exist by themselves. Good comes from people choosing to do good things, and makes them good.Bad comes from people choosing to do bad, which makes them bad.

      Even when you want to do good, in any situation what appears the right, the good thing, the thing that your conscience tells you is based on your view of the scene. A person sees what they want to see. If a person's view of the truth, of reality is lacking one of its places, then they are not going to look for these places when they look for reality, and thus always unless this place is staring them in the face unavoidably, are prone to miss significant information contained within that element which affects their observation of the reality And thus of what their conscience tells them to do. Your conscience, as your common sense only tells you what to do, senses based on the information you observe and feed it. And what you observe is to a great extent base on what you look for.

      Your common sense is a reliable gauge of what is physically true and false. Your conscience is a reliable gauge of what is spiritually true and false. However, even the most accurate gauges give out false readings if given incomplete or false information. That is why you can see a situation and be confident that you understand it, assess what is in your best spiritual and physical interest and yet later realize that your assesment was completely inaccurate.

      What is happening is that you know just how reliable your judgement has been in the past because of the great accuracy of your common sense and conscience. Thus you assume its accuracy in the present situation. The accuracy is still there. What has changed is your lack of a complete view of the

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