Energizing Self-Trust 7 Steps for Reclaiming Your Power

A Book Review by S. Tariq Masood

Introduction:

On 12th May 1990, Star Trek: The Next Generation, in its third season released the 23rd

episode SAREK.

Spock's father Sarek, a legendary 200 year old Vulcan ambassador, boards the Enterprise to

finalize negotiations with a race of beings that only trusts him. His two personal aids who

accompany him on the Enterprise continually monitor, stabilize his mental state and advise

Sarek maximum rest in view of his debilitating health. Only Sarek insists to remain active to

oversee the details of these sensitive negotiations.

Vulcans are known to exhibit no emotions. According to them We dispose emotional states. They are illogical. When there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.

Actually, Vulcans are not devoid of emotions; they've simply

learned to suppress them from the early childhood. This

behavior becomes a part of their physiology which gives them

(arguably) greater problem-solving abilities, less confusion

about personal issues and no conflicts over irrational concepts

that cannot be proven.

The very next day, for reasons unknown, crew members of the ship exhibited unprovoked

aggression, even towards personal friends and colleagues. After numerous such incidents,

the Enterprise crew got concerned, investigated and finally concluded that ambassador

Sarek is inflicted with the rare 'bendai syndrome', which causes old Vulcans to lose their

most-prized emotional self-control. In such a state, they telepathically spill the intense emotions everywhere they go. These strong emotions then get absorbed by humans

affecting their behavioral response and needless fights and arguments ensue.

As a temporary solution, Captain volunteers himself to mind-meld with him. This way Sarek

would have Picard's emotional control for the duration of negotiations. Sarek is reluctant at

first warning Picard that this would cause him to be overwhelmed by extremely powerful

Vulcan emotions. Knowing the risks, Picard remains adamant and Sarek grudgingly agrees.

After the mind-exchange is performed by Sarek, Captain Picard, who is a human, is indeed

overpowered. Under the deluge of extreme emotions Captain exhibits a personality change

and pours out the contents of Sarek's anguished soul; accumulation of his suppressed

emotional experiences, his regrets of never showing Love to his son Spock or his late wife.

Captain cries uncontrollably and remains in agonizing depression having received Sareks mind. In the meantime, a restored and rational Sarek, who has exchanged the emotional

stability from the Captain, successfully concludes his negotiations.

The Book:

The above example was necessary because that is exactly what happens in real life when

profound emotions are deliberately suppressed or snubbed. In his fifth book, ENERGIZING

SELF TRUST: 7 Steps to Reclaiming Your Power; author J. Lawrence Maerz has

sacrificed all pretensions to literary style to secure felicity of diction. He has an important

message to deliver and does it sagaciously without any nebulous writing. He conscientiously

starts from the origin where the bent occurs in our emotions which changes our outlook on life. He presents his readers practical solutions which even a layman can comprehend.

We are all creatures of emotions, passions, circumstances and accident. What the mind

will be, what the heart will be, what the body will be; are problems that are

shaped to the drift of life. Think about it for a while and you will be surprised to know how

much of your life has been a mere drift; polluted with hive consciousness spewing out

clichs with boring regularity.

The writer is a psychological counselor, professional speaker and has been an investigator of

EMOTIONAL TROUBLESHOOTING subject for many years. His most recent 5th book is

an attempt to give to his readers the principles; fundamental to advanced, derived from his

own investigations, painstaking research work and experiential knowledge of adult and child

psychology. He recognizes and advocates the need of personal accountability and coaches

his clients on achieving balanced emotional states.

Excerpts from ENERGIZING SELF TRUST: 7 Steps to Reclaiming Your Power

We have spent many years building emotional inertia that has led to our arrival at the place where we find ourselves now. We all feel that there were pivotal points in our lives

where, if we had gone another way, we might not be where we are now. We see those

experiences as choices we had to make based on circumstances. But those choices had

everything to do with how we felt about ourselves at the time. And how we felt at that time

had everything to do with the way we were taught about how the world perceived us, our

values and worth as an individual. The underlying point is that we have allowed our value

and worth to be determined by people outside of ourselves, thus continuing the training we

received in childhood.

We still see ourselves now much the same way we believed the world saw us then, except that, now it is a long history of reinforcement through repeating the same beliefs and

patterns we were taught, over and over.

The way the world sees and responds to us is deeply rooted in our opinions of ourselves. This is our personal inertia. The way the world values us is well integrated in our psyches. It

could be compared to a systemic infection permeating the body and the only way to

eliminate it is to kill the host it survives on.

Mr. J Lawrence Maerz advocates the use of positive affirmations but with a serious warning.

There is a thought, and a sponsoring thought, which runs parallel or directly behind the first thought. For instance, if I am using an affirmation to germinate a new belief inside my

subconscious mind and saying I am a great communicator. My clients appreciate what I say, give me business and referrals. The sponsoring thought could say Dont kid yourself Your clients back out at the last minute You have never excelled in Public Relations You will lose again You cant speak and have no clarity of thought - etc.

The sponsoring thought then becomes an adversary. It incinerates the initial thought

instantly along with any positivity. Why? Because it drags past emotional experiences into

the present moment and how we identified ourselves with the judgments that were placed

upon us when we were growing up. Since we never let go of those outdated beliefs, the

emotional navigation brings us vis--vis with a darker side of ourselves. It is when we

choose to cloak our shining self in the present moment covered in the rags of FEAR of the

past. The bottom line is that our thoughts and the sponsoring thoughts must not collide with

one another. Once both stand in congruence, new beliefs are formed and life begins to

change.

Conclusion:

Humanity is hemmed in by so many influences that, from time immemorial, no real effort

has been made to gain control of the emotions and impulses that run loose in the world

within. It has been, and still is, easier to let things go rather than exert a degree of personal

will to direct them. The dividing line between success and failure is found at that stage

where aimless drifting ceases.

With so many simultaneous realities and parallel possibilities than our minds could conceive

or the pen could write in figures; we choose to keep ourselves locked in a status-quo.

ENERGIZING SELF TRUST: 7 Steps to Reclaiming Your Power releases readers from

the dogmatic labels and bondage of the past. Through practical exercises, the book helps

readers usher into a new mindset where you start to understand the bludgeoning of

shadows and finally eliminate the victim-based mentality which infests the soul.

Depression, isolation, loneliness, anxiety, irritability, helplessness, impoverishment and

failures which frequently repeat themselves - all represent mental inertia. They are not

diseases but only states of mind. They have an origin; symptoms to a much deeper cause.

Eliminate the cause and the whole picture changes. Whenever we spill fear based emotions in key moments or areas of our lives; disappointments follow. The only way out is

to accept the responsibility of correcting the misconceptions and commit to doing something

different to get a different result.

ENERGIZING SELF TRUST: 7 Steps to Reclaiming Your Power provides a working

model of belief management by virtue of which things can change for the better. It is not an

overnight transformation; rather a gradual process which hammers your mind to

courageously cross the line and experience what lies on the other side of the fence.

Please visit his websites:

http://johnmaerz.com/

http://awakeandthinking.com/

J. Lawrence Maerz fourth book: A MILE IN YOUR SHOES: The Road To Actualization Through

Compassion is about child rearing practices which stigmatize and leave behind a mark of

shame. It is also a must read work.

ISBN 978-0986436451

Self Trust Intro Video 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hm993r77GPM

Self Trust Video 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeIq70AYSGc

Good Reads Book Club:

http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5190893.John_Maerz

Contact the Author

3542 Green View Court

Sarasota, Florida 34231

(941) 286 1562 jm@johnmaerz.com