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Understanding Mind

Table of Contents

P
Preface
Three Habits for Making the Unconscious Conscious
I
Introduction
The One Thing That Changes Everything
I
Part One
See Clearly
Understanding the Built-in Limitations of Human Experience
7 Chapters
  1. 01
    Chapter One
    The Human Condition: Living Inside Our Own Interpretations
  2. 02
    Chapter Two
    Selective Reality (The Mind's First Built-in Limitation)
  3. 03
    Chapter Three
    The Story-Making Mind (The Mind's Second Built-in Limitation)
  4. 04
    Chapter Four
    Fusion: When Thoughts, Feelings and Identity Become Reality (The Mind's Third Built-in Limitation)
  5. 05
    Chapter Five
    Negativity Bias (The Mind's Fourth Built-in Limitation)
  6. 06
    Chapter Six
    The Feeling Trap (The Mind's Fifth Built-in Limitation)
  7. 07
    Chapter Seven
    Core Flow of Human Experience: The Automatic System
II
Part Two
Choose Consciously
Understanding Human Agency
6 Chapters
  1. 08
    Chapter Eight
    The Space: Awareness and the Beginning of Choice
  2. 09
    Chapter Nine
    The Narrator: The Default Mode Network
  3. 10
    Chapter Ten
    The Gatekeeper: The Salience Network
  4. 11
    Chapter Eleven
    The Governor: The Executive Control Network
  5. 12
    Chapter Twelve
    The Instrument: Attention
  6. 13
    Chapter Thirteen
    The Threshold: Where the Internal Becomes the External
III
Part Three
Live Freely
The Observer, the Self, and the Practice of Inner Mastery
6 Chapters
  1. 14
    Chapter Fourteen
    The Real “I”: Ifti's Experiential Structure of Human Self
  2. 15
    Chapter Fifteen
    The Un-gluing: Defusion and the Practice of Mental Freedom
  3. 16
    Chapter Sixteen
    Recalibrating the Gatekeeper: How What Matters Can Be Retaught
  4. 17
    Chapter Seventeen
    Five Ways of Living: The Personality Orientations, Revisited
  5. 18
    Chapter Eighteen
    Managing Reality Wisely: Ifti's Model of Reality-Management (IMRM)
  6. 19
    Chapter Nineteen
    The Whole Picture: A Synthesis
C
Conclusion — An Invitation
From Understanding to Movement
A
Reference Material
Appendices
Scientific foundations, key models, references and bibliography
3 Appendices
  1. A
    Appendix A
    The Scientific Foundations of Understanding Mind
  2. B
    Appendix B
    Key Models Used in This Book
  3. C
    Appendix C
    References: Bibliography
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