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Introduction
Some people have
first aid boxes. Some people
keep recipe books. Some people
have tool kits. I keep a resource
book – everything I’ve
ever done that worked. In moments
of confusion, indecision, panic,
depression, stress and plain
insomnia I can pick it up and
know I’ll find something
in its pages that will dig
me out and move me on.
There are things
in here that work in darkness
and things that work in
daylight. There are techniques
that will help you in planning
your journey
through life and techniques
that will light the next inch
of the path when you’ve
lost your way, or even dig you
out of the swamp into which
you have fallen.
This isn’t
the single-answer approach.
This isn’t a guide to
the one true Way.
There are hundreds of ways and
I have tried many of them. This
is my personal greatest hits,
my tested and recommended short
cuts.
I am not a guru,
a psychologist or a workshop
leader. I am a journalist, a
writer and someone who has followed
many alleys out of personal
need and curiosity. I have collected
what is in these pages from
workshops and journeys, professional
experience and private crises,
altered states and guided meditations,
tribal wisdom and family lore,
religious tradition and successful
improvisation, and from the
tried and tested experience
of friends and teachers. But
none of it is second hand because
everything here has worked for
me, personally, at some moment
in my life.
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