The Tools

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So I'm feeling a lot of cognitive dissonance about my favorable review of this wonderful and problematic and wonderful book. But the good news is, there's even a tool for dealing with cognitive dissonance. BRING ON THE PAIN! (You'll have to read the book to know what that means). Our next meeting will be Sunday, November 12th from 10-11:30am PT.We will spend the time answering questions and working with as many people as possible. I really liked this, more than I thought I would. Partially I think I liked it because I'd read the New Yorker piece, so I was primed to be open to these guys.

I saw a review for this book, I think in Time Magazine, and thought it would be a great self help book. The authors are both psychologist that provide tools to deal with life problems in there psychotherapy approach with there patients. This book provides many of those examples. I could not bring myself to finish the book, the pain was too great, and the tools did not help in this specific instance of intellectual torture. Inner Authority, or how to feel empowered when expressing or even exposing yourself by powerfully embracing your shadow instead of shoddily hiding it. Yes, everyone can tell when you're doing it.Close your eyes and imagine an entire universe composed entirely of loving energy — then visualize your physical self absorbing all of that love and taking it into your heart. Then, imagine taking all of that concentrated love and emitting it onto another person or a negative experience that has stayed with you. Stutz says that by doing this, you can visualize yourself becoming one with the person or thing that wronged you. As he emphasizes: Do you want to be right, or do you want to create something new? PHIL: We can joke about therapy taking 30 years, but most therapists really want to be helpful. I only ask you to try The Tools and observe.

A dynamic, results-oriented practice, The Tools aims to deliver relief from persistent problems and restore control and hope right away. Every day presents challenges—big and small—that the tools transform into opportunities to bring about bold and dramatic change in your life. Stutz and Michels teach you how to: Phil Stutz (born in 1947, age: 75 years) is an author, doctor, psychiatrist, and therapist from America. Phil is also known as Dr. Phil Stutz who has been working as a leading psychiatrist and a coach for the last 40+ years. He has given therapies to some of the famous Hollywood’s most elite actors, businessmen, and executives. Phil raises to fame in 2023 when his book “The Tools” became a trending book of the years. Phil’s experience, struggle, and life story have been portrayed by the directorJonah Hill’s documentary titled “Stutz”.In Coming Alive, Barry Michels and Phil Stutz describe how to identify and master the enemy within, which they call Part X. They offer four Tools to connect you to your life force and harness the energy and will to combat Part X.

JOHN:So The Tools operate on spiritual and psychological truths and work on a patient in a much more proactive way. Tap into the life force to deepen your emotional and spiritual experience and realize your full potential with this transformative book by the New York Times bestselling authors of The Tools(and the resident shrinks on Goop). Can you imagine what your life would be like if you could tap into a new source of power – one that has been inside you all along – to solve your own problems and become the master of your life?view problems as "portals to enter the world of untapped potential" and see problems' purpose as primary avenues to growth So what are the Tools? Conceptually, Stutz describes each of them as a simple step, an action or a bit of forward motion. They can change your inner state almost immediately, according to Stutz, taking unpleasant experiences and thoughts and transforming them into opportunities. Stutz says his Tools “turn problems [in]to possibilities,” and give people the propulsive feeling that they can make big changes. In practice, the Tools are visualization exercises. In Stutz, each Tool is accompanied by cards with hand-drawn illustrations that, according to Stutz, render even the biggest, most complicated concepts into something manageable. All that aside, I cannot bring myself to strongly endorse a book that is as philosophically and methodologically problematic as this one. First and foremost, the authors establish the legitimacy of their method by stating that they have tried The Tools in their practice and it works. This is a huge red flag for anyone trained in the social sciences. This particular problem (relying on the clinicians judgment to gauge the effectiveness of the treatment) plagued psychotherapy for its first century. The Grateful Flow, or how to use the power of gratitude to ground oneself, be OK with oneself and the world.

read this book yeaaaars ago (forgot when, probably before I created a Goodreads account because I didn't log it) and I still have my handwritten notes about it. I was reminded of this because of Jonah Hill's docu about his therapist who shared some "tools" and concepts like "maze" and "shadow" (which are all mentioned in the book). when I went to GR to look for this, I realized that the psychiatrist is LITERALLY ONE OF THE AUTHORS (Phil Stutz). The Tools" hat mich vor allem deshalb neugierig gemacht, weil das Buch von zwei (scheinbar renommierten) Psychotherapeuten geschrieben wurde. Einige von Euch haben es ja vielleicht schon mitbekommen, dass ich selbst als Psychologin arbeite und mich derzeit in Weiterbildung zur Psychotherapeutin befinde, deshalb habe ich mir von dem Buch natürlich ein paar wertvolle Tipps für meine Arbeit mit Patienten erhofft. Secondly, what probably works well in therapy—i.e., with regular, ongoing support—is going to be far harder to accomplish on your own, without help. Which is the case with any program of self-overhaul, of course. But with with more pedestrian changes—fitness, diet, physical skills, etc.—there's a ton of available routes for support; not so much with this. There is something indescribably beautiful about living life in integrity. The tools Barry and Phil teach in Coming Alive gave me the courage and clarity to align myself with the truth—no matter how hard or painful it seemed at the time.” —Gwyneth Paltrow

Tl;dr - This book has 4 excellent tools to use daily, if you want, that boil down to the basics and are nothing new. It then has 1 sketchy tool, and the end is garbage. I am glad I read it, and plan on using 3 of the Tools on the regular, but I am not an advocate for the entire suite. Change can begin right now. Learn to bring about dynamic personal growth using five uniquely effective tools- from psychotherapist Barry Michels and psychiatrist Phil Stutz, subject of the Netflix documentary Stutz. An ‘open secret’ in Hollywood . . . [Stutz and Michels] have developed a program designed to access the creative power of the unconscious.” — The New Yorker In The Tools, Barry Michels and Phil Stutz revolutionized the world of personal growth and self-actualization by offering doable, dynamic actions that transformed challenges into opportunities for change. Now, in Coming Alive, they provide four vital tools for tappinginto the Life Force that resides within each of us—a wellspring of positive energy that is the source of creativity, renewal, confidence, and engagement. The four vital tools in Coming Alive help you connect to the Life Force—a wellspring of positive energy that is the source of creativity, renewal, confidence, and engagement—and harness the energy and will to combat Part X. Drawing insights from their decades of psychotherapeutic practice, their lived experience, and their moving and generous understanding of our interconnectedness, Michels and Stutz have created a paradigm-shifting guide to achieving optimal mental health and spiritual well-being.