The Book of Exhilaration and Mastery - Philip Farber

Partial Excerpts (antilibrary)

2006

Introduction

There is much more to life than simply working and dying

Every single one of us has the potential for exhilaration and mastery

The key to mastery exists not in what others have told us, but in the information that is inherent within us

The following four sections of this book offer methods to access that crucial internal information in a systematic way. The exercises given are simple

This is your guide to finding out the truth about yourself and then using that information to change and improve your life. Are you ready to take the leap?

Part One: Prosperity

To have the time and resources and motivation to achieve mastery in a given field, at least some of our basic needs in life must be fulfilled.

If we are in any way pre-occupied with a lack in our basic needs, we become distracted from the extended concentration and focus necessary to excel at our chosen task

Contrive your circumstances to support your work.

The Prosperity Technique:

1. Identify some of the challenges you have meeting the basic needs of your life

2. Determine the opposites of those challenges.

3. Breathe and banish

4. Form a visual image of yourself, standing or sitting outside the circle.

5. Adjust the image into one of a self who has already met a particular basic need.

Part Two: Moving and Breathing

Moving

Part Three: Mastery

Part Four: Making It Happen