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.

Not to be a total bummer, but the scientific method is pretty much the only way to get the truth of whether or not an intervention works or doesn't. Without randomized double-blind placebo-controlled trials, it's really hard to know whether or not an intervention is effective, or exactly why it is or isn't effective. 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. JOHN:So The Tools operate on spiritual and psychological truths and work on a patient in a much more proactive way.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”. 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? 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. As far as we came to know about Phil Stutz then he is the author of books titled Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression, and Unleash Your Soul’s Potential and The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower—and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion. All his these books have been written by him as co-author with Barry Michels.

That being said, I understand that the majority of people in the world have a very different point of view. As a therapist I'm willing to meet anybody where they are at. If sprinkling in a little new age sparkle helps the medicine go down, and helps the client find empowerment and make healthy life changes, then by all means, let's bust out the healing flavor crystals. 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). By combining 60 years of hands-on working experience using the elements of Jungian psychology with the kind of practical approach found in Ellis' Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, Psychiatrist Phil Stutz and Psychotherapist Barry Michels have designed an innovative approach to help clients suffering from Depression, Anxiety, Insecurities, Past Hurts and Difficult Problems find Innovative & Spiritual Solutions. They believe that Traditional Time-Proven Therapy – which though effective, focuses too extensively on the causes of the problem and not on finding a permanent solution. After you struggle with implementing a couple of suchlike principles in your life, what they tell you is: now, please accept it that you'll always have to struggle (with it or just generally), life will never be quite nice. I definitely see the truth of this, I know this deep inside, but on the other hand, all I ever want is, you know, to be healthy, happy, and rich :)Each of these tools involves visualization through which you can see immediate results, but they're really meant to be practiced regularly until they become habits for life. Even though it took me just about a week to take my time with The Tools on Kindle, I liked it so much I actually bought a physical version too to properly study and highlight.

The Reversal of Desire: Uses the force of Forward Motion to directly face pain instead of attempting to avoid it by hiding in a comfort zone. We have decided to continue our monthly Shadow Support group, so as to maximize on our momentum and support your ongoing Shadow work.Random House presents the audiobook edition of Coming Alive: 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression and Unleash Your Soul's Potential, written and read by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels. This edition includes a bonus PDF of graphs and diagrams. PHIL: Historically, when we say "spiritual," we're talking about groups and institutions, and a certain type of law that's handed down, by fiat, to the members of the religion, which is fine. But the way human evolution is going, everything today points in the direction of the individual and so that means it doesn't matter what an institution or an authority tells you about the spiritual world. What matters is what you can experience for yourself. Spiritual forces have to come into society through individuals. That's a big shift and as far as I'm concerned it gets bigger every year. To date, he has shared mental health lessons with top writers, actors, producers, CEOs, and other creatives in America. About Phil Stutz’s Book The Tool JOHN: Don't claim to know that something is bullshit or doesn't work before you've had the humility to try it.