"I survived death by my own hand,
and have lived to feel great –
and full of enthusiasm to share how I did it."

Pip Wilson

 

 

 

How to 

Feel better    Think better    Act better

Dramatically    easily    quickly

 

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This is deliberately a very small book. You can read it in one sitting, or a chapter a week. Or any way you choose.

I believe that if you try the techniques in my manual, you will almost certainly learn how to manage the way you feel and think better than you do today. Not that I have all the answers – I most certainly don't! But I definitely do have some proven tips and techniques that can dramatically alter the way people feel.

If you are clinically depressed, please note that I am not a doctor or a qualified therapist. Clinical depression can often require medication and special treatment to be overcome. I, myself, was diagnosed with a very serious clinical ailment, bipolar/manic depression, and I needed SSRI medication for eight months. Today, I am completely unmedicated, but I did need medical support in my 'dark night of the soul'.

However, if you are not as happy as you know you want to be, I can help. No, I'm not the only one who can help. And maybe I'm not the best who can help. But, I'm probably as happy as anyone who can help. And I have no doubt that these techniques work well for some people, because so many write to me and tell me.

Abundance and gratitude,

Pip Wilson

PS If you are really struggling in your life, you might need some more direct or even urgent help. Don't be afraid to seek it out. You might like to take a look now at Chapter 13, which discusses how we can find help when it's needed, and how we should never be too proud to do so.

 

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The FeelGood Manual 

By Pip Wilson

Feel better    Think better    Act better

Dramatically    easily    quickly

This manual is mostly about two things. 

Firstly, I believe that many people live with confusion and emotional pain that they can change – dramatically, easily and quickly.

Secondly, I believe that if we can learn to change our emotions, our thinking will change. It is better, and faster, to change our feelings first then have our thinking follow, than to get stuck in 'head miles' and expect our emotions to follow suit.

Life is complex. The human mind and emotions are complex. The poet Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote about the mind (and depression):

 

O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there.

Source

 

So, I won't pretend that 'one solution fits all'. That would be ridiculous; we all have different complex minds. However, as humans, we have some things in common. We all eat and sleep, for example. And I believe we all have similar processes at the base of our 'mountains', and these are not hard to comprehend at all. Quite a statement, huh? Well, walk with me a while, and if it doesn't make sense, thank you for your time.

Some – not all – of the people who have tried these ideas, have reported remarkable changes to their lives. Soon I will tell you a bit about some methods I have found that radically altered how I felt and thought. They do not belong to me, but I own them, if you know what I mean. I learned in less than half an hour most of what I know that makes me probably one of the happiest people you have ever crossed paths with. Let's walk parallel paths just for a little while, then you go on your way with, I hope, a bit more feelgood, and maybe you can send me your feelgood tips as well. I'm still learning.

When I say that we can feel good dramatically, easily and quickly, please keep an open mind. As a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic, I'm one who absolutely understands that you could straight away come up with many ways to tell me I'm wrong. I know, I know: people undergo years of therapy at great expense, and make only gradual progress unravelling their problems and perhaps 'feeling better'.

I know, people study Eastern religions and traditional Western religions, and go sit on mountain-tops and read thousands of books, and maybe still spend years of their lives miserable. I know, you're absolutely right. So how can some shmendrick in Australia say that we can feel better dramatically, creatively, easily, quickly?

Because if I can, anyone can. In April, 1998, I felt so bad that I came within a hair's breadth of killing myself. Yes, I even wrote a suicide note and commenced the tragic procedure. Thankfully, by a remarkable series of events – some have called it a miracle – I survived death by my own hand and have lived to feel fantastic and full of enthusiasm to share how I did it.

Pip Wilson
February 8, 2002

 

 

Chapters

Preface:  Feel better, think better, act better
Precept 1:   Progress, not perfection
Precept 2:   I'll trust myself
Precept 3:   What do I feel, not how do I feel
Precept 4:   This world is all mine
Precept 5:   I am like an Etch A Sketch
Precept 6:   "What sucks" with me today?
Precept 7:   Snap out of it!
Precept 8:   Take feelings off the shelf
Precept 9:   I place no conditions on my happiness
Precept 10: Thirty minutes to feel and heal pain
Precept 11: I will find choices beyond Yes and No
Precept 12: I'll cultivate an attitude of gratitude
Precept 13: I'll have the courage to ask for help
Precept 14: I'll use thoughts for leverage
Precept 15: I will keep reducing my self-obsession
Precept 16: I will hold on tight to faith every day
Conclusion: Elvis has left the building

 

The FeelGood Manual continues from this phoenix,  symbol of the new life I wish both you and me	Next
For Pip's overview on some  tips and techniques, click the dragon

 

 

 

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Think with your body and dance with your mind.
Victor Hernandez Cruz (1949 -), Puerto Rican-born American poet

 

Dedicated to Marcia Hines, Todd and Dr Alex Tahmindjis,
who have all helped in their own ways.

© Copyright, Pip Wilson, 2002-now

 

 

 

 

 

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