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  • Coming Alive

  • 4 Tools to Defeat Your Inner Enemy, Ignite Creative Expression & Unleash Your Soul's Potential
  • By: Barry Michels, Phil Stutz
  • Narrated by: Phil Stutz, Barry Michels
  • Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (328 ratings)

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Coming Alive

By: Barry Michels, Phil Stutz
Narrated by: Phil Stutz, Barry Michels
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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 best-selling authors of The Tools (and the resident shrinks on Goop).

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 tapping into 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 first step in gaining mastery over one’s life is identifying the enemy within, which Michels and Stutz have named Part X. This formidable adversary is a shape-shifter - it may be the voice in your head that is a torrent of negativity, persuading you of the futility of finding love, starting a business, or pursuing a creative passion; it may sap you of energy, convincing you that your inner resources are limited; it may take the form of outside forces that conspire against you. In whatever guise it appears, Part X aims to derail your progress, keep you small and stuck, and defeat hope.

The tools in Coming Alive help you connect to the Life Force and harness the energy and will to combat Part X. These are tools of ascendance - they activate your aspirational self; they spark creativity and resilience; they help you to transcend the mire of negative thoughts and circumstances and align with a powerful ally that unites us in our common desire to live lives of meaning and engagement.

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.

Includes a bonus PDF with images from the book.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2017 Barry Michels (P)2017 Random House Audio
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"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)
"What a gift! A riveting exploration of four (bone-chillingly relatable) modern ailments and their thrillingly practical solutions...Singular in its approach and deeply spiritual in its concerns, Coming Alive is a book I'll be pressing on friends and foes alike." (Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette and Today Will Be Different)
"'Practical' and 'effective' are words psychology has always been afraid to embrace. But after working with Barry and Phil for years, I can tell you that they deliver spiritual and psychological transformation. The results, at least for me, have been life changing." (Adam McKay, Academy Award-winning writer, director, and producer)

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life changing slow read if you actually implement

Life changing slow read if you actually implement it into your life . Requires active effort but is well worth it. soooooo many mind blowing links between spirituality, psychology & self development. paradoxes too!

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Amazing

changed my life! I will use these tools in my life! The best audio book I have listened to.

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Life changing

Literally. This is real. This is truth. This is beauty. I listen over and over and get more each time.

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Amazing book! Everyone benefits!

Such a great book and practical tools to learn how to reach a higher state of being in a fast paced world!

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Even more powerful than the first book!

Me: Bro. You've gotta check out this book.
Brother: Oh yeah
Me: It's going to sound silly if I explain it but the vortex tool is legit. I just ran 2/3rds of my usual hour walk. I even sprinted the last part.
Brother: How are you feeling now?
Me: I'm ready to go again. I'm sending you a 3 month audible subscription. Just listen to it.

I have been on the fence about the tools, mostly because I have convinced myself that everything I could ever need is within me. This book teaches that greater forces are at work and gives you tools to connect with them.

Highly recommended.

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Life changing

If you have. open mind and give them a chance you’re life will get better

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Helpful Visualizations

Coming Alive’s tools for growth are helpful. Michaels and Stutz provide complex visualizations and their explanations and examples resonate. Gerald Epstein’s “Healing Visualizations” (1989) is another visualization book which addresses completely different diseases. Stutz and Michael’s tools are refreshing.

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Thank you

I loved this book. It has helped me immensely. I practice this daily, and hope to continue to do so forever.

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Great book

Will use these tools for the rest of my life
Such great work I highly recommend their books

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The mountaintop

I'm 80 years of age and I've been searching my entire life for that which would set me free. I no longer am seeing just the shadows on the cave wall. All the truth, beauty and goodness that I have journeyed in entire lifetime to find is now before me and has set me free. Free at last, free at last,
Thank you for your guidance, for which I've suffered to find my entire life. In truth I can finally see the mountaintop.
Forever grateful
HJ

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