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Eric Maisel is an internationally-recognized diplomat coach, the author of 60+ books in the areas of coaching, creativity, life purpose, meaning, and mental health, and President of the International Association of Creative and Performing Artists. A retired family therapist and active master coach residing in San Francisco, California, Dr. Maisel is the lead editor for the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry series, which takes a critical look at the current “mental disorder” paradigm and the influence of psychiatry on society’s institutions. His popular Psychology Today blog “Rethinking Mental Health” has more than 3.5 million views, and, in conjunction with Noble-Manhattan Coaching, he has developed three training programs, a Creativity Coach Certificate Program, an Existential Wellness Coach Certificate Program, and a Relationship Coach Certificate Program.

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We live in stressful times. Some say that this is the most challenging time in history, it is fueled by ego, competition, injustice, and anxiety. Just glancing at news headlines each day is enough to cause alarm.

Mental health experts, psychologists, therapists, and counselors have reported the rising levels of stress, depression, anxiety, worry, and fear, year after year, for the last two decades.We can either wring our hands and doom-scrolling, or we can do something about it.

Brave New Mind offers ways to:

• Handle increasing stress in all areas of our lives. 
• Join the powers of serenity and alertness of oneself. 
• Cope with depression, anxiety, addiction, and other mental illnesses. 
• Find renewed strength and motivation we have lost. 
• Make new meaning and find our life purpose. 

• Create a brave new mind equal to this moment.  Dr. Eric Maisel’s work as a retired psychotherapist provides ways to deal not only with the extreme tension of today’s existence but a path forward. Instead of relying only on medications, readers are guided to fortify and reinvigorate the mind. His optimistic approach redefines the worry of the world. Dr. Maisel has devised this practical, approachable, and inspiring way to face the struggles with calmness and serenity.

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  Contents

Other Books by Eric Maisel xv

Author’s Note xix

Introduction to Brave New Mind 1

1. Exchanging Minds 5

2. Serene Readiness 8

3. Dante Today 11

4. To the Lighthouse 14

5. That One Monkey 17

6. By the Numbers 20

7. Metaphors and Analogies 24

8. Dynamic Succession 28

9. Monitoring the Succession 32

10. Hall Monitor 36

11. Succession, Attention, and Stimulation 39

12. When You Need a Lot of Neurons 42

13. What controls? 46

14. The Story of Prime Directives 49

15. Your Prime Directive(s) 52

16. Why Now? 55

17. The Shoe Shop Down the Block 58

18. Our Version of Soma 61

19. Poverty, Scarcity, and the Shrinking Middle Class 65

20. Trending Fascism 68

21. Digital Nomads as Mental Model 72

22. Retreat into Mindless Trance 75

23. On Declining Empathy 78

24. The Collapse of Others 82

25. Aristocrats, Mountain Men, and Liberated

Women 85

26. Peaceful Thoughts Abound 88

27. Serenity and the Body 92

28. Ordering Up Serenity 96

29. Four-Legged Stool 99

30. The Zen of Zen 102

31. Stoicism Today 106

32. What Do You Believe? 110

33. Nine Reasons Why 113

34. Your Psychology of Life 117

35. Developed…or Undeveloped? 120

36. Points on a Map 124

37. Social Serenity 128

38. Socrates and You 132

39. The Whole and Its Bits 135

40. Tools for the Van 139

41. Serenity Sooner Rather Than Later 144

42. Serenity as a Practice 147

43. Serenity as Prime Directive 151

44. Ready for Readiness 154

45. Ready or Not 158

46. Getting Ready and Being Ready 162

47. Readiness and Release 165

48. A Shallow Dive 169

49. What Is Readiness? 172

50. High Noon 175

51. Ready to Create 178

52. Entrepreneurial readiness 181

53. Ready to Relate 184

54. Sexual Readiness 187

55. Ready to Resist 190

56. Ready to Steward 193

57. Ready to Leap 196

58. Ready for Red 199

59. The Terrible Diagnosis 202

60. Ready for Freedom 205

61. On Loyalty Oaths 208

62. Ready for surprises 211

63. Some Other You Is Lurking 215

64. Acquiring Serene Readiness 219

65. Safely Not Paying Attention 223

66. The Siren’s Call to Oblivion 226

67. The Ambition to Be Human 229

68. A Certain Hope 232

69. Prime Directives Revisited 235

70. Picture Yourself 239

About Eric Maisel 243

About the Publisher 245