Overcoming Yourself: A Journey Through Achievement Toward Contentment

By Earl W. Taylor

Overcoming Yourself: A Journey Through Achievement Toward Contentment teaches others seeking completeness and transformation at all levels how to overcome the power of the mind, ultimately achieving their unlimited potential.

Earl Taylor has been a clinical hypnotherapist for over a decade and shares his unique principles that will help others view life with a new perspective. Taylor details the concepts of rationalization, socialization, and normalization and explores their effects on the self-image. In addition, he also provides a new unselfish process that will increase self-awareness and understanding and allow others to overcome disconnections of all kinds, enhance relationships, and reach self-acceptance. Through Taylor’s guidance, others will learn how to:

• See and understand a personal connection to the world
• Overcome fears and become a master of the mind
• Feel accepted and build self-esteem
• Move away from expecting or wanting more

We are nothing by ourselves, but what we imagine ourselves to be. Overcoming Yourself: A Journey Through Achievement Toward Contentment leads others through a journey from being apart from everything to becoming a part of everything.

• Language: English
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Release date: Mar 11, 2010
• ISBN: 9781440183157

Earl W. Taylor

Earl W. Taylor has been a clinical hypnotherapist for over a decade, guiding countless individuals beyond their limitations. He is also a motivational speaker who has inspired many towards new insights and change.

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CONTENTS

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

PART I: RELEASING YOUR MIND

1   Wisdumb

Wisdumb that does not convert to love is information poorly used.

2   Intelligence

Intelligence is nothing more than what the mind remembers.

PART II: OVERCOMING YOURSELF

3   Self-Awareness and Life

Self-awareness is the gift; life is the opportunity.

4   Self-Consciousness and Hope

It is better to be conscious of tomorrow and not live in it than to live in today and not be conscious.

5   Self and Society

I am everything … everything is not me.

6   Normal Lies via Rational Lies

The mind does what it knows before it knows what it does.

7   Self and Achievement

Love for all is the highest achievement.

PART III: TAKING A LOOK

8   Love and the Individual

Our potential to love someone is based on our abilities to love everyone. To be grateful every moment is the highest benefit to self.

9   Love and Society

Life is about people, people are about relationships, relationships are about growth, growth is about love, and love is about life.

10 Love and Pleasure

Love is what we do for others; pleasure is what we do for ourselves.

11 Science and Religion

Science without religion is materialism. Religion without science is mythology.

12 God vs. God the Creator

If we have forever, everything gets accomplished in time.

13  urpose and Destiny

Heaven is inevitable for ourselves, but not as ourselves.

FOREWORD

Over the past few years, remarkable changes have taken place in my life and my mind—all sparked by one man. Leaving lasting footprints in the mind is a tough task for any one person to do, but Earl W. Taylor doesn’t just leave footprints, he leave tracks. He brings you out of the darkness of confusion and into the simplicity of light.

Earl W. Taylor has been a business associate of mine, as well as a good friend. He has mentored me through various stages of my life, impacting my choice to leave my job and pursue my dream business project. Throughout the years, Earl has revealed in a deep personal manner the principles outlined in this book. One of the many principles that have made a difference in my life is the principle of contentment: the source of disappointments and doubt in life is a result of expectations, so if you wake up with no expectations, you are left with a blank canvas to create possibilities every day.

Overcoming Yourself: A Journey Through Achievement Toward Contentment is a book I can recommend, not only as an enjoyable read, but also as one that will expand your mind with mental exercise and leave you to ponder what if. I personally believe that applying the principles outlined in this book will help people look at life with an entirely different perspective, as I have. It will allow readers to see what they don’t see, think beyond the obvious, hear music where there is only noise, and most of all, believe like they’ve never believed before. With that power, one can only imagine the possibilities.

Earl W. Taylor states that overcoming yourself is overcoming your mind. How do you do that? In simple and concise language, Taylor details how to dissect this topic and not only overcome your mind but also add depth and perspective to achievement and love. For those seeking completeness and transformation at any level, I invite you to read this book and make it a part of your personal library.

David A. Dent II

PREFACE

As a clinical hypnotherapist for over a decade, I have helped many patients solve problems, mostly related to each person’s current self-image. I witnessed these individuals improve their self-image and increase self-esteem. Through hypnosis and its intense transforming personal effects, I helped them become well adjusted to a questionable society.

I soon discovered that society had no current alternative to building high self-esteem in response to low self-esteem; it offered no alternative to individual achievement and the struggle therein. We had learned to achieve everything but contentment or self-acceptance.

I had successfully helped the individual adjust to society; now I knew I had to help the individual overcome society. Overcoming society meant improving society by individual improvement and the acceptance of others. This realization led me to write Overcoming Yourself: A Journey Through Achievement Toward Contentment.

Overcoming ourselves is actually overcoming our minds. There exists reality in the mind and outside of the mind. Overcoming ourselves involves setting aside or depreciating the inherited values that give significance to ourselves. At a level of zero, we can observe and appreciate that which is outside of the mind, or inherited values. Zero becomes the state of clarity that allows us to look outside of ourselves. For some people, this will be the first time they see anything that was not part of their projected values stored in a nation of images (imagination), derived from society.

The self-image becomes nothing so that we can see everything outside of the mind clearly. Images of God and the concept of love are embodied in this everything. Everything remains when something ends, leaving only God or love.

Readers will discover that we cannot see anything with the mind for the first time beyond the prescriptions of society and that we cannot remember anything without the mind. Intelligence becomes nothing more than what the mind can remember. Readers will be asked to analyze the information they were taught to remember and take a look outside of their minds.

The power of the individual is choice. The power of the society is prescription. Overcoming yourself transfers the power from society to you. Instead of only responding to reality, you will be a choice away from creating it.

We will begin our journey at birth, before we possess self-awareness of life, traveling through time consciousness. We will look into the concepts of rationalizes, socializes, normalizes, and we will explore their effect on the self-image. I have intentionally changed these words to alert the mind to take a fresh look at each concept. Hereafter I will refer to these words as rational lie, social lie, and normal lie.

We will also take a look at the entire self-esteem process, with the goal of increasing self-awareness and understanding. From this self-understanding, a new selfless process will emerge, replacing the old self-esteem process and allowing us to overcome ourselves. We will then go beyond the current value system and eliminate the struggle associated with achievement by redefining its meaning. We will reduce the pain associated with disconnections of all kinds and enhance our relationships with others, which will lead us to completely accept ourselves and other people.

Lastly, we will discover that we are nothing by ourselves but what we imagine ourselves to be. Thus, we will learn that individuality is mostly imaginary. Overcoming oneself is a journey from being apart from everything to becoming a part of everything. At the end of this process, readers will be able to see everything better or never see anything the same again. Enjoy the journey!

Earl W. Taylor

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I am grateful to the following people:

Fred Jones, who died approximately forty years ago but continues to live in me today. I remember him saying, "They killed old can’t and raised old could. He influenced me at an extremely young age and has affected my entire life. He gives new meaning to the phrase keeping up with the Joneses."

Lucille Williams, who gave me a whole heap of love and taught me its calming effects. Radford Williams, who taught me that spoken words are a very small part of communication. General Taylor, who showed me how to take pride in work and have respect for laws. Flora Hayes, who taught me to speak my mind. Emma Hayes, who inspired me to sacrifice for the greater good.

Earline Taylor, who inspired me to think independently. I can still hear her say, "What do you think? Earl Williams, who taught me the importance of hustle in business and life. Alice Merritt, who gives true meaning to the phrase life sacrifice." S. Merritt, who was a big opportunity for growth. Kenneth Taylor who reminds me that we may not be able to do everything for everyone, but doing something is essential.

James Hightower, who is devoted to a cause greater than his own. Peggy Taylor, who constantly reminds me that it’s not where you come from or what you go through, it’s how you come out and where you are headed. Annette Taylor, who has excellent listening skills. David Merritt, who reveals that prison is not outside of