Feeling GREAT Regardless: Confidently Face Each Day through Five Rewarding Habits

By Eduard Marais

Feeling GREAT Regardless contains strong motivation to believe in yourself and that you can courageously rise above any challenge as it provides profound food for thought, principles, and tools that leave you grounded – confident to face any day, regardless of your struggles and obstacles.
This easy-read book is refreshingly practical in its application of specific principles. The liberation and enlightenment are powerful as it expounds on how fleeing from or folding under emotional pressures can be averted by deliberately focusing on a few important aspects that deliver healthy, rewarding habits. Fundamental support is discussed which forms a stable basis for growth. Methods to control and alter one’s mindset are shared that provide a positive core leading to progress. Applying any advice or counsel received or affirming personal resolves becomes possible through specific techniques, and growth is facilitated through clear guidance on how to curb procrastination and how to focus on the positive without negative ruminations. Examples demonstrate how, through deliberate choices, a positive disposition benefits growth and helps to achieve goals.

Empathy is displayed throughout this self-help aid as the author too endured many debilitating challenges and fought an intense battle to rise from an extremely low point in his life. Using this book, immediate positive results were achieved through a simple yet effective structured framework, creating the needed traction and momentum to develop and sustain important habits. You will discover empowering inner strength, feeling truly loved, valued, in control, and fulfilled.

If you’ve reached a crossroads, feel low, stuck, despondent, depressed, or guilty about past mistakes, or if you just want to grow further, this book is for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Digital On Demand
• Release date: Feb 14, 2023
• ISBN: 9780639760841

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Feeling

GREAT

Regardless

Confidently Face

Each Day

through

Five Rewarding

Habits

EDUARD MARAIS

Copyright © 2022 by Eduard Marais

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any manner without written permission of the copyright owner, except for the use of quotations in a book review.

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ISBN 978-0-6397-4414-8 (Paperback)

ISBN 978-0-6397-6084-1 (eBook)

www.eduardmarais.com

First eBook edition January 2023

First paperback edition January 2023

Disclaimer

This publication relates the personal experiences of the author and does not make any claim that its content guarantees any results whatsoever. Any impact of this book’s content, whether positive or negative, is entirely dependent on and results from personal choices made by the reader.

The author shall not be held liable for any inaccuracies, inconsistencies, omissions, or errors contained on the front cover, in the content, or on the back cover of this book, regardless of the source of, or reason for such inaccuracies, inconsistencies, omissions, or errors. The author disclaims any liability for any damage, loss, or harm of any sort suffered by any party. The author expressly articulates that it is the responsibility of the reader to seek qualified assistance and not to rely solely on the content of this publication.

Contents

A Note To You

Preface

Introduction

A Fundamental Support

Highlights of This Chapter

Understanding Messages

Highlights of This Chapter

Feelings Matter

Highlights of This Chapter

Discovering Great Feelings

Highlights of This Chapter

Daily Reflection Benefits

Highlights of This Chapter

The Framework

Highlights of This Chapter

Celebrate Great Feelings!

Highlights of This Chapter

Conclusion

About the Author

A Note To You

Dear Friend,

When I planned this work, I pondered, If anyone feels like I once did, would they want a bulky book that needs to be studied and summarized before finding it useful?

I empathetically placed myself in the reader’s position, constantly considering whether simplifying information would perhaps be more helpful. I chose to elaborate on themes only when they had the potential to significantly contribute to the positive message I wish to convey.

To assist you, the content in this book is adequately condensed and ready to apply. I sincerely hope reading it will be refreshingly liberating, enlightening, and powerfully rewarding to you!

Eduard

Preface

I am diagnosed with chronic depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), obsessive-compulsive personality disorder (OCPD), and an anxiety disorder causing frequent panic attacks. Compared to many other people, I do not have extremely serious conditions. However, like many chronic illnesses, they are disruptive and changed the way I live my life. As I came crashing down, I was shocked at how instantly my new challenges adversely affected my productivity and relationships!

During tumultuous years, I had to learn how to discover fulfillment again. I also came to realize that some of my conditions developed much earlier than I thought. Everything seems to come to a complete standstill when one comes crashing down. Picking up the pieces is a challenge. It was not easy for me, but after several periods of therapy at psychiatric care centers and many consultations to this day, I believe I have found a great aid to confidently start a journey to feel happy and fulfilled again.

At the start of my last of several admissions to psychiatric care centers in less than two years, I felt so depressingly distraught that I couldn’t think of anything to say to anyone. I told my therapist to start talking, not believing we would get anywhere. The only material we had to work with was a list I’d scribbled of feelings and emotions which I felt were like arrows painfully piercing through me, constantly. I felt confused, scared, sad, disappointed, inadequate, weak, failing, lonely, regretful, secluded, and fearful. I found myself in a state of unprecedented introspection, feeling as if I was standing at a precipice and about to fall to a point of no return at any moment.

I had reached what I believed was the last crossroads in my life, and I saw only three options ahead of me - flee, fold, or fight. It felt so ironically enticing to try and flee from my current troubles or to fold under the power of a mental and emotional pressure cooker. Yet instinctively I knew that what I had to do, was to fight; I had to fight for survival. The question I was desperate to get an answer to was, how?

Only when I started using the simple tool and principles described in this book did I gain traction in just a few days. I experienced satisfying growth within a few weeks. Several times since then, when I experienced periods that felt like the pits, reflection on the contents of this book helped me time and again to rise above my negative feelings and feel some relief.

My experience of personal growth in a span of only a few months due to embracing certain aids, compels me to share. Upon developing this remarkably powerful tool that worked so well for me, I set out to find reasons why it works so well. Contrary to my initial thoughts, I discovered through thorough investigation that it was not by chance that my newly formulated aid works this well. Every aspect of the research proved that the principles of this approach are substantiated, and what I discovered immediately inspired me to write this book.

Reaching a point in life that feels like the deepest, darkest pit we’ve ever experienced is common to so many, and sadly, some reach that