The Tools: 5 Tools to Help You Find Courage, Creativity, and Willpower--and Inspire You to Live Life in Forward Motion

Real happiness is the constant presence of higher forces in our lives. And the universe has been designed so that higher forces are available every moment of every day. We simply have to use the tools to stay connected to them.

Close your eyes and return to the image of the deathbed self you saw in Chapter 6. He sees your paralysis in the situation you picked and exhorts you not to waste the present moment, creating an urgent pressure to act. With your eyes still closed, relax for a moment and look around you. The willpower you’ve created has attracted a huge throng of ot

Close your eyes and start ruminating on your dissatisfactions. Then, imagine the entire society around you in a similar, discontented state. How does this affect people’s sense of responsibility for one another? Now, erase that image and do the Grateful Flow. Feel yourself overwhelmed with appreciativeness for everything you’ve been given from the

Close your eyes and visualize your Shadow. Feel how embarrassed you would be if it were revealed to other people. Imagine millions of people around you feeling the same way about their Shadows, doing everything they can to conceal them. What happens to a society in which everyone’s hearts are closed off to one another? Now, tell your Shadow you’ve

A society that cannot include the other is a society that has broken its own spirit.

Close your eyes and imagine someone whose ideas offend you deeply. Use Active Love on that person. Now use it again, but this time imagine the whole society using the tool on someone who offends them. How does society change with millions of people channeling this all-accepting force?

Close your eyes and use the Reversal of Desire on something you normally avoid. Feel yourself starting to move forward. Now see those around you, inspired by your forward motion, using the tool on whatever they’re avoiding. See millions of people embracing pain and as a result, moving forward in their lives. How does the society you’re imagining lo

A healthy spirit has the confidence that it can meet the future.

In order to defeat the inner enemy, we need weapons that enable us to believe in and experience higher forces without sacrificing our freedom.