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Taming Your Gremlin: A Guide to Enjoying Yourself
by Richard D. Carson
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You already have some sense of your gremlin though you may have never focused your awareness on him or labeled him. Your gremlin is the narrator in your head. He has influenced you since you came into this world and he accompanies you throughout this entire existence. He is with you when you wake up in the morning and when you go to sleep at night. He tells you who and what you are, and he defines and interprets your every experience. He wants you to accept his interpretations as reality, and his goal from moment to moment, day to day, is to squelch the real, vibrant you within. I am not sure of the factors that contributed to the makeup of your particular gremlin. I am sure, however, that he was created, at least in part, by your past experiences.Your gremlin wants you to feel bad and he carries out this loathsome pursuit via sophisticated maneuvers . . . and by convincing you to waste time reliving the past, worrying about the future, and analyzing the relationships between all sorts of people and things. He wants you to believe that he has your best interest at heart and that his primary purpose is to serve and protect you. His motive is actually much less honorable. He is intent on making you feel lousy. His caution about life and living is inordinate and his methods of control are overzealous. . . . He is not merely a part of your psychological makeup. He is a GREMLIN and his personality, like his dastardly intention, is all his own. One thing is for certain, as you begin to simply notice your gremlin, you will become acutely sensitive to the fact that you are not your gremlin, but rather his observer. You will see clearly that your gremlin has no real hold over you. As this awareness develops, you will begin to enjoy yourself more and more.
From Taming Your Gremlin: A Guide to Enjoying Yourself by Richard D. Carson (New York: HarperPerennial, 1986).
Copyright © 1983 by Richard D. Carson
Used by arrangement with HarperPerennial, a division of HarperCollins Publishing Co., Inc.
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