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...health and a never-ceasing flow of energy." That no doubt remains the basic objective in the current profusion of books offering advice on how to cope with life, but the new authors differ from Peale in the emphasis they place on self-care and psychological detachment. Among the standard themes in the current crop of self-help manuals...
...current attitude toward emotions is a notable switch from the 1960s, when self-help books usually advised readers to express whatever they happened to feel. Now the advice is to choose one's emotions. If a person loses a job or a loved one dies, he or she can decide to be upset or simply get on with the business of life...
Like most other self-help writers, Dyer suggests forgetting about the past and future - always live in the present and live each moment fully. "Prisoners of war," he says, "survived in the most terrible circumstances. Their secret was learning to appreciate the small things that made up their daily existence - a tiny crust of bread, sunrise from a cell window." In sum, the most salable self-help philosophy for the disillusioned '70s seems to be: Minimize pain, concentrate on self, and try to find joy even in horrible circumstances...
...What is, is," says Werner Erhard, 40, a former trainer of encyclopedia salesmen and founder of Erhard Seminars Training Inc., one of the more mind-boggling of the many self-help programs to come out of California. In 70 hours over two marathon weekends, est aims at "transforming your ability to experience living "through techniques apparently derived from Scientology, psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology, Arica, Gestalt, transactional analysis and various Eastern religions. Since 1971, est has "graduated" 83,000 people in twelve cities...
...CoEvolutionary Quarterly stacks aphorisms and maxims and self-help articles on top of each other like bathroom wall grafitti, and should be treated as such. One of the most popular lines of grafitti in the late '60s was "America--Fix It or Forget It." and the people who run The Quarterly seem bent on forgetting. The CoEvolutionary Quarterly should be read as one reads a clever piece of grafitti on a bathroom wall, washes his hands and slicks his hair back, then shoves his way out into the bright fluorescent lights of the real world...