Emotional Comfort: The Gift of Your Inner Guide [Paperback]

Judith Davis (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 15, 2005

Based on sound scientific principles, The Davis ^TM Technique for Attaining Emotional Comfort is an easily learned self-hypnotic system that allows you to create a new entity in your mind: an Inner Guide. By searching your memory for the origins of your problems, your Inner Guide finds true solutions and enables you to become consciously aware of them. With the help of your Inner Guide, you can resolve chronic difficulties and effectively handle any new ones that may arise.

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Review

What fusion does for cuisine, and crossover for musicians, the author does for self-help in this remarkable book. A Chicago psychoanalyst, Davis developed her theory of mid by combining ideas of Sigmund Freud and Ivan Pavlov. She builds a therapy based on self-hyposis, assuming that the "Inner Guide" is a reservoir of comforting experiences and solutions to conflicts that people can learn to tap...

Davis regards psychiatric symptoms such as anxiety and depression as partial or false solutions to overwhelming emotional challenges... The Davis method accelerates change with self-hypnosis.

Davis does not promise easy or instant magic. What makes this a challenge to skeptics is the combination of her experience, theoretical clarity, and confident optimism, bolstered by a decade of working with people who used the method. More than a treatment of symptoms, it offers help with quality of life issues: getting organized, taking care of oneself, being creative, and loving more fully.

--R. James Liebeman, M.D., ForeWord Magazine

Expert psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Judith Davis presents Emotional Comfort: The Gift of Your Inner Guide, which describes a five-stage program to create a more joyful life - the Davis ^TM Technique for Attaining Emotional Comfort. By creating a new entity in one's mind, an inner guide, one can search one's memory for the origins of one's problems, and therefore build true solutions that address the roots of the difficulty. The benefits of entering a self-hypnotic state can be used to foster a greater self-awareness and an improved ability to deal with one's problems and reconcile difficulties. A liberating self-help guide about tapping into the wellspring of one's own strength and hidden powers of the mind. --Midwest Book Review

From the Inside Flap

Much to her own surprise, after many years as a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with a busy practice, Judith Davis found herself intrigued by a theory that posited that self-hypnosis as a means of encountering an "inner advisor." "It was difficult to believe that something so foreign to my experience could exist," she remembers, but she wanted to find out. Within the next several weeks, she established that she did in fact have an Inner Guide, a mental entity whose goal is to maximize the qualities that are most important to her, and to do that in the most efficient way.

As Dr. Davis continued to experiment, her Inner Guide caused her to attain her ideal weight, enjoy exercising regularly, finish organizing and decorating her home, end unwanted habits, enhance her therapeutic skills, gain increased pleasure from life, and feel free of stress.

Examining the Inner Guide’s effect on her own life, Judith Davis developed a new theory of mental functioning. It clarifies the mechanism of hypnosis, provides the scientific explanation for the existence and activities of the Inner Guide, and explains why the specific self-hypnotic Davis technique is necessary for contacting your own Inner Guide.

This book presents the technique. By using it regularly, you can develop the Inner Guide that will bring you emotional comfort. Because your Guide will have access to all your memories, including those out of awareness, and to your subliminal perceptions, it will be able to solve problems and end discomfort. Though it may answer questions, you will find that the bulk of its work is done silently, out of awareness.

Over time, as the book explains, your Inner Guide will eliminate not only the problems that you are aware of but your hidden sources of stress as well.The Foundation’s first project offers private sessions for learning The Davis Technique, a bi-weekly newsletter, and a monthly check on progress. Participants report a variety of benefits. They feel calmer. Some who wished to eat more healthfully and to exercise have been moved to do so. Those who have been overworking have been able to slow down and feel more patient. Others report relief from pain, better self-discipline, better relationships, and an ability to make difficult decisions more easily and calmly.

New Davis Foundation projects will bring the Davis Technique to people who are especially likely to benefit from it, including those who suffer from anxiety, depression, bereavement, trauma, eating disorders, chronic pain, and substance abuse.

Eventually, Dr. Davis believes, her technique for attaining emotional comfort will be so widely practiced that most people will become optimally comfortable. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 178 pages
• Publisher: Wilder Press, Inc. (April 15, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0972357327
• ISBN-13: 978-0972357326
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,244,076 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A five-stage program to create a more joyful life, August 11, 2005

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Expert psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Judith Davis presents Emotional Comfort: The Gift Of Your Inner Guide, which describes a five-stage program to create a more joyful life - the Davis (tm) Technique for Attaining Emotional Comfort. By creating a new entity in one's mind, an inner guide, one can search one's memory for the origins of one's problems, and therefore build true solutions that address the roots of the difficulty. The benefits of entering a self-hypnotic state can be used to foster a greater self-awareness and an improved ability to deal with one's problems and reconcile difficulties. A liberating self-help guide about tapping into the wellspring of one's own strength and hidden powers of the mind.