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Richard Driscoll (Author), PhD (Author)
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June 1, 2002

The Shielding offering includes a 80 page booklet and a 34 minute Training CD. The booklet explains the method and how to use it, while the CD fashions your shield and gives you practice using it to feel protected in confrontations. The CD training involves serious physical stretching, tensing, relaxation, positive suggestion, and adaptive images, to produce surprisingly powerful anxiety reduction benefits. Most participants are able to experience being protected during the training, and transfer that experience into real life situations.

Confident optimists tend to brush off failure and negativity, but relish their triumphs and the support of their friends. In contrast, insecure pessimists tend to dwell on the insults and on their failures, while hardly noticing their successes at all. Personal Shielding trains you to brush off the insults and negativity, and so frees you to focus on the successful aspects of your life.

Those who say they care too much about approval often have it backwards. To often, you care too much about avoiding disapproval and hardly even notice the approval at all. Shielding helps you brush off life's insults, so you feel safe enough to appreciate the compliments.

If someone hurls an insult at you but you do not feel insulted, then has he really insulted you at all? Best to brush it off and get on with your life.

Allow others to work through their negativity on their own, without letting it affect you so strongly. Protect yourself with the mental shield, and stay free of surrounding negativity and ill will.

Complete the training now, at home, and be prepared later when angry words fly your way.

The Personal Shielding method has been presented in workshops to over 10,000 professional therapists.


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A clear presentation based on solid findings and common sense. The suggestions produce consistently good results. -- Albert Smith, Ph.D., Director, Westside EAP

Personal Shielding shows how to defuse anger before it gets out of control. We need this now more than ever. -- Helen Smith, Ph.D., author of The Scarred Heart ..

Richard Driscoll is a consistent innovator who can find the gems in the haystack. --Bruce Holt,, Director of Counseling, Maryville College

"Learn how to protect yourself with irritable co-workers, an angry boss, an upset mate, or critical parents. This CD and booklet teach you how to create a protective mental shield that helps you disregard hostility instead of being hurt, angered, or stressed by it. 80% of those who try the cassette training report being calmer in antagonistic situations, usually after just two half hour sessions. Easy and effective." ---Courage to Change catalog, 1997 to 2004, on bestseller list.

"Learn how to brush off hostility instead of soaking it in! Has this happened to you? Someone is disturbed and you happen to be in the way, and the next thing you know you're unhappy and disturbed. This booklet and CD will show you how to put a stop to this common scenario. People who are hostile look for others to vent their anger on...don't be one of them. Learn to be calmer in your day to day activities and let the stress return to its source. Take control!" - --Pacific Spirit Whole Life Products catalogs, 1994 through 2002, also in The Best of Pacific Spirit





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Mental Shielding has been marketed through several national catalogs (see reviews above). It is a current best seller in the Courage to Change catalog, and was a top 10 bestseller in the A.R.E. Bookstore catalog in 1994. It is also in Whole Life Products, and was included in The Best of Pacific Spirit catalogs.

Mental shielding is one of the few self-help methods that has been field tested and found to be clearly beneficial following the initial training. Of those who listen to the training cassette twice, 80% report being clearly calmer over the next several weeks in confrontations with family members and at work.

We are pleased to be able to offer both the booklet and the training cassette for what we feel is a highly reasonable price. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.


Product Details

  • Paperback: 80 pages
  • Publisher: Westside Psychology; 3rd edition (June 1, 2002)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0963412620
  • ISBN-13: 978-0963412621
  • Product Dimensions: 6.4 x 4.9 x 0.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,385,632 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book and cassette!, March 26, 2000
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I found this cassette and tape to be extremely relaxing. I have always been my own worst critic but by using Dr. Driscoll's tape, I was able to work through these supercritical feelings and it made it easier to deal with other people and their hostility. I definitely recommend it.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Psychologist Comments on Driscoll's Mental Shielding, August 6, 2000
I have been surprised at the positive reception Mental Shielding has received from clients. Much of my practice involves employee assistance and many clients are not the typical consumers of "self-help" products. I have found that it helped people in all lines of work from the factory floor to law enforcement, to taking customer complaint calls. I recommend it highly. Albert Smith, Ph.D., CEAP
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5.0 out of 5 stars Truly applicable and deeply effective..., February 27, 2011
This review is from: Personal Shielding to Deflect Hostility (Book & Training CD) (Paperback)
Dr. Driscoll's pairing of audio cd and book make the process of entering into meditation and shielding surprisingly easy even though its content is rich and deep. The cd is not too long, so it was easy to incorporate into my very busy day. Dr. Driscoll's voice calmly leads you step by step into meditation without ANY chance to fail (I think!). After listening to the audio cd I felt refreshed and relaxed, and I wondered to myself, "why I don't give myself this kind of time for healthy rejuvenation more often?". Building my shield the first time I listened to the cd was exciting (you'll see when you listen) and meaningful. During the first listen I had already started "shielding" my main stressors and looking at them in a new way that made me feel lighter. The very next day after going through the shielding exercise for the first time, I knew the time spent in meditation and building my shield had deeply affected even my subconscious mind. I had had a dream the night before where I found myself in a stressful/hurtful situation and immediately used my personal shield I had made! I felt personally effective, good and safe in my dream's stressful situation. I have listened to the audio cd more than once now, and my eyes are opening to enumerous possibilities and circumstances when I can and have used my shield. Shielding should be a practice that not only people who feel they are in need of relief learn and use, but that everyone should learn to do because of how it can help you stay focused, calm, and less stressed in unpleasant situations. I am very happy to have discovered this gem.
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