Garbage Rules

Are you in early recovery?
Are you just beginning the process of self-discovery?
If you answered "yes", then this book is for you.
How To Focus on the Positive
Through paradox learn to flee the negative.
Helpful thinking for beginners and those in recovery.
Be paradoxically motivated to switch to healthier and happier thinking and feeling styles by facing the absurdity of focusing on garbage styles.
This book is about rules for understanding how garbage rules your life if you let it.
If your mind is focused on garbage, then you will think more garbage.
If your soul is focused on garbage, then you will experience more garbage.
If your heart is focused on garbage, then you will feel more garbage.
In this book, you will discover hundreds of ways that you focus on garbage, and thus receive garbage. When you become aware of this pattern through variation and repetition, you will switch to more effective and fruitful patterns. Most of the Garbage Rules are restated in various ways.
This is helpful for 4 reasons:
Repetition aids both learning and memory;
Sometimes you will miss a concept presented in several formats, but grasp it in another unique format;
You may be so lost in self-talk that you don't notice a concept the first few times you encounter it;
You may finally understand a concept after multiple encounters with it.
The Garbage Rules are organized into categories that server as chapters. This organization is often arbitrary and only for convenience. In total, there are 1,613 rules about garbage.
Exploring the Garbage Rules will help you in many ways and with many issues. Here are some of the ways and issues listed alphabetically: acceptance, assertiveness, attitude control, boundaries, charity, communication, compassion, contentment, coping, detachment, ego reduction, emotional responsibility, empathy, equality, forgiveness, happiness, humility, letting-go, motivation, parenting, peace, problem-solving, responsibility, right identity, self-control, self-reliance, serenity, surrender, understanding, universality.
When you laugh at your thinking, feeling, and acting with garbage, then you can learn to rely less on garbage as a guide.
Learn to surrender your dependence and devotion to garbage by observing yourself using garbage with garbage results.
Make this book serve as a mirror so you can face and drop your faith in, hope in, and charity for garbage.
This is a program of well-being for beginners and those in early recovery.