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The No-Self Help Book: Forty Reasons to Get Over Your Self and Find Peace of Mind Paperback – December 1, 2018

by Kate Gustin PhD (Author), JP Sears (Foreword)
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It’s time to get over your self!

Written by a clinical psychologist and student of Eastern philosophy, this handy little guide offers a radical solution to anyone struggling with self-doubt, self-esteem, and self-defeating thoughts: “no-self help.” By breaking free of your own self-limiting beliefs, you’ll discover your infinite potential.

There is an insidious, global identity theft occurring that has robbed people of their very recognition of their true selves. The culprit—indeed the mastermind of this crisis—has committed the inside job of creating and promoting the idea that we are all a separate self, which is the chief source of our daily distress and dissatisfaction.

No more than a narrative of personhood pieced together from disparate neural activations, the self we believe ourselves to be in our own minds—although quite capable of being affirming, inspiring, and constructive—often spews forth a distressing flow of worry and second-guessing, blaming and shaming, regret and guilt. This book offers an antidote to this epidemic of stolen identity, isolation, and self-deprecation: no-self (a concept known in Buddhist philosophy as anatta or anatman).

The No-Self Help Book turns the idea of self-improvement on its head, arguing that the key to well-being lies not in the relentless pursuit of bettering one’s self but in the recognition of the self as a false identity born in the mind. Rather than identifying with a small, relative sense of self, this book encourages you to embrace a liberating alternative—an expansive awareness that is flexible and open to experiencing life as an ongoing and ever-changing process, without attachment to personal outcomes or storylines.

To help you make this leap from self to no-self, the book provides forty bite-sized chapters full of clever and inspiring insights based in positive psychology and non-duality—a philosophy that asserts there is no real separation between any of us. So, if you’re tired of “self-help” and you’re ready to explore who you are beyond the self, let The No-Self Help Book be your guide.
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“Drawing on psychological research and clinical experience, Kate Gustin offers a profound understanding of our truest identity underneath the mind’s story, helping us connect with the peaceful, interconnected consciousness at our core. The No-Self Help Book is a refreshing and timely antidote to the rampant loneliness of our times.”
—Marci Shimoff, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Happy for No Reason

“Kate Gustin’s The No-Self Help Book is a new approach to emotional healing, that provides simple, clear-minded lessons on getting away from the negative, bullying voice of the constructed self. As you learn to ignore the false narrative, you’ll see yourself through new eyes as you discover that you’re not who the voice inside you says you are, or who you pretend to be. Instead, you discover the authentic being within each of us who is capable of relaxed joy and awareness.”
—Anne Lamott, author of Almost Everything

“If you were to try to define yourself, how would you do that and what would your SELF look like? Treat yourself to the concept of NO SELF and discover how you are not just your mind’s stories.”
—Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Love

“Kate Gustin’s quirky and compelling book subtracts the self out of self-help! She communicates a powerful and ageless spiritual truth in a way that is accessible, humorous, and compassionate. Highly recommended!”
—Mariana Caplan, PhD, MFT, author of Yoga and Psyche and Eyes Wide Open

“Kate Gustin has written a book that is at once insightful, refreshing, playful, and truly wise. The No-Self Help Book goes to the very root of our unhappiness and insecurity: as long as we think we’re separate from the rest of life, we aren’t enough and will remain stuck in the prison of our minds. When we learn to see ourselves from the illuminating perspective presented in these pages, we can understand that from the beginning we were always enough just as we are. Then we can play at being who we truly are instead of taking ourselves so seriously. How liberating!”
—James Baraz, cofounder of Spirit Rock Meditation Center in Woodacre, CA; coauthor of Awakening Joy

About the Author

Kate Gustin, PhD, is a clinical psychologist practicing in the San Francisco Bay Area. She received her education from Princeton University and the University of California, Berkeley; and has worked in a variety of settings over the past twenty-five years as a mental health practitioner: outpatient psychiatry, community mental health clinics, VA Hospital, college counseling services, and currently in private practice. Gustin integrates the science of positive psychology into her psychotherapy, teaching, and consultation, and leads classes and trainings for students, patients, and health care professionals.

Foreword writer JP Sears is an emotional healing coach, YouTuber, author, international teacher, event speaker, curious student of life, and satirist best known for his popular YouTube channel. JP’s“Ultra Spiritual” videos have accumulated over 100 million online views. For more, visit www.awakenwithjp.com.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Non-Duality; 1st edition (December 1, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 224 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1684032172
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1684032174
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Kate Gustin, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and author. She received her education from Princeton University and the University of California at Berkeley and has worked in a variety of settings over the past twenty-five years as a mental health practitioner: Outpatient Psychiatry, Community Mental Health Clinics, VA Hospital, College Counseling Services, and, currently in private practice in San Rafael, CA.

Dr. Gustin integrates the science of positive psychology into her psychotherapy, teaching, and consultation, and leads classes, workshops, and trainings throughout the region. With a focus on collective well-being and the greater good, she offers No-Self Help – an approach to identity, relationship and responsibility that draws upon the spirituality of eastern wisdom traditions and advances in western psychology. She enjoys time in nature with friends and family, as well as writing, painting and crafting.

For more information: visit www.kategustin.com and www.no-selfhelp.com

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5.0 out of 5 stars Path to Happiness
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2018
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I strongly recommend this well written, innovative and insightful book on how to improve our lives and seek happiness. Dr. Gustin has impressive credentials in clinical psychology with a strong emphasis in science and spiritualism.
The first section presents the problem of Self and gives 20 examples of how our continually active mind can lead to much human suffering such as PTSD, anxiety and depression. Do you have negative recurring thoughts? Well read on to section 2-No Self. Here the author cleverly presents a voice in first person explaining what it means to be No Self in 20 examples (it is your sensory awareness without intruding thoughts-you must read this section to appreciate No Self). But the best is saved for the third section which provides practical strategies for incorporating No Self into every day life. The author includes a MeSearch section which provides a synopsis of relevant neuroscience and psychology research as well as an extensive bibliography.
There is something in here for everyone regardless of faith or culture. It is especially relevant in this time of alienation and self aggrandizement.
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Michael in Alameda
4.0 out of 5 stars Great primer on nonduality
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2019
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I enjoyed the simple language, pace, and repeated demonstrations of the va!ue of No Self. Letting go of my personal trauma narrative frees me from employing the same old defensive structures I have relied on all my life. Awareness is all I need. The moment is the great medicine.
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Gracey Leigh Clairbourne
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Read
Reviewed in the United States on December 22, 2018
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The No-Self Help Book is a must read for anyone who genuinely seeks to know the essence of life and to live in harmony with this knowledge. It does not provide answers or a swift path to enlightenment. Rather invites an inquiring mind, and unfolds with a pace we might see in a curious child pulling back the petals of a rose one by one. The book is cleverly written, as it provides opportunity for spontaneous experiences to occur alongside a masterful weaving of education, direction, and encouragement. The tone is that of a compassionate, wise woman placed on earth to share her wisdom. She works within the confines of words and time, yet reveals so much more. Her torch is bright and inspires confidence that allows for the dissolving of our attachment to the Self we typically fight so desperately to maintain. There is purity, clarity, humor, love, and an opportunity to find compassion and freedom. Both the novice and those who have journeyed long will find themselves changed by reading this book.
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Naima
5.0 out of 5 stars It’s all in your head…but no really it is all in your head
Reviewed in the United States on March 1, 2022
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I loved this book. It really helped me deepen my connection to others and myself. I am a better human for reading this book and I will recommend it to whoever is interested. It is very nice to formally meet no self.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Read
Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2019
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If you are open to thinking from a totally different perspective, this book is for you.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellant
Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2019
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This is practical useful information for those seeking.
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Roger Reancont
5.0 out of 5 stars Exquisite, an invitation to a benevolent Paradigm of unified expanded consciousness
Reviewed in the United States on January 24, 2019
The authors begin by explaining in its study model, so very accessible, nontechnical, how our rational mind generated our personality or "self". They emphasize us that this self-image is a cognitive process and not really what we are. Limitation occurs because our mind differentiates between self and others, also arranges individual identity into categories, which results in a sense of alienation that causes us unhappiness, where we only see a part of reality about ourselves and the world, and therefore we miss the Wholeness. At this point, the authors detail us a number of distinctions that makes the Self for self-preservation and better understand this process of self-image.

This is where the book gets really interesting as the authors explain how it would be to experience ourselves and our experiences in what they have called the No-Self. This dimension of expanded experience, the Non-Self, is where we allow ourselves to go beyond this culturally conditioned identity to a state of consciousness in which we become aware of our body-mind aspects, which is also transpersonal or metatranspersonal. This universal dimension or "field of awareness, the net that includes everyone else's conciousness", is where this unified perspective comes from, we feel part of the Whole and / or where all others are part of Us, in which it is possible that we interconnect with empathy, acceptance, trust and love.

The authors invite us to choose intentionally and deliberately to participate in this new paradigm of unified collective consciousness, of the We in a satisfactory (fulfilled) shared experience, in a healthy interaction for the benefit of all. They do not suggest giving up our individuality, but to move more freely between Self and Non-Self, where if we are not slaves of the fragmented narrative of the Self we can be more empowered while still being yourself, but at the same time expand into a unified experience, of inclusiveness of the billions of beings on the planet. Seeing reality free of judgment that ennables full awareness of the moment we express our authentic being, a state of Being that allows us to respond with the same responsibility, generosity and love towards Us (myself and the others unified)..

The third part is a compendium of the extensive bibliographical research that gives substance to the content of this work. The book is presented within the theoretical framework of the neurosciences and does not contain practical exercises, although there are some routes to follow. For me these investigations are important and relevant, especially for intellectuals who give more weight to the young science than ancient wisdom traditions of the world. Regarding the latter, we can find very useful practical exercises to develop the state of No-Self.
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January Gray
2.0 out of 5 stars Nope
Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2019
Another boring self-help book. So many offer great ideas, but to me this was just the run of the mill type self help. I'm getting to where self help books are just wash, rinse repeat.
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Meka Jones
5.0 out of 5 stars Really, REALLY useful book.
Reviewed in Canada on February 20, 2020
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This book filled in a lot of gaps for me in terms of conceptualizing the ego. That's personal. In an impersonal sense, it's concise and well written, and the discussions and suggestions are legitimately very helpful. If I could I would share this with every human I've ever met.
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