This book offers a closer examination of contemporary society's ineffectiveness with regards to relationships, including current child-rearing practices. Offered to the reader is a passage out of this current condition with reference to how we relate to ourselves, individually and collectively. This new account informs the reader that conflict is our teacher, not our adversary. Through conflict we can journey within to determine what aspect of ourselves is in need of expression. Instead of using conflict to our advantage for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other, we model and utilize methods of condemnation, judgment, demonization and avoidance of personal responsibility. This book offers hope---if we are willing to create new models. Experience humility instead of humiliation, self-empowerment instead of power and control over others. We can create models that teach us how to embody an internal sense of goodness instead of an internalized self-contempt. Create models that teach us how to look within and take responsibility for our feelings and behaviors instead of seeking to blame, judge and condemn either ourselves or another. Movement in this direction can take our society and its members towards the experience of personal sovereignty and empowerment, emotional and spiritual emancipation..The result is sure to produce relationships of mutual respect and interdependence with a proficiency to endure and strengthen through conflict. Throughout this book, and particularly in the final chapter, is a new model upon which to base the foundation of relationships, with self and others. In the words of the author; Let It Be Different Tomorrow!

Relationships: Shattering The Lies We Live By!, Solutions for Conflict and Prejudice

Self-Help

Porter, Carolyn

Leonard, Lorenzo D.

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Relationships

Puget Sound Press

Abstract Freedom is a powerful and persuasive book with regard to its ability to make a vital connection between our collective past as a society and our personal ethnic and cultural histories. Abstract Freedom assists the reader in understanding how American society is able to make amazing technological and economical advancements, yet is unable to establish the same competence in advancing human relationships.  The author, Lorenzo D. Leonard, brings to the forefront a critical element formerly missing from our history lessons.  What we are teaching our children with regards to the history of their culture serves to perpetuate the violence, dominance and hatred we currently witness being acted out with a disturbing frequency. This book offers a clear analysis of how the distorted truth with reference to our collective past, as a society, impacts the core of an individual's personal life, expecially primary relationships.  The author quotes Mark Twain: "It is not what you don't know that will hurt you. It is what you think you know that aint' so."  Mr. Leonard continues: As a society, we continue to perpetuate a way of life that is based on emotional, psychological, spiritual, sexual, physical, economical, legal and political dominationn of either self or another. To help reinforce this way of life we have constructed religious mores and political ideologies that support the practice of domination; a fact that can be evidenced by our ever-increasing need to seek power and control through condemnation ofo either self or another.  We have become a society thoroughly addicted to dominating self and another, as well as to being dominated ourselves in return. We know of the "other", but we know very little about "one another."  We need not continue to be afraid of "what we don't know", and that is precisely the very painful yet rich history that each individual represents, both individually as well as culturally. What will contune to hurt us, both individually and as a society, is the reluctance to let go of "what ain't so", which is the belief that power, control and indignity takes precendence over emotional integrity, equality, respect, and dignity....So Let It Be Different Tomorrow.

ABSTRACT FREEDOM, Creating Emotional Integrity in Relationships

Puget Sound Pr

Self-Help/Relationships 
This Book is for our times Lorenzo Leonard renders a lucid and deeply honest look into the increasingly pervasive dissatisfaction with our way of life: a life-style that supports incredible material wealth and abundance for some while ignoring the spirtual and emotional excellence of each and every individual. The author puts forth ideas not often voiced in the mainstream culture that lend a profound insight and understanding to the perplexing issues of our day: cruelty, violence, sexual and racial inequities as well as the difficulty for individuals to establish satisfying and mutually supportive relationships. 
We live in a society that teaches WHAT one is - typified by one's race, sex, role, social status and material wealth - is of far greater import than the essence of WHO one is - typified by the inherent excellence and good that one natually embodies. The former requires the practive of domination, power and control in all relationship. The latter would instead require that we adopt a model of cooperations that will ultimately lead to a new way of life in which dignity, emotional integrity, and responsibility prevail among the citizenery.

Who We Are Vs What We Are: Establishing a Model of Cooperation in One Relationships

As a series of essays, At First Glance examines how a system of living that lacks a dedicated curriculum to educate individuals about their inherent credibility limits one's options for developing self-perception. Unaware of their own inner credibility, individuals tend to use outside experiences to define themselves. Without an appreciation of one's inner character, an individual cannot apply their reliable internal influence when processing experiences in life. They will be unable to develop a moral blueprint that would lead them to honor the inherent qualities with which they were born, and instead their self-perception is inflated or deflated based on external experiences. As a result, they will solely pursue credibility and relevance based on external status and material wealth instead of goodness and honor. At First Glance explores how this lack of a moral blueprint, this moral impoverishment, results in the emergence of a will to survive ideology that compels individuals to achieve power, authority, and superiority over others using skills such as deception, inequity, and corruption. This ideology necessitates benefiting from economic, gender, racial, ethnic, religious, political, and educational inequalities to sustain positive experiences, a race for credibility and relevance that can be ruthless and cruel. At First Glance proposes that the way to withdraw from the travesty of humanity devouring itself is to develop a will to live ideology, which recognizes and honors innate attributes that embody substantive character. This ideology generates a genuine credibility and relevance that surpasses any need to diminish human life in order to succeed.

At First Glance: False Assumptions by Power and Authority

Religion & Spirituality

Lorenzo D. Leonard

Tribalism isn't new to the human experience. In fact, it's been around as long as humankind. However, lately, the will to survive has grown with intensity and has given rise to a distorted sense of self-importance and self-indulgence. Self-interest has come to divide people and destroy a vital sense of community and civility that bonds a society. Author Lorenzo D. Leonard has studied this phenomenon and introduces an alternative way of life: the will to live. The education, development, and practice of commendable character exposes a person's innate qualities of good. Leonard proclaims how the attainment of personal credibility and relevance becomes less of an external focus and more of an internal fulfillment through the process of character development. However, this is only the case when an individual can put aside the will to survive and embrace the will to live. Tribalism becomes less of a concern when the qualities of transparency, accountability, integrity, and community are adopted. The Rules of Engagement: The Will to Live vs. The Will to Survive is a deep dive into the very ideas that transition people into being more humane with one another. Within this literary body of work, readers will recognize the signs of a life lived authentically as well as the limitations that come with a distorted sense of power and superiority.

Rules of Engagement: The Will to Live vs. the Will to Survive

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Trust the Confession: Disavow Ignorance for Personal Freedom

Philosophy

Elevate Press

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