Ch-6: From External to Internal Control of Your Life

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Tom G. Stevens PhD
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CHAPTER 6:

THE TRANSITION FROM EXTERNAL

TO INTERNAL CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE

Chapter Contents:

Are you more internally or externally controlled? Sources of internal and external control

How to become more internally directed and effective with others--even controlling people!

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Chapter Epilog:

Many external forces try to influence our decisions--
including many people we love and respect.
Many internal forces try to influence our decisions--
including many lower and higher desires.
If we are too influenced by external forces,
we risk lack of inner satisfaction and depression.
If we are too influenced by our own self-directed desires,
we risk social consequences and guilt.
Allowing the Higher Self to balance empathetic listening
to both internal with external messages, and
to give primary responsibility for meeting desires to each individual
can resolve the internal--external control conflict.

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