I’ve been working through ‘A Path through the Jungle’ by the estimable Professor Steve Peters with several clients, and I’d like to recommend it here. Professor Peters is responsible for the best-selling ‘The Chimp Paradox’, and this is a psychological health and wellbeing programme/workbook that builds on that. (The photo above is of the front cover of my own copy of ‘A Path through the Jungle’ – it’s well-thumbed and worn as I’ve been using it so much!!)
It enables the reader to put into practice the lessons and techniques and learnings from his former work, and understand and manage your thoughts and emotions to make the most of yourself and be who you would like to be.
The explanations, examples and exercises are covered in eight stages:
✔ Understanding your mind
✔ Emotional management
✔ Working with emotions
✔ Changing habits and managing life events
✔ The two main stabilisers of the mind
✔Creating a stress-free lifestyle
✔ Optimising interactions with others
✔ Pulling it all together
It covers a lot of ground, over some 400 pages, but is well worth the effort in my humble opinion😊, as a reference point and/or guidebook.
Here are some examples of the kind of things some of my clients have used it to help with: managing their emotions; getting worked up, stressed, anxious more easily than they’d like; a tendency to overthink things; difficulties ‘switching off’; feeling that they have a short fuse; giving themselves a hard time/beating themselves up unnecessarily; feeling like they’re not making the most of themselves and/or their relationships; finding it hard to break out of unhelpful habits.
You can find a summary of the opening unit of the book here
PS Click on the link to take a look at the Mind management coaching programme I work through with clients to deal with the foregoing.