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Removing Your Mask:
No More Hiding From Your Truth©

Table of Contents


Part 1
Hiding Behind the Mask

CHAPTER 1 - The Mask Revealed
• What Is the Mask?
• Why Did We Agree to Wear Masks?

CHAPTER 2 - Games of the Mask
• Why We Play the Games • Rules of the Games • Selecting a Part to Play in the Games • The Games of Bully/Victim, Let's Pretend, and Other Games of the Mask

CHAPTER 3 - Wearing Our Favorite Masks
• Types of Masks We Wear: Emotional,   Angry, Inflated Ego, Control, Sneaky, Good, and Struggle • To Play or Not to Play, That is the Question

CHAPTER 4 - The Face Revealed
• Our Essence Contains the True Self • A Look Behind Our Masks

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Part 2
The Lies of the Mask

CHAPTER 5 - The Mask's Lying Contract
• Agreeing to Live by the Contract • Self-deceptions Bind Us to the
Mask's Lies

CHAPTER 6 - Playing Bullies and Victims: Acting Out the Mask's Lies
• Behavior Versus the Real Person • Opposite Sides of the Same Coin
• Deciding Between Bully and Victim Masks • Acting Like Bullies • Acting Like Victims • The Role of Shame, Guilt, Blame, and Fault-finding in the Game of Bully/Victim • Understanding that Victimization is a Choice • Taking Bullies Off the Pedestals • Compassion Does not Excuse • Unacceptable Behavior • Beginning to End the Game of Bully/Victim

CHAPTER 7 - Manipulation and Gullibility: Feeding the Mask's Lies
• What is Gullibility? • Confusing Gullibility with Innocence • Manipulation as a Substitute for Self-responsibility • Gullibility and Manipulation as  Opposite Sides of the Same Coin • Understanding the Difference Between Manipulation and Facilitation • Controlling Groups Through Their Gullibility • How Groups are Manipulated • Why Individuals Accept Group Manipulation
• Pretending Others Can Think for Us • Making Ourselves Easy Prey to Manipulation • Ways We Let Manipulators Toy with Our Reality, Trust, Emotions, and Good Nature • Ways We Let Manipulators Treat Us Like Children • Ending the Pretense

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Part 3
Shedding the Layers of the Mask

CHAPTER 8 - Releasing the Tight Grip of the Mask
• Benefits from Showing Our Face • Interwoven Emotions, Mind, and Body
as Clues to Our Truth • Retrieving Our Individuality • Feeling Raw at First
• Liking Who We See •
Understanding Comes From Experience

CHAPTER 9 - Goodbye Bully, Goodbye Victim
• Human Beings' Rights • Being an Adult • What Real Adults Are Like
• Becoming an Adult

CHAPTER 10 - Turning Gullibility into Wisdom
• "Red Flags" Signaling Manipulation • What is Needed to Turn Gullibility into Wisdom • Personal Skills for Living Beyond Gullibility • Communication Beyond Gullibility or Manipulation • Claiming Our Wisdom

CHAPTER 11 - Trading Fear for Freedom
• Why Release Fear • Why Do We Have Fear? • Realistic Versus Illusionary Fears • Where Fear Comes From • Messages Our Fear Gives Us • Anger as a Specific Form of Fear • Mind Games We Play on Ourselves to Perpetuate Fear • How to See Through Others to Stop Fearing Them • How Fear Can Affect Our Body • Getting Free of Fear • When We Release Fear, Our Body Shows It • Fear as a Habit

CHAPTER 12 - Embracing Courage
• Be Willing to Take Risks • Learn the Lessons from "Mistakes" • Become Self-Disciplined • Be Willing to Stand Alone in Your Truth • Embracing Our Courage May Mean Asking for Help • Don't Take Life Too Seriously

CHAPTER 13 - Ditching the Struggle
• What is Struggle? • Why Ditch the Struggle? • Struggle is Championed as a Virtue • Mistaking Struggle for Excitement • Why do We Choose Struggle? • Releasing Struggle Through Internal Change • Changing From Struggle to Ease • Struggle's Challenge to Us • How do We Ditch the Struggle?

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Part 4
Living Without a Mask

CHAPTER 14 - Living Authentically
• Living with Awareness • Beyond Analysis • Dedication to Truth and Integrity • Living an Open Life • Releasing the Need to Defend • Redefining Vulnerability as a Power • Living Simply • Living Free • Staying with Ourselves So We Can be with Others • "Taking Off the Brake" to Live Life Fully • Living with Bliss • Living in the Gap • Balancing

CHAPTER 15 - A World Free From Masks
• Teaching Our Children Not to Wear Masks • Redefining Leadership
• Leading the Leaders • Uniting Our Truths for a World Without Masks
• Playing the Game of Life Without Masks

CHAPTER 16 - Letting Go to Receive the New
• Embracing the Unknown • The Process of Removing the Mask, Summary

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