Recommended Books for FitzMaurice’s 7 Steps

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Recommended Books: Which Books Should I Read?

Pick Books for Each of the 7 Steps


Recommended Books: FitzMaurice’s books to read based on the main topic that it covers & your current needs. Progress through the steps.


  • Books recommended for your step-by-step progress to reawaken: Top 7 Steps.
  • You can move around the steps and work on any one; however, progress does depend upon doing all the steps.

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Recommended Books:: 7 Steps to Take to Sanity


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Recommended Books

Step 1: Emotional Responsibility

  • The first step on the path to sanity is to practice emotional responsibility.
  • All recommended books are available worldwide on Amazon in print and electronic versions.

  1. To understand emotional responsibility, read Secret of Maturity, Fourth Edition.
  2. To advance your understanding of emotional responsibility, read Garden.
  3. If you want to focus on your attitude and emotional responsibility, read Attitude Is All You Need! Second Edition.
  4. If you are stuck in drama games as a lifestyle, or your family is stuck in a cycle of dealing with social services or the criminal justice system,
  5. read Garbage Rules.
  6. Professionals who want to advance their counseling skills regarding emotional responsibility should read both Garden and Not.
  7. Anyone who wants the highest level of emotional skill and maturity should read Stiffer: Stoic Mind.
  8. Do you like to understand your mind fully? Read Feeling-Intention Therapy.
  9. Want to understand emotional responsibility as a skill? Read Life Skills: 10 Mental Skills.

  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.

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Step 2: Coping & Problem-Solving

  • Coping and problem-solving skills are needed at every stage of returning to sanity. We are not born with these skills; few have been formally taught them.
  • Therefore, pursuing a complete understanding of coping and problem-solving is logical and practical.
  • All recommended books are available worldwide on Amazon in print and electronic formats.

  1. Stress for Success, Second Edition will help you to learn how to make stress work for you instead of against you.
  2. Breathe will give you easy and simple exercises to instantly calm and center yourself in any situation.
  3. Garden will teach you advanced coping skills that you can practice until they become habits.
  4. Mind-Moving (M-M): Healing’s Unifying Principle has a new approach to the practice introduced in Breathe.
  5. Problem Solved! 3Rs will help you master problem-solving skills using a tried and true system.
  6. World Within: The Inner Life will teach you about your inner life and how to make it work and keep it working positively and productively.
  7. Not will address the underlying problem of why coping and problem-solving fail.
  8. Want to understand coping as a skill? Read Life Skills: 10 Mental Skills.

  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.

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Step 3: Reduce Control by Ego

  • The third step on the path to sanity is recognizing the ego as the problem in all things. You want to reduce your ego until you eliminate it.
  • All recommended books are available worldwide on Amazon in print and electronic editions.

  1. To begin to understand how ego is your problem, read Ego. This book requires you to know your self-talk (inner dialogue).
  2. To become more aware of your self-talk, first read Garden.
  3. To support and reinforce the work you learn to practice in Ego, read What’s Your Story? and Journal Journey from Ego.
  4.  To gain more insight into the false beliefs and thinking errors of self-esteem and ego, read Planet Earth: Insane Asylum for the Universe, Second Edition.
  5. To understand the ego in social relationships, read Games Ego Plays.
  6. To develop greater insight into ego and skills in spotting ego, read Ego Playground.
  7. To understand and experience ego in a new light, read Nobody Speaks.
  8. Want to understand ego as a spiritual problem? Read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills.
  9. Want to regain your normal optimal functioning? Read Rocket-Mind (R-M).

  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.

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Step 4: Rediscover Authentic Self

  • The fourth step is to strengthen your understanding of your original nature.
  • All recommended books are available worldwide on Amazon in print and electronic versions.

  1. Learn how you are not your self-talk by reading Ego.
  2. Strengthen your understanding of your original nature by reading Self: Who Am I?
  3. Strengthen your understanding of your identity by reading World Within: The Inner Life.
  4. Learn about how the nature of yourself fits into the story of life by reading The Story of Life.
  5. Learn about the path of surrender by reading Spiritual Surrender’s Seven Steps.
  6. Discover a friendly and easy way to rediscover your authentic self by reading Nobody Speaks.
  7. Want to understand the recognition of what self is as a spiritual necessity? Read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills.
  8. Want to regain your normal optimal functioning? Read Rocket-Mind (R-M).

  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.

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Step 5: Upgrade Thinking Skills

  • Thinking skills are needed at every stage of life. We are not born with these skills; few have been formally taught them.
  • Therefore, pursuing a complete understanding of thinking skills is logical and practical.
  • All recommended books are available worldwide on Amazon in print and electronic formats.

  1. Attitude Is All You Need! Second Edition will help you develop thinking skills concerning your attitudes.
  2. Discovery Demands 5TP will help you build your perspective-taking skills, empowering you to see more sides to any issue or problem.
  3. Garden will teach you thinking skills from a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT & REBT) perspective.
  4. Not will address a specific and pervasive thinking problem (no-ting). This problem is what blocks most progress and success.
  5. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum for the Universe, Second Edition, will help you to recognize self-defeating belief systems.
  6. We’re All Insane! Second Edition will help you understand and apply General Semantics principles to develop your thinking skills.
  7. World Within: The Inner Life will teach you about dialectics, duality, triality, the 5 Thinking Positions (5TP), and advanced thinking skills.
  8. Problem Solved! 3Rs will teach you about problem-solving using the 3Rs of Recognize, Remove, and Replace.
  9. Stiffer: Stoic Mind will teach you the nature of thinking and emotions and how to make them work for you.
  10. Discover 10 life-changing mental skills in Life Skills: 10 Mental Skills.

  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.

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Step 6: More Responsibility & Less Ego

  • These books support and reinforce your learnings about emotions, ego, and self in various ways.
  • All these ways will help you stay on the path of increasing your emotional responsibility and lessening the time spent on your ego.
  • All recommended books are available worldwide on Amazon in print and electronic versions.

  1. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum for the Universe, Second Edition, will help you to face and surrender self-esteem, faulty belief systems, thinking errors, and games.
  2. We’re All Insane! Second Edition will help you understand and apply General Semantics principles to recognizing, removing, and replacing your ego.
  3. World Within: The Inner Life will help you understand what is happening inside your head and how best to approach it.
  4. Other titles are collections of ideas and sayings that will help you understand the principles of these steps from various perspectives and through different expressions. These include Acid Test, Anything Goes, Something For Nothing, and books in the series 3D: Daily Dose of Discernment.
  5. Want to understand responsibility as a skill? Read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills.

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Step 7: Improve World & Communication

  • These books will improve your communication skills and help you to understand and deal with social systems.
  • All recommended books are available worldwide on Amazon.

  1. Planet Earth: Insane Asylum for the Universe, Second Edition will help you to face and surrender socially accepted insanity.
  2. How To Govern Anything is for those who want to discover and practice a saner system governing any size organization or country.
  3. Carl Rogers, Control Freak is for professional counselors interested in applying Carl Rogers’ primary technique.
  4. Games Ego Plays will give you the advantage of knowing the social games people are playing and want to play.
  5. If the world was more spiritual, the world would be more peaceful and focused on helping others. Read Life Skills: 10 Spiritual Skills.
  6. Share, Encourage, & Support: Please help others to recognize and walk the path of emotional responsibility and ego reduction by recommending our books and practices. Thank you.

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Recommended Books: 6 Groups of Topics Menu


  • Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
  • Recommended Books: This title fits more than one of the seven categories.

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  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.

Breathe Your Mind

Recommended Books: 10 Skills & Topics Menu


  • Read and discover how CBT, REBT, & Stoicism evolved into one system: STPHFR.
  • Recommended Books: This title fits more than one of the seven categories.

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  • Read and discover the world’s best breathing exercise for centering and peace of mind.

Breathe Your Mind