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Living Your Unlived Life: Coping with Unrealized Dreams and Fulfilling Your Purpose in the...Second Half of Life | 
 enlarge | Authors: Robert A. Johnson, Jerry Ruhl
Publisher: Tarcher
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 21913
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 1
ISBN: 1585425869
Dewey Decimal Number: 155.66
EAN: 9781585425860
ASIN: 1585425869
Publication Date: October 4, 2007
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Product Description
The esteemed Jungian psychologist counsels how to cope with feelings of failure or regret in the latter half of life and how to open to a more meaningful existence, even if outer circumstances cannot be changed.
We all carry a vast inventory of abandoned, unrealized, or underdeveloped talents. These do not just "go away" through underuse or by tossing them off. Instead they go underground and become troublesome-sometimes tormenting-as we grow older.
In Living Your Unlived Life, using warmth, humor, and elegant simplicity, the renowned therapist Robert A. Johnson, writing with longtime collaborator and fellow Jungian psychologist Jerry M. Ruhl, helps us understand our own heritage of unlived life-and how it must be examined and transformed if we are to make peace with ourselves and others in middle age and beyond.
The authors provide intelligent ways to explore paths not taken, without causing damage to ourselves and to others. They show how to:
- identify those unfulfilled hopes, yearnings, or needs that have gone "underground"; discover how we unconsciously burden others-
- friends, spouses, coworkers-with our unlived hopes; create new life options and unlock hidden talents;
- transform fruitless fantasies or "silly" dreams into tools for inner growth;
- start truly living in the present moment; and
- revitalize a connection with God and spirit and attain peace in purpose in our mature years.
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 Hokey. September 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I gave this book a chance but I could not stand to finish it. It is full of platitudes and unsubstantiated statements. Anyone could write a book like this consisting of just lot of statements which are not supported by reason or argument. The central theme seems to be: if you do not deal with your unlived potential, it will affect you negatively whether you know it or not. So far so good. But there really isn't much more to the book for me after that. What makes it unreadable to me are the generalizations and statements of fact that are not in fact fact. For example, the authors state that seeking romantic love is really seeking God in the object of love, as this is God's last chance to reach a person.
However, since this book has gotten many positive reviews, I can only assume that it has helped many people. For that I am glad. It hasn't helped me. I feel like I wasted my fifty cents putting a hold on this book.
 good counsel for people at midlife September 4, 2008
I've been a fan of Robert A. Johnson's work for many years. He was a student of Carl Jung at the Jung Institute in Switzerland. He uses mythological themes to illuminate human situations. In this book, he uses the story of Castor and Pollux to talk about the dimensions of human consciousness(one foot in conscious awareness, another foot in the underworld of the unconscious). As with many of his books, he advocates paying attention to our night dreams and trying to discover the themes that are happening in the unconscious. He wants us to engage the figures of the unconscious in active dialog, a technique called "active imagination".
Life changing July 24, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The book is very readable with stories, information and exercises that are understandable, doable and I am noticing I am able to integrate very sweetly into my life. At 55, this book is just what the Doctor ordered for my mid life questions!
Experiencing a well-rounded life January 26, 2008
22 out of 24 found this review helpful
From John Howard Prin, author of Secret Keeping: Overcoming Hidden Habits and Addictions
I heartily recommend this book for everyone who yearns to live their dream. The authors have packed much wisdom into 200+ pages, all in a highly readable style. Their insights opened up many mysteries of the unconscious for me and showed healthy ways to experience freedom and fulfillment...to drink life to the last drop.
What I learned was: No matter what path in life we choose, other paths must go "unchosen." Some of those unchosen paths are deeply connected to who we really are and want to be, but priorities during our growing-up years such as college, career, marriage, and raising a family often trump them. As we build our lives, certain key choices naturally go excluded.
When an early gift for music gets put aside in adolescence, for example, it can lurk in the shadows for decades -- calling for our attention and demanding a stronger presence in our lives. Gifts and talents like these, long "unlived," become more insistent as we reach mid-life and beg for expression and full appreciation. Whenever possible, we should get out of our comfort zone and "just do it," rather than waiting until it's too late. As the popularity of the movie The Bucket List attests, this message resonates strongly among millions of people.
But whenever our limits or circumstances make it impossible, there is still good news -- there is another way, an inner way. The authors explain how using techniques such as "active imagination" can fulfill one's potential and lead to lasting satisfaction, rather than our having to wallow in neurotic suffering. Simply put, living symbolically -- and many useful passages demonstrate how -- is the avenue to satisfying our hunger for the unlived life "without upending the life you have worked so hard to build."
Thankfully, LIVING YOUR UNLIVED LIFE shows us ways to live out these tensions in healthy ways and to experience the fulfillment of a well-rounded life that we all long for.
 Unrealized January 18, 2008
9 out of 16 found this review helpful
The guidance I sought in reading this book was unrealized. It has many good thoughts such as, "bringing the calmness and focus of being into doing activities is a supreme achievement.""In the second half of life it is not so much what you do that matters; it is the level of consciousness that you bring to your doing." Its many examples are based on Jungian theory and practices. If you have the background, the reading might be more enjoyable.
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