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So not only are you about to get information—a lot of it—but I’ve
included more interactive exercises than in the original work, more chances
for you to learn from the inside out. I’ve also added more illustrative

vignettes—some from my own life—and created several opportunities for
you to review and reflect on what you are learning as you are learning it. I
think you’ll find this new and revised edition to be exceedingly practical
and immediately applicable.

Much of the correspondence I have received since 1983, when Taming
Your Gremlin was first published, is from people who have been practicing
the Gremlin-Taming Method for years, not only as a practical tool for
enhancing their inner experience day to day, but also to maintain their

emotional equilibrium during hard-to-handle and, in some cases,
excruciatingly difficult circumstances.

There is a common thread in their communication that is reflected in
these words from a reader: “When I first picked up Taming Your Gremlin I
thought it would be a sweet little self-help book. Instead, I found a lifelong
discipline that has revolutionized my inner life.” Most have recognized that
gremlin is far more than a metaphor for negative thoughts and that the

Gremlin-Taming Method is not simply a matter of choosing positive over
negative thinking. Rather, the former is the source of most personal strife
and societal distress, and the latter is an elegantly streamlined process that
lies at the heart of the quest for inner peace.

Gremlin-Taming is practical and it is powerful. It is a method for
meeting the inner challenge that is inherent in every activity from climbing
Mount Everest to getting a good night’s sleep. Gremlin-Taming, in a phrase
or three, is a graceful process for choosing light over darkness, good over

evil (and boy, those terms are loaded for people), or better yet, the true love
that sustains you over the fear that can destroy you. It’s a meaty subject, to
say the least, but one that is germane to having a fulfilling inner life and a
peaceful interdependence with others. We are, after all, in this thing
together. And while it may sound like a wispy platitude, there is no getting

around the raw and simple truth that peace on earth does, indeed, begin
within.