Social Psychology, Relationships - Interpersonal, Crime Prevention

Think Safe, Be Safe : The Only Guide to Inner Peace and Outer Security

Name: Think Safe, Be Safe : The Only Guide to Inner Peace and Outer Security
Author: Harold Bloomfield
ISBN: 9780609801901

by Harold Bloomfield

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In How to Be Safe in an Unsafe World, bestselling author and psychiatrist Harold H. Bloomfield, M.D., joins with independent scholar Robert K. Cooper, Ph.D., to show how a chronic lack of inner safety can be a major and often overlooked cause of emotional distress, broken relationships, and physical illness. This groundbreaking book provides you and your family with the specifics of what the authors call safety intelligence: proven, practical ways to increase both your sense of inner security and external safety from self-defeating cycles of fear and insecurity. The results are improved health and a liberating new sense of freedom from emotional paralysis, because the safer you feel, the safer you can actually become.

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Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

Returning from their collaboration on The Power of 5, Bloomfield, a psychiatrist, and Cooper, an erstwhile security specialist, begin this insightful look at the growing concern with personal safety by introducting the concept of "inner safety"a general sense of self-confidence and the ability to cope with conflict as it arisesthat results from what they call "safety intelligence." This book is an attempt to teach safety intelligence though exercises and by examples of how to maintain safety on a daily basis and to respond appropriately to various dangers. Bloomfield and Cooper stress that "many threatening situations can be avoided or de-escalated before they ever reach physical violence." They lead readers through a series of lessons on "calm-alertness," on the ability to create and maintain "safer spaces to live and work" and on "emotional safety." To deal with attacks that become unavoidable, they teach a three-step response: "the split-second PAUSE," to assess the situation and decide how best to respond; "focused emotional energy"; and "two+ responses," using "two or more de-escalating phrases." These specific responses are then applied to a variety of possible situations in homes, workplaces or schools; in the car or on the street; and in personal relationships. From muggings to domestic abuse, this book offers an uncomfortable yet necessary and thorough education in personal safety that most people lack and, unfortunately, may need at some time in their lives. Author tour. (May)

Library Journal

Two major concerns today are safety and happiness. Both topics are treated in this book, which is certain to be a popular choice for self-helpers. Bloomfield (How To Heal Depression, Prelude, 1994) and Cooper, a security and protection specialist, outline the skills necessary to create "a strong inner sense of personal safety" that can defuse many types of attacks. After a discussion of safety intelligence principles, the authors detail specific protection methods for various situations. Heavy promotional activity and forewords by John Gray and Deepak Chopra assure this book's sales. Recommended.January Adams, Franklin Twp. P.L., N.J.