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How to Use this Book

Since Emotional First Aid is designed as a reference book there are a variety of ways to use it, depending on your needs and interests. One approach is to: 

1. Select a common concern you would like to overcome or help someone else overcome.
   
   
2. Review the Core Principles. Identify the principle(s) not effectively being utilized. Take the appropriate steps to apply the principle(s).
   
   
3. Go to the section addressing the problem you wish to solve (Depression, Sexual Problems, Anxiety Attacks, Communication Difficulties.
   
   
4. Review the barriers to overcoming the problem. Identify the barrier(s) getting in the way. Take the appropriate steps to remove the barrier(s).

Some other ways to use this book include: 

• Go to the section on the problem you wish to solve. Review the barriers to overcoming the problem. Identify the barrier(s) getting in the way. Take the appropriate steps to remove the barrier(s). Then, review the Central Principles.
  
  
• Study the Central Principles section to see how well you are applying the principles in general--without reference to any particular problem. Commend yourself for the principles you are effectively living. If you find a principle you would like to better apply, take the steps to do so.
  
  
• Browse through a section--Central Principles or Common Concerns--until you find a suggestion you would like to implement. Then, return in a week or so to look for another specific thing you can do to make positive progress.
  
  
• Study some or all of the book to learn more about solving personal problems.
  
  
• Give those you counsel (family member, church member, employee) an assignment to study and apply a particular part of the book; then, have them return and report their progress.
  

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