Step Into Action

Have you ever walked out of a therapy session feeling frustrated with a diagnosis but no practical steps forward? Join the club. Today, we’re diving into the actionable and transformative approach of Dr. Phil Stutz, renowned psychiatrist and the brain behind The Tools, as featured in the documentary “Stutz” by Jonah Hill.

What’s a Tool?

A tool isn’t just a concept; it’s a lifeline. It’s a real-time visualization technique designed to shift your inner state instantly, transforming challenges into opportunities and altering your mood to bring you hope. With Dr. Stutz’s method, there aren’t abstract theories but practical steps you can use right away.

Simplify with Notecards

Phil Stutz uses notecards to explain The Tools. Dr. Stutz simplifies complex ideas into accessible visuals with notecards, making big ideas manageable and immediate.

Activating Your Life Force

The cornerstone of Dr. Stutz’s philosophy is the “Life Force” represented as a three-level pyramid:

1. Physical Body: the bottom level of the pyramid is your relationship with your physical body. Start with the basics – exercise, a healthy diet, and good sleep (it’s that easy). Remarkably, 85% of your life’s quality stems from this level.

2. Relationships: next is your relationship with other people. Connections with others act as anchors, pulling you back to engagement with the world. Think of relationships like handholds, we use handholds to let ourselves get pulled back into life. The key here is to take the initiative, if you are waiting for them to take the initiative, you don’t understand. You could invite somebody to lunch that you don’t find interesting, it doesn’t matter, why? Because it will affect you anyway, in a positive way! That person represents the whole human race, symbolically.

3. Self-Relationship: the best way to describe the relationship with yourself is to say it is to get yourself in a relationship with you unconscious, because nobody knows what’s in their unconscious unless they activate it. One trick is by writing, you enhance your relationship with yourself by writing, and before you say, “what do I write about, I am not a writer”. It doesn’t matter. You still have to write, writing is like a mirror, it reflects what’s going on in your unconscious, and things will come out if you write in a journal form that you didn’t know that you knew.

You can always work on your life force. The only way you can figure out what you should be doing is to activate your life force, because the life force is the only part of you that is capable of guiding you when you are lost.

If you are lost don’t try to figure it out, let it go and work on your Life Force first. It’s about passion, increasing your life force will help you figure out what you are passionate about. But step one is to be passionate about connecting to your own life force. Anybody can do that. If you just do that, everything else will fall in place.

Dr. Stutz’s Bold Promise: (it worked for me, it will work for you)
“Do what the f#$% I tell you. Do exactly what I tell you. I guarantee you’ll feel better. Guarantee, 100%. It’s on me.” – Phil Stutz

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