OOI TOOLKIT

The ongoing wars, battles, skirmishes, and generally adversarial relationship between the Oneself and Others constitute the second most fundamental problem of humanity. See Oneself and Others for a full depiction of the carnage this creates.

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The tools in this toolkit, singly and in combination, create peace and cooperation between Oneself and Others.

Prerequisite tools

• CCC toolkit

• NNI toolkit

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Contextual tools

• Being 100% responsible

• Beyond belonging

• Blame and guilt: its big costs and short-term benefits

• Conditions of all great relationships

• Regrets of the dying

• Two-faced toxicity

• Understanding boundaries

• What will you sacrifice to belong?

• What is being responsible?

• Who's to blame?

• Why did God put you in your body and mind?

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Actions tools

• Dead but not gone (atheists included)

• Fifteen Minutes for Love (romantic)

• How you occur for others (YOFO)

• How to get around the elephant in the room (UC)

• Listening

• Listening for their listening of you

• Not caring what others think?

• Partnership Conversation

• Running a water-tight ship

• Undoing anger

• Undoing defensiveness

• Undoing guilt

• Undoing overwhelm

• Undoing pressure

• Undoing seriousness

• Undoing shoulds (and should nots)

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Tools in the queue

• Apologizing

• Becoming the parent for yourself that you never had (context)

• Becoming unbetrayable

• Being more selfish is better for others (context)

• Being your own best friend

• Curiosity about others

• Did you let him or her do it?

• Distance creates beauty (a Chinese proverb)

• Fairness (it can be dangerous to your relationship)

• Five languages for expressing love

• Forgiving others quickly and easily

• Getting by giving

• Giving by getting (how well do you let others contribute to you)

• HISU (include tone of voice)

• How to speak non-blame (NVC)

• It's not about you

• Just four: requests, promises, yes, and no

• Knowing how you occur for others

• Knowing you've got a great deal

• Letting go of "it means somethings about me" (issue of powerlessness)

• Lying

• Occurring for others cf occurring for yourself (context)

• Oneself and Others need each other (context)

• Patience with others

• Personal questions (back and forth)

• Playing with the "law of reciprocation"

• Put your oxygen mask on first (context)

• The "popularity" of no response

• Rapport

• Religion

• Respect cf. love (context)

• Setting and maintaining good boundaries with others

• Setting and environments

• Solve Now-Next to resolve Oneself-Others

• TLA or Together living apart (romantic)

• Voice image: its power in relationships

• Undoing awkwardness

• Undoing being a victim and/or blaming others

• Undoing betrayal

• Undoing complaints

• Undoing defensiveness

• Undoing knowing (context)

• Undoing pressure

• Undoing revenge

• Undoing shyness

• Unpromising

• What women want from men; what men want from women

• Whose business are you in? (is it actionable?)

• Why your selfishness is others' best friend (context)

• Why the selfishness of others is your best friend (context)

• Words and phrases which may stimulate defensiveness (I don't understand)

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