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- Set Your Goals, Change Your Life & Celebrate! - by Studies tell us that only 3% of people in the USA set goals, and they are among the wealthiest people in the nation! Worldwide the percentage is probably lower. Why so low? There are several reasons, but the one that concerns us the most at Ziglar Training Systems is lack of know-how. When we ...
Views: 5105(2 votes) - Aromatherapy for Labor and Childbirth - by With all the access we have to information about pregnancy--from websites, to books, to childbirth classes--labor itself remains a mystery in many ways. What we do know is that labor is likely the hardest work a woman will endure in her lifetime. It also holds all the beauty, magic and infinite ...
Views: 5100 - THE POWER OF FEMININE GRACE - by Dear Doc Love,
I am a woman who has been around the block at least once, and I just have to tell you that I think your advice is very accurate and honest. I am 38, divorced, have children (with whom I have a very open rapport about everything from sex to politics), and I have the most ...
Views: 5057(4 votes) - LIPOTROPICS - by WHAT DOES LIPOTROPIC MEAN?
Lipotropic means fat-loving. Basically they are substances which can liquefy or homogenize fats. (Americans eat 100 lbs. of saturated fats per person per year) - 42% of our caloric intake in fat.
WHAT ARE THE MAIN FUNCTIONS OF LIPOTROPICS?
I. They increase the ...
Views: 5045 - Activate Your Immune System - by Activate your immune System.Activate your immune System…and protect yourself from bio-toxins, influenza and most every other disease
The human immune system is an amazing array of trillions of cells working together to accomplish the goal of identifying, destroying and eliminating, free ...
Views: 5012(1 vote) - Choose a Life Mate, Don't Wait for a Soul Mate - by Consciously Choose Your Life Mate to Experience Real Love Have you ever wondered why all the people who are seeking their soul mate end up disappointed and let down? I have found that it is possible that there is no such thing, at least in the way most people think about it. I have also found ...
Views: 4998(1 vote) - You Are Responsible For Who You Become - by You are not responsible for the background and circumstances that may have influenced who you are, but you are responsible for who you become.
As I have said before, “we need to learn from our mistakes.” Not only that, but we need to learn from others mistakes. All to often I hear people say, ...
Views: 4994 - 3 Steps to Reaching Every Goal - by Having goals in our lives is important. For some, merely creating goals brings about a positive change. When you make a goal, you are creating an exciting challenge for yourself. To make sure you meet that challenge with the right tools, you will need to do three things.
1. WRITE IT DOWN
The ...
Views: 4984 - Exercise With A Heart Rate Monitor - by I have been walking and jogging on the beach every morning (minus a day off on the weekends) for the past three months. This physical workout in the morning helps me feel connected with nature. It supports me completely... body, mind and soul. I often feel refreshed and recharged after an hour ...
Views: 4972 - No Two People Are the Same - by One of the most important ingredients of successful communication is rapport. Whether your communication is with one person or several hundred, to be effective and get the outcome you want, harmonious relationship is essential.
Next time you go to a restaurant, observe the people sitting with ...
Views: 4961 - How Does an Old Fashioned Girl Show She's Interested? - by Women Don't Lie - Men Don't Listen
Hi Doc!
My name is Mark. I'm 27 years old and I've read your Dating Dictionary. I live in a rural Christian Homeschooling community - which is kind of like an Amish community, except we like to drink and smoke cigars.
The families here practice "Christian ...
Views: 4933 - Depression Relief Without Medications: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) often works when nothing else will: Non-therapist elim - by Depression is exhausting and everything feels like a struggle … your sleep can be affected … as well as your performance at work … or in the bedroom. What to do if you don’t want to take medication?
According to the Report of the Surgeon General on Mental Health “many episodes of depression ...
Views: 4926 - 10 Lies We Think are Love - by What is real love?
Real love is an energy that supports us in feeling good. When we feel genuine self-love and self-worth we experience ourselves as good enough and capable. There is a reverence and humility that accompanies this deep knowing that we are valuable just for being our unique ...
Views: 4919(5 votes) - Why is my Match still Searching? - by Why is my Match still Searching? You met a great guy online and have gone on several dates with him. You think things are really starting to heat up, so you decide to hide your on-line profile, but, before you do, you take another look at his and ...
Views: 4897(1 vote) - You Failed, So What: You Just Got One Step Closer to Success - by "Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm." – Winston Churchill
I talk to and meet so many people who say they’ve tried and tried to lose weight or save money or start a part-time business and have stopped short of achieving their goals. The reasons ...
Views: 4852(2 votes) - *** The Benefits of Massage for Animals - by Animal massage can benefit all animals from companion pets such as cats and dogs to horses and livestock and even zoo animals. The benefits of massage for animals mirror those for people, including decreased stress and improved circulation.
For many, pet massage sounds like a luxury for ...
Views: 4832 - Looking for Happiness in "All the Wrong Places" - by I was 41 years old, stretched out on a lounge chair by my pool and reflecting on my life. I had achieved all that I thought I needed to be happy.
You see when I was a child, I imagined there were five main things that ensured a happy life: a successful career that helped people, a loving ...
Views: 4784 - Easy Tips for Faster Reading - by How to get more out of a trade journal/magazine
Tip # 1: Browse and Play
Browse through the publication--frontwards or backwards--so that you get to know what's in it and where it's located. Notice the layout and how the information is presented. Notice the table of contents and ...
Views: 4783 - Accupressure Treatment for Jet Lag - by Intercontinental flights are known to cause a phenomenon known as "JET LAG". Travelers and airline crews have complained of extreme fatigue, nausea, headaches, memory problems, attention lapses, clouded thinking, sleep and appetite disturbance, increased susceptibility to infections, depression, ...
Views: 4780 - Pendulum Power - by When a Pendulum was introduced to me on 1981.I was fascinated with its simple Yes and No signal. For many years pendulums have been used in various ways.
During our lifetime we all have ambitions and Goals, which we want to achieve. My short Article will introduce you to a UNIQUE way of ...
Views: 4759(3 votes) - Aromatherapy For Seniors - by A lot of scientific research is being done on aromatherapy and the effects it has on our body, mind and emotions. However, hard research supporting the healing power is limited. I often see the effect that different smells have on people. It is very interesting to watch someone inhale a ...
Views: 4752 - Life's Toughest Challenge: Living Well Enough Alone - by It scares us more than anything except death.
Being alone.
For some it is a little death. Our fear of solitude is so ingrained that given the choice of being by ourselves or being with others, we opt for safety in numbers, even at the expense of lingering in painful, boring or totally ...
Views: 4747 - Do Christians need Self-esteem? - by "Do as Jesus did." At some point in our lives we have all heard this, and it is a valid statement. However, we soon find that, in our human efforts, it is seldom easy to accomplish. Why? Jesus taught some very basic truths. Why do we find it so difficult to do as He did? The problem is not in ...
Views: 4704 - LIVING IN HARMONY WITH THE UNIVERSE - by "The most beautiful and most profound emotion one can experience is the source of the mystical. It is the source of all true science."
Albert Einstein
In our culture the prevalent belief is that we are separate individuals. The average person believes that they begin and end at their skin. ...
Views: 4693 - Test Your Own Marriage Satisfaction - by Marital relationships are complex institutions! In order to improve the quality of a marriage, it helps to take a systematic look at how it is functioning.
Here is a questionnaire you can use as a general guide for evaluating your marital satisfaction.
After each question below write down ...
Views: 4682(1 vote) - 10 steps to clarity and purpose - by Have you ever been dreaming, and in your dream, you were aware that you were dreaming and therefore, changed the course of your dream? Life is no different. We can change course in any moment. We can wake up in any moment and live the life we were meant to live.
We are the creators of our own ...
Views: 4677 - How To Harmonize You Love Life & Attract Your Soulmate With Feng Shui - by Marie’s love life dramatically changed after she placed two pink candles in a special area of her newly-painted home. Her dates multiplied from twice a year to several dates a month. Marie’s Feng Shui adjustments worked perfectly. Unfortunately, she didn’t realize that these changes were more ...
Views: 4670 - The Illusion of Happiness - by When I ask people what they want they invariably request that they would choose more love, more money, and more often than not they want more happiness. This led me to question, “What is happiness?
Here’s my interpretation of happiness and unhappiness.
Happiness or unhappiness is a choice. ...
Views: 4647 - *** Words are Just Words - by YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD it said that a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, a word may just be worth a thousand pictures, or MORE!!
SINCE NLP(tm) IS ABOUT how the brain works and language, it's been one of my hobbies, since I was knee-high-to-a-grasshopper, to listen to various people ...
Views: 4644(5 votes) - Fifteen Questions to Help Determine If You Are a Compulsive Overeater - by 1. Do you eat when you're not hungry?
2. Do you go on eating binges for no apparent reason?
3. Do you have feelings of guilt and remorse after overeating?
4. Do you give too much time and thought to food?
5. Do you look forward with pleasure and anticipation to the time when you can eat ...
Views: 4641(1 vote) - Letting Go of Love, Part II - by Note: "He" and "him" is used throughout this article to make for easy reading. However, the article is applicable to both genders, so any "he" can be substituted with "she."
Last week we talked about letting go of a particular kind of past relationship. It was the kind of relationship where ...
Views: 4612(2 votes) - Social Manners for Children - by By all reports, adults are becoming ruder, and children aren't learning manners either. 82% of Americans polled think children's manners are worse today than when they were children, and they're concerned.
In order to respect himself or herself, a child needs to learn to respect their parents ...
Views: 4606(1 vote) - Affirmations for Compulsive Overeaters - by 1. My worth as a person is not diminished in ANY way by my body size or my eating patterns.
2. I will love myself no matter what my eating patterns are.
3. I will judge my days not by what or how much I eat, but by the accomplishments I have made and the love I have given.
4. My life is a gift, ...
Views: 4594 - The Law of Attraction, Plain and Simple: Create the Extraordinary Life That You Deserve (excerpt) - by "Forgiveness is freeing up and putting to better use the energy once consumed by holding grudges, harboring resentments, and nursing unhealed wounds. It is rediscovering the strengths we always had and relocating our limitless capacity to understand and accept other people and ourselves." -- ...
Views: 4591 - Drama vs. Passion - by According to Webster's Dictionary, drama is "a state, situation or series of events involving intense conflict or force." Passion, on the other hand, is defined as "a devotion to some activity, object or concept."
Do you live your life in drama or passion? Are you attracting partners who live ...
Views: 4576 - A Powerful Vocabulary Will Change Your Life - by Studies show that your word-power determines your earning power, your skill in self-expression determines your status in life.
The link between your vocabulary and your income is universally recognized. Researchers have discovered that college students with the lowest vocabulary scores usually ...
Views: 4573 - Ultra Sensitive Men and Abusive Relationships - by We all have difficulty dealing with conflict in a relationship. The ultra-sensitive man's reactions to an abusive relationship aren't different, but they can be more intense. Inside, the ultra-sensitive man is screaming, "Don't you know what you're doing is killing me? Just stop it! If you ...
Views: 4553(1 vote) - Mission: You were made for a mission - by God is at work in the world, and he wants you to join him. This assignment is called your mission. Jesus said, "In the same way that You gave Me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world" (John 17:18, Msg).
God wants you to have both a ministry in the body of Christ and a ...
Views: 4531 - “Shoulds” and “Musts” - by (From: Three Minute Therapy, Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life, by Michael R. Edelstein with David Ramsay Steele. Published by Glenbridge Publishing Ltd., available at Amazon..com, Barnes & Noble. com, and direct from Glenbridge.)
Your feelings come from your thinking. This doesn’t mean ...
Views: 4529 - FINDING A BEST FRIEND - by Have you ever looked for a best friend? Probably not. Best friends generally just seem to appear. But if you did look for a best friend, what criteria would you use? Here are a few that I think might be important.
1. A best friend will care about you. To use the word "care" is somewhat ...
Views: 4526(1 vote) - New Year Intentions - by At the beginning of each new year many of us dust off our resolutions and recyle them. Then we forget and let them slip from our attention until the next year.
The good news is that we can change that to a positive outcome. How? Let's use some NLP and accelerated learning techniques.
Ask ...
Views: 4519 - Manage, Lead, Coach & Mentor - by Political correctness is just upgraded terminology for the sensitive person’s euphemisms. In extreme cases, affirmative action does create reverse discrimination. We lose vivid imagery when we lessen the power of our communication by softening our diction. Why not use this phenomenon to our ...
Views: 4480(2 votes) - ***Body Language and Parenting - by Being a parent is not an easy job at the best of times. While we all want to do the best for our children, we sometimes inadvertantly allow the pressures and frustrations of everyday life to show themselves when we talk with our children.
Children are incredibly perceptive to our moods and ...
Views: 4479 - Climbing the Listening Ladder - by I wrote in my book " Embracing the Mystery " that there was nothing as flattering or as rare as the undivided attention of another. The fact is that people just don't listen well. I think it was Mark Twain who wrote that a bore is someone who wants to talk about himself when I want to talk about ...
Views: 4465 - The Four Keys to Power Healing - by The secret to triggering your self-healing system lies in balancing the transformation between matter inside cells and energy outside cells. That needs to happen on the three equally important levels of the body, the mind and the soul.
The West has a lot to learn from the East. Only recently, ...
Views: 4431(1 vote) - Resolving Infertility - by Infertility brings great heartbreak to many people. Most of us expect that we will have children as part of our life plan. We go about the business of growing up, establishing a professional identity, finding our life’s partner and then when the time is right in our lives we expect that our ...
Views: 4424 - Uplift: Secrets from the Sisterhood of Breast Cancer Survivors - by On Diagnosis
First Things First
Where was I when I learned that I had breast cancer? You may as well ask where I was when I learned that JFK had been shot. I will never forget either answer.
In the case of JFK, I was in college, returning to my dormitory after class to find the television on ...
Views: 4364(2 votes) - Take Control - by CHAPTER 1
THE POWER OF CONTROL
Man is still responsible. He mast turn the alloy of modern experience into the steel of mastery and character. His success lies not with the stars, but with himself He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline. -Frank Curtis Williams
In today's ...
Views: 4361 - Controlling our Anger Before it Controls Us - by The emotion of anger has many purposes, some of which can serve us well. Anger can be used by others to confuse or control you. In conflict resolution anger is a useful emotion when used to support yourself against attack by others. Anger takes away your energy, because it charges you ...
Views: 4360 - Live Like A Caveman - by In our search for wellness and health, we increasingly look for science and technology to bring us the balance we crave. We are all susceptible to wanting the latest miracle pill, the new sleek workout machine, the latest "Improved Eating Plan." But in truth, health and wellness are about ...
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