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- See Yourself Putting Better and Enjoying Golf with Golf Psychology - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2009 from Andrew FoggThere were some amazing golf and putting psychology lessons on show with Phil Mickelson's stunning win at the Tour Championship at East Lake the other week. Yes I know Tiger won the FedEx Cup and the $10 million with an amazingly consistent series of results. But given Phil's year, both on and ...
Views: 1610(1 vote) - The Best Anger Journal - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2013 from Dr. Carl Robinson112558 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Dr. Carl Robinson Publishes a Journal for Addressing Pervasive Anger A decade of successfully touching lives in trainings and sessions inspires his new book PLANO, Texas – (Release Date TBD) – Dr. Carl Robinson, honorary consular diplomat to the Congolese ...
Views: 1877(1 vote) - The Essence Of Numerology Meanings Unveiled - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2013 from Dave FlemingExploring The Numerology Meanings Depths A lot of people believe that Numerology is a good path to finding out ones own lucky numbers and then leave the idea at that. Nonetheless, while numerology will reveal numbers and sequences that could in all probability be beneficial to each of us, ...
Views: 1508(1 vote) - The Psychology Behind our Mood and Reactions - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2009 from Michael O'GradyHave you ever started off a day feeling great, then…WHAM…out of no where, you find yourself in a foul mood? You wonder, “What happened to put me in this mood?” You try to point out the last person, place or thing you contacted. But there’s much more to it than that. There is a term used ...
Views: 2591(1 vote) - Using Mind Science Techniques To Manifest Your Dreams - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2013 from Chris D'CruzUsing mind science techniques will give actualization to your dreams. If you are going to employ the strategies in this kind of study, there is a great probability that you are going to reach your aspirations. It is systematically forming all the important knowledge and learning you have gained ...
Views: 866(1 vote) - VARIOUS MOVEMENTS AND AGITATIONS SEEN FOR WOMEN’S AWAKENING - by Submitted on Dec 25, 2012 from Yuga Rishi Shriram SharmaEfforts have always been made for women’s awakening and freedom. Since this question arose regarding human rights these sparks were seen in many countries of the world. The medium may have been some female, yet this forest for engulfed the entire world. As a result of this at least today she ...
Views: 1122(1 vote) - What I Learnt From Failing Four Years of University - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from Denise Duffield-ThomasNot many people know this about me, but I completely failed my first undergraduate degree. I didn't just fail one class or one semester. I didn't even just fail one year of university. I spent four years failing my three year degree, racked up student debts of $20,000 and left without any kind ...
Views: 964(1 vote) - Self Improvement – the catalyst for a better life - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2011 from Ade AdenekanSelf improvement cannot just be a matter of academic exercise by the erudite scholars in the ivory tower but an inevitable phenomenon for anyone no matter the social or economic station of life and whichever way one looks at it this is an inevitable catalyst for crossing the threshold of poverty ...
Views: 1871 - 'As a Man Thinketh' by James Allen (from Inspirational Books - Part Two) - by Submitted on May 01, 2011 from Craig LockArticle Title: 'As a Man Thinketh' by James Allen (from Inspirational Books - Part Two) Submitted by Craig Lock Category (Key words): Success, James Allen, Mind, Mindpower, Mind Control, Thought, Power of Thought, Motivation, Inspiration, Inspirational Books (enough there now) Web Sites: ...
Views: 1045 - 5 tips for forgiving and reconciling - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2020 from lena schmidtWhen a friend hurts you emotionally, you feel great disappointment. But you can also feel a resentment and anger against this friend. And depending on how much you suffer, you can never forgive your friend for this incident. You will feel comfortable with this attitude at first. But at some ...
Views: 872 - Finding Your Joy Factor, Your Happiness Set Point - by Submitted on Aug 08, 2007 from Irene BeckerTHE MAGIC OF BUMBLEBEES AND JOY by Irene Becker, Chief Success Officer, Just Coach It www.justcoachit.com Science tells us that there is no logical reason to explain how a bumblebee can fly. No way to understand the bumblebee’s aerodynamic capability. And yet this small, winged insect has ...
Views: 1386 - How to Cultivate Seeds of Greatness in your Life by Dr Dennis Waitley (from Inspirational Books) - by Submitted on Jul 11, 2007 from Craig LockArticle Title: How to Cultivate Seeds of Greatness in your Life by Dr Dennis Waitley (from Inspirational Books) Submitted by Craig Lock Web sites: http://www2.webng.com/writernz/ and http://www.craiglockbooks.com Other Articles are available at: ...
Views: 3161 - How to Develop a Good or even a Great Attitude to Life (from 'Handbook to Survive Life') - by Submitted on Aug 04, 2011 from Craig LockArticle Title: How to Develop a Good or even a Great Attitude to Life (from 'Handbook to Survive Life') Author: Craig Lock Category (key words): Self Help, Self Help Books, Attitude, Handbook to Survive Life, Personal Growth, Success Web sites: https://www.xinxii.com/adocs.php?aid=16831 ...
Views: 957 - Intellect Or Inner Wisdom: How Do You Respond To Your Challenges? - by Submitted on Oct 07, 2009 from Marc LernerOur Intellect, regardless of how developed it is, seldom taps our powerful inner resources as we face challenges. The power of a confident self image is not an idea. The empowerment of simple self trust does not come from intellectual understanding. The ability to focus accurately does not come ...
Views: 1532 - The Seven Steps to Abundance (from 'Steps to Success, Prosperity and Happiness' - by Submitted on Mar 18, 2011 from Craig LockArticle Title: The Seven Steps to Abundance (from 'Steps to Success, Prosperity and Happiness' Author: Craig Lock Category/Subject: Spiritual, Inspiration, Empowerment, Success, Success Principles, Personal Growth, Self Help, Motivation, Mind, Mind Control, Mindpower, books, self help books, ...
Views: 914 - This Strange Journey of Aging - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2018 from Nicole AI'm in my late twenties, and that feels strange to write. For so long, I was the youngest everywhere I went. The youngest in my classes, the youngest in my workplace, the youngest of all my friends. I've always been told that I'm mature for my age. That I'm "wise beyond my years." That I was ...
Views: 1046 - Top 10 Artificial Intelligence Innovations to Transform Your Life in 2024 - by Submitted on Feb 02, 2024 from Mahipal NehraTop 10 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Innovations for 2024. Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not just a buzzword anymore; it's an integral part of our daily lives. As we approach 2024, AI is poised to become even more embedded in various aspects of our society, promising to revolutionize ...
Views: 283 - Turning Roadblocks into Opportunities for Creative Change - by Submitted on Sep 15, 2008 from Gisele MichelIf you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ...
Views: 1681 - "Can We Ever Be 'Too Much'" - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2018 from Barry and Joyce VissellAt our recent retreat in Assisi, Italy, besides visiting powerful spiritual places, our group entered into an atmosphere of deep healing. Sometimes Joyce and I have the opportunity not only to lead the retreat, but also to participate in some of the exercises for our own continual healing, which ...
Views: 1008 - "Feeling ALL Our Feelings" - by Submitted on Jan 17, 2017 from Barry and Joyce VissellThere are popular feelings: joy, happiness, love and affection, to name a few. And then there are unpopular feelings: anger, sadness, grief, hurt, and fear, among others. Most of us tend to hide the unpopular feelings and, instead, only feel and show the popular ones. If we want integrity and ...
Views: 1439 - "Hello, How Are You?" is a Trick Question. Do You Know the Right Answer? - by Submitted on Aug 18, 2007 from Dr. Kathy Joyce AbbottPeople usually get this answer wrong when they first start out trying to think positively. We did. We Attract What We Say The universal law of attraction says that we attract to us whatever we say. So, if our answer to the simple question, “Hi, How are you?” is something like “okay,” – that ...
Views: 1886 - "It Starts With Ourselves" - by Submitted on Jun 18, 2012 from Susan FoxleySince I was a very young child, I was given the gift of deep compassion for other people’s pain. For some reason it was almost as if I could jump into other people’s bodies and see through their eyes and hear through their ears. I knew how they felt and it would literally break my heart. ...
Views: 1518 - "Just let me finish this real quick…” - by Submitted on Nov 19, 2013 from Beate CheletteHave you said these words and then realized another hour or two went by before you were finished? You see the disappointed faces of your family, you order take-out dinner again, and you miss yet another yoga class. Instead of spending time on our family and relationship, we find we spend our ...
Views: 1261 - "Live Your Dream in 2012: Learn Five Tips to Change Your Life.” - by Submitted on Jan 04, 2012 from JoAnne Ceccarelli-EganThe “New” Year is a great time to reflect on your life and decide what changes you would like to make in order to live it more fully. Take a moment and consider these questions: What activities have you done in the past that brought you joy? What fills you with more passion and energy? What ...
Views: 1011 - "Marshmallows are not a protein" - by Submitted on May 10, 2011 from Stacey Francis, D.C."But I want them to be!" said my then 5 year old, Noah. Yeah, me too I say under my breath. Wasn't life grand before we knew so much about good nutrition? Our parents fed us hot dogs and Twinkies guilt free. There was no concern about cancer causing nitrates, artery clogging tran fats or the ...
Views: 851 - "Transforming Your Relationship - Mind Freedom" - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2009 from Al Link and Pala CopelandPart 8 of 8 When you turn the keys of Mind Freedom, you unlock the potential for a truly satisfying union. By paying positive attention to your relationship, focusing on the qualities you want it to exhibit and seeing your part in its evolution, you can break free from limited societal ...
Views: 909 - "Us" all "Thems" - by Submitted on Nov 07, 2022 from Rick HansonBy “us” all “thems,” I mean finding common ground with every person – especially those you fear or are angry with or who are simply very different from you. These days this practice is more important than ever. For most of the past 300,000 years, our human ancestors lived in small bands of ...
Views: 413 - "When our Children 'Come Out'" - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2017 from Barry and Joyce VissellLast week, Barry and I found ourselves at 10pm sitting at a special reserved table at “The Stud,” the 50-year-old first gay bar in San Francisco. First of all, there are a few things you should know about us. We are quiet country people who like to go to bed early. We never drive the ninety ...
Views: 1292 - *** Even a Banana Can Be a Miracle - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinWelcome to a world where happiness is a possible mental and emotional state at least a good part of the time. Welcome to the Enchanted Self Positive Psychology Concepts where I teach you how to generate a life worth living that has meaning, value and integrity for you. Unique to your mental ...
Views: 1181 - *** Loving Yourself Through Holiday Stress - by Submitted on Dec 19, 2016 from Margaret PaulBy Margaret Paul, PhD December 19, 2016 ________________________________________ Do the holidays and other family events or gatherings stress you out? Discover what might be the underlying cause of this stress and what to do about it. ________________________________________ "OMG, ...
Views: 1051 - *** Mental Escapes - How to Plan a Vacation of the Mind - by Submitted on Jul 17, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinIt's a great time of year to think about the pleasures and happiness of a vacation. They are real and can help us build the strength to overcome adversities the rest of the year. A good vacation can fill us with a sense that we are living a life worth living. Also, the pleasures of positive ...
Views: 1179 - *** Was She an Angel? - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinWelcome to a world where happiness is a possible mental and emotional state at least a good part of the time. Welcome to the Enchanted Self Positive Psychology Concepts where I teach you how to generate a life worth living that has meaning, value and integrity for you. Unique to your mental ...
Views: 992 - ***A Positive Psychologist Takes Her Hand to Fiction and the Result is a Win-Win for Everybody - by Submitted on Nov 21, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinWhy would a psychologist take her hand to fiction? Of course because I want people to overcome adversity and live a life worth living, filled with positive emotions. But even more specifically to my own disposition, I am a kind of visionary in the sense that I am always looking for new ways ...
Views: 2047 - ***Accessing Wonderful Memories - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinTHE ENCHANTED SELF is a positive psychology technique that helps you utilize your positive memories, your talents, and your capacities for joy and happiness. You may not realize that one of your most precious gifts in terms of accessing joy is your capacity to utilize your memory in positive ...
Views: 1020 - ***An Enchanter: The Gabbie Cabbie - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinFinding out how to live a life worth living and being able to overcome the adversities that befall all of us in a normal lifetime, while also experiencing enough positive emotions to feel happy much of the time, may sound like a tough assignment. But if you can just be true to yourself and ...
Views: 1105 - ***Any Crisis is an Opportunity to Change Direction in your Life - by Submitted on Jul 20, 2011 from Gloria Excelsias and Dr Joshua David StoneAny crisis is an opportunity for healing. The word “crisis” comes from the Greek and means “turning point in a disease.” So a crisis is truly an opportunity for a turning point in our lives. However, most people don’t realize their crises as an opportunity and so the opportunity is lost. ...
Views: 2471 - ***Becoming An Enchanted Self - by Submitted on Jul 01, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinHow do we obtain a life worth living? How do we overcome adversity? How can we experience positive emotions? How do we stay in good mental health? These are serious questions and to briefly answer them would be unfair to the reader. But I can say as a positive psychologist, working in the ...
Views: 1051 - ***Beginning To Reclaim My Enchanted Self - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinAs a positive psychologist I am delighted to share this excerpt from my book, The Enchanted Self, A Positive Therapy with you. This article reveals the way that I initially began to reclaim my own Enchanted Self, resulting in my finding new ways to overcome adversity, experience positive ...
Views: 922 - ***Coping As A Tool Of Enchantment - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinMany of my readers write to me about the tensions of everyday life. Not only do people wonder how to relax, but people often ask, “How do I learn to better cope with what faces me? Can THE ENCHANTED SELF help with the overwhelming frenzy of everyday life? Can it help when I am really down or ...
Views: 1096 - ***Designing A Life - We Each Get The Chance - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinAs we pass through the Seven Gateways to Happiness again and again and become a true Enchanted Self, we see that life is all about living and then telling and retelling the stories of our lives to get the most positive juice from our stories. If we know how to 'juice' the richness out of life, ...
Views: 886 - ***Don't Let the People You Work with Kill Your Dreams - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2009 from John AOVSomeday you will own your own company, build a fortune in real estate, or head up a major corporation. On that day you will have the luxury of surrounding yourself with people who support you and share your dream. That is someday, but what about today? Chances are that you are working in a job ...
Views: 1169 - ***Fairy Tales Can Come True - by Submitted on Jan 24, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinIn private moments we may find ourselves reflecting upon our lives, what could have been, how we might have overcome adversity, and our true potential. We often cast our hopes and dreams aside, and then experience feelings of disillusionment or emptiness. We feel cheated of our inalienable ...
Views: 1255 - ***Happiness, The Secret Ingredient Is You! - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinHow do we overcome adversity? How do we create a life worth living? How do we manage to have more positive than negative emotions? How do we get happy and how do we stay happy, most of the time? See the answer below! Discovered: The Secret Ingredient to Happiness is Ourselves! As many of you ...
Views: 1451 - ***Helping Our Children Overcome Adversity, Feel Good About Themselves and Create Positive Memories for Later - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinWe have so much influence over the next generation! Lots of times we forget how much influence, as our children or grandchildren can appear to ignore us, forget us or even worse--run from us in one way or another. Sometimes, we must just accept the fact that lots of times positive actions happen ...
Views: 1414 - ***How Can We Build Enchantment Into Our Lives? - Part 2 - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinI invite you to read about how Rebecca Trelfa put beauty, meaning and form into her home. Her story is different from my story about my grandmother and how her things have enriched my life, as each of ours stories are different. Don't forget, you have a story, too! Building Enchantment By ...
Views: 953 - ***Life Writing: One Facet Of Living An Enchanted Life - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinThere was a time when I too, was a child. The future of being a Positive Psychologist for Women was not even a dream on the horizon. But even as a child, like you, I wanted to be happy. I wanted to live a life worth living and to feel good inside. I might not have had the sophisticated ...
Views: 1137 - ***Life, The Greatest Ride Of All - by Submitted on Oct 01, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinLife is the greatest roller coaster ride we will ever take. The ups and downs, the unexpected changes, the twists and turns, are all a part of living. The roller coaster ride of life can be miserable and uncomfortable or exciting and rewarding. Our states of mind and body are key factors in how ...
Views: 2033 - ***Loving Yourself Fiercely and Relentlessly - by Submitted on Jan 23, 2017 from Margaret PaulBy Margaret Paul, PhD January 23, 2017 How fiercely and relentlessly devoted are you to wanting to love yourself and wanting to learn to treat yourself lovingly? Gerard sat opposite me at one of my Inner Bonding Intensives. "My body hurts and I feel irritated," he complained, in a ...
Views: 1162 - ***Loving Yourself When Public Speaking - by Submitted on Jan 16, 2017 from Margaret PaulBy Margaret Paul, Ph.D. January 16, 2017 Has giving talks or presentations been scary for you? Discover why and what to do about it. Michael, one of my clients, asked me for help in one of our phone sessions: "I have to give a presentation to my boss and others on our staff on Friday. ...
Views: 1185 - ***Magic Potions We All Need In Our Bag Of Tricks for Next Winter - by Submitted on Jul 22, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinHow do we overcome adversity and live a life of meaning, a life worth living? How do we get to the 'good life' with good mental health? How do insure that our positive emotions rather than negative will have the front row seat in our minds? One way is preparation for the change of seasons and ...
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