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- Humor Is Your Best Friend - by Submitted on Feb 28, 2013 from Rita SchianoSeveral years ago I watched a video about comedian Dave Fitzgerald, a two-time cancer patient. In it, Dave discusses his experience with the disease and how he coped. He talks about his decisions and choices regarding treatment options, being involved in one’s own recovery, and keeping a sense ...
Views: 1028(2 votes) - Is It Hard? - by Submitted on Oct 17, 2016 from Rick HansonSometimes things are difficult. Your legs are tired and you still have to stay on your feet another hour at work. You love a child who's finding her independence through emotional distance from you. A long-term relationship could be losing its spark. It's finals week in college. You're trying to ...
Views: 1027 - Who Is I.M. Heart? - by Submitted on Jul 08, 2011 from Sue McDanielWHO IS I.M. HEART I.M. Heart is a symbol for all of us – me, you, family, friends and every person we meet on the street. Why? Because I.M. Heart is a heart- shaped character with feelings – just like all the rest of us. These include loving, gentle, happy feelings as well as fearful, angry ...
Views: 1027(3 votes) - ***The Enchantment Of Tribes To Belong To - by Submitted on Feb 11, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinI am remembering and have a desire to share with you, a beautiful story told to me by a young lady. This story fills me with positive emotions. It was the end of the World War II and her dad was returning home. He came from a very close network of Italian families that lived near each other in ...
Views: 1026 - How to Develop a Positive Attitude - by Submitted on Apr 02, 2011 from John VanseDo thoughts of negativity constantly bombard you? Do feelings of insecurity overwhelm you? Do you view everything in a negative manner? If this is you, the reason why you are like this has now become embedded deep within you. We cannot deny that we are what we consume, physically and ...
Views: 1026 - Only You Can Keep You Down! - by Submitted on Jun 30, 2014 from Womens Recreation, Inc.Life has a way of wearing on you. Sometimes things go your way and sometimes they don’t. Regardless if life has knocked you down, or someone has, it is up to you to get back up! One million bad things could have happened to you, but it is up to you to stand back up. When you do get back ...
Views: 1026 - Finding My Money Room: A Hilarious Wake-Up Call From the Universe - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2011 from Denise Duffield-ThomasDoes money elude you? Does it slip through your fingers like fine sand? Do you visualise yourself being rich and successful and the universe is not providing quickly enough (or at all)? The way we handle money and abundance can show up in almost every part of our life. Let me tell you a ...
Views: 1024(2 votes) - How to Create a Good, or perhaps even a Great Self Image (from 'Handbook to Survive Life') - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2011 from Craig LockArticle Title: How to Create a Good, or perhaps even a Great Self Image (from 'Handbook to Survive Life') Author: Craig Lock Category (key words): Self Help, Personal Growth, Self help books, Success, Success Principles Web Sites: http://www.creativekiwis.com/books.html ...
Views: 1024 - How to Handle Problems - by Submitted on Apr 10, 2013 from Karen Hood CaddyEveryone who hires me has a problem. Sometimes that problem is big, sometimes it’s small and sometimes, it’s gnarly, or frightening. Needless to say, over 30 years of coaching, I’ve learned a great deal about how to help people solve problems. I want to share with you some of the skills that ...
Views: 1024(3 votes) - Three Steps to Sound Mental Health that Lasts Forever - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2011 from Christina SponiasMy knowledge comes from the continuation of Carl Jung’s research concerning the meaning of dreams. I discovered that the unconscious mind that produces our dreams can be completely trusted because it has a divine origin, while Jung was afraid to unconditionally follow the unconscious guidance. ...
Views: 1021(2 votes) - ***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 - Fitness Motivation That’s Real, Not Just Cliches - by Submitted on May 23, 2016 from Evan Borneman(can also be viewed with graphics at https://isolatorfitness.com/blog/) The hardest part about starting a new fitness regimen is finding motivation to continue, especially in the beginning. Once you start seeing, or at the very least feeling, results your motivation tends to naturally ...
Views: 1020 - Four Ways to Change Your Current Perspective to a Happier, More Enlightened Outlook - by Submitted on May 26, 2018 from Courtney MyersWe all have days where we wished we would have stayed in bed. For some, all it takes is a little dreary weather, and the blues start cropping up. Or, maybe a series of small incidents and setbacks during your morning routine has thrown your entire day off balance. Either way, once you’re stuck ...
Views: 1020 - The Essential Need for Emotional Healing - by Submitted on May 24, 2011 from Lori FalkA few short years ago I was gifted with an amazing emotional healing tool. Many of you have come to know this tool as my Angelic Message Portraits™. When I asked the angels to explain to me how this process works, here’s what they had to say … “The foundation of this work actually comes ...
Views: 1020(2 votes) - The Piano Teacher Knows All? - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2009 from Pattie PillingThis is always the season, when the kids go back to school where moms have to do a lot of juggling in the family schedule. Does this have stress management written all over it? I should say so! Stress management is particularly useful and needed at this time of the year. Stress management is ...
Views: 1020(2 votes) - What Are Your Intentions Toward Others? - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2016 from Rick HansonBenevolence is a fancy word that means something simple: good intentions toward living beings, including oneself. This goodwill is present in warmth, friendliness, compassion, ordinary decency, fair play, kindness, altruism, generosity, and love. The benevolent heart leans toward others; it ...
Views: 1020 - What's The Most Important Thing? - by Submitted on Jul 06, 2015 from Rick HansonHave you heard this saying? The most important thing is to remember the most important thing. What are the most important things to you? In your life as a whole? During a particular interaction with someone? Right this minute? The most important things often get pushed to the sidelines. ...
Views: 1020 - Permanence : The Story of Who We Are - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2015 from Linda HellerPERMANENCE OUR STORY OF WHO WE ARE THE ILLUSION Yesterday opportunities came to visit- opportunities to embrace the ways in which I was introduced to my own assumptions of what would always be? Intellectually, should I be asked-does anything last forever, I would have said no. ...
Views: 1019 - The Abundance Challenge - by Submitted on Dec 11, 2012 from Adrienne FikesOne of the great ways to motivate yourself is to be intentional bringing abundance into your world. How abundant do you feel right now? How abundant is your life these days? Where could you use more abundance? This week, I want to challenge you to live in more abundance. For the rest of the ...
Views: 1017(2 votes) - Why You Need A Strong Sense of Self And How To Boost It. - by Submitted on Feb 09, 2018 from Christiana StarWhen life is busy or challenging, most people get so caught up in what goes on in their head that they forget all about the rest of their body. But problems and difficulties are best addressed with the whole of you. If you focus on your issues with a strong sense of self - rather than only your ...
Views: 1017 - A Career Crafted from Seeds in Your Life - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2019 from Michelle RazYour Life Story Already Contains Seeds Of A Career You Will Love “If you’re not the hero of your talent story, you simply become a player in one you didn’t choose.”—Jay Perry You’re already the hero of your talent story, even if you don’t yet believe it. The story of your life holds clues ...
Views: 1016 - The Easy Way to Achieve Wellness - by Submitted on Apr 01, 2011 from Christina SponiasThe easiest and safest way to achieve wellness is through dream interpretation according to the scientific method discovered by Carl Jung and simplified by me. You only have to write down your dreams and learn the dream language in order to receive free psychotherapy and guidance in the dream ...
Views: 1016 - Avoid Holiday Weight Gain - by Submitted on Dec 03, 2010 from Elizabeth Lombardo, PhDIs holiday weight gain synonymous with your holiday season? You probably aren’t alone. This holiday season, mirror Santa’s mirth, not his girth With holiday parties, Christmas cookies, bottles of bubbly… it is not surprising that we tend to get more than wrapped presents over the holiday ...
Views: 1015(3 votes) - Stressed? – It’s Time to Unplug and Reap the Benefits - by Submitted on Aug 16, 2013 from Kimberley CohenIs it time for you to unplug? I mean really unplug. Stop multi-tasking, going, and doing for awhile; just breathe and be. We live in a world of ever growing technology which is absolutely wonderful, but it is important to remember to return to the basics now and then. Make time to enjoy ...
Views: 1015(1 vote) - Who Would You Be Without Your Story? - by Submitted on Oct 20, 2010 from Michelle CastoByron Katie, a spiritual teacher of the wisest kind, has given us the gift of seeing how arguing with reality only exhausts and stresses us. And that when we give up our story, we can find the freedom and peace we long for. Here is what I have learned from 15 years in the personal ...
Views: 1015(8 votes) - How Do You Love? - by Submitted on Jun 20, 2016 from Rick HansonIn my early 20's, I went through Rolfing, a form of deep-tissue bodywork, and I nervously anticipated the 5th session, the one that goes deep into the belly. But instead of gobs of repressed emotional pain, what poured out was love - waves and waves of love that I'd pushed down due to ...
Views: 1014 - How Emotions And Thoughts Can Affect Your Mental Health - by Submitted on Aug 19, 2016 from Mitra ShahidiMental health consist of our emotional, psychological, and social well-being. It affects how we think, feel, and act. It also helps determine how we handle stress, relate to others, and make choices. Mental health is usually used as a substitute for mental health conditions, such as ...
Views: 1014 - How to Handle Negative Feedback - by Submitted on Feb 23, 2011 from Nelson BerryBy The Pioneer of Subliminal Messages Online. There are two kinds of feedback: good and bad. Of course, you want to have the good, but that isn’t always the case all the time. Sometimes you also hear negative feedback, which is scary since a lot don’t know how to manage it quite well. ...
Views: 1014(3 votes) - How To Stay Positive And Easily Manifest Your Desires: 10 Positive Manifestation Techniques - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2020 from Iona KristinaTen effective ways on how to stay positive in life – daily habits that you can adopt in your thoughts and actions in order to create a positive atmosphere around you and easily manifest your desires into reality. These are simple manifestation techniques that can assist you in amplifying the ...
Views: 1014 - Law of attraction - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2016 from Saltori SystemPlease correct me if I’m wrong, but if you’ve been experiencing some of the techniques I’ve already shared for the last few days then right now you’re probably feeling better? You may not be sure right now why you’re feeling better, but you just are… You may have already had a little glimpse ...
Views: 1014 - My Evil Voice My Evil Voice - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from Mark PiercyEvery now and then you have a day where that little negative voice in the back of your mind is continually trying to bring you down and bring you unstuck. It's that voice that says 'You're ugly', 'You can't do this' or 'You won't succeed at this'. I know I have them now and again, and I think ...
Views: 1014(1 vote) - Self Improvement / Positive Thinking - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2010 from victoria .......Change your Life TODAY If we never made mistakes what would we ever learn and how could we ever get it right, let alone become experts? Sometimes we have to do the things in life we don’t want to do in order to know what we do want to do No way is the right way or wrong way, only what ...
Views: 1014(3 votes) - ***Remembering A True 'Enchanted Self' - by Submitted on Sep 12, 2008 from Barbara Becker HolsteinOver my lifetime I have never tired of watching Lucille Ball in action. Oh, what ecstasy in my childhood to finish a dreary Monday by watching Lucy come to grips with her life in hysterical ways! She gave me courage to believe as a little girl that one could overcome adversity,have a life ...
Views: 1013 - Parenting 101: How a House Move to Bournemouth Can Affect Your Kids - by Submitted on Dec 17, 2018 from Stephanie CooperHouse moves are among the top five most-stressful life-changing events a person can experience, alongside the divorce, sudden unemployment, loss of a family member and long-term illnesses. There are many reasons behind the need for home relocation, some good, some not so much but once started ...
Views: 1013 - When Are You? - by Submitted on Mar 27, 2017 from Rick HansonThere’s a profound and miraculous mystery right under our noses: this instant of now has no duration at all, yet somehow it contains all the causes from the past that are creating the future. Everything arising to become this moment vanishes beneath our feet as the next moment wells up. Since ...
Views: 1013 - Why Cant I Relax? Common Obstacles When Learning to Meditate - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2013 from Andrada TodMeditation is very fashionable today, when our stressful life is taking its toll on our existence. We receive information, advice and directions on all levels, telling us what to do, how and when to do it. The biggest problem with all this good advice is that every person is different and what ...
Views: 1013(3 votes) - Dream… Beyond This Moment - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2010 from Freedawn CreationsDo you have hopes and dreams? Do you believe they are truly possible for you? The Never Ending Story is a movie about a place called Fantasia – where hopes and dreams live. Where fairy tales come to life. In the movie a young boy is reading the book by the same name… he becomes the main ...
Views: 1012(12 votes) - It's OK to Get Sick With Jealousy (As Long As You Learn From It) - by Submitted on Aug 23, 2011 from Denise Duffield-ThomasDo you ever experience jealousy of others? It's okay, you can admit - I do too. All the freaking time - especially when I'm frustrated or too mired in procrastination to do anything worthwhile myself. In fact, I've been jealous many times. A couple of years ago, I was working in a ...
Views: 1012(2 votes) - Why Mental Illnesses Require Attention Even When You Feel Well - by Submitted on Nov 05, 2018 from Brooke ChaplanMany people suffer from mental illness at some point in their lives. For some people, the illness is relatively short-lived, but many people must receive some type of treatment for their mental illness for many long years or even for the rest of their lives. Some people may be inclined to stop ...
Views: 1012 - "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 - 5 Natural And Effective Stress Relief Techniques - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2013 from Michael RosenbaumStressed? You’re dealing with a real physical threat to your health. Stress clogs your arteries and shrinks your brain. Unfortunately, when we’re stressed many of us just make things worse. We overeat. We spend money we don’t have on vacations or lavish treats. We turn to drugs and alcohol. ...
Views: 1011(2 votes) - It's Raining, It's Pouring...Choices - by Submitted on Apr 28, 2011 from Ereline ClementsIt started raining here two days ago...and it's still raining. Ah, springtime in the heartland! You've just got to love it! While it's raining here, if you travel two hours west you will drive into a blizzard; a good old, Nebraska blizzard. We'll get snow tonight. That's the great thing ...
Views: 1010 - The New Empowerment Theory and How It Will Help You Experience Your Best Life Ever - by Submitted on Dec 06, 2010 from Soren LauritzenExperience increased power and positive change in your life with an empowerment theory that really works. Many traditional theories can be confusing and difficult to understand, but this unique ideology revolutionizes the empowerment theory as you know it by both expanding and simplifying ...
Views: 1010(3 votes) - Lifestyle Changes – How to Keep a Positive Attitude with Internet Marketing - by Submitted on Jun 21, 2010 from Vic LahureA powerful concept is the ability to make lifestyle changes through positive thinking. Many people are able to make a difference in their life with a positive mental attitude. These are some of the keys to creating financial freedom through an internet marketing business. It can seem impossible ...
Views: 1009(7 votes) - "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 - Boost your self-confidence with these 6 simple strategies - by Submitted on May 16, 2021 from Rizwan AmjadSelf-confidence is basically the opinion we have about ourselves. Sometimes we struggle with this, which can create problems in our lives. People usually have doubts about themselves. Having low self-esteem can make you weak internally. To survive in this society, you must build up your ...
Views: 1007 - Learn to Be Kind to You - by Submitted on Feb 13, 2012 from Abigail SteidleyWhen I first realized I was putting immense and constant pressure on myself, and that the pressure was causing my body to revolt, it was like putting on glasses for the first time. I could see clearly how much I was beating myself up, trying to be perfect, judging myself, and otherwise rejecting ...
Views: 1007 - Children Anxiety Disorder Symptoms - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2018 from Homer LATHAMChildren and adults alike experience feelings of nervousness, fear, or worry from time to time; these feelings are part of a normal response to a stressful situation, but when they occur to such an extent that they interfere with normal life, children anxiety disorder could be the underlying ...
Views: 1006 - 6 Lessons the Olympics Can Teach Boomers - by Submitted on Aug 12, 2008 from Rosemary Lichtman, Ph.D.This summer, billions of fans are watching athletes from around the world compete in the Beijing Olympics. With political controversy and global tensions currently running rampant, these diverse games reflect the delicate balance between reality and entertainment. If you're a Sandwiched Boomer, ...
Views: 1005 - Even Health Care Professionals Need a Wellness Plan! - by Submitted on Aug 05, 2013 from Helen ThammIs creating a list of health care career goals fairly easy for you, while making your own wellness goals a priority seems very difficult? Many nurses and other health care professionals get so focused on helping patients (or leading/teaching those who do), they don’t even think about taking ...
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