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- Positive Mental Attitude- The Magic Of Positivity - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2011 from Rhod JonesLife, as some may say, is meant to give you lessons which can be learned the hard way. Everyone has their own fair share of hardships and trials. Everyone has their up and down moments. Everyone has their time to shine; everyone has their time to be in the dark. It is safe to say that life ...
Views: 601 - Positive Persistence - by Submitted on Mar 31, 2009 from John AOVIF THERE’S EVER BEEN A TIME in your life to be persistent, it’s right now. Now is the time for you and me and all the folks we know and love to wake up every day with the mindset of “Positive Persistence.” FYI ACTION IDEA: Do everything in your power to stay motivated and inspired. Read, listen ...
Views: 2655 - Positive Power of Affirmations - by Submitted on Jan 28, 2011 from John-Robert (JR) ColemanPositive Power of Affirmations By John-Robert Coleman, MPA An affirmation is a positive statement recited repeatedly out loud or internally to your self in order to produce a desired result. Moreover, it is a life giving statement chosen intentionally to replace outworn, negative ideas or ...
Views: 1385 - Positive Psychology – A Practical Approach - by Submitted on Oct 13, 2020 from David ShieldsWhat is Positive Psychology? Although its origin is widely debated, the term ‘positive psychology’ has often been traced back to the American psychologist, Abraham Maslow. He first coined the term in his book “Motivation and Personality”. Maslow studied how people responded to hardship and ...
Views: 477 - Positive Self Talk- 5 Tips To Rid Your Mind Of Negativity - by Submitted on Jul 05, 2012 from Rhod JonesSelf talk is the dialogue or 'inner chatter' that plays out in our mind. Whether it's positive self-talk or negative self-talk this is a behavior that's ever-present in all our lives. We all talk to ourselves constantly throughout the day. Everything that goes on our life is usually ...
Views: 5344 - Positive Strategies to Conquer Any Challenge - by Submitted on Nov 17, 2012 from Kevin SinclairLife does not come with an instruction manual. There are many challenges in life that we just have to figure out solutions to as we go along. So do you think that you can get past these challenges? Of course you can! Determining what you can or can't do based on your "thoughts" or based on ...
Views: 1067 - Positive Thinking - by Submitted on May 02, 2012 from karen mc dermottHave you ever stopped to think that there could be another reason for your brain other than storing and processing information, for decision making and making our bodies function? Our brain is the control centre of our bodies and its capabilities can be somewhat underestimated by many. Take a ...
Views: 1094 - Positive Thinking and Your Health - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2014 from Mandy BassIt is now a proven fact: What you think about has a direct impact on every aspect of your life, including your physical well being. Recent studies show that the expression of gratitude, for example, can have profound and positive effects on our health, our moods and even the survival of our ...
Views: 1327 - Positive Thinking for Your Business by Anthony Rizk, CT.NLP, C.Ht. - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2012 from Anthony RizkWhen life hands you lemons, make grape juice, sit back, and watch the world wonder how you did it." Unknown Author Today, almost everyone is working longer hours. Many executives are even doing the job of at least one and sometimes two managers who have been terminated. Small business owners ...
Views: 784 - Positive Thinking Techniques for a Richer and Better Life - by Submitted on Mar 20, 2011 from Rhod JonesAre you a negative person who always thinks of the worst things that could happen? Do you always expect the worst case scenarios? Do you feel that something is missing in your life but don't know what it is? Below I've listed four positive thinking techniques for you to shake off the ...
Views: 700 - Positive Thinking Techniques – See the Lessons in your Problems - by Submitted on Jan 21, 2011 from Stephanie MorrisonA simple change in your thinking can alter the most difficult situation into a manageable and understandable experience in your life. Once you learn some positive thinking techniques, you will be able to look at any problem or negative situation in a new light and see the lessons to be learned. ...
Views: 1193 - Positive Thinking – The Key to Absolute Bliss - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2019 from Dada BhagwanThere are many situations in life like ill-health, loss of job, lack of money, relationship issues, bringing up children, lack of appreciation or motivation at the office or home, harsh weather, car breakdown, heavy traffic and many more. How do we deal with such situations in our daily life? ...
Views: 662 - Positive thinking: 6 typical speech mistakes. - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from Sergey NovikovEvery word in the language has a certain meaning, not only semantically, but also emotionally. And learning how to use positive formulation is the best way to self-realization! Let's analyze the typical mistakes often made in speech. So, they are... 1. Habit of generalization. It can ...
Views: 1308 - Positive Thinking: The Significance of Positive Thinking Everyday - by Submitted on Aug 28, 2014 from Michelle GonzalezNegative thinking takes a huge toll on our energy. It prevents us from enjoying every moment that life has to offer (good and bad) and from reaching our goals. We work a job that we really don’t care for instead of making our vocation a vacation (the act of enjoying what you do for a living). I ...
Views: 2131 - Positively Passionate People - by Submitted on Jan 01, 2008 from Lee RidenourTrue passion is one of the most powerful feelings one may feel in their lifetime. One can become so passionate about something that they feel they would die for it (and sometimes do.) It may be one of the most powerful of all human emotions. Passion can be harnessed for good, or for evil. ...
Views: 3150 - Positivism - by Submitted on May 25, 2014 from Agustina ThorgilssonNegativism is always limiting You put on side cover and limit your view. It’s easy to fall into the negative mode when things don’t come out the way you planned or are threatened by changes, but there lies an opportunity! Hindrances can be opportunities in disguise We often set ...
Views: 5952 - Power Of Belief- The Origin Of Success - by Submitted on Apr 06, 2012 from Rhod JonesThe power of belief is the major determinant to the events, circumstances and conditions we all experience in our lives. Our beliefs are without doubt the most powerful and creative force we will ever possess. 'He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an ...
Views: 1093 - Power of Identity – “Style for Creating” - by Submitted on Jun 28, 2011 from Dr. Linda GadboisThe inherent creative power of our mind is to co-create experiences that we then use as a creative tool to define us. While our body naturally forms union with an experience by performing it, or creating the behavior of the experience, the conscious mind identifies itself as the person having ...
Views: 981 - Powerful Ways to Develop Positive Emotions to Have High Self-Confidence - by Submitted on Sep 27, 2020 from Vivian HartePeople with high self-confidence naturally have optimistic and joyful emotions as well as the knowledge that they can change their emotions from negative to positive. You can’t be down in the dumps and have high self-confidence at the same time. The two don’t mix. Emotions are a normal part ...
Views: 7697 - Practical Spirituality and Methods of Meditation 1 - by Submitted on Aug 29, 2012 from John GilmoreThere is a simple form of meditation, vipassana, which means to see things as they really are. It is a very ancient form of Indian meditation that involves sitting in a comfortable position with the legs crossed, or in a chair, if necessary, with one's back straight and spine erect. The most ...
Views: 1581 - Practical Spirituality – On Reclaiming Religion Through Spiritual Direction - by Submitted on Apr 25, 2011 from John GilmoreEvery fear that we have embedded in our psychological shadows has been used for the last ten years to dis-empower us. All of the large institutions who get air time on the TV, Radio, and in the Newspapers, seem to push the same messages: you can be good if you get all of these material things; ...
Views: 1267 - Preferred Destination for NLP Practitioner Programming - by Submitted on Jul 23, 2019 from Jojo ExcyNLP, or Neuro Linguistic Programming, is a set of psychological techniques which helps in your Professional and Personal Development. It’s been very popular since the last 50 years and is picking up big time. Warren Buffet, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Andre Agassi and many more ...
Views: 796 - Probabilitism - Playing The Odds In Life - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2007 from Steve GillmanProbabilitism? I just invented the word to describe an ideology of living life according to the odds, or more specifically, making decisions according to them. Life, after all, is all about making decisions, and we need some guide for making better ones. The most common explicit guide to ...
Views: 1112 - Problem vs. Stuff - by Submitted on Jul 15, 2015 from Patricia NollProblem vs. Stuff What is the difference between a problem and stuff? Do you remember when the bumper sticker “Shit Happens” was popular? Do you remember how you reacted to that statement? Or how do you suppose you might have reacted to that statement? Would you be part of the majority ...
Views: 864 - Progress and Healing: 4 Alternatives to Psychologists - by Submitted on Jun 17, 2014 from Anica OaksLife can feel like a perpetual classroom. You’re constantly learning. Sometimes you make mistakes and other times you get a gold star for your achievements. Once in a while, a particular lesson alludes you, no matter how many times you experience it. When frustrations build, you might consider ...
Views: 1234 - Psychological Healing: Nervousness - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2013 from Qamrul KhansonIntroduction: In our unpredictable social situations some of us would be faced with anxiety, edginess, jumpiness, tenseness, uneasiness, nerviness and apprehension. In a psychological category such is hyper excitability of the nervous system; characterized generally by restless or impulsive ...
Views: 1031 - Psychology Versus Common Sense: Who Wins? - by Submitted on Jan 03, 2012 from Laura Roman LopezAll too often, I have heard people say, "Psychology is all common sense." (Usually they don't know much about psychology). The suggestion is that Psychology is just re-inventing what folk wisdom already knows. But here is the problem: For every piece of folk wisdom, there is typically a ...
Views: 2926 - Pushing the Pause Button on Life for Productivity & Creativity - by Submitted on Feb 20, 2013 from James Mapes“Learn to pause ... or nothing worthwhile will catch up to you.” -Doug King, Poet & Educator Imagine that you have a magic remote control so that - when life got too overwhelming or you needed to replenish your energy ...
Views: 1808 - Put an Order in Your Life By Eliminating the Clutter - by Submitted on Oct 05, 2012 from Trevor ArnoldClutter has a huge impact on our life whether we are willing to admitted or not. Most people are too busy to pay attention to the clutter until it is too late or in a moment when dealing with the clutter is the last thing on our minds. Just think about it how many times you were trying to find ...
Views: 956 - Put No One Out of Your Heart - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2023 from Rick HansonWe all know people who are, ah, . . . challenging. It could be a critical parent, a bossy supervisor, a relative who have you walking on eggshells, a nice but flaky friend, a co-worker who just doesn't like you, a partner who won't keep his or her agreements, or a politician you dislike. Right ...
Views: 343 - Quantum Manifestation Of Heart Based Abundance - by Submitted on Feb 04, 2018 from Jennifer WebbThis principle, Quantum Manifestation Of Heart Based Abundance is a platform that is expressed by the teachings of Marina Jacobi. This quantum physics structure is the elevated way to address and end the slavistic money structure forced on humanity and instead enter into a fifth dimensional ...
Views: 1476 - Questions and Intent - by Submitted on Sep 22, 2014 from Jake AndersenQuestions and Intent “What in the world are you talking about?!” “Why did you do that?” “How can you act like this?!” These are questions that I have at times asked in frustration, sometimes in my mind, other times vocally. But when I ask these questions, what is my purpose? Most of the ...
Views: 1291 - Quit Your Negative Thinking—Try Positive Thinking Now! - by Submitted on Apr 13, 2010 from Menno SpijkstraMany of us are often haunted by negative thinking. Try as we might, it seems like our negative thoughts just come easily to us than the positive ones. If you’re already tired (or pissed off) of constantly seeing the world with so much negativity and pessimism, well then it’s high time for a ...
Views: 827 - Raising Children Using Only 3 Rules - by Submitted on Dec 22, 2011 from Celeste SimmonsAs a parent of 3 children, I have seen that what works for one child doesn't work for the others. The same challenge that motivates the oldest child, can seem defeating to the middle child. Kids are difficult to understand. As they grow, we must grow with them. When you have more than one ...
Views: 1112 - Ramana Maharishi’s Message – A Promotor and a Sustainer of the Inward Journey - by Submitted on Jan 30, 2017 from Gopalakrishnan ChandrasekaranGenaral Known as the Sage of Arunachala, Ramana Maharishi lived in Tiruvannamalai, a town in southern India. His esoteric messages can take people to higher levels of consciousness making them sense a radical departure from the habitual neurology. The Sanskrit word Maharishi refers to a ...
Views: 1617 - Rationalizing - by Submitted on Apr 30, 2014 from Dr. Anne Brown"You are confined only by the walls you build yourself!" Rationalizing is something we do when we don't want to face the truth. Rationalizing is something we use to make what just happen ok in our eyes. Rationalizing is a tool for survival when things are too bad to ...
Views: 949 - Re-programming the subconscious mind’s hard drive to take back control over your life choices - by Submitted on May 14, 2017 from Felicity MuscatAs you move through your life do you ever find yourself repeating or recreating situations that are less than desirable? For instance, do you find yourself caught in certain self-sabotaging or self-destructive habits that have taken control over your mind and life? Do you feel sufficiently ...
Views: 903 - Ready for Mastery? - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2015 from Aimee BernsteiinVisualize LeBron James as he leaps for the basket; Alisha Keyes at the piano singing This Girl is On Fire; a Navy Seal as he jumps out of a helicopter and races towards Bin Laden's hide-out. What do they have in common? All of them are masters of performing under pressure. Although we tend to ...
Views: 1441 - Ready for Mastery? - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2015 from Aimee BernsteiinVisualize LeBron James as he leaps for the basket; Alisha Keyes at the piano singing This Girl is On Fire; a Navy Seal as he jumps out of a helicopter and races towards Bin Laden's hide-out. What do they have in common? All of them are masters of performing under pressure. Although we tend to ...
Views: 1224 - Ready for Mastery? - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2015 from Aimee BernsteiinVisualize LeBron James as he leaps for the basket; Alisha Keyes at the piano singing This Girl is On Fire; a Navy Seal as he jumps out of a helicopter and races towards Bin Laden's hide-out. What do they have in common? All of them are masters of performing under pressure. Although we tend to ...
Views: 1247 - Ready for Mastery? - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2015 from Aimee BernsteiinVisualize LeBron James as he leaps for the basket; Alisha Keyes at the piano singing This Girl is On Fire; a Navy Seal as he jumps out of a helicopter and races towards Bin Laden's hide-out. What do they have in common? All of them are masters of performing under pressure. Although we tend to ...
Views: 1348 - Ready for Mastery? - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2015 from Aimee BernsteiinVisualize LeBron James as he leaps for the basket; Alisha Keyes at the piano singing This Girl is On Fire; a Navy Seal as he jumps out of a helicopter and races towards Bin Laden's hide-out. What do they have in common? All of them are masters of performing under pressure. Although we tend to ...
Views: 1309 - Ready for Mastery? - by Submitted on Oct 19, 2015 from Aimee BernsteiinVisualize LeBron James as he leaps for the basket; Alisha Keyes at the piano singing This Girl is On Fire; a Navy Seal as he jumps out of a helicopter and races towards Bin Laden's hide-out. What do they have in common? All of them are masters of performing under pressure. Although we tend to ...
Views: 1513 - Ready To Say Good Morning To Standard Time on Monday? - by Submitted on Oct 28, 2014 from Michael MantellReady to say goodnight to Daylight Savings Time and good morning to Standard Time? We’ve enjoyed Standard Time in different time zones in the United States of America and Canada since November, 1883 when the railroads adopted the practice of standardized times in established time zones. It ...
Views: 1251 - Reality Eclipsed by Virtual Reality - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2020 from Paul DunionReality Eclipsed by Virtual Reality Paul Dunion There appears to be increased alarm about young males becoming obsessed with playing video games. The concern may be approaching epidemic proportions as there are now counselors and psychologists identified as experts who treat ...
Views: 662 - Reasons Why You Should Start Thinking More Positive About Your Health And Well-Being - by Submitted on May 15, 2015 from Anita GinsburgYour health is one of the most important things that you truly need to maintain well into old age. When you are young, it seems difficult to imagine that you will not always retain optimal health. In fact, most young people imagine that they are virtually invincible. When your health starts to ...
Views: 983 - Receive Faces - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2023 from Rick Hanson[Note: this practice involves our visual system, which for many people is impaired. If this is the case for you, you could adapt my suggestions to focus on the voices of others or a sense of their “energy.”] As our ancestors evolved over millions of years in small bands, continually ...
Views: 382 - Receive Generosity - by Submitted on Apr 17, 2023 from Rick HansonLife gives to each one of us in so many ways. For starters, there’s the bounty of the senses – including chocolate chip cookies, jasmine, sunsets, wind singing through pine trees, and just getting your back scratched. What does life give you? Consider the kindness of friends and family, ...
Views: 324 - Recognize Suffering in Others - by Submitted on Mar 17, 2025 from Rick HansonWe’re usually aware of our own suffering, which – broadly defined – includes the whole range of physical and mental discomfort, from mild headache or anxiety to the agony of bone cancer or the anguish of losing a child. (Certainly, there is more to life than suffering, including great joy and ...
Views: 29 - Reconstructing the Winning Mindset of Serena Williams - by Submitted on Nov 09, 2015 from Srini PillayTruth be told, I am mildly obsessed with Serena Williams. Her talent and intelligence on and off the court, the longevity of her career, her comebacks, the authenticity of her ambition, her grit and determination, and her overall appeal are hard to ignore. Other than Serena herself, no one ...
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