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- Expectations - It is What it Is
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] You can only direct your attention to the next event that you are experiencing. You do choose your path, in the next moment, which is now this moment., which is now already past, and that is now.
- Tricks of The Mind
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] We convince ourselves that we what we think is the TRUTH. Our thoughts are the facts. After all, we are putting our ideas into words, so doesn't that count for something? If someone writes about something, doesn't that mean it is the truth? If we choose to read only non-fiction books because we are only interested in being objective, unemotional and dispassionate, are we really choosing to be any of these? Or are we just fuelling our beliefs?
- Who Would Have Thought?
[Self-Improvement] If man can think of something, does it mean it exists? Thinking includes all kinds of symbols and ideas. If I think the world is flat, is that real? If I think there are monsters in the mist (Stephen King), should I fear to walk into the mist?
- Creating Conditions For Change
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] Learning, and change, requires the same attitude. You have to focus on what you are experiencing at this very moment. And in this mental state, this focused condition, new learning and change just happen.
- Learning To Change
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] Using 'in-the-moment' hypnosis. If you are determined to change, then change will be effortless. You will not need to be constantly fighting with some part of yourself because it fears and objects to change.
- The Power of Visualization
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] Two weeks before I was to be sent away I took my bike and ran away. It wasn't because I didn't want to go to school as much as I would miss the freedom of being where I knew it so well. In fact, I looked forward to the experience.
- Find Your Safe Place
[Self-Improvement:Techniques] If you can't find a safe place in your mind then where are you safe? No matter where you go, no matter what you think, no matter how you see the world, no matter what the doctor's say is wrong with you, you need a safe place where you are the person you want to be.
- Focus - Can I Have Your Attention?
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] The harder we try to read our own feelings, the more we feel unhappy, sad, worried. All our energies are directed to handling those feelings. Wanting to get out of them, we constantly sample them, testing to see if they are still there, still as strong.
- A Trick for the Mind
[Self-Improvement] Even after you have read through this just pausing for a moment and hearing your voice in your head will help you relax and make this day the best ever.
- The Joy of Disbelief
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] Of all of our beliefs, there is none so powerful as disbelief. When we participate in a movie we suspend our disbelief. We join in the fantasy and allow our emotions to follow those of the main characters.
- Writing Your Own Therapy Session
[Self-Improvement:Motivation] If what you are doing does not work, then try something else. If you want something enough you will do everything to get it. And, sometimes just having that attitude is enough to get you what you want.
- The Magic Of Writing
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing] There is truly a magic to words. Because if I do my job well, the reader will hear my voice in their mind casting my spell in words.
- Visualize - Imagine on Purpose
[Self-Improvement] Now before you start to say to yourself that you do not see how visualization can work, think about this. When you visualize, you are making mental images with a purpose. Visualizing is mentally rehearsing an activity to improve your performance.
- Mental Training - Gates of Possibility
[Self-Improvement] This is a daydream exercise that takes you into a feeling of calmness and peace and inner balance. When our minds are peaceful, learning becomes easier.
- Power of Positive Thinking - Turn on the Switch
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] They know that they can find their balance and resume their passage through to the their most important mission. Living and loving life.
- The Importance of Language
[Self-Improvement:Positive-Attitude] How and what we say to ourselves often makes the difference between feeling happy and feeling depressed. We all know that we can believe we can or we can believe we can't. In either case, we are right.
- Speaking Of Fear
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] Speaking in public is the most feared activity. And yet, there is no inherent fear in the activity of public speaking. You life is not in danger. Is what you choose to believe really what you fear?
- Awkward In Social Situations
[Relationships:Communication] They are thinking about what they are going to say next, or what happened at work today, or what they are going to do after they talk to you.
- Change Your Attitude
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Its all about attitude. What is attitude and what does it mean to 'change your attitude? There is no point in understanding an idea that influences your life unless you also know what to do about it.
- How Do I Control My Anger?
[Self-Improvement:Anger-Management] What annoys you may actually be funny to someone else.
- The Hypnotic Word
[Self-Improvement:NLP-Hypnosis] Do you believe that knowing and using certain words and phrases gives you an advantage over everyone else?
- Where is Your Turning Point?
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] There is no doubt that we are complex beings. Each characteristic, be it rational, emotional, physical and chemical or spiritual, has its own complexities and barriers to understanding.
If we are to find our selves we need understand our turning point.
- Coping With Stress and Anxiety
[Self-Improvement:Stress-Management] Everyone in any job needs to train themselves both mentally and physically. Here is how!
- Living Is This Moment
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] We do not stop to remind ourselves about what is giving us joy in this moment.
- Public Speaking - Why Can't I Talk?
[Writing-and-Speaking:Public-Speaking] The majority of people when asked to choose between going to the dentist or speaking in public invariably choose going to the dentist. All it takes is the appropriate training, mentally and physically.
- 5 Rules to Life as A Game
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Here are 5 rules that you may also find useful. Life is not really a game but you can have fun getting through it.
- Coping With Depression - 4 Steps
[Health-and-Fitness:Depression] Depression is about how you think. And thinking is about interpreting your experiences in the world.
- Are You Rational or Human?
[Writing-and-Speaking] Reason, thinking and emotion. Can you do with a little common sense?
- Article Writing - Less Negative, Louder Voice
[Writing-and-Speaking] Sometimes you just have to wait to hear your inner voice, the one you listen to when you write, to speak to you again.
- Feelings, Feelings, Feelings
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Feelings figure in everything we do. Sometimes we just need a reminder of how pleasant they are.
- A New Twist On The Law of Attraction
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] The twist and turns of writing, being and the law of attraction.
- Writing Articles - A 5 Step Experiment
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] It is amazing what you can do. You are the most creative being on this planet. Writing is just your way of communicating. This is the program that will prove it to you.
- Tackling the Law Of Attraction In 5 Steps
[Self-Improvement:Attraction] The journey to success begins with a peek in a closet. Let me make abundance just 5 steps away.
- Can You Really Think With Your Heart?
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] The meaning of think-with-your-heart is lost because it is not helpful. Men think with their brains. We are not socialized to be aware of feelings.
- Article Writing - My Magic Idea Generator
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Wouldn't you love to have a magic idea generator? You may already have.
- Article Writing - 7 Tips for Generating New Ideas
[Writing-and-Speaking:Writing-Articles] Sometimes you focus on something other than what you need to. Remember how you did it the last time. Our minds seem to go into a tailspin whenever we need to create something new. It's as though we lock our thoughts into one way of thinking. We narrow our perspective to the problem we are facing. Sometimes all we need is to fly over at a different level.
- Finding The Happy You
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] You are responsible only for you own thinking and behavior. Focus on this and allow others to behave the same way.
- Happiness Is Not a Brick Wall
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] You define your own happiness. Knowing what you know about yourself makes happiness your private dream.
- Finding the Real You - Thinking to Change
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] The journey to self discovery does not have to take you far. Happiness is much closer if think about it.
- Finding the Real You - Discovering Self
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] The journey to self discovery is the journey to happiness. You create your world in your mind by the thoughts you emphasize.
- Finding the Real You
[Self-Improvement:Happiness] Search for understanding of your self. Self love begins at home.
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