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How to Relieve the Stress of Your Mind
Self Improvement: Mind Development • Published: November 27, 2011
It seems like the stresses of the mind have increased in our times, but these have been going on since the beginning of time and in every culture. Stresses about whether you'll be eaten by a tiger or whether the Pony Express would bring your mail were as troubling as today's thoughts about paying bills or computer breakdowns. There are many ways to relieve the stress of your mind. Some of them go back to time immemorial - ways that are tested by time that can help you to feel more peaceful in any situation. Read on to find out what they are.
Overcome Fear and Increase Your Comfort and Faith With the 23rd Psalm
Self Improvement: Spirituality • Published: October 31, 2011
Many people love the 23rd Psalm, and there is good reason for it. It's a beautiful work of pure faith and love. It is so comforting to lay down by the still waters and find comfort for your soul. Here's an expanded understanding of the 23rd Psalm. You may find that your heart is opening more and more as you read on.
How to Overcome Old Hurts of the Past and Transform Your Life
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: October 17, 2011
So many people hang onto the hurts of the past. Did someone say unkind things to you when you were twelve? Did your boyfriend or girlfriend break up with you in an unloving way? Did your parents treat you in a less-than-kind manner? Did an employer let you go without explanation? Are you holding onto these experiences, and do you feel it might be time to transform them so you can be free to live your life without resentment and hurt? Read on to find powerful ways to transform your mind and your life.
How to Find Your Inner Obstacles to Changing Your Habits in Minutes
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: September 14, 2011
Do you want to stop smoking, lose weight, pass tests, or ice skate like a pro? Has it seemed impossible for you? It's either that you haven't found a good way that works - or there's something inside of you that's in the way. Here's a way to find the inner obstacles in minutes. You may have deep-seated fears - fears of not being good enough or fears of failure or fears of alienating family members who expect the status quo. And some people are concerned that they'll have to work too hard to accomplish their dreams, and so they often opt subconsciously to stay the same. There are often guardians at the gates of success for you that have been in your way. But here's a powerful key to open the door.
How to Transform Feelings of Discouragement and Come Back to a Positive Mind
Self Improvement: Positive Attitude • Published: August 5, 2011
Do you ever feel like Sisyphus? Sisyphus was an ancient Greek mythological king who was punished by being compelled to roll an immense boulder up a hill, only to watch it roll back down, and to repeat this throughout eternity over and over again. Does it feel that your life is like that sometimes? If so, you know what it's like to get back up and move that boulder uphill again. But this time might just be your time for it to stay there at the top. Fortunately there is a place within you that is unmoved by the ups and downs of fortune. It's whole and complete, and it has the capacity to heal and transform your roller-coaster experiences and remind you of the truth.
How to Transform Your Problems Into Happiness
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: July 29, 2011
Some people can smile no matter what's happening, and nothing ever seems to bring them down. But that is the rare person. Many of us get pulled in to the negative vortex through our self-defeating, negative, critical thoughts and our reactions to events and other people. So let's take a look at how to keep your mind in a more positive state - how to think positive thoughts about anything, how to experience positive emotions no matter what's happening in the world.
Creating Prosperity - 4 Mysteries You May Not Know About Prosperity
Self Improvement: Abundance Prosperity • Published: July 25, 2011
Whether you've read a lot of books about prosperity or whether you haven't read anything about it at all, whether you have an overflow of riches or you're looking for your ship to come in - there are some things about prosperity that have been the secrets of the ages and that are now being revealed. If you want to put the key in the door, turn it around and look right into the eyes of prosperity, here are some tips.
What If You've Tried to Be Prosperous and Seemed to Fail?
Self Improvement: Abundance Prosperity • Published: July 11, 2011
Overcoming old patterns and creating prosperity is a process. If you've tried and haven't received results, it may be because it's not the right time yet for you, but it will be. Or you haven't fully released subconscious resistances, but you can. Or there are other obstacles in the way that you can find out about and work on and overcome in many ways (including spiritually). Many highly successful people have failed for years - and then finally the bonds were released and they realized their success. You need to keep your mind focused and your faith strong. You do the inner work, focus your mind, and know you are receiving all that you need and want at exactly the right time.
Create Prosperity and Abundance Through the Neural Pathways of Your Brain
Self Improvement: Abundance Prosperity • Published: July 5, 2011
Here are four fantastic things you can do to open your mind to greater prosperity. Because your mind is magnetic, how you work with your thoughts has everything to do with receiving greater abundance. It's best to do these techniques over and over to impress them upon the neural pathways of your brain. It often takes repetition to create new neural pathways. You need to impress the new behaviors, thoughts and intentions upon you magnetic mind to receive results.
An Ancient and Potent Technique to Create More Prosperity
Self Improvement: Abundance Prosperity • Published: July 1, 2011
Some people think it's preposterous. Some won't touch it with a ten foot pole. When I read about it years ago, I was instantly turned off. It was about tithing 10% of your income and giving it to a place or person where you receive spiritual help and inspiration. I thought the technique was radical. I heard a speaker talk about it years later, saying how she doubled and even tripled her income this way and wouldn't be without it. I was intrigued to learn more.
What Does Your Mind Have to Do With Your Prosperity?
Self Improvement: Abundance Prosperity • Published: June 27, 2011
Your mind has remarkable powers, some of which you may not have known about. Here's some important information about your mind and its ability to help you create prosperity and abundance. All of these powers affect your prosperity. You need to open up these powers to manifest your highest good and create more abundance in your life.
How Is It Possible to Manifest What You Want and Need?
Self Improvement: Attraction • Published: May 23, 2011
After years of bestseller status, the book, The Secret, is now being seen in new ways by those who feel that certain important points have been left out. Two main areas of omission are "Alignment" and "Taking Action." You most likely know that The Secret is based upon the Law of Attraction, which states that everything is electromagnetic and will attract to it what is like itself. The book says that if you concentrate on your aim or goal, it will come to you. However, and here's where the omissions come in, there are roadblocks along the way. The first says that if you have old subconscious programs in your mind that are the opposite of what you'd like to manifest and if you don't take action on it, there can be flies in the ointment of your manifestation. Read on to find out more.
Six Reasons It's Good to Be a Hypnotherapist and Have a Certificate for Doing Work You Love
Self Improvement: NLP Hypnosis • Published: May 17, 2011
Before I became a hypnotherapist, I knew I wanted to do work that could help people transform their deepest difficulties and become more free. I had a number of skills that I learned along the way, but I had no way to put them together into a viable profession and hang a shingle on my door. I prayed for it for quite a while, and finally I met a woman who told me she'd been certified, and I asked her what she did. She told me, and I said to her, "You're kidding! I do that!" That was when I knew that I could get my certificate too. What I wanted to do was to make my contribution to the world and have a grounded profession so I could do the work I loved. And now I finally knew how to do it, and I became a Certified Hypnotherapist. So here are 6 reasons why that's a good thing and why you might want to do it too.
Life Purpose - Six Ways the Remarkable Powers of Your Mind Can Help You Realize Your Life Purpose
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: May 9, 2011
Your mind has more power than you can even imagine. It's a broadcasting system, a storage and filing system of everything that's happened to you, a search engine like Google, an instrument for healing, a guidance system - and so much more. And it can help you to realize your life purpose as the greatest ally you'd ever what to have. That's why it's important to clear it of negativities, patterns, and barriers - so you can be free to bring your gifts and talents into the world. Read on to find out 6 powers of your mind that can help you to realize your life purpose:
Seven Roles of the Soul to Help You Know Your Life Purpose
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: April 26, 2011
There's a powerful body of knowledge that shows you an ancient and profound way of understanding universal truths. One of the teachings has to do with the seven roles of souls. As you read about these roles from the Michael Teachings, see if you can discern where you fit in.This will help you to be fully clear about your life purpose.
5 Steps to Change Habits by Changing Your Brain - Create New Neural Pathways
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: April 4, 2011
Because of the brain's ever-changing potentials called neuroplasticity, anything is possible. People who've had strokes can retrain their brains to function again by building new pathways. Smokers and overeaters and many others can learn new behaviors and attitudes and can transform their lives. Read on to find out how.
5 Ways to Train Your Brain to Let Go of Habits
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: April 4, 2011
When you understand how neural pathways are created in the brain, you get a front row seat for truly comprehending how to let go of habits. Neural pathways are like superhighways of nerve calls that transmit messages. You travel over the superhighway many times, and the pathway becomes more and more solid. You may go to a specific food or cigarettes for comfort over and over, and that forms a brain pathway. The hopeful fact, however, is that the brain is always changing and you can forge new pathways and create new habits. That's called the neuroplasticity of the brain. Whether you work with others on their habits or you work with your own (or both), you can apply these understandings to boost your success.
Overcoming Fear of Public Speaking - Six Steps to Confidence and Inner Power
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: April 4, 2011
I have to say I was happy to receive this email: "I won first place in the speech competition!!!" To make it even happier, that was from a person who had had such fear that she felt paralyzed in her tracks with an apprehension that she'd "go blank." She didn't believe in herself and had so many stinkin' thinkin' thoughts about not being good enough, that she was talking herself out of speaking at all. But she got it together. We created a plan for her, and she followed it to a "T" - ultimately creating a situation in which she was on the top of the list. She did it in six powerful steps. Read on to find out just what these steps are all about.
Success for Your Life - How to Powerfully Transform Four Obstacles to Your Success
Self Improvement: Success • Published: February 23, 2011
Some people don't fully understand the power of their mind to create success and how they can actually change the way they experience the world. Many others have low self worth, and that's one of the primary obstacles to creating the success they'd like. Many people also get stuck in the experience of struggle and find it hard to create new ways to live their lives. Still others have a hard time coming back from what they've labeled as failure. Of course, there are many more of these inner obstacles, but let's take a look at these for now and see how they can be transformed.
Brainwave States for Taking Your Mind to Higher Levels
Self Improvement: Mind Development • Published: February 7, 2011
There are states of mind much deeper and higher than ordinary everyday logical thoughts and judgments. These deeper and higher states can help your mind to focus, deeply relax you, inspire your imagination, remind you of long-forgotten memories, bring you into states of deep meditation, and provide the fuel for creating healing and success.
Eight Ways to Overcome the Hurts and Disappointments of the Past
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: February 2, 2011
It may be the perfect time for you to move beyond the difficult events of the past. You may have had your share, but it's always possible to use them as stepping stones to the transformation of your life rather than as impossible boulders in the way. Maybe you've had relationships that for one reason or another haven't lasted. Perhaps your work or career didn't go where you expected it to go. Projects that you've created many not have achieved the acceptance that you hoped for. No matter what, it's always possible to move on to another level of your life.
How Transforming Your Mind Can Raise Your Vibration and Take Your Life to a Higher Level
Self Improvement: Positive Attitude • Published: January 26, 2011
What does it mean to raise your vibration, and why take your life to a higher level? You are made of electromagnetic energy, and like a magnet, you bring to yourself things, people and events that match the rate of your vibration. So to bring in good fortune, love and happiness and to send those out to the world as well, you want to create as powerful a force field in your being as you can. So how can you increase the quality of your thoughts and feelings and lift yourself to a higher level of life? Read on.
What Is Client-Centered Hypnosis - And Why Does It Matter? Hypnosis Questions and Answers
Self Improvement: NLP Hypnosis • Published: December 21, 2010
Let's take a look at a style of hypnosis that not everyone knows about. Most people know about the commanding voice, the hypnotic eye, the twirling disc - and not everyone knows about the client-centered hypnotist. What does he or she do? What's it like? And why should anyone care?
Healing Your Habits - 5 Ways to Understand the Reasons You Have Addictions and Habits
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: December 14, 2010
There are many reasons why you've been dealing with repetitive smoking, overeating, nail biting, drinking - or any of the myriad of afflictions and addictions that can take over your life. Knowing what's at the root of your problems can help you to overcome them. Here are 5 of those reasons.
Changing Your Habits - 5 Reasons Why You Have Difficult Habits
Self Improvement: Personal Growth • Published: December 14, 2010
Do you ever wonder how you came to smoke so much or overeat or twirl your hair or grind your teeth or drink so many extra glasses of alcohol? There's not just one answer to this. There's a whole spectrum of reasons that are also quite fascinating. So here are some of the reasons why you do certain things day after day, often in excess, more than you'd like. Knowing these reasons is a first step to transforming your habits.
