Sorry about those five tips. If you wish to ignore them and return to the regularly-scheduled misery-wallowing, please go ahead. After all, in wartime nobody really wants to be happy, do they?
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Affirmations to the Rescue!
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Change and Transition - 10 Steps to Surviving Change Elegantly
If I say the word "CHANGE" how do you feel? Most people remain fearful, anxious and uncomfortable with change, despite it being a driving issue in our society. It appears that no matter how much experience we have it doesn't get any easier.
So What Is A Limiting Belief?
So what is a limiting belief?Don't you love the current expression: 'does what it says on the can'. The can is, of course, purely metaphorical and 'does what it says' suggests clarity and ultimate intelligibility.
Watch Your Mouth
Ever had one of those mothers, or grandmothers, who would often say, "Be careful what you ask for?"I did and always wondered exactly what she meant by that, but now, I know.Do you realize the power that your words carry with them?Your words have the power to persuade.
Make a Personal Commitment to Change Your Life!
So, is this really where you thought you'd be? You're 25, or 35, or even 50 or ?? and you're not doing the job you thought you'd be..
5 Ways To Use Mind Power To Maximise Your Potential
Why do patients who are given placebo pills report that they feel well? These pills have no healing capabilities. They get well purely because the power to heal came from their beliefs.
Perspective Is Everything
Ever witnessed an incident that needed to be reported to the police? It's amazing how much the stories from each of the eye-witnesses varies from others who experienced the same event!Ever wondered why that is? We each come to an event with a different perspective which is determined byValues Attitudes Experiences Environment Your personality styleValues are the principles you hold as important; the standard by which you determine how things should be. Everyone has values.
How To Reduce Anxiety When Affirmations Dont Work
Have you ever read that you should think positively when you are feeling anxious?Have you ever been told to argue back when you have negative thoughts?*How's that working for you?**Why do affirmations only sometimes produce results?*Because as we argue back to our negative and irrational thoughts, we don't always believe the new things we are telling ourselves.What we really believe is our original thoughts - the thoughts that have led us to feel anxiety in the first place.
Top Tips for the Temporary Move
Question: "It's only three months. Or six months.
How Do You Habitually Treat Yourself?
In order to learn how to relieve ourselves of self-defeating patterns, the obvious first step is to become aware of what these patterns are.The easiest way to do this is simply to become a casual observer of your own behavior and to take stock of how you treat yourself.
Positive Affirmations
Never used 'em. Not likely to start now.
Success, the Only Option
One often hears people say they can't sketch because they don't have 'the talent' even to draw a straight line. When was it somebody told you "Oh, I can't play the piano; I'm such a klutz!"?Such negative programming of the mind often comes from judgmental parents, teachers, relatives or peers.
How To Radically Improve Your Everyday Experience Of Life In Two Simple Steps
Can you do something for me?Tell me?Please don't think tomorrow.What?Yeah, you heard me.
Use Affirmations to Build Self-Esteem
Most of us carry on a running internal dialogue at all times. It is as if our lives are a sporting event on television and there is a panel of psychic sports commentators hunched over their microphones doing a play-by-play of the action.
Using Power Affirmations on ePosters
I believe that one of the best ways to stay positive is to create a multi-media "advertising" campaign to condition the thoughts and beliefs into your mind that you choose.For all of our lives, at least for most of us, we have been bombarded with mass media advertising to get us to buy all kinds of products and ideas.
How to Get Rid of Frustration and Self-Pity
I've yet to meet the person who never struggles with frustration. It comes with the territory of being human.
Positive Thinking: Are You Truly Being Positive?
Positive thinking in this day and age is a tool people are trying to incorporate into their lives; from housewives to CEO's. But the question is what is positive thinking and how do our thinking patterns truly affect how we feel and how successful we are?The mind is a neutral party and can be positive or negative depending on what it is trained to think.
A Solution For Trouble? Try This Breath Of Fresh Air!
I just heard the story of a man who hired a plumber to restore an old farmhouse. After he had finished a rough first day on the job he realized he had a flat tire which made him lose an hour of work; then his electric drill quit, and then his truck refused to start.
The Trouble with the Mind
Bernard always had a problem with money.He was always lacking it.
Start Your Day on Your Terms
Most of us start the day like we're trying to catch a train. We wake up, grab a cup of coffee, look at the paper and listen to the news.