SelfGrowth.com articles for Positive Psychology

Meditation and Sunny Summer Days!

williehorton@gurdy.net — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 11:05:17 am

Cast your mind back to when you were a child – maybe eight or nine years old. Remember those long, sunny, summer holiday days that seemed to go on forever? Remember how you had no idea of time – what time it was, the way time was passing – it was like everything was effortlessly enjoyed in a ...

Improve Your Conversation Confidence

royanereal@hotmail.com — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:19:28 pm

People who are shy, and people who have low self esteem often have a difficult time making conversation with others. They sound awkward, they don’t make eye contact with their conversation partners, and they have a hard time keeping the conversation flowing. Although shy people and those ...

Who Charges Your Battery?

steve.beaman@stevebeamangroup.com — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 12:19:28 pm

We’ve all been through situations in relationships where the person we’re dealing with drains us. Well, as I thought about this, I began to get an image in my head of a battery and I think it’s enough to the point that I wanted to share it with you. We all know that batteries require ...

Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt

steve.beaman@stevebeamangroup.com — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 11:25:28 am

Emotional Fear, Uncertainty & Doubt Welcome to the Emotional Path where we’re going to be discussing an issue that I’ve dealt with for many years, in fact decades. Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.. These are three core drivers to indecision, poor decision, and stagnation. What are these three ...

Change Your Story...Change Your Life

purejoynow@gmail.com — Sun, 8 Aug 2010 12:00:00 am

Have you ever realized that you drove to work and did not see the streets, didn’t pay attention to the construction that was going on because you were talking to yourself? Maybe you were talking about your job, or your marriage or your relationship. For example, if you were not happy with your ...

Perfection: What Is It And Why Do People Struggle With It?

tdrake@livehappilyeverafter-now.com — Fri, 6 Aug 2010 3:54:58 pm

What is perfection? Have you ever researched its meaning? For a word that creates such a challenge for people and can ruin lives, it isn’t very perfect! Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia defines it as, “broadly, a state of completeness and flawlessness.” It then goes on to discuss its ...

Happiness Beyond Belief

williehorton@gurdy.net — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:20:57 pm

Here’s a question that you may have never seriously asked yourself. Are you happy with yourself and with your life? The chances are that there are things that you would like to change about both you and your life – I have rarely met anyone who is truly happy, they are few and far between. ...

Personal Development and the Normal Mind

williehorton@gurdy.net — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 12:20:57 pm

Nothing is more frustrating than trying to better yourself and being constantly beaten backwards. Embarking on the adventure of personal development can sometimes seem similar to trying to scale Mount Everest and finding that, every time you make a little progress, you suddenly start sliding ...

Curing Your Own Depression

williehorton@gurdy.net — Fri, 6 Aug 2010 3:38:10 pm

Even though the effects of depression might be all too real in your life, depression is not real. If you’re suffering from depression, you’re only imagining it because depression is the direct result of your subconscious mind’s obsession with useless thoughts that were impressed upon it during ...

Evolution of the Mind

gitanagitana@live.com — Wed, 4 Aug 2010 12:00:00 am

We do not have a brain: according to Maclean, who first proposed the model of the triune brain, we have three brains, the Reptilian, the Mammalian and the Thinking Brain, stacked on top of each other in the order they have evolved. The oldest and the most primitive of the brains, the reptile ...

Binge Eating Disorder Treatment and Recovery

tippno@yahoo.com — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

We all eat too much from time to time. Let’s take the Thanksgiving holiday as an example; the turkey, sides, all of those pies, the stress of preparing the meal or seeing your family, and oh the sweet relief of that delicious pumpkin pie! Millions of Americans nationwide consider it a day where ...

8 Easy Ways Your Shoelaces Can Help You Become Jubilant

moritzgleitman@gmail.com — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 9:28:08 pm

______THE SCIENCE BEHIND SHOELACE TYING Almost always, you put on either your right shoe initially or your left shoe. Usually, you tie your shoes by either passing the right-hand lace around back of the left-hand lace, or vice versa. Tomorrow morning decide which shoe you put on first and ...

Success, Happiness and Wasting Your Energy

williehorton@gurdy.net — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

Today is a new day – one that has never happened before, a unique day that will never be repeated. Now is a new moment. And, in this new moment, you have a choice. You have a choice - which thoughts you are you going to pay attention to just at this moment in time? The probability is that ...

Authenticity

info@aurorasdreams.com — Sat, 24 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

As an abused person you will have often been tricked and taken advantage of by people in your immediate circle, and even by strangers. You may even believe that abusers can sense your obvious victimhood like an animal sniffs out its prey. Do you believe that you have a look or an aura, like a ...

You Are Not Your Behaviour

williehorton@gurdy.net — Thu, 22 Jul 2010 3:56:52 pm

Normal behaviour is rarely appropriate and often completely inappropriate if not totally bizarre. How could it be appropriate? Because normal behaviour is triggered automatically – you don’t have to think about it, you just react – by your subconscious mind. Your subconscious mind is fine ...

Deep Sleep & Wellness

info@DrGrantWellness.com — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 1:51:48 pm

Deep Sleep is essential for Total Wellness: The process of sleep places a very high demand on our energy reserves. So much work must be accomplished while we sleep: innumerable cells must be replaced or repaired, the immune system must be balanced, hormones must be balanced and emotional ...

How to manage stress in your life?

info@DrGrantWellness.com — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:13:29 pm

Do you ever find yourself lying awake at night, unable to fall asleep, because you're worrying about one of the zillions of things you have to do the next day? Do you ever wake up bone-tired on a cold, dark morning... not wanting to get out of bed and face the day ahead of you? Do you wake ...

How to achieve Peace & Happiness?

info@DrGrantWellness.com — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 12:13:29 pm

"Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction and faithful in prayer." Romans 12:12 "Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible." You become what you think about most of the time. And the most important part of each day is what you ...

Stress Management & Wellness

info@DrGrantWellness.com — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 4:26:39 pm

A lecturer, when explaining stress management to an audience, raised a glass of water and asked, "how heavy is this glass of water? " Answers called out ranged from 20g to 500g. The lecturer replied, "The absolute weight doesn't matter. It depends on how long you try to hold it. "If ...

Anxiety Disorder, Panic Attacks and Mood Disorders - Fear Them No More!

jasonkluber@gmail.com — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:45:36 pm

When people start talking about anxiety disorder, panic attack and mood disorders, the first thing that comes into mind is terror. These people feel that way since these individuals know that you will face a lot of challenges when you start to undergo such condition. Additionally, experiencing ...

4 Steps to Silence Your Self-Critic, Improve Self-Esteem, & Free Yourself From Guilt & Shame

info@fillyourcupup.com — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:48:06 am

Do you find that you're always criticizing and putting yourself down? Do you only see the bad qualities in yourself, never the good? If you answered yes to these questions, then you, like most people, are prone to self-criticism. We can be very judgmental when it comes to our own faults and ...

Ten Pounds and a Toothache - The Importance of Looking Out for "Number One"!

lillycat60@yahoo.com — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 10:38:38 am

I didn’t realize how much I’d let recent stress levels affect me until I stepped on the scales and saw that I’d gained ten pounds. To make matters worse, I also developed a toothache that eventually got bad enough to send me to the dentist. I had to have a root canal. What could have been ...

An Attitude Adjustment

cb@christinabrandt.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

She was there again. The Lady Who Pushes All My Buttons was at the Y. The Situation - Picture this, if you will: A crowded locker room with limited space. Several towels scattered on the floor. A rolling carry-on duffel bag, upended, with shoes, makeup and exercise clothing strewn on the ...

How to Handle Negative People

kim@theinsighttechnique.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 2:48:22 pm

Do you put on your running shoes and make a mad dash? Hide behind your desk? Try to stay clear of them, or avoid them all together? Do you sometimes find yourself or your mood changing when you are around them? Maybe you become frustrated, impatient, angry, or you try to change their ...

Am I Worth It?

rbc@RitaCanHelp.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 2:38:42 pm

This question came up for me yesterday when I decided to make myself a healthy lunch. As I was assembling the ingredients that included, lettuce and basil from my deck garden, sliced strawberries, blueberries, shredded carrots, snap peas, walnuts and boiled shrimp dressed with a lovely olive oil ...

Happiness Is Being in the Present Moment

Ginalakenow@aol.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 1:13:45 pm

Love naturally flows out of the present moment, which is the only moment that exists. The present moment is what is real. When we bring a memory from the past, a fantasy of the future, a fear, a judgment, or any other self-centered thought into the present moment, those thoughts draw us out of ...

Personal Success: Managing Your Energy

williehorton@gurdy.net — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 11:17:40 am

Our world, our entire universe and, indeed, your own daily life operates like a big energy-exchange machine. Ground-breaking discoveries in the field of quantum physics has begun to confirm just how this energy actually works. But, for starters, we already know that everything is made up of ...

Perception Creates Reality

tbrosman@gmail.com — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 9:57:24 am

If you believe you can do it, you can. If you believe you can’t, you won’t. How do you see your reflection? Is it distorted in the ripples of a wave? Is it clear as in a quiet body of water? Is it completely opposite as in looking at a mirror? How you see yourself in relation to your world ...

The Commitment to Heal

marclerner@att.net — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 9:57:25 am

When the essence of your life, which is consciousness, connects to something, a commitment is formed. A superficial level of commitment happens when your consciousness connects to the thoughts of something and you are just left committed to your own mind. The most common example of a deeper ...

Lift your Man up!

ztalentshow@gmail.com — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 4:44:20 pm

Ladies if you haven't learned this by now you might not ever. Men think about sex a lot. This is our nature we desire it, we fantasize about it, and we want it all the time. Back up a bit that last little part isn't quite true. Men want sex all the time isn't exactly true we want it until we can ...

Dream Interpretation and the Transformation of Your Personality

cris_da_grecia@yahoo.gr — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 3:39:47 pm

The meaning of dreams was discovered by the psychiatrist Carl Jung, after conducting very arduous research. All dreams have a therapeutic function and are produced by the unconscious mind. The unconscious mind organizes the functioning of our body and sends us protective dream messages in a ...

BLISS SHEATH – SAMADHI (TRANCE), HEAVEN AND DOOR OF SALVATION

ashokrawal@shriramsharma.com — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 1:48:30 pm

The last but extremely important sheath (5 covering layers of a living being) is the Bliss Sheath. When this sheath is uncovered, not only does the living being come very close to God but that it becomes God Him self. The soul is said to be a spark of God. Its ultimate form is Satya, Shiva, ...

The Power of Positive Thinking

tomi.tomic@gmail.com — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:52:22 am

If you have found your way to read this article, something within you has been triggered consciously or otherwise to seek a path which you can take to change your life in a positive way forever. What you are about to discover shortly is not something new, but in fact a frame of mind and a ...

The Embodiment of Prayer

jgilmore7.1@juno.com — Fri, 9 Jul 2010 2:50:09 pm

Sometimes I wake up in the morning and think of the coming day and coming days in general, and I think that I must have been born on the wrong planet. But then I slowly realize that I am just where I am supposed to be. When I realize that all of my fears, worries, and regrets seem to just ...

Become Your Own Mirror: Rebuild Your Confidence

joanna@soulfulcoach.com — Tue, 6 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

Let’s say Geena is your friend of many years. She is a smart, creative, go-getter and beautiful to top it off - a source of admiration for many. Yet still, she confides in you, whenever she lands a major success like getting published in a popular publication or being accepted into a competitive ...

Attitude (by Dr John Maxwell)

clock@slingshot.co.nz — Fri, 9 Jul 2010 3:23:38 pm

"We share what we know, so that we all may grow." * ATTITUDE (by Dr John Maxwell) Submitter's Note: These are some brief notes that I took from an adress by Dr John Maxwell. I hope you find them as uplifting and inspirational as I do... and ...

The Personal Transformation Experience

sunnymassad@earthlink.net — Thu, 8 Jul 2010 3:37:58 pm

Many of my students and clients admit that they are tired of working on themselves, because “self-improvement” causes them to feel like they should continuously be aspiring to be better, rather than affording opportunities to rest in who and where they are. I couldn’t agree more. Learning ...

Resiliance

info@aurorasdreams.com — Thu, 8 Jul 2010 11:56:48 am

Pain is a part of life. More so for some people than others of course. It seems that some people have the resources or strength or luck or skills to work through their pain and come out the other side unscathed, almost as if they hardly felt a thing. We comfort ourselves with the thought that ...

Living With Integrity

best4writing@aol.com — Sun, 4 Jul 2010 12:00:00 am

What it means to live with integrity To be trustworthy in all of life’s situations is to have integrity. To have integrity is to maintain the kind of character and reputation that leads to personal success, happiness and peace within oneself and with other people. A person who chooses to ...

Those Who Mind Don't Matter, Those Who Matter Don't Mind

CGWELLNESS@GMAIL.COM — Wed, 7 Jul 2010 11:46:17 am

“Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind” Dr. Seuss As many of you know, I started writing these weekly messages over three years ago. Because of a request from one patient to keep him motivated, the weekly message series was ...

Get Positive: Five Steps for Letting Go of Limiting Thoughts and Beliefs

veggielinda@yahoo.com — Fri, 2 Jul 2010 2:46:43 pm

What are some of the common thoughts that flash across your mind? Are they positive and uplifting, or do they focus on what is wrong and bring up visions of worst case scenarios? For many of us, our thoughts are a mixture of both. But, the real question is which ones do we focus on and ...

How To Make Use of Too Much or Too Little Time

kim@theinsighttechnique.com — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

We are generally either consumed with too much to do and too little time, or too much time and not enough to do. Where are you? Are you the type of person that is rushing around with a million and one things to do and get done, or are you walking around aimlessly wondering what to do first ...

Use Mid-year Goal Setting to Succeed

douglas.bailey@xtra.co.nz — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

Setting goals has its own special magic. When we transform desires and fantasies into tangible ideas and goals and commit them to paper we are taking a powerful step toward attaining what we want in our life. New Year is the traditional time for setting goals. As we anticipate the year, in ...

Why Must We Be Thankful and Grateful For Everyday?

yimyaohua@gmail.com — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

Let me give you a strong reason why we should be grateful for everyday. Because the moment you open your eyes each day. It is a gift from god to you. You are still alive and that it is a given. Everybody is given a brand new day. Everybody is given another day to love. Everybody is given ...

Duties of the Father of the Bride (Part I of IV-The Announcement)

HowardEdwardHallerPhD@gmail.com — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

Duties of the Father of the Bride (Part I of IV-The Announcement) From my observations and experiences of the duties of the Father of the Bride, one of my favorite poems comes to mind "IF" … “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs ...

Duties of the Father of the Bride (Part II of IV-The Initial Wedding Planning)

HowardEdwardHallerPhD@gmail.com — Wed, 7 Jul 2010 12:51:05 pm

Duties of the Father of the Bride (Part II of IV-The Initial Wedding Planning) The traditional duties of the Father of the Bride during the initial planning of the Wedding and the Wedding Reception include: 1. Maintaining a calm and loving tone in your home, in ...

Duties of the Father of the Bride (Part III of IV-6 Weeks before the Wedding)

HowardEdwardHallerPhD@gmail.com — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

Duties of the Father of the Bride (Part III of IV-6 Weeks before the Wedding) The traditional duties of the Father of the Bride during the six weeks before the Wedding Day and up to the actual Wedding Day include: 1. Maintain a calm and loving tone in his home, in spite of tension, chaos, ...

Duties of the Father of the Bride (Part IV of IV-The Actual Wedding Day)

HowardEdwardHallerPhD@gmail.com — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

Duties of the Father of the Bride (Part IV of IV-The Actual Wedding Day) The traditional duties of the Father of the Bride During the actual Wedding and Reception day include: 1. Maintain a calm and loving tone, in spite of tension, chaos, last minute ...

Duties of the Father of the Groom: Etiquette FAQ

HowardEdwardHallerPhD@gmail.com — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

Duties of Father of the Groom: Etiquette FAQ When your son gets engaged, a number of questions run through your head. Especially if this is your first child to be married, you might not know exactly what you do during wedding planning, what pre-wedding parties you should attend, or what to ...

Quit Trying To Be Perfect

montycritchings@gmail.com — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:00:00 am

In our drive for the good life, it seems that we have become obsessed with the need to be “perfect”! Why can’t we just let our selves be who we are at the moment? As human beings we are constantly changing and evolving as our life changes. We cannot stop this process no matter how hard we ...