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Soul Healing: Best way to Heal Soul Wounds

Celine Healy — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 03:33:44 +0000

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Perhaps you have been hurting for a long time and are not sure whether you can ever heal yourself and move on. You might even feel stuck because whatever you do, nothing seems to help with the healing. Hence, you might be wondering whether these soul wounds can ever be healed and, if so, how?

Soul healing is possible. You can access the power of your soul to create a life worth living and rebuild yourself from within.

How to Heal Soul Wounds

Anyone can set themselves on a path towards soul healing regardless of their faith, religion, and spirituality. Some wounds can be quite deep. They may make you feel powerless, repeat unhealthy behaviors, and struggle with negative thoughts.

However, with some effort, reflection, and these tips, you can find yourself on the way toward fully healing your soul.

1. Understand Your Soul

Very often, we don’t even know what our soul is and what it wants. Each person’s soul is unique and connected with our physical body. In order for us to fully understand our mind and body, we must take the necessary steps to understand our soul as well. Hence, explore your soul and learn what drives its passions and energies.

2. Deepen Your Connection with the Divine Being

Another step towards soul healing is developing and nurturing your connection with the Divine. We all are spiritual in one way or another, and we all have a relationship with God, even atheists. Whoever your God may be, you must open your heart to them, call onto them, and connect with them.

Redefining your spirituality and opening up to the Divine may be exactly what your soul needs to heal and repair itself.

3. Find Your True Purpose and Passion

We all have a purpose in this life and are passionate about something. However, life has made us focus more on our duties and obligations than on these passionate activities that feed our souls. We simply don’t have time for these activities, which ultimately starve our souls and inhibit they are healing.

Hence, to take a step toward healing, we must be able to take out the time to explore our passions and indulge in activities that give us genuine pleasure.

4. Engage in Relaxation and Meditation

When you relax, you turn inward and quiet your mind. This helps you to listen to the voice of intuition within you. If you are new to meditation, we recommend taking up guided meditation. It could be from a trained expert who physically is with you or through a CD. The proper meditation techniques will help your body relax and soothe your soul.

5. Dive Deep into Your Feelings

Our emotions and feelings are the gateways to our souls. When we repress these feelings and bottle them up, we might be hindering the progress towards healing our souls. When you let out your feelings through talking or journaling, you let your souls wander and explore through creative and imaginative avenues.

You must become vulnerable to yourself in order to be true and in tune with your soul. Hence, explore those uncomfortable thoughts and emotions and dive into your emotions.

6. Take Baby Steps

While following all of these strategies toward soul healing, you must understand that your soul cannot be healed overnight. It does take time and commitment. Trying to make too many changes at once can often backfire and are not sustainable.

Instead, you should make small and manageable changes in your life and set realistic expectations. This will help carry you through your healing process.

7. Be Patient and Consistent

You must remember that healing takes a lot of time and work. Hence, we need to be patient in order for us to slowly gain new insights. We must also stay consistent with the aforementioned strategies regardless of whether we see any notable change within us. Take it one step at a time and be willing to try new techniques and approaches.

Final Words

If you are wondering how to heal soul wounds, you must first understand that it takes time. Those wounds have taken years to develop and deepen, which is why it will take you a while to feel healed and renewed again fully.

Don’t fear the change, and be open to every technique. This will help your soul feel lighter and repaired soon.

Violet Flame

Celine Healy — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 18:33:24 +0000

Do you sometimes feel like your soul is wounded beyond repair?

Do you constantly look for ways to find peace and heal your soul?

Perhaps the solution to all of your problems is the violet flame prayers. This little-known meditation technique is highly powerful and transformative in cleaning your energies, healing your soul, and finding ultimate peace.

Spiritual alchemists have been using violet flames for centuries. The violet flame is representative of the spiritual energy within each of us. When we have harnessed and cleaned our spiritual energy, we are provided with the ability to solve a multitude of physical and emotional issues within ourselves and our relationships.

The violet flame helps you access the many wonders and spirits of life. It lets you heal not just your inner wounds but your entire life. Open yourself up to the violet flame and let yourself find peace.

What Is the Violet Flame?

The Violet Flame is also known as the Flame of Forgiveness, Flame of Mercy, and Flame of Freedom. The sacred fire of the violet flame is here to remove all of our negative karma and blockages in our spiritual energy. It can also be used as a catalyst in our spiritual journey since it creates a space conducive to our healing.

Violet itself is a color that is designed to promote healing and spiritual growth. In many ways, the color helps us speed up our healing process. It is representative of creativity, imagination, universal love, and the integration of ideas. This is why meditation and yoga are used so much to help individuals start healing and find peace.

Violet Flame Meditation

If you want to leverage and feel the power of the violet flame yourself, you can easily do it through meditation. To do this, you will first need to find a secluded place where you will not be disturbed or distracted. Then, sit comfortably on the floor with your head erect and your arms and legs uncrossed.

Rest your hands on your upper legs and keep the palms facing upwards. This will allow you to get into the classic meditation pose. After this, you must follow these steps:

1. Set Your Intentions

Think of a problem or issue acting as a block in your spiritual energy. You must visualize it and set your intentions to solve this problem. You could also use cutouts or images to help you with the visualization.

2. Follow a Mantra

It is helpful to follow a meditation mantra to feel one with life and open yourself to transformation and change. You should keep repeating this mantra in your head until you find some peace and stillness.

3. Visualize a Sphere of Light

Now, you must visualize a small sphere of light. The sphere is at the centre of your being and is radiating white flames. With each breath, visualize the flame getting brighter and brighter. Continue breathing this way until the sun is so big that the flames around it are surrounding your whole body.

4. Transform That Light into the Violet Flame

By this point, your consciousness and energies are aligned. This is when you should transform your light into a violet flame. This can be done by visualizing a small violet circle in the white sphere and repeating this decree, “I am the violet flame,” followed by a decree that allows you to heal.

For example, you could say, “I am the violet flame, and I am worthy of forgiveness.”

5. Close Your Flame

Once you start feeling more relaxed and at peace, you should start closing your meditation session. This is otherwise known as closing your flame. You should look into your heart to know when it is time to close your flame. It is time to close the flame if you are feeling a newfound sense of serenity and tranquillity.

To close, start repeating the mantra you initiated your meditation session with. Keep repeating this mantra while visualizing the violet flame growing smaller and smaller in the center of your forehead, where your third eye chakra is located.

Final Words

If you are looking to add more tranquillity and stillness to your busy life, the best way is to take some time out and follow the violet flame prayers. These are powerful meditation techniques that, when done the right way and consistently, can help free you of all the negativity and unnecessary clutter in your mind and life.

Alchemical Process: A Guide to Spiritual Alchemy

Celine Healy — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:58:14 +0000

We all have the potential to transform our lives and heal our souls. This can be done through the spiritual alchemical process. Contrary to popular belief, this concept is not about transforming lead into gold and achieving material success.

Instead, spiritual alchemy is about freeing the soul that is trapped within you by your negative feelings, such as self-doubts, fears, personal beliefs, etc. It frees you from your core wounds so you can fully heal yourself and live an unobstructed life.

Becoming a spiritual alchemist means freeing, healing, and transforming yourself so that you achieve ‘gold,’ which is actually soulful awareness and being pure. This article will detail the alchemical process and how to achieve spiritual alchemy.

You Have the Power to Heal Yourself

Spiritual alchemy is an ancient practice that has been around for a while. It is meant to enable individuals to reach their highest level of spirituality while simultaneously healing themselves and restructuring their personalities. In many ways, the spiritual alchemical process allows you to master the art of healing, change, inner liberation, and transformation.

So, to sum up, with spiritual alchemy, indeed, you have the power to heal yourself.

Alchemical Process: The Seven Stages

Achieving the spiritual alchemical process can be possible through self-manifestation and following the seven stages of spiritual alchemy. These help you break down parts of you and transform into a free and whole being. The Alchemical process is as follows:

Stage 1: Calcination

This is the first stage in your life and the first step in self-transformation wherein you break down your ego and slowly let go of your stubbornness, pride, self-doubt, arrogance, self-sabotaging behavior, and any other negative behavior that might be hiding underneath. This will help bring out your raw self.

Stage 2: Dissolution

Once you have broken down and stripped yourself of the distractions and ego, you start seeing your true behaviors, both negative and positive, coming to the surface. During this stage, you might realize your negative and avoidant behaviors, traumatizing memories, and all other emotions and feelings you had been avoiding through habits like watching excessive TV, drugs, and workaholism. Truly, this is the stage when you feel the most vulnerable.

Stage 3: Separation

In this stage, you face your true feelings and emotions head-on. Rather than forgiving, forgetting, and moving on, you let yourself process your feelings regarding others, ourselves, or events. Here, you become aware of your authentic self since you let your heart feel all the aggression, frustration, sadness, and anger towards others and ourselves.

This helps you assess yourself without your ego holding us back. And so, you truly begin healing.

Stage 4: Conjunction

After you have taken the time to experience all the individual emotions you have, you begin working towards understanding your authentic self. Conjunction provides you the opportunity to find inner peace through healing. This is done by bringing your unconscious thoughts and feelings into your consciousness. At this stage, you should be doing a lot of journaling, introspection, and meditation.

Stage 5: Fermentation

The Fermentation stage marks the beginning of your rebirth. It can be compared to the death of a grape that leads to its rebirth in the form of wine. Fermentation literally means when you let your old self and negative feelings and aspects of your personality rot and decompose. Here, you also slowly let go of pieces of yourself that don’t contribute to your spiritual transformation.

Stage 6: Distillation

This stage represents a deeper level of purification where you begin to look for inner peace in the most mundane daily activities. With certain practices such as mindfulness, meditation, self-inquiry, and yoga, you begin to experience a profound sense of inner transformation to become a spiritual alchemist.

Stage 7: Coagulation

This stage of the alchemical process is when you have completely transformed yourself. By this point, you have become free from the mind and the world’s shackles so that it becomes a reflection of you rather than a part of you. You have allowed your soul to connect with the Materia Prima, also known as ‘The Spirit.’ In other words, you have channeled The Spirit through self-manifestation into material form.

Final Words

To achieve true peace, healing, and inner liberation, one must try to achieve spiritual alchemy. It is not a quick process that happens overnight; rather, it takes a lot of effort to strip oneself of their emotions and be completely vulnerable completely. Only this way will we truly begin healing ourselves and finding peace.

Emotional and Spiritual Healing

Celine Healy — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 14:22:53 +0000

Are you experiencing emotional and spiritual distress?

We may feel heartbroken, anxious, hollow, and lose our sense of self. No one is immune to these feelings, which is why we may find ourselves looking for ways to aid in our emotional and spiritual healing. It is natural for us to carry these heavy feelings and feel stuck in a loop. However, it is crucial that you don’t feel like you are broken and can never be healed. We must address and enrich our souls in order to fully heal ourselves and improve our well-being. You may never be the same person you were before a traumatic event, but these distressing feelings can help you find yourself and understand your soul.

This guide will discuss the seven stages of emotional healing and how you can take them up to process your emotional pain and eventually feel whole again.

Seven Stages of Emotional Healing

The emotional and spiritual healing process varies from person to person. However, on the whole, individuals may follow the seven stages and emotional healing techniques to guide them along their path towards emotional recovery.

1. Exploration

The first thing to do is explore all of your feelings and not avoid them. In order to see determine whether you have been avoiding your distressing feelings, you need to simply observe your habits to know whether you are indulging in substance abuse, risky behavior, binge-watching shows, etc.

If so, you must stop doing these and explore your feelings. Go back to the origin or distressing event that has triggered all of these emotions. Understand these feelings and explore your memories, emotions, and more.

2. Expression

Now that you have understood your emotions, it is time to confront these emotions and let yourself feel them. You could talk to someone about these feelings, start journaling, or simply sit and contemplate. The key is to allow yourself to slowly feel the pain and emotions.

This will help you open the doors toward healing and help you move through all the rest of the stages of emotional healing.

3. Comfort

At this stage, you need someone who can provide you with the comfort you need. It could be a family member, friend, or even a therapist. Anyone willing to listen and talk you through the pain ultimately provides comfort as you process your distressing emotions.

4. Compensation

Now, it is time for you to start compensating for the painful thoughts and emotions you have been experiencing for so long. This can be done through indulging in activities that feed your soul and make you feel good.

For example, you could listen to ‘feel-good songs, take a long bath, indulge in self-care, plan a trip, and spend time with friends.

5. Perspective

At this point, you may find yourself feeling better and not as distressed as you once were. It is also the perfect time for you to look back and find perspective. Understand whether you need to give yourself more time to heal and if you have been looking at the previous distressing events from the wrong angle. When you are mending your heart, you will automatically experience this shift in perspective.

6. Channelling

As you start experiencing more positivity, you may start channeling it in ways that will make you feel better, for example, by indulging in yoga, meditation, and expressing gratitude. You should acknowledge the past mistakes and distressing events, but be sure to not dwell on negative feelings like regret or recrimination.

7. Forgiveness

The last stage is for you to finally look back and forgive. You should forgive anyone who has hurt you and made you feel emotionally distressed. At the same time, you should also forgive yourself for harboring negative feelings towards yourself. This forgiveness does not require you to go up to people and make amends to them. You can also do it privately on your own.

Final Words

You should use these seven stages of emotional healing to repair your broken heart and wounded soul. Healing is a messy, challenging, and time-consuming journey, so you should stay consistent, committed, and patient. Set realistic expectations, and don’t be too hard on yourself.

Thinking of Starting a New Relationship? What to Include in Your Relationship Needs List

Celine Healy — Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:58:44 +0000

Who would have thought that a relationship list is required when Starting a new Relationship? However, after many trials and failures and giving up self and losing identity in relationship, many people now see this as a very practical and sensible approach Before entering that new relationship, ever hopeful.

In this way you can be sure that your boundaries are set and you will be more resilient. Relationships can be as complicated as they seem sweet.

No one can judge a couple by their appearance whether they are happy or having difficult times together. Women especially are very good at hiding their relationship problems. But, one bad relationship doesn’t mean you won’t find love in your life again.

It’s also not right to shut all the doors on yourself just because you are afraid that you will again end up in a bad relationship. Falling in love is so easy.
It’s something no one can control.

It’s a powerful mixture of emotions. When it starts, nothing else seems to matter. Everything feels like a beautiful dream. Be it romantic dinner dates, receiving flowers and chocolates from a doting partner, or love poems all seem so amazing.

But according to experts, love is not enough for a relationship to last long. Other things are more important and equally essential for any relationship to grow strong and last forever.

When we discuss Starting a New Relationship and love, it gets more complicated than it seems. According to the studies on human behaviors, if you found yourself in a relationship just because of the feeling of love, soon you will feel it slipping away.

There are more factors involved to make a strong relationship like trust, respect, personal space, etc. otherwise these kinds of relationships start to get toxic over time.

Here we are going to share a need list for relationships to last longer and grow stronger with time.

Specific Elements of a Starting a new Relationship Needs List

Trust Is The Potent Foundation

Any relationship blossoms if it’s built on strong foundations, and trust should be one of the key factors for it. Love is a completely different chapter of it. If you love someone and you don’t trust them, then it’s never going to work.

Trust is the most important factor for a healthy relationship. This is why experts look for it first while assessing a couple’s connection. It’s not only about cheating and betrayal.

Trust is about everything including being vulnerable, trusting that they will have your back in challenging situations, trust with information be it personal or intimate. This all shows that you and your partner are both having each other’s back.

In short, without trust, your life will be stressful and depressing. No one can live a life full of insecurities and worries that come with an untrustworthy partner. So, make trust your prior goal before starting any relationship.

2. Sense Of Respect

Respect is an important factor if you are looking for a solid relationship rather than simply being in love. Being a couple, it’s not necessary to have common interests or passions.

But you do require the capacity to understand each other. One must be present with the other without judging them or putting on any demands and unattainable expectations. You need self respect first before you can genuinely give that to another person.

3. The Feeling Of Security

You don’t feel secure in your relationship? If the answer is ‘yes’, then you should think about getting out of this bind. It doesn’t matter how sweet the feeling of love you have for the person if you don’t feel secure around him, then this will bring out all kinds of abandonment issues.

An emotionally abusive relationship can be toxic. But it’s hard to see if all you are focused on is how much you love the person, and do not then take into account your other emotional needs.

Many people tend to tolerate such relationships in the name of love. Of course, these kinds of relationships can get sticky. But they don’t end up well.

Love can meet many needs but it’s never going to be enough to fix an emotionally abusive partner. It doesn’t matter how hard you try. It’s usually best to take a
safe exit than be sorry for your entire life.

4. Maintaining Your Self-Respect

Love is like a beautiful dream. You all must have heard somewhere that love is blind. But the wise one shouldn’t get into a relationship blindly. It’s right that if you love someone then you could be in a relationship with them.

But don’t forget that you were ‘you’ before you decided to become ‘we’. You should maintain your boundaries and your self-respect and continue to be ‘you’, whilst at the same time allowing for compromises and identifying as ‘we’. You are the most important person in your life.

Don’t lose yourself, don’t give up your dreams and goals. No one who loves you would like you to leave yourself for them but instead, they should encourage and help you to achieve your interests and aims. This makes love grow more and strengthens relationships.

5. Assess Your Feelings

It is very common to find people who don’t like each other but are still in a relationship because they are in love. Don’t get it? Think about it like this, you have a family member who always points out things about you.

You dislike them. It’s not easy to get along with such people. You love them because they are your family. But you don’t like them and avoid being around them or talking to them.

This also can happen in an intimate relationship. You might have feelings for them, but you avoid having long talks with them. You don’t enjoy going out with them. They make you feel uncomfortable with their attitude. You don’t share common interests.

Hence, if you see things have started growing stale, you should take note of them. This is all about knowing your partner and yourself, and how you are both transforming being in a relationship together.

It’s positive that you both are on the same page. If not, then difficulties arise. This is all about keeping that connection alive which brings you both together, by understanding your feelings and being cognisant of the other person’s feelings.

6. Maintain Your Independence

In many relationships, it is common to see a dependency even for small things. A relationship is nurtured when both partners have their own space for making decisions, have their own things and their own friends and own interests.

A controlling partner can ruin a relationship, then you will start feeling like you are trapped or jailed. Every person has their own thoughts and feelings. It is essential in a relationship that you make your own decisions.

You know what’s best for you and an understanding partner will support you in your decisions. Focusing on your individuality will nurture your relationship and bind your connection because you both will be coming better humans and therefore good partners for life.

7. Creating An Equal Partnership

A relationship happens when two individuals share their lives with equality. There’s nothing more beautiful than being with someone who is your true partner in crime.

No matter what circumstances occur if you both face it together and support each other then you are a happy couple. Creating a balance, even in little things like chores, and emotional support can define a relationship that can last.

If the relationship is unbalanced and only one person is making an effort, then it will soon be over, or you will soon start feeling like this relationship is a burden.

8. Communication Is Essential

Good communication is the power source of love. There can’t be a lasting relationship without it. You require clear communication in a relationship to define your boundaries, your likes dislikes, and your needs, and to fix problems.

Any relationship can start crumbling if there is no communication between couples. They can get caught up in misunderstandings, which will lead to cynical arguments and this will later turn into frustration, regrets, and resentments.

To have a healthy relationship, it is very necessary to have a good communication level between couples. This will enable them to get through difficult times together and this will create a strong bond between them.

9. Honesty And Loyalty Are Must Have

Everyone has a basic need for their partner to trust them. Everyone wants that their partner to trust them. Well, it’s a two-way street. Every relationship depends on honesty and loyalty.

Lies and deception can get you short-term happiness, but if you want your relationship to last, you should try to be honest with your partner. Honesty and loyalty can save you from long-term damage.

Your partner might get mad when you tell them something, but if it’s the truth, they will come around and appreciate your honesty.

10. Forgiveness Makes Your Life Easier

Everyone can have a long list of the perfect partner and ideal relationship qualities, but we are all humans and we are all prone to make mistakes.

The formula for a good relationship must have included, the ingredient of forgiveness. Forgive and forget can make your life easy and your relationship will grow strong over time. Some things cannot be forgotten like cheating and betraying, but they can be forgiven.

There could be mistakes that happen unwillingly, if your partner is genuinely sorry and regrets them, then you should also try to have a big heart and forgive. Forgiveness is about the person feeling damaged.

If that person maintains the rage, they will eventually become the victim long term. Forgiveness is about letting go and moving on. It is a blessing in disguise. It is an exercise in personal growth.

Way Forward – Getting Ready for a Relationship

Our hearts can get us into complex situations. Love is like a maze; you don’t know what awaits you on the next turn. Keeping your head clear and being forthright about your needs in a relationship, can save you from later problems.

Relationships are not always about sparkles and rainbows. There will be some difficult times. What matters is how much you love each other and understand each other and are willing to compromise within reason.

This will help you navigate through tough times. You need to have these key elements in your relationship if you and your partner want to grow old together.

Wishing you all the best for the future and happy love life.

Feel The Joy of New Relationship Energy

Celine Healy — Wed, 11 May 2022 06:49:51 +0000

Have you been experiencing that tingling feeling all over your body?

The sensational joy of new relationship energy?

Right from the moment, you met this special one, butterflies fluttered in your
stomach and you felt like you were on top of the world.?

Well, welcome to the world of an exhilarating combination of dopamine,
adrenaline, and norepinephrine. Mmmmm, doesn’t that feel delicious?
This whole experience has a scientific name and that is NRE. It stands for New Relationship Energy or New Relationship Excitement.

Hey but hold on!
That’s not exactly love as you may have experienced it.
But of course, that could be the start of love.

NRE starts with emotional blinders.
It is what is responsible for everything that seems so bright, sunshiny and has lots of rainbows everywhere. You feel like nothing can be better than that. Everything is just ‘Perfect’. This could be defined as a phase that makes you blind to anything negative or alarming, and blocks off any sense of reasoning you had immediately prior to these feelings. We are looking out for your interests, so pleased take in what you feel is appropriate to you.

Let’s now look at some of the factors that keep you blinded form any rational thought during he early stages of a new relationship.

New Relationship Energy Blocks

Factors that might contribute to the blinders of NRE include:

1- People in your close circle like friends and colleagues are already paired off and you feel left behind, or you feel you are running out of time.

2- You wished for Mr. Right. Someone turns up. You grab hold of this person because he was the very next financially stable guy that showed up in your life.

3- You were dreaming of an intimate relationship and can’t hide it anymore. You are desperate.

4- He appears to have that one specific quality that you always wanted your jerk of an ex to have.

In short, these blinders appear at the very start of a relationship. However, when someone in your close circle tries to warn you about something, or ask you to be cautious, you feel that he or she is your worst enemy. You think your well-meaning frienddoesn’t want to see you happy, However, they are really trying to warn you because you have succumbed to the spell of NRE… new relationship energy!

So, NRE is tempting, but it can also be dangerous for your life, if you feed the flame too much and ignore any contrary signs. To keep it in check you need to follow some guidelines so that you can enjoy these NRE chemicals, rather thanjust blindly plunging right in and possiblyruining your life later on. (Sounds dramatic… but for some needy people this can happen.)

Steps to Take to Improve Relationship Energy

Some of these steps may appear to be tedious because you will be making lists and doing comparisons, and this goes against the grain of what you think romantic relationships are all about. However, if you have these boundaries already set up, each new relationship theoretically, should be improving your experience level and you will be enjoying them more and more.

1- Review Your Relationships and Map their Importance to You:

When you get into a new relationship, the NRE starts working its magic on you. Whilst your whole life is focused on one person, you ignore the rest of the world.
It’s nice that you are giving your feelings priority and you are happy. But you need to create a visual representation of other people and activities that are important to you.

Try writing these things down on paper and mark how much they are opposite or close to yourassessment of the qualities and attributes of your most recent squeeze. You might find that you are not as excited to do those activities as you were pre-NRE. That’s fine though, it’s completely normal to feel this way, but try to keep some of them in perspective.

Similarly, give your other connections some thought too. See if you are still in touch with them and are on good terms with the people you liked to be around pre-NRE. You don’t want to ignore your friends who have been there through thick and thin. This might be a burden to do this exercise, or it might feel artificial for now. However, if you stick to the task and keep things in check, this will turn out to be most beneficial later on.

2- Take Care to Make Sure Your Close People Feel Loved and Wanted:

Some relationship advisors recommend totally focusing on new relationship energy with your romantic partners. But in my opinion, this is limited because what takes place in NRE can affect your other relationships as well. Friends, children, business partners, activity partners, neighbours, colleagues, and other family members all can be affected by your actions and your centre of focus. Yes. It is advised you pay more attention to these relationships than normal during NRE. This will help in providing the nourishment to this new relationship. And this early attention may well be the element that help it stay healthy and strong.

By giving importance to your other relationships as well, you can maintain the balance between your longer-standing connections and the exhilaration of NRE. This will help reduce the chances of possible unintended consequences later on, when such friends and family feel neglected or abandoned to the exhilaration of this shiny new love interest.

3- Hold your Horses, don’t Plan far Ahead:

We have found that it is usually a better idea to limit your future planning for the first two years of your new relationship. NRE works magic to keep the certainty meter high for your decisions during its reign. You need to practice a rule of thumb that if you are in a relationship for 3 months, then plan only ahead for 3 months into the future. This can help save you from making such a life-changing commitment that may come unstuck later. Even if you feel like you’ve known them for ages, the reality is that you have only just started to know them. Taking it slow and steady will help you shape a better current and future relationship.

4- Know When you Need to Create some Personal Space:

New relationship energy is so overwhelming that it fills up all your senses. You should try to know when the feelings of joy are high and could make you feel unbalanced, and when you need some personal space. If your new relationship is overshadowing your personal life to the point that you aren’t able to carry out the basic functions of being an adult, then you should start to look after yourself before you burn out, or the relationship fizzles out.

Talk this out with your partner about your need to manage your personal living space. Have them understand that you have some responsibilities towards yourself. This might mean that you should try to take up some activities or hobbies to give yourself some ‘me’ time. You can try spending time with friends and family, exercising, music, or whatever else that works for you. So you can take a little break, and regain some sense of normality.

5- Reserve Some Time for Exclusively ‘you’:

This will be the toughest task to keep your addictive self, sane. It is very hard and painful to feel separated from the object of your sheer joy, but it is also a very necessary test to check whether this relationship has long-term potential.

Create some hours of the day when you are intentionally not in contact. That could be the time in your gym or your hobby of gardening. Try to pour some of that creative energy that is stirring up in you into other passions. Make sure that these are at those times which work for you and don’t disturb another person’s schedule.

Let the Energy Spread into The Rest of Your Life

There’s a lot of joy in NRE, and it is completely normal and good. The extra positivity you get from it can help you make pretty much everything better. Try to distribute this joy evenly in your work, friendships, other relationships, and mostly in your likely neglected passions.

If you have had other romantic relationships, then take the time to recall the experiences both good and bad, and try to assess what happened and what qualities your admired in the previous partner, and compare these to your new partner. This practical approachto being able to experience more joy in a new relationship will hold you in good stead, even though these tasks appear to be far too practical for assessing a romantic relationship.
Try them and see what happens. This pre planning could be just the thing you need to allow for experiencing NRE more sustainability, and being able to bring a positive burst of your energy into your entire life.

I wish you a healthy, happy, and long-lasting relationship to cherish!

How to Increase Positive Self-Concept During and After a Pandemic and Coronavirus Isolation

Celine Healy — Tue, 10 May 2022 19:05:56 +0000

You say: “Increase Positive Self-Concept” like those words have explosive meaning.

Hmm. What is self-concept let alone have a positive one?

The covid isolation period was killing me. It had given me so much time to reflect
on what is important to me. In life. In general.

We saw dozens of actors, performers, entertainers showing off their
skills at making fun videos on how to do this or that during coronavirus
isolation.

What did that do for me?

Well. It seemed to lower my self-concept even further.

It made me feel inadequate. That I don’t seem to have those
fun video skills. Or, in fact, have many creative skills at all.

The aim of this article is to find out what this ”self-concept” thing
is all about, because I may be over-reacting or just getting this wrong, when every time I see someone who appears to be more capable than me, I go into a long, slow, slide into feelings of lack of self-worth.

I may actually be happy, and don’t know it yet.

I am going to trawl YouTube and personal development blogs
to see what I can up with and will get back to you.

Speak soon…

Self-Concept and Self-Esteem

Back now.

This is what I found out.

Self-concept and self-esteem seem to be related.

Smith and Mackie (2007) defined self-esteem as follows:

“The self-concept is what we think about the self;
self-esteem is the positive or negative evaluations of the self as in how we feel about it.”

Ok. So, what that means to me is self-concept is an abstract thing. A concept.
An idea of who we are, or how we are in the world, e.g.

“I am good person.”
“I am doing the best I can.”
“I am intelligent and productive.”

Whereas, self-esteem appears to be this:
“Am I really a good person?”

“I feel inadequate most of the time.”
“There are so many more intelligent people out there, I am just kidding myself. “

Self-concept is also a conglomeration of deeply held beliefs, emotions, feelings, thoughts, interpretations and experiences which initially commence in early childhood.
(For a detailed explanation of this personal development topic on early childhood issues that impinge on self-esteem – see this article: Letting Go Guide here)

The most interesting factor that has become obvious from that definition is that, unfortunately, the majority of people view themselves as coming from a place of “lack”, of “being less” or “feeling inadequate”, and therefore, have a self-concept that is negative. And this leads to all kinds of issues.

The other concept to consider is the development of emotional intelligence. Emotions are the language your inner self, or soul, as they communicate to the body, to indicate how you feel and what action needs to be taken. Increase Positive Self-Concept If you are happy, fine. If you are not, then you need to take action of some kind to get back in balance.

So, part of self-growth and self-improvement is to develop emotional intelligence, which is the capacity of individuals to, not only recognize their own emotions and what they are trying to tell you, Increase Positive Self-Concept the body/mind, but also, to recognize the emotions of others, interpret them meaningfully and then use them as a guide to either, changing your thinking or behaviour, or to understand the actions of others. Increase Positive Self-Concept Understanding emotions help you to adapt to an environment to be able to achieve your own goals.

How Does Self-Concept Develop?

Increase Positive Self-Concept is the result of an organic process. It comes in blocks of information and interpretation. It comes in waves. And. If we are attuned to the intelligence of what our emotions are trying to communicate to us, then our self-concept would be in a continual state of growth.

The issue is that we are constantly self-monitoring this position. When we evaluate where we are and who we are based on those beliefs that we developed throughout childhood, we keep coming up short. Increase Positive Self-Concept External comparison with others, do not help. This evaluation results in how we value ourselves. Our self-esteem.

As stated above, our concept of self has developed over time, and which is intrinsically based on the attitudes, beliefs, experiences and interpretations of those experiences, from our primary care givers.

If these early childhood experiences were more positive, then our self- concept would tend to be more favorable, and this solid foundation would continue to serve us into the future, Increase Positive Self-Concept even if we are subjected to later life experiences that offer opportunities to knock us down.

On the other hand, if our early childhood experiences were more negative, then this would influence our concept of self throughout our lives. Increase Positive Self-Concept And, if we were to experience more negative events later in life, then we would not have that solid pillar of strength to be able to withstand our increased negative thoughts and
feelings about who we are, especially in comparison to others. We would always be living in doubt.

The question that now needs to be asked is this: is it possible to change our self-concept from negative to positive?

I believe that simple answer is: yes. However, how long that will take and what you might need to do, will vary from person to person.

How to Increase Positive Self-Concept

At the basis of our self-concept are our beliefs about ourselves, who we are, what we are capable of, our sense of worth and so on.

Positive beliefs are great. However, it is the negative beliefs about self which continually cause us grief.

So, part of the re-education process you might take is to be able to acknowledge which negative beliefs you might hold, and which ones keep cropping up most of the time which diminish your self-esteem, and therefore your concept of self.

One way of doing this is to identify what physical symptoms you are experiencing and work back to find out what underlying negative beliefs you have, Increase Positive Self-Concept or which values you are missing in your life or have not experienced much. Increase Positive Self-Concept (You can find out these on pp 120-121 of my book titled:
How to Boost Success in All Areas of Your Life)

In the literature, various researchers have identified up to 12 negative beliefs that are the bane of human existence. I will not go into these in detail, Increase Positive Self-Concept however, the most troubling negative beliefs and the effects thereof, Increase Positive Self-Concept that everyone experiences at some point in time throughout their lives include, from most prominent to least prominent:

I am unworthy
Constantly seeking love and approval
I’m not good enough
Compulsive trying to improve one’s circumstances or capabilities
I am powerless
Blaming others. Being a victim. Unconsciously setting up situations
for you to fail or lose.
I don’t belong
Seeking wholeness and always feeling different and feeling that you
need to confirm to fit in
I can’t trust myself or others
Seeking safety internally or from external forces.
I need to be perfect/ I am not allowed to be capable
Seeking peace. Compulsive need to fault finding. And.
Underachievement and lack of commitment.
I need to control myself in some way
Limiting yourself in some way to fit in. Not speaking up.
I am insignificant/ I don’t have the capacity
Trying to survive in various environments. Detaches from reality in order to survive. And. Comparing yourself to others and coming up short. Scared of people finding to that you do not have the capabilities.
There is a right way to do things/ That is the way things are

Intolerance. Seeking predictability. Rigid in outlook and ways of doing things. Accepting things without research. Giving up responsibility to research different ways that may be more useful.

So, the basis of being able to move out of your negative beliefs and into more positive states, is to work on at least the first two of these negative beliefs:
I am unworthy or I’m not good enough.

How Do You Work on The Most Troubling Negative Beliefs?

There are basically two ways:

Through internal work or through external work with the help of a therapist.

The internal route is the slowest, and it takes an enormous amount of self-reflection and acknowledgement. Increase Positive Self-Concept This means you need to be able to recognise every time you go into feeling lack of worth or not feeling good enough, and adjust your thoughts, feelings and behaviours.

The external route, via the help of a therapist helps you release these negative beliefs, and helps you get to that stage whereby you can go:
”Ah ha. Now I know what that means.”

In either route, you will need to come to that conscious recognition of what thoughts, feelings and behaviours are contributing to those negative beliefs.

However, in my experience, if you are able, and, as a starting place, I would always go with external help to commence your journey of self-improvement.

Way Forward

Knowing that there are negative beliefs that underlie your concept of self, and knowing that there are ways you can help yourself become more positive, what actions will you take to commence this journey?

Wishing you all the best in unravelling your best self Increase Positive Self-Concept is the result of an organic process. It comes in blocks of information and interpretation. It comes in waves.

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How to Heal the Body With Vibrational Sounds

Celine Healy — Tue, 10 May 2022 15:32:16 +0000

There are many kinds of vibrational sounds or frequencies. There are rays
from the sun that not only bring warmth, but also a sense of comfort.

There are laser beams that are used to heal or are used in cosmetic surgery.

There are sound waves that carry frequencies of noise and there are thought
waves that are frequencies that have an impact externally, and internally on
our wellbeing.

Frequencies are vibrations and vice versa.

Unfortunately, these vibrations or frequencies and can be used to manipulate
behavior for bad intent. However, we can also manipulate these vibrational
sounds frequencies for good intent.

History has shown us these facts:

In 1935 The Rockerfeller Foundation used sound frequencies for a war
on consciousness.
In 1939 Goebels, having an understanding of the possibility of manipulation of
sounds stated that the 440hz could force people to act in a certain way.
This frequency was known as The Luciferian Frequency or Satan’s Tone,
because it was used to turn people violent.
In 2022 the Police in Canberra ACT, Australia, used sonic sound which emits
harmful frequencies to disperse peaceful crowds at a rally.
Frequencies used by early Roman Christians used Gregorian chants to raise
vibrations and increase energy of the congregation.

This information is important because music has been known to penetrate the conscious and the subconscious. So, you can see that various opportunistic entities have used frequencies to manipulate thoughts, feelings and behaviors through mass formation psychosis.

This has been seen most recently with the main stream media who pushed the narrative: safe and effective for an untested medical procedure.

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Healing the Body With Vibrational Sounds

Could it be so easy?

Is it possible to heal the body with vibrational sounds?

What if my aches and pains, my negativity, my feelings of being out of control, my feelings of lack of security and feeling safe, my feelings of lack of love, could all be resolved through vibrational healing?

Healing with Vibration is, in effect, healing with sounds, sound waves, or frequencies.
These frequencies make us vibrate at a certain hertz. If our body aura is dense these
frequencies will oscillate at a low rate. If our body aura is light then the frequency will
oscillate at a higher rate.

A dense aura is the sum of all of the negative aspects in these energy fields, which
might include our thoughts, feelings, and what we do to our bodies in terms of food
we eat and any activity we might undertake.

Whereas a lighter aura means that included in our energy field are more positive aspects that we have included in our lives, such as: positive thoughts and feelings, more nourishing food and some moderate exercises we have included to relieve any tensions we have in our body/mind.

Many cultures use drums, bells or bowls to help alter people’s vibrations. In Europe in the 1950’s and 60’s, research undertaken by Ostrander and Schroeder titled: Super Learning, used specific music with a specific beat which helped relax the mind and which helps open up a child to activate their intuition and creative abilities.

This music is: Baroque. This music helped speed up a child’s learning capabilities and improved performance. The specific beat of baroque music, or sound wave frequency/vibration, activated these types of brain waves, called: alpha, delta and theta. These frequencies are more conducive to aiding the brain to relax.

So, the question remains, if a child’s learning and performance abilities can be improved with specific sound wave patterns, can these vibrations or frequencies, or sound waves, be utilized to actually heal the body?

In this particular article we will be looking at thought frequencies and how we use certain vibrational sounds to heal the body.

Let’s look at how to heal the body with vibrational sounds.

What is Vibrational Sound and How Does it Work?

Based on the notion that we are all energy matter and are made of the same stuff, and that how we communicate is that we transmit frequencies or vibrations form our thoughts through this matter.

We are like radio transmitters. We send and receive signals of frequencies. If our station is on a particular frequency, we will pick up these thought vibrations form others. We also send out signals and people who are on our frequency can pick up our thoughts.

So, if you are sending out negative unhappy thoughts then we will receive those thoughts back to our radio station and this could entrap us in a very unhappy place of victimhood.
So, part of the essence of how we can heal is through changing our thoughts to be happier and form there will attract happier thoughts.

Let’s now look at our thought brain waves, what they mean, and how we can manipulate them to improve our disposition.

Different Brain Wave Patterns of Vibrational Sounds

It has been discovered that there are four main categories of brain wave states, although in some literature there are five categories articulated. These states help guide our thought behavior.

These categories are:

Delta waves – frequency 3 – 5 Htz
Theta waves – frequency 3 – 8 Htz (You can experience these most often
in sleep or in a deep meditation)
Alpha waves – frequency 8 – 12 Htz
Beta waves – frequency 12- 38 Htz
Gamma waves – frequency 38 – 42 Htz

What do these brain waves do?

As humans we mostly operate at Beta brain waves, which are faster and which are associated with a state of increased mental activity, increased focus and concentration – we generally associate this state with a state of busyness.

This busyness can lead to increased stressed states because our mental facilities are running on overdrive.

Gamma waves are the fastest of the lot and are generally attributed to increased states of perception and consciousness.

It has been shown that higher frequencies in the body result in better health. It has also been shown that a normal healthy body has a frequency of 62–72 Mhz.

When the body drops below this frequency, we begin to get into illness and disease states.

It has been proven that if we want to become lass stressed and more creative, we need to move out of beta wave expression and into delta and theta. In delta and theta, these brain wave frequencies are those which we enter when we are falling asleep or are actually asleep.

This is where we regroup, process and repair during our sleep phase. It’s like settling any oxidative stress we have built up during the day. If we are constantly busy we lose control over the mind chatter and this can also lead us into stressful states.

What are the 4 types of brain waves?

What are Brainwaves?

Delta waves (. 5 to 3 Hz)
Theta waves (3 to 8 Hz) Theta brainwaves occur most often in sleep but
are also dominant in deep meditation.
Alpha waves (8 to 12 Hz)
Beta waves (12 to 38 Hz)
Gamma waves (38 to 42 Hz)

So, how can we use vibrational sounds to generate a better outcome for our brains without sleep?

Solfeggio Vibrational Sounds to Activate certain Moods and Feelings

It had been established many centuries ago that there were certain frequencies or hertz waves that can manipulate our moods, thoughts feeling an behaviour for the better.

The chap who investigate this was named: Hertz. Hence frequencies which are recognized into specific patterns are called hertz frequencies.

There are seven main categories which have been associated with certain chakras, although there have been more added over time.

The nine main categories are:

174 Hz relieves pain and stress
285 Hz heals tissues and organs – heals tissues and organs
396 Hz liberates you from fear and guilt – the benefits include: increasing a positive aura,
eliminates excessive negativity, increase focus and cognitive ability, releases stress and unnecessary fear, allows the mind to grow healthy thoughts. – liberates us from fear and guilt
417 Hz facilitates change- the benefits include: facilitate change
528 Hz for transformation and DNA repair- the benefits include: increase feelings of love which helps develop relationships, improves healing, helps reduce anxiety and mood swings, is associated with “Imagine” the song by John Lennon. For transformation and DNA repair
639 Hz reconnects you with your relationships – the benefits include: helps create strong loving bonds,
used to strengthen relationships, bringing peace of mind. Helps reconnect with your relationships
741 Hz helps provide solutions and self-expression – the benefits include: acts as a shield from negative thinking, develops a strong mindset, helps adjust the mind towards being more positive, clears and purifies energy, relieves physical and mental restrictions to remove toxins and electromagnets for increased health and wellbeing. Helps provide solutions and self-expression
852 Hz brings you back to a spiritual order- the benefits include: increasing focus, reducing mental grudges and feelings of hate, jealousy, and it helps release brain wave or relaxation, increases awareness

963 HZ creates room for oneness and unity. Known as “The frequency of the Gods” benefits include: helps awaken intuition, increases positive energy, helps reconnect with soul and striving energy, connects you with the spiritual world.
Why is 963 the God frequency? This specially activates the pineal gland which help remove mental fog and helps us mere mortals feel more connected to God.

After a few weeks of listening to these frequencies, you can see a resounding difference in your productivity, creativity and focus.

Some people experience heavy emotions and report crying or developing feelings of worry and stress. That’s your body and mind cleansing itself from negative energies.

So, what these vibrational sounds do with various frequencies is they help heal the body, mind, emotions and spirit.

So, if you wanted to change your mood or feelings and thoughts to feelings of love and rapport, you might listen to music or beats with a 438 Htz. Similarly, if you wanted to increase your focus and clarity you might listen to music with 963 Htz.

How to Heal the Body With Vibrational Sounds?

Out thoughts create our reality. If we are constantly bogged down, feeling unhappy or negative, then over time this negativity may commence as dis-ease. However, it can then transform into disease if not addressed early on.

So, if you can utilize a tools such as music with specific beats, we don’t have to wait around to change our thoughts or be asleep to gain the benefit of reduced brain wave activity. A particular beat can accelerate our progress big time.

Using music as a healing aid, via vibrational sounds, is an easy way to improve your mental and emotional health and wellbeing. In effect, it is the same as meditation.

How You Can Change Your Thoughts With Vibrational Sounds

Having read the above, what action will you take?
The internet has many free options to download short versions of all of the different Solfeggio Sounds.

I personally listen to those. However, I have two Cd’s that I prefer and these are titled:
– Music for the Mozart Effect – a group of CD’s to help you move out of
busyness and into creativity, and

Super Learning for Concentration, Sound Therapy, Memory, and as a Study Aid.

After listening to two sessions your brain will just give up and give in and the speed with which you achieve a state of relaxation and increased focus is amazing.

Use whatever vibrational sounds are available to help you heal your body and mind.
Wellness That Works s about offering simple self-care strategies that work to improve wellbeing. Using vibrational sounds is one of those helpful strategies I hope you will use.
Wishing you well on your journey to self-improvement.

Blessings!

Relationship Wellness How to Build Healthy Relationships

Celine Healy — Fri, 29 Apr 2022 03:05:23 +0000

Relationship Wellness How to Build Healthy Relationships

Relationships can be formed in all shapes and sizes. Whether your relationship with a person is familial, platonic, or romantic, it must always support and nourish you.

However, this is often easier said than done. Despite their best efforts, people often falter regarding relationship wellness, mostly just because life gets busy and other urgent things take priority.

A healthy relationship makes a huge difference in our well-being and mental health.

But crafting said healthy Relationship Wellness takes time and effort. Let’s go through the different things you can do to ensure your bonds with your loved ones are strong.

What Makes a Relationship Healthy?

People form bonds for several reasons, and every relationship is different in its own way. Part of what defines a good relationship is the ability to share a common goal.

This means, at every point, involved individuals know what they want from the relationship and where they want it to go. You’re only going to know this if you spend time having honest conversations with your partner/friend/family member.

There are a few traits that all healthy relationships have in common. Stay true to these principles, and your Relationship Wellness will stay exciting, fulfilling, and meaningful. They’ll ensure you and your loved ones face all challenges as a unit.

– Showing Respect and Kindness

Every individual deserves to be treated with respect and kindness. Reminding yourself when your relationship with a person is in its early stages can help you build a healthy relationship.

Remember, arguments are bound to happen, but there’s a stark difference between falling out, leading to disagreement, and mistreating a person.

Calling each other names and cursing, emotionally manipulative behavior, threatening, or purposefully trying to hurt a person’s feelings are all toxic traits you need to address and fix regardless of your Relationship Wellness with the person.

Maintain a Profound Emotional Connection

Each of you should make the other person feel, heard, understood and loved. There’s a difference between feeling loved and being loved. When a person feels loved, they feel valued and accepted.

On the other hand, some relationships get stuck in peaceful coexistence. In this kind of relationship, partners can go days without fighting, but they don’t open up or connect either.

While it may seem that everything’s okay on the surface, the lack of an emotional connection only adds to the distance.

– Taking Things Slow

When the relationship is new, it’s essential to recognize your partner may want to take certain steps at a different pace than you. For instance, after you’ve connected with a person through a dating platform online, you may be ready to meet them, but they may still prefer talking on the phone.

The most important aspect is that you and the person you’re with feel no pressure in doing something before they’re ready.

Qualities of Relationship Wellness

How you go about building healthy Relationship Wellness is when both parties are willing to put in the time effort needed to grow and develop trust. It takes patience, honesty, trust, respect, open communication and the willingness to compromise.

However, there are several qualities that are more essential than others and these include:

Having open communication – this means being willing to sit without judgment and allow the other person to express what they are feeing, without jumping the gun and feeling hurt or rejected.
Having the ability to listen without judgment and immediately throwing away your power and jumping in to feel like a victim. Each person needs to be able to hear and feel they are being heard.
If issues come up then each person needs to be willing to work through these disagreements.
Disagreements mean that the person feeling offended is coming for a different world view, so this position needs to be expressed so that the other person can see their perspective.
Close relationships bring up all kinds of feelings of insecurity, inadequacy, feelings of not being good enough, the possibility of feeling rejected if the other person finds out who you really are, and this vulnerability can lead to an imbalance of intimacy.
So, a healthy relationship needs to have a mutual level of intimacy because if this is out of balance there will always be feelings of mistrust from the person who feels they are giving more in the relationship.
And. The overriding quality in relationship wellness is trust. If there is little or no trust in the persons character or values, then the relationship can go downhill rapidly.
Unfortunately, this lack of trust can be generated by the person who has security issues, however, rational or irrational these fears really are.
If the person who is constantly being accused of something they are not actually doing, this can lead to relationship breakdowns. So, mutual trust is a really big issue.

Wrapping Up

Every relationship is about developing trust and enjoying a person’s company. That may look different for everyone. However, maintaining and creating healthy relationships is vital to your overall well-being.

Focusing on relationship wellness will positively impact your physical and mental health in several ways, so it’s worth the time and the effort!

If this article has triggered any issues that you might need to look at in your relationship, we suggest you seek expert help in order to resolve them, because nothing is more precious than a conscious and meaningful relationship.

Untangling Complicated Relationships: A Perspective

Celine Healy — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 20:26:05 +0000

Relationships – despite how they start out, they have their challenges. In other words, when two people try to coexist, there will be moments where there will be arguments and differences to work through. In some instances, unaddressed challenges can become complications.

Complicated relationships are more than unresolved problems, long distances, trust issues, and indecisiveness. This is why it’s necessary that both people make it a priority to deal with it and learn how to navigate a complicated relationship, especially if they want to stay in it.

While there is no set solution for untangling complicated relationships, some things can help. Let’s discuss them here.

Solutions for Complicated Relationships

Identify the Problem

The reason why a relationship may seem complicated relationships depends on what you identify as a problem. Most of the time, the other person may not be aware of a problematic opinion or something that they do that is a deal-breaker for you. Write down everything you can find about your relationship that may be causing a problem.

Some of these problems may be associated with your attitude, and this is when you’ll have to hold up your end of the bargain.

Understand If You’re Contributing to the Problem

Think about those recent interactions with your partner that became heated arguments. Do you pay full attention to your partner when they share their feelings with you? Have you been more focused on your insecurities? Are you doing your best to support your partner?

On many occasions, paying too much attention to yourself creates a deceitful impression of a relationship that has lost the spark. In a situation like this, you’ll be upset because of something someone said to you in the past.

Don’t Mix the Good and the Bad

When people address problems, they tend to generalize (since it’s easier) and avoid zeroing into an issue that triggers an argument.

Is this bad?

Definitely. When you start focusing on the bigger picture, you stack the bad on top of the good. Avoid walking down this pathway, and try isolating your complicated relationships problems. This way, you’ll have a clear idea of what you have to work on.

Create An Environment in Which You Two Can Talk Freely

Frequently, the lack of communication, or meaningful communication becomes one of the key factors people have to end relationships. It’s a problem that starts compounding when one person in the relationship starts holding things back, even if these are non-verbal clues.

Communication is key for Discussing Problems

If you think that the inability to communicate is why your complicated relationships has become complicated, you should try to solve this problem as fast as possible. Discussing problems that have gone unaddressed can be a liberating feeling.

Have a Support System You Can Rely On

Sometimes, talking about your relationship with a person you can trust can help you organize your thoughts. People who know you and the kind of complicated relationships you’re in may be aware of your problems. In some cases, people hide their problems from the people they know to avoid embarrassment. Your friends can offer you advice on what you can change about your relationship.

This way, you’ll get the courage to talk about the way you feel with your partner.

Summary and Way Forward

Relationships are complicated at the best of times. However, when you add further complications such as:

Not really understanding the issues
Not acknowledging that it is not all them, that you too be contributing to any issues
That when issues come up many people default to what is bad or not working, rather than focusing on the positives
Tat if you are able to create a safe space to talk about your issues then trust and vulnerability will eb developed. People need to feel safe in being able to discuss whatever is on their mind, without feeling that the other person will be offended and will walk out of the relationship.

These are very common issues especially if you add distance or jobs that require a lot of away me. However, if all else fails, and you are genuinely committed to maintaining your relationship, however, complicated, then I would recommend speaking with a professional.

Blessing on your relationship journey.

What Really Matters?

Celine Healy — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 06:21:38 +0000

It’s not too late.

We are still in February.

Are you beginning to get the feeling that this year is going to be the same as all of the others? Chugging along. Doing the same old things. Not getting ahead? Don’t know what really matters to you or what really matters in life?

Do you feel that sign — the dread, deep down in the pit of your stomach?

Are you already feeling doomed to a life not lived fully? No real joy? No prospect of changing how you go about life?

You probably didn’t even bother setting any New Year’s goals. Why? Because you never, ever achieve them anyway.

There’s still time.

There is a solution if you approach this dilemma slightly differently.

Out of chaos comes order. Out of trauma life can change instantly.

When confronted with issues that can affect every one of us at some point, life can take a different turn. For the worse if you view it that way. For the better if you resolve to use it to your advantage.

Crisis brings about major turning points in our lives. The crisis generally involves loss. Loss of a partner, a pet. A death of someone close. Fire. Flood. Economic downturn leading to redundancy, job loss. Loss of income, of your house, even your health.

When trying to assess what really matters to you, you might try doing these two things: answer the following questions, and see how you feel when you address these particular issues.

What Is The Worst Thing That Can Happen To You ( What Really Matters )?

When assessing the current status of your life, we seldom compare our situation to the billions of people who are starving.

Who can barely scrape together enough clothes for their children to wear. Those who have no job, no money, no reliable source of food. Those who are living in dire conditions, who are fighting disease.

We seldom think of those who are so dispirited that life really does not seem worth living.

No, we don’t think of those things. Those desperate people. We don’t realize how much better off we are in our jobs, in our homes, enjoying relatively good health.

To find out love what really matters to you, try to imagine the three worst things that could happen to you. What would they be? Why? How would the loss make you feel?

I know this is hard to do but bear with me. It will be worth it in the end.

Here are some ideas to help you put into perspective how your current life situation is compared to others who are less fortunate than you.

What If You Lost Your Job?

People would say, “Just get another one.”

But what if you lost your job because someone spread nasty rumors? Rumors that weren’t actually true, yet you were tarnished with that rumor. In fact, you received a very bad review. And, that review followed you around. Because at the next job interview, you were asked why you left.

What would you say?

If you try to justify the position, the new, prospective employer, might feel that you’re not a safe bet.

If this situation continues and you end up being rejected over and over for your ideal position, what would become of you?

Would you lose your self-confidence? Would your self-esteem be battered? Would you lose hope and slip into a mental fog of lacking in self-worth?

Quite possibly, all three.

You might become trapped in this cycle. You most probably will try for a lesser position. Something out of your skill set. Something less meaningful. What really matters Something that you can adapt your feelings of inadequacy to, such that it becomes a self-fulfilling cycle.

Most people’s identity is tied up in their jobs, their career, their position.

If you ask someone what they do, they will automatically tell you: “I’m a lawyer.” “I’m a policeman.” “I’m a nurse.” They identify with what that position holds in society and what that degree of responsibility means and what that authority engenders in the minds of the enquirer.

When we lose our jobs, quite often we can also lose our identity.

If you did lose your job, try and work out what that would mean for you. And be courageous enough to ask yourself: “Why would I feel that way?”

The “why” will steer you towards that which you value most in life.

What If You Lost Your House?

Having a house, owing this house, paying off the mortgage, gives people a sense of satisfaction. It makes people feel secure in that at least they have a sanctuary. What really matters A place they can call their own. A place to hide out or be able to do what they want to do, when and how they want to do it.

But — losing your job could very well also lead to losing your house.

Where would you go?

Could you possibly move to that other, awful suburb, where the rents are lower, but you don’t identify with the types of residents who live there?

Would you move to the country where rents are much cheaper, yet the prospects of a “real” job might be so much less?

Losing your house — a place where you have left your mark, your colors, your design, your flair — can also lead to a loss of self-esteem, self-confidence and identity.

It’s as though you lose your place in the world. You might feel displaced — homeless, even.

So, if you lost your home, how would that make you feel? Examine that feeling and discover why you might feel that way in that crisis.

What If You Lost Your Health?

Interestingly enough, this is the last thing people consider.

If you were confronted with serious illness or disease, or an accident, your life would change dramatically. What would you do? How would you cope? Would your self-worth be shattered, and why?

Quite often, the first thing that happens when confronted by serious health issues is that people consider how other people might view them, their position, their status, their place in the world.

People seem to revere status and position first. What will people think of me? Will they think I’m a failure? Not good enough? No longer a valuable member of society or the workplace?

Unfortunately, appearance, whether actual/physical or assumed via your career, is what most people think of first.

These attitudes can absolutely ruin your health. It’s like a stealth virus — sneaking up on you. Eroding your self-confidence. Your worth. Your value.

These negative beliefs, feelings and attitudes are the very basis of stress. They continually erode your core, your inner being. What really matters Why? Because we have become a society that values external trappings, external beauty, external visibility of success.

It’s a sickness. It’s stress. And, stress is a disease. Not one that many people articulate as such. But nonetheless all-pervasive.

If we are not happy within ourselves, then we seek to gain happiness by external means. This unhappiness can lead to ill health. To disease.

So, if you lose your job, and you lose your house, then you lose your self-worth, most probably you will begin to lose your physical health as well.

Lifetime Priorities

So, when trying to assess what really matters to you, imagine the scenario of the worst thing you can think of — and there may be a few — and see how you feel about that happening. If you feel strongly about it then ask yourself, “Why am I feeling that way?”

In this way you’ll get to those experiences that you value most. That matter most to you if you lost them.

Decide: Is your job important to you? Then make sure that you do what’s necessary to ensure you keep that. Try to up-skill to remain on top of your area. Learn communication and coaching techniques to make you a better listener. What really matters Search out people around you, who you can offer to help. When you change yourself the circumstances around you will change, as if by magic.

Is your house important to you? Then make sure you secure this asset in whatever way possible. Make sure you have income protection insurance or tied you over in case of loss of job or income. Along the way, save sufficient in a separate bank account to cover personal expenses for up to six months.

Is your health important to you? If so, decide that you will do something about the stresses, the negative beliefs you hold, the substances you are putting into your body. What really matters Change your beliefs. Change your attitudes. Change your eating patterns.

By doing those things, you will have decided what really matters to you.

Now is the time to prioritize and de-clutter your life. Focus on those issues, people, and experiences that are the most important to you.

Working out what really matters helps you focus back on what is important. What motivates you and keeps you inspired. It can short-cut your success as you cut out the clutter.

Start today as this process is liberating. Narrows down your choices. Gives you hope. And. Most of all, freedom.

3 Steps To Stay In Control

Celine Healy — Wed, 27 Apr 2022 06:18:33 +0000

You feel life’s like a top-spin.

Your life’s spinning out of control.

You feel overwhelmed. Too many things to do and not enough time!

It feels like chaos. An. It seems to be getting worse.

What to do to stay in control?

You’ve read dozens of lists on what to do to regain control. But there’s something missing. Something stopping you. You cannot seem to take the first step.

Being out of control. Feeling like there’s no bus stop anywhere near, is the result of huge stress impacting on your life. Understanding the elements of what’s driving your stress will enable you to gain back the control you desire.

Taking a three-brain approach will give you the tools to resolve this conflict.

How to Gain Control?

The three-brain approach involves the gut, the heart and the head.

Reversing how you approach dissolving the stress that creates your control issues can bring huge change, great relief and a happier way forward.

Stress used to be thought of as purely emotional. Some people thought it was merely mental. Others asserted it was a physiological response to a stimulus.

New evidence indicates it is all three.

The three-brain approach is this.

You have a thought.

You attach an emotion to that thought and then feel that emotion.

You then take action. Most people’s behaviour under stress involves putting something into their mouth: eating, drinking, smoking, taking medication or drugs. Most likely, something sweet or eating junk food.

We self-punish because we become overwhelmed.

The overwhelm is the result of a physical and chemical reaction. Stress releases hormones, cortisol. It floods our body. It makes us feel out of control.

No! it’s not in your mind! It’s a physical body reaction due to chemicals flooding your body!

If we don’t do anything about this, this bodily reaction, together with the bad food habits we have created, this will lead to gut imbalances.

That’s why the first step in the three-brain approach is to…

1. End Your Physical Distress!

The gut is like a separate village of good and bad critters, If we continue to ignore our stressor triggers and continue to eat junk food (any bad food choices), eventually, the bad will outweigh the good.

We then create inflammation, infections and activate dormant viruses. We create allergies, PH imbalances.

We also create a sluggish metabolism due to an overload of heavy metal toxins.

If you are human and living on this planet in this lifetime, you will have ingested: chemicals, fumes, sprays, been exposed to plastics, computer screen emissions and so on.

It is not possible to escape these toxins which impact our daily lives, stealthily.

Research now indicates that this village of critters can create moods such as depression, inadequacy, overwhelm and feeling out of control.

This village has its’ own mind. It can create the chaos, the desperate sugar and food cravings that keep us stuck.

So, the first step in regaining control is to STOP bombarding your gut with toxic, non-food. Then, make the decision to do a detox. Then choose clean, natural, whole foods.

Your body/mind will love you for it!

2. Reactivate Your Heart With Positive Emotions

Your heart is the processing unit of your feelings.

You have a thought.

You decide whether it is good or bad.

Then you attach an emotion to that thought.

The body then releases chemicals/hormones attached to that specific emotion. The hormones generate feelings.

These feelings are processed through the heart.

It’s like pumping blood. Your feelings are pumped throughout the body/mind.

The depth of the feeling, whether positive or negative, depends on what memories of experiences you have stored within your body/mind.

Your feelings have been ‘learned’.

You have been conditioned by your family of origin. The experiences, attitudes and beliefs you have had have come from patterns of behaviour, of expression, during your early childhood.

They are ingrained unless you have learned how to react to life differently. These are habits.

When a stressor trigger is activated, you automatically respond based on the pattern of stored memories. You react.

You do not have to think about it. Your body goes into this particular pattern of response.

Most stress responses are negative. They are based on our beliefs. One of the most widely held and deeply rooted negative belief that most people have is: ‘I am not good enough’.

If you are experiencing stress on a continuous basis, and the basis of that stress is the belief that you are “not good enough”, e.g. you’re overweight, you are constantly unlucky on love, you get overlooked for promotion, you feel insecure about something, then the emotion that is driving this feeling if “fear”.

Fear makes us feel overwhelmed and out of control. It can cause chaos in your life.

So, the way to reactivate the heart is to feed it daily with positive emotions. And. Change how you respond to stress.

What? You want me to consciously feel “good enough”?

No. Too hard!

You see.

When people love in fear and are constantly stressed out and feel out of control, they breathe incorrectly. They gasp for air. They do not get enough oxygen throughout their body/mind. Their central nervous system is taught and tense. They are like a spring coil ready to go off at any time. At the slightest impulse.

Retraining yourself to breathe correctly will relax your central nervous system. Help nourish the body with more oxygen. This then will give you a sense of having more time because you are no longer tense.

You will be able to stand back and observe.

You will be able to choose your feelings.

Choose how you react or whether you will react to a stressor trigger.

You will have gained back control over mind-set.

Control over your life!

3. Always Change Your Mindset Last!

In most articles you will find this as a first step.

For me, it is too hard to do. It takes enormous amounts of willpower. Willpower takes conscious effort.

You are the way you are and thinking the thoughts you have, due to your protective subconscious mind.

It wants to keep you safe. Just the way you are now. The subconscious is thousands of times more powerful than the conscious mind.

So, a different approach is needed.

Your head. Your brain. Your mind is a processing unit. You have thoughts. We don’t know exactly where those thoughts come from. They just seem to float by.

We get into trouble when we grab hold of a thought and attach a meaning to it.

For example — here is a fact, a thought: Tom got promoted over me. If your beliefs and past experiences have a habit of attaching this kind of meaning to that thought: “I have been overlooked. Therefore, I’m not good enough” — this then will lead you down the path of emitting molecules of a fearful, inadequate feeling.

These negative feelings create the release of stress hormones, which lead to flooding the body with cortisol, which can lead to feelings of overwhelm and being out of control. Especially if we you do that often.

We then continue our cycle of self-punishment: thinking negative thoughts, creating negative feelings and destroying our gut with bad food and drink choices.

The key to gaining control over the metal aspect, in effect, changing your mindset is, pretty much, not to do that at all to start with.

In order to gain control over your mind you need to:

– Change your physiology first by changing what and how you eat — this creates long-term gut imbalance issues

– Learn how to breathe correctly, breathing in positive emotions as you go — this retrains your default position to be more positive

– then, finally, as a last step, you will be able to change your mindset.

You do not have to grab hold of thoughts as they float by.

You do not have to attach meaning/feelings to these thoughts.

You will be able to stand back and observe and then choose what you do after that.

In this way you really will have gained total control over your life. The only thing you really have control over is you, your life and how you live it.

Taking these steps is the best way to achieve that!

Moving Forward. Brimming with Health and Vitality. Taking an Easier Path.

In trying to gain control over your life, there is a process to go through.

Most people start by trying to change their mindset, when, in reality, if you are stressed out from being out of control, this is the last thing that you can do, focus! You simply can’t! It takes too much effort and willpower.

Take the easier path. Feeling better emotionally and physically is the way to go. The mind will automatically follow.

Imagine what your life will be like: brimming with health, vitality and energy. Able to do the things that seem to out of your control at present. Having clarity, being able to focus, able to set and achieve goals!

Taking the steps in a slightly different order than you have been told, will bring you the control

How to Heal the Body Mentally and Emotionally

Celine Healy — Fri, 18 Mar 2022 06:02:57 +0000

Have you ever heard of someone dying with a broken heart?
This is very unusual but it happens. Extreme emotional distress like depression, anger, and fear has a major impact on our physical health which causes these kinds of emotional and mental illnesses.

Although broken heart syndrome is something similar to a heart attack, it is not a heart attack. The physical conditions include: shortness of breath and chest pain. But, underlying these physical symptoms, is the very real possibility, that the actual reason is emotional and mental stress.

In short, our body doesn’t only get sick with physical conditions. Underlying emotional issues can create mental conditions as well, and also create great distress on our overall health.

Today our life is full of emotional threats. These types of issues include: the need to keep up with society, fear of being left behind, the desire of having good relationships, as well as work pressure, and these can all provoke different combinations of mental and emotional stress.

Many people are governed by their emotions without knowing that this is happening. These causes push our bodies towards unhealthy conditions.

In order to be able to heal successfully and holistically, we need to have an understanding of the underlying physical responses during a stressful event, and what part emotions play in our overall health.

When a stressful event occurs, our bodies, through the mechanism of the subconscious mind, the limbic system, automatically respond to this as a threat. Heal the Body Mentally The threat can be perceived or real. This sets off a cascade of physical, mental and emotional responses that enable our automatic responses to be evaluated, to see if the threat is real.

If it is real then we need to take specific action. If it is not real then our body/mind resets to a moral position.

How we are alerted to this threat is through the emission of emotions. Feelings have
certain chemical attached. So, this is a combined effort on the part of our body/mind to alert us to threats. So, this means that our emotions are that which “talk” to us and tell us how to behave.

In effect, emotions are the language of the body. This means that if we want to be able to heal effectively, we need to take notice of our emotions, because if we don’t this neglect can lead to both physical and mental health issues later on.

Hence the question that arises here is how to heal the body mentally and emotionally?

How do Emotions Affect Your Health?

To reiterate, when a stressful event occurs, our body reacts to the assumed
danger and triggers a chain of emotions even before the person becomes aware. Our emotions are automatic responses. They are governed by the subconscious mind. This is the reason why our emotions are not under our conscious control. They appear whether we like it or not.

For example, George is a victim of emotional and mental distress. Unbeknown to him, his emotions are triggering his medical conditions, which he is unable to explain. In a recent situation, the stress trigger event waswhen he wasn’t able to buy his favorite gadget. He loves a particular brand and this brand produces an expensive chain of electronics and communicational gadgets. He wanted to buy the latest model of this gadget which was recently released. However, it is very expensive, and he really cannot afford it.

On the surface it appears that something as simple as George’s frustrated desire of buying an expensive gadget, triggered a mixture of emotions such as sadness, humiliation, anger, anxiety, and helplessness. This also made changes in his physical condition and affected his health.

George also had a history of gastrointestinal conditions. Although he had a feeling that these stomach conditions have to do something with his stress and anxiety, deeply held emotional issues, he was unaware that these conditions were the cause of his intense pains. Whenever he saw someone using the same gadget he desired, he felt down and humiliated and all of a sudden, he felt intense pain in his stomach and unease. Because he had never given attention to his emotions, he had no idea what he needed to do, to feel better.

In such situations, you need to understand what is the root cause of your problem.
And, in most cases, the underlying cause is a deeply held “unexpressed emotion” that has been festering inside for many years. Because the person has a current trigger, they do not associate it with a previous emotion they were not able to express at the time, and since this emotion has been building up, it is ready to explode at the slightest issue.

Many people keep taking medications and supplements and still feel they are not healthy. This is due to those “unexpressed emotions” which underly their emotional and mental states. When you are able to express your emotions freely, they will dissipate, and you will become emotionally and mentally strong, and your physical body will be able to recover and heal efficiently and effectively.

How to Heal the Body Mentally And Emotionally.

To be in perfect health or to heal your body properly, you need to heal yourself emotionally and mentally as well. Here are a few tips and practices to help you how to heal mentally and emotionally.

Heal the Body and Socialize Yourself:

In this electronic era, calls and social networking have their place. Having physical social activities have its impact. Socializing more with people and having face-to-face conversations can boost your mood and help you in easing stress levels. According to Van der Kolk:

“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health; safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives.”

Psychology says that face-to-face social contact reduces the risk of depression.

Heal the Body with an Active Daily Routine:

Being active is great for the mind as well as it is for the body. Having an active daily routine like exercising and engaging in physical activities can make a remarkable difference. It can help you reduce your stress, improve your memory, boost your positive emotions, and help you in having a better sleep.

Heal the Body by Pleasuring Your Senses:

Everyone responds to sensory input differently. Does listening to good music calm your emotions? Does having a quiet time soothe your nerves? How about taking a walk in a park and listening to the sounds of nature? Try experimenting with yourself to find the best way which can work for you.

Heal the Body by Focusing on Positivity:

Staying positive and focusing on positive things is a necessity for good mental and emotional health. It is advised to focus on positivity as you progress in a day. Take time to relax and make notes about even little things. This will help you later when you feel down and need a boost.

Heal the Body by Eating a Healthy Diet:

Eating a healthy diet helps to support strong mental health. Brain healthy diet includes fatty fish which are rich in omega-3, walnuts, cashew nuts, peanuts, avocado, beans, leafy green vegetables like spinach, kale, and brussels sprouts, and fresh fruits, especially berries. Try to include these in your daily routine for better mental health.

Heal the Body and Don’t Compromise on Your Sleep:

Sleep is crucial for overall body health. According to research people who take less sleep are prone to experience more depression and frustration. It is necessary to take proper eight to nine hours of sleep for better mental and physical health.

Heal the Body by Living Purposefully:

To have a peaceful mind you should try to be purposeful and productive. Don’t do

things because you think you should be doing it, but do things that are purposeful and rewarding for you as well as enjoyable and you love doing it.

For example, engage in work that makes you feel useful and worthy. Enhance relationships and spend some quality time with people who matter to you, whose company makes you feel happy and rejoicing. Volunteer for community programs that makes you feel connected.

All these things help to calm your mind and give you happy and positive emotions hence, participating in boosting your physical and mental health.

Heal the Body by Practicing Relaxation Methods:

To reduce stress levels and anxiety, many people prefer to practice relaxation methods such as yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises. These help to reduce mental and emotional stress and help in boosting overall health.

There are some very helpful exercises and practices defined that you can see in
my latest book titled: “How to Manifest Your Desires”.

Way Forward:

According to experts, negative emotions, mental stress, and feelings of helplessness and hopelessness can create chronic stress which further leads to poor physical health. This includes unbalanced body hormones, depletion of brain chemicals required for happiness, and this then damages the immune system.

Science has confirmed that mental stress and emotions can shorten our telomeres, The DNS’s “end caps”, which causes us to age more quickly. Hence, if you’ve tried self-help and stress management techniques, you should seek professional health. They can help you come up with a treatment plan and procedures to boost your mental and physical health.

So, knowing that health is affected by our emotions and that when these emotions are left “unexpressed”, they can cause irreparable damage both mentally and emotionally, my challenge to you is this: if you have had an on-going health issue which never seems to clear up, what action are you going to take to address this and finally put it to bed?

3 Ways to Increase Positive Self-Concept and Self-Esteem

Celine Healy — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:18:08 +0000

Why would I be thinking of ways to increase self concept and self-esteem?

Because I am all cooped up in lock-down and seem to be going through patches of chaos. Stuff keeps coming up.

All of this extra time in isolation, and seeing entertainers and others put up smart, clever and funny videos of them doing “hilarious and creative stuff”, has brought out some feelings of inadequacy.

In essence, you could say, when I compare myself to others, who are cleverer, my self-concept and self-esteem seem to reduce.

Now. I don’t want to harp on the negative, so I am just going to give some information I discovered, so you can see if you identify with this topic as well.

Firstly, let’s look at how self-esteem and self concept are related.

How Self-Esteem and Self-Concept Are Related

Smith and Mackie (2007) defined self esteem as follows:

“The self concept is what we think about the self; self esteem is the positive or negative evaluations of the self as in how we feel about it.”

How we think about ourselves, our self-concept, is derived from our self-image. Our self-image evolves from two aspects: our personal identity, and our social identity.

Our personal identity is made up of: our beliefs, our personality traits, and our various quirks and characteristics.

Our social identity evolves from the responses we receive from others, (whether positive or negative) and how we identify with external groups or collectives: our church, our communities, the people at work and so on.

Necessarily, if we have deeply held negative beliefs about our sense of self-worth, our goodness, our adequacy, or our worthiness of love, then our self-concept will be low or lacking.

If we receive negative feedback or responses from the people who we feel are important in our lives, and of whom we take notice, then this lack of affirmation can begin us down.

Another way of looking at how self-concept and self-esteem are related is this.

The picture of self-concept evolves from our self-image, as mentioned above. The self-image evolves from how we view our: physical characteristics, our personality traits and our social roles.

If we constantly compare ourselves to others, and measure up as being inadequate, then out self-esteem will be reduced.

If we expect others to give us positive response often, this expectation can lead to deflation when we receive negative response instead.

So, in essence, self-esteem is how we value ourselves, irrespective of our comparisons and our expectations that others should feed our egos.

If we constantly rely on others for our acceptance of self and our worth, then we will continue to devalue ourselves. Then our self-concept gets battered.

From that assessment of “value” that underpins self-esteem, we develop a picture of ourselves, our identity our self-concept.

Let’s look at three simple ways to increase our self-esteem and hence our self-concept.

Ways to Increase Positive Self-Image

1. This first recommendation comes from being more aware of your state of mind and how you feel at the time.
This is a technique often used in counselling and it is called:

What that means is: acknowledge that you have that thought/feeling/or unwanted behaviour. Identify where that
feeling is in your body. Give it a shape or a colour. Expand the feeling and really feel the intensity of that feeling.

Then dive into it and allow it to dissipate by breathing into it.

It will dissolve. The say “thank you” to your body for allowing this to be resolved. It does work.

2. Take baby steps towards identifying what the simplest, most effective and smallest step you could take right now to improve your life.

During coronavirus isolation many people have adopted things like:

drinking an extra 3 glasses of water each day.
getting up from your desk/computer and doing some stretches
each half hour.
Listening to some soothing music at some time during the day to disconnect from fears and feelings of inadequacy. Give yourself a mental break. Decide on one tiny action and do it as often as you can.

3. This is one of my favourites. Scientific evidence has proven that sound therapy heals the body/mind. It has often been Go to YouTube and type in something like this: healing for the vagus nerve.

Or, sound therapy. Or healing the body with sound, and, you will come up with dozens of short videos to follow along with. Check out YouTube for Videos on Vagus Nerve Stimulation

The results I had from listening to this for about 14 minutes was instant pain relief in my back. For best results listen every day for a week.

What Way Will You Choose to a Healthy Self-Concept?

I am all about less pain and struggle in life.

At the basis of all of our problems are our issues with low self-esteem
and low self concept.

There are simple ways to increase your self concept and self-esteem.

Choose one of the above. Or. Make up your own.

I am sure you will gain enormous benefits, as I have.

Best wishes on your journey.

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How to Achieve a Confident State

Celine Healy — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 13:00:14 +0000

Are you in a situation where you know you aren’t as confident as you’d like to be? But. You don’t know why this is so. Or what to do about it?

I’ve been in that situation myself.

However, fortunately, I discovered those key elements that were impinging upon mu success. And. I was able to do something about that.

Let’s look at how confidence arises and what you can do to resolve any underlying issues affecting that state.

How to Achieve a Confident State

When you are happy, focused and free from stress you will be confident.

If you are depressed or anxious, or somewhere in-between, it is not possible for you to feel fully confident.

Confidence is a State of Being

It is a state of belief of certainty, that individuals have, at a particular moment, about their ability to succeed.

It is a state of being that most people aspire to.

Let me go through the elements of what makes up your confidence level, or lack thereof.

Knowledge and explanation of these individual elements will lead to greater understanding of why you are not in a confident state, most of the time.

And.

If you desire to change your current position then you will need to deal with one or more of these combined elements that keep you stuck, or exacerbate your downwards spiral, into feeling out-of-control.

Evaluation of Your Level of Confidence

At the basis of all downward spirals of confidence is stress. Understanding this will lead you to choose a better way forward. (See video for explanation –

You are stressed if:

-You are struggling to achieve something

– you are straining against something or someone, some principle or belief

You are stressed if:

– if you are stuck in a rut and unable to make decisions

– If you are coming from a place of “lack” – feeling inadequate, or not having the resources needed to succeed

You are stressed if:

– If you have pain or tension anywhere in your body/mind

So, you can see that this all-encompassing definition results in this sentence:

STRESS is at the Basis of ALL of Our States

If that is so, then being in a stressed state leads us to have negative feelings and emotions about ourselves and others.

These negative emotions can result in negative states… remembering that a state is having a belief of certainty, that individuals have, at a particular moment, about their ability to succeed.

Having a negative state will result in you not feeling you can succeed.

The Two Most Prominent Negative States:Depression and Anxiety

If you are constantly going over the past, trying to change the outcome by repeating statements such as: “if only I’d said or done this, whatever that is…” This will result in a state of depression. It is about the repetition of these types of statements.

Now. Behind this state, the types of negative emotions that can lead to a state of depression include: guilt, anger, rage, sadness, doubt, suppression and so on… the list could be endless… but they all start will fear.

At the other extreme, if you are constantly fearful of the future, and say things like:” what if this happened or that happened…” This will result in a state of anxiety, because of the repetitive words, and the fact that you are trying to control everything around you, to help take away your fear.

The types of negative emotions that can lead to a state of anxiety are: fearfulness of the future, overwhelm, impatience, frustration, untrusting, being alarmist, and so on.

These types of emotions and states lead to our self-image.

Self- Image is Made Up of Two Parts

The internal factors and the external factors.

The internal factors are driven by how we feel about ourselves.

When you continually repeat negative thoughts and emote those negative feelings, you embed synapses in the brain, that keep you locked into certain behaviour response patterns.

To be anxious or depressed you needed to have been repeating those thoughts and feelings, over many, many years.

So, if we are overtaken with negativity, this then forms the basis of our internal factors, our self-talk and our beliefs, which affect our self-image.

If we act from positivity then the factors affecting our internal image of self, would be more optimistic, instead.

The external factors are driven by the feedback we get from others around us, those whose opinions matter.

If we take too much notice of other’s opinions of us, this will lead to having an overall, low self-image.

So, there needs to be a balance between how we let the internal factors and the external factors affect us.
If we constantly rely on others’ opinions then we will be continually battered from pillar to post.

So, we need to develop a strong sense of internal identity.

The Totality of Our Self-Image Leads to Our Measure of Self-Esteem

If we have low overall self-esteem then we cannot possibly be confident, at all.

If we have high overall self-esteem, then we will be confident most of the time.

So, how we measure our level of confidence at any one time, is by our subjective assessment of our level of self-esteem.

In Summary:

.. this is how we evaluate our levels of confidence…

to achieve a confident state, we need to address some or all of the elements already mentioned.

Way Forward

I hope that gives you a better understanding of how you arrive at a level of confidence.

If you would like to find out more about how to achieve a more powerful state of confidence, then listen to the video above, on “The Stress Trigger Resolution Technique”, and take action now.

Wishing you every success.

Blessings

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How To Increase Confidence with These Scientifically Proven Tips

Celine Healy — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:27:42 +0000

Most people think about confidence as something you are either blessed to have or doomed never to get. But the truth is, there are scientifically proven ways to increase confidence. The bonus – they don’t require barrels of cash or challenging actions.

This should be good news for you!

Even if you are the most confident person in the world, there is a chance you may have experienced moments, or even extended periods of lack of confidence. Studies find that 70 percent of people question their abilities and feel like imposters at some point in their lives.

The cost of low confidence and low self-esteem are hefty. It is common for people with low confidence also to feel unworthy, unloved, and under-appreciated. All anti-success qualities.

However, this is a price you don’t have to pay if you successfully practice these scientifically back confidence-boosting techniques.

This article will share how to increase your confidence with 6 scientifically proven tips.

Let’s take a look at them:

What Does it Mean to Be Confident?

Before we explore the science-backed ways to increase your confidence level, let’s define confidence.

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines confidence as, “a feeling or consciousness of one’s powers or of reliance on one’s circumstances; faith or belief that one will act in a right, proper, or effective way.”

However, your definition of confidence may waver from the official one. So, define it

When You feel confident, you have access to your power and feel emotions like joy, and happiness. And when you don’t, it can feel like you are fighting to move upstream in your life.

This is not a space where you can thrive, so let’s look at ways, confidence can be boosted.

6 Scientifically Proven Tips to Increase Confidence

Here are 6 ways you can improve your confidence.

1. Meditate to Boost Confident

Meditation helps clear erroneous, negative, and resistance thoughts that lead to decreases in confidence. The counter-effect is a boost in confidence.

Meditation doesn’t clear your mind; it helps you shift your focus away from thoughts that promote low self-confidence to neutral or confidence building thoughts.

If you would like to practice a meditation geared towards confidence boosting you can try one from Chopra Center “A guided meditation for visualizing Confidence” or an audio meditation from Great Mediation, “Guided Meditation for Confidence and Self-Esteem.”

In a controlled study published in Psychosomatic Medicine doctors monitored and compared brain (electrical) activity between mindful meditators and people who did not meditate.

The study found that the meditators showed more activities in the areas of the brain associated with optimism and positive thinking. There are two qualities that correlate with self-confidence.

When you meditate, you also work on correcting your posture. Which is also a confidence builder we will deal with next.

2. Practice Good Posture and Positive Body Language to Boost Confidence

Compare these two scenarios and think about how you would perceive each person.

You are at a networking event.

You walk over to a group of four people. As you introduce yourself to each person, you notice one young man standing with his head down and shoulders slumped over. When you shake his hand, you are greeted with a lifeless grip and he mumbles hello to you.

However, the woman next to him approaches you with shoulders back, head up, firm hand out. She takes your hand, gives it a good shake, and then introduces herself in a strong solid voice, “Pleasure to meet you. My name is Veronica, president of SVK Software.”

It is obvious which person you would classify as confident and who would be relegated to the unconfident box.

A study published in “School Psychology International” by psychologist from Luther University Halle-Wittenber concluded that a “dominant body posture might help children feel more confident in school.

Another study performed by the University of British Columbia says there is a correlation between feeling confidence and the body getting bigger, and the body reducing in size with feelings of defeat and shame.

Posture can visually indicate confidence levels.

This is why practicing good posture can boost your confidence.

Let’s practice it now.

Gently roll your shoulders back, bring your chin up parallel to the ground, feel your feet planted into the earth, and imagine there is a string coming from the top of your head pulling up towards the sky.

Your body is open. Blood can flow freely. Which means you are oxygenating your organs. And you benefit from this natural confidence boosting position.

You can even visualize yourself with a confident posture. What would it look like? How would you feel? How would people respond to you? How would you be perceived?

This visualization can help establish positive self-talk within you, which is our next tip.

3. Practice Positive Affirmations and Self-Talk

It doesn’t matter how you dress, where you live, or the title you hold, if you engage in a lot of negative self-talk it is almost impossible to feel confident.

This is why it is so important to encourage yourself with supportive words.

Your thoughts are the source of your behaviors. They influence how you show up in the world. So, if your thoughts are filled with insecurities, negativity, and self-judgement, it is impossible to feel the confidence you desire.

Author Shad Helmstetter explains this in his book, What to Say When You Talk to Your Self. He argues that people are programmed by thoughts which become the source for confidence or lack of confidence.

4. Eat Right

Diet has a lot to do with how you feel emotionally.

You don’t need scientific proof to verify this, but I will give it to you shortly.

Just think about how you feel when you overeat, gouging out on heavy, calorie-dense, processed foods. Independent of your physical weight, you feel heavy.

This heaviness can get in the way of whether you show up with or without confidence.

Food chemically reacts with the body.

In an article on Nutritionist Resource they discuss the link between food and mental health. They suggest that changes in diet can reduce stress and anxiety, and boost self-esteem and mood.

Since you are eating right, you might as well get physical. Exercise is also said to help towards building confidence. This is our next tip.

5. Exercise

The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index interviewed 80,000 people about how they feel about their appearance based on how much they exercised.

Not surprising, the research found that people who exercise for 30 minutes a day are more confident about their appearance than those who exercised once, or not at all.

The British Medical Journal confirms these findings. Based on this study, 10-40 workout sessions improved mention focus and concentration.

Exercise is not just an activity to do for better health, it can help with your moods and increase your confidence.

6. Participate in a Media Fast

Have you ever fasted from food?

If you have and are like most people, giving your body systems a break allowed them to rejuvenate. You experienced more energy, clarity, ease digestion, and felt in optimal health.

Similarly, the daily intake of news and social media is high. On average people consume over XXX hours of social media. However, social media can lead to social anxiety.

Science of People says 60 percent of people report engaging on social media has compromised their confidence.

No matter what is really happening in the background of people’s lives, on social media, everything is perfect. This can cause comparison syndrome, anxiety, and judgement about your life.

Take a break from social media. Come back into your center, your own reality. Then feel your confidence rise.

Take Away

There are many ways to improve confidence and each step further enhances the other. All of these steps in combination will help increase your confidence whilst you are becoming accustomed to the new confident you.

Boost Your Confidence Today

Hopefully, you feel inspired knowing that confidence-boosting doesn’t require a trip to a remote country or years of studies with a guru. You can implement these 6 science-backed principles in your life today.

Pick 1-3 tips and commit to working on them starting today. Pick ones that feel doable to you. Ones that feel fun.

By making a few small changes to what you do every day, you can leverage the power of feeling and become more confident.

Blessings on your journey to achieve more confidence, and hence more success in your life.

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How a Lack of Confidence Affects Your Career and Your Work Life

Celine Healy — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 12:15:29 +0000

Your lack of confidence is affecting your career and work life by sabotaging the action-taking that could make you a raging success.

Tired of feeling not-good-enough? Waiting for the confidence, clarity, and courage to make that next move in your career?

Then get ready to be stuck, again.

You can’t wait to feel clear, confident, or courageous enough. You will only feel those things by taking the action, moving through the fears, and taking those next steps. The confidence builds as a result of the action-taking. You have to learn how to move with those feelings of lack inside of you.

How a Lack of Confidence Affects Your Work Life

A lack of confidence reflects a lack of ability to take action with the feeling of fear inside you. This will result in big problems like:

Feeling stuck
Procrastination
Being paralyzed by inner critic thoughts
Lack of motivation
Disappointing social relationships
Fatigue

As soon as you’re stuck again, fear wins. And you’re sitting in that pit of unworthiness or perfectionism wondering how to get out. This is a mindset game.

Start paying attention to habitual thoughts, recognize their limitations, and then with that awareness, choose to take action through and with them and their accompanying feelings. You can’t afford to stay stuck anymore. It’s killing your career!

How a Lack of Confidence Affects Your Career

When you’re trying to build a successful career and find yourself sitting around feeling bad about yourself, comparing yourself to others, or stuck in imposter syndrome or perfectionism, your career takes a swift backseat, and those fears start to negatively impact your progress. You may start to notice that you are:

Not meeting deadlines or goals
Not creating that big vision
Not able to come up with creative ideas
Always feeling like you’re behind
Feeling offended by constructive criticism

Mastering your mindset to align with the vision and then creating goals that get you there will require you to look confidence square in the eye and take charge. Your career depends on your ability to heal an old wound (low self-esteem) inside of you that keeps you small, quiet, and second-guessing your abilities. The practice of developing confidence includes building your self-esteem, changing your thought patterns, and then taking aligned action based on your goals and vision.

The Connection of Low Self-Esteem to Lack of Confidence

There are so many reasons many of us battle with low self-esteem, which can lead to a lack of confidence. From a moment in childhood to a moment with a boss that left us feeling less-than, the pattern of thoughts is the wake we’re left drowning in. We default to our faults and weaknesses most times because those have the heaviest emotional baggage and triggers.

But what if we could change those patterns and train the brain to focus on our strengths and positive attributes? The intentional awareness and re-focus of our thoughts to the good stuff is how we start building self-esteem and confidence.

It’s important to realize that your lack of self-esteem and self-confidence could be costing you money as well. ( https://www.nbcnews.com/better/business/how-negotiate-higher-salary-according-professional-poker-player-ncna784501 ) If you’re not staying in the game, standing up for yourself, and asking for what you want or need, your income level will suffer. Being able to negotiate things like a promotion or a salary increase require you to practice understanding the needs of your boss and the company, and speaking up about how you can meet those needs. It requires you to believe in yourself, and then take action for what you want.

You’ll start by changing your thought patterns. And then you’ll finish by taking action with those more-positive and aligned thoughts.

How to Change Your Thought Patterns

Being able to take action through your limiting beliefs and fears requires a new level of thought awareness. This is the foundation of being able to feel that lack of confidence and do it anyway. If you want to change your response to life, including those moments at work, you’ll have to change the way you think about almost everything.

Understand; the way you think about almost everything is based on old, outdated, unhelpful beliefs you were taught by someone else. The first step is awareness. Some tools that will help you build and master that awareness include meditation, breathwork, and journaling. You can’t change what you don’t know is there. You’ll have to uncover exactly what those thoughts and beliefs are first. Then you’ll be able to deal with them more effectively.

“You can’t clean the house if you don’t first see the dirt.” Louise Hay

The other very important thing here is to understand what your goals are. The big vision, goals and desires are important because if you don’t know what you want, you won’t be able to create the strategy to get there, confident or not. The action-taking will end up feeling like throwing spaghetti at the wall to see if some sticks.

Take a few moments to think about and write down what your dreams, goals, desires, and big vision are for your life and work. The practice of thought awareness, fear-busting, and action-taking will serve you so much more when you’re aligned with those positive, purposeful thoughts; vibrations of energy that create your future.

Speaking of energy, it’s best to learn a little bit about the powerful topic of neuroplasticity, so you understand just what you’re doing with this practice. Rewiring the brain is not only possible, it’s a game-changer in terms of building confidence.

Rewire Your Brain for Success

If you hadn’t noticed, neuroplasticity ( https://www.gaia.com/article/joe-dispenzas-rewired-using-neuroplasticity-to-heal-the-body ) is a hot topic, and there’s a reason for that. The tools we have at our disposal to help rewire old thought patterns, including old, conditioned, limiting beliefs from childhood, are plentiful and more well-understood. We can re-train our brains to think better and rewire them for success. This process is highly effective and will help you build the confidence you’re craving. And like anything worth doing, it will take your consistent practice to master.

To rewire the brain, you’ll have to adopt a new habit of thinking, believing, and then speaking and acting in a way that’s different than your old you. Being that new you, including speaking up and voicing your opinions will be part of it. Speaking your new, aligned thoughts out loud is one of the most effective action-taking tools for confidence building there is. And sometimes it’s also the most difficult due to old triggers and conditioned beliefs about the consequences.

Speaking Up to Build Confidence

One of the practices you’ll have to adopt (the most effective action-taking strategy to build confidence) is speaking up. You were born, so you’re worthy. Your voice, message, opinion, and ideas matter. If you’re waiting for the confidence to speak up at work, with your colleagues, your boss, your friends, family, whatever, you’ll be waiting forever. This is going to take some practice. You’ll have to get used to feeling the fear and speaking up with that feeling in your body. You may have to speak while your body shakes at first. It does get better as you go.

The more you speak, in the name of your own big vision, goals, and desires, the closer you’ll get (and faster you’ll get there) to being the raging success you’re dreaming of. The mistakes and failures along the way are only stepping stones. Have the confidence to fail more and better. Reframe those mistakes and failures so that the new, more helpful, healthy, limitless beliefs drive the bus and take you on the journey to where you want to be. Recognize that the thing inside of you reacting, is the old you, and reacting from very old, conditioned thoughts.

The words you speak are affirmations. They matter and are powerful tools to create what you want to happen. You might ask yourself what kinds of words you’re speaking, to yourself in your mind, and out loud to others. It’s these thoughts, beliefs, words, and ideas that will shape your future success.

Confidence As a practice

“You’re worthy because you think you’re worthy.” Dr. Wayne Dyer

Everything mentioned above is a practice, a way of being in your everyday moments that is who you are. Who are you today? With the awareness, you get a choice. You are what you think, say, and be in the world. A lack of confidence is only a matter of shifting what you choose to think, feel, and say. If you take responsibility for these things, you will experience the freedom of being able to create the raging success you dream about in any area of your life.

Knowing these things and how they can affect your career and your work-life, what steps are you going to take to minimise these negative effects?

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Moving Out of Stress States and Into Successful States

Celine Healy — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:54:16 +0000

We all feel stuck in stress states sometimes.

But. Have you noticed that your stressed states are becoming more pronounced? More permanent?

You are quick to anger? More impatient? Easily frustrated?

You can see and feel this but you don’t know what to do about it.

Let’s now examine how these situations arise and what you need to do to finally resolve the stress that impinges on your success.

States of Lack of Awareness

Take a look at the diagram below: Moving Out of Stress States Into Successful States.

The section at the bottom, indicates that the thoughts, feelings and behaviors that lead to the negative states of lack of awareness, those non-powerful states of not being present, are all generated automatically.

What does that mean exactly?

It means that these states come about automatically in response to stressful situations or stressor triggers via our subconscious mind. They are negative habits of responses that we have learned over many years, and which we have repeated, time and time again.

By our conditioning, our environment, our experiences, interpretations of those experiences, our beliefs and our perceptions around those experiences during our early childhood years, unfortunately, this continual pattern of behavior has made it easier to keep us stuck in negativity.

Our subconscious minds have been programmed to keep us safe. So, how this evolves is that we are made up of lots of conditioned responses and patterns of behavior.

When a stressful event occurs or a stressor trigger is activated, the way the mind works is, that it scours through our filing cabinets of stored experiences, memories, feelings and responses, to see how we responded previously. When it finds something similar, then it pulls out that response and behavior pattern, and we react in that old way, the way we did previously.

There is no thought process involved. It is automatic.

So, these subconscious patterns of response are easy to sustain, because we have repeated them so many times previously.

What that means is that the types of responses we have been repeating have become negative habits. We generally do not alter our behavior drastically unless there is great conscious effort involved.

The key here is: repetition of behavioral response patterns.

This repetition of behavior around responses to stressor triggers which elicit negative feelings, and which have usually been generated during our early childhood years, tends to favour our subconscious mind patterns. Those negative feelings that. keep being repeated over time, lead to negative states such as: depression, anxiety, fatigue, overwhelm, feeling out of control, having low energy, lacking inner peace and calm, and so on.

So, if you continue to experience a lack of confidence, you can blame it on your subconscious.

Its job is to keep you safe from all kinds of threats, particularly those that the subconscious thinks are life-threatening.

However, because we were not aware of what was happening in our early development years, we had no real control over these automatic functions. Even now, when we know better, gaining control over your subconscious mind is tricky, at best.

So, by the time we became adults these negative patterns have taken hold and we have found it difficult to change tack.

It’s only when we want to try to improve our lives in some way that we will notice that we might be experiencing: low self-confidence, our lack of success or feeling overwhelmed and drained of energy.

Now let’s look at the top part of the diagram.

States of Awareness

To get to that state of awareness, being in control, being present and being powerful, we need to know how to access and maintain that state of positivity.

Those thoughts, feelings and behaviours relevant to the top section, are not automatic. Humans have become, by training, stuck in negativity as a default position. To move out of negativity requires conscious effort, conscious choice. Because of that effort, these states are difficult to attain and sustain.

This chart provides an overview of the different states of consciousness.

Why would that be so?

Because the subconscious is thousands of times more powerful than your conscious thinking, planning and strategizing brain, there is always this pull, back towards our comfort zones, places we know have kept us safe from harm.

So, for anyone trying to buck this system, you need to exert extra effort to feel positive states such as: goodness, kindness, love, inner ease and peace, gratitude, appreciation, self- love, happiness and so on. We are constantly fighting against this strong pull back towards being safe. It’s only through constant, conscious effort that we can attain those positive states such as being: confident, successful, free of depression and anxiety, overwhelm, and feeling back in control.

These positive states require great effort to achieve and maintain.

In the diagram, the line delineating the subconscious unaware states from the conscious aware states, is what is called, our baseline resilience to stress.

Your Baseline Resilience to Stress

It’s like the thickness of our skin in response to stressful events or stressor triggers being activated. If we have thin skin then we will be quick to respond to stress and might notice that we easily become angry, annoyed, impatient, blaming others, or judging and criticising others.

On the other hand, if we have a thicker skin, then our responses to stress will be slower or delayed, and hence our negative states such as: depression or anxiety, will not occur or be embedded easily. We also won’t become upset easily. We will be able to brush things off and get back to homeostasis more easily.

The trouble is, in today’s world, we are bombarded by stress daily, from many different avenues, from things that accumulate and which affect the body/mind enormously, and which we might not have thought to do anything about.

The types of things that make our body/mind stressed include: chemicals and bacteria in our drinking water, aerosol spray to kill bugs in our homes, carpet cleaning products, washing powder, dry cleaning fluids, rays from television, computers and phones, rays from electrical and artificial lights, perfumes, make-up and hairspray, chemicals sprayed on our food, toxic fumes from gasoline and gases, chemicals and mites in our houses, parasites and bugs in our intestines, chemicals and hormones released when stressed that create inflammation and disease, allergies and food intolerance’s, sugar, coffee, trans fats, alcohol, medications, drugs, pain killers, all kinds
of hormone injections in animal meats, and, mercury in fish.

The list is endless and most people are not even aware of these things actually having an effect on their body/mind, yet so many people suffer from lack of sleep, and depression and anxiety, and other negative states.

So, the effects of all of these things bombarding us daily keeps our subconscious on high alert, trying to protect you as best it can. This breaks down our resilience to stress and we gradually develop a thin skin to stressful events and stressor triggers.

This means our baseline resilience to stress is constantly being lowered, especially if we do not do anything to protect our body/mind from this onslaught.

So, the way to move out of unaware states and move into more positive states, out of stress and into successful states such as being confident, is by working on our baseline resilience to stress.

We have to instigate supportive and beneficial habits to build up our resilience to stress and make our skin thicker.

We have to make ourselves strong again. We have to develop appropriate responses, so we can respond to stress (stressful events and stressor triggers) differently, and hence behave, think, and feel differently.

And. This takes time and effort.

So, if you thought you could adopt simple mind techniques to improve your confidence levels, they may work in the short-term. However, we are looking at a more permanent solution.

We are looking at developing habits that can change your subconscious patterns of response, so that you can change permanently, to more positive response patterns, and maintain positive states.

Where to Next?

So, that is where we are heading.

We need to look at how we arrive at this baseline resilience level to stress. What it is comprised of. And, what specific patterns we need to unlock. And, what new and positive response patterns we need to adopt so that our confidence levels are positive, predictable and permanent.

Build your confidence, by building your baseline resilience to stress.

Blessings on your self-improvement journey to improving your self-confidence.

The Effects of Stress on Confidence in Your Personal Life

Celine Healy — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 11:24:38 +0000

The effects of Stress on confidence in your personal life are greater than you may realize.

Feeling and exuding Stress on confidence on a regular basis will improve your physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and financial health!

Ultimately when your confidence and self-esteem are low, your thoughts are also. A daily habit of low-vibration thoughts, especially the self-sabotaging kind, will set you up for failure in all areas of your life.

Confidence is a mindset practice combined with an action-taking discipline that can create incredible results.

The problem is, you’re waiting around to feel confident before you make a move for your physical, emotional, spiritual, or financial health.

It doesn’t work that way.

You will only feel the clarity, courage, and Stress on confidence you’re craving when you move through the fear and take aligned action.

It will take a practice of awareness, including adopting positive thoughts about yourself and your life, to get there.

But why do we lack confidence in the first place?

See Also: How to Heal the Body with Oxygen

What Are Some of The Effects of Stress on confidence

Remember that confidence is a mindset, and our mindset comes from many different factors, from how we grew up, to the current world around us.

When there’s a lack of it we experience negative thoughts and feelings, self-loathing, self-sabotaging messages (those inner critic thoughts in our head), feelings of not-good-enough, a tendency to be a perfectionist, and a less of an ability to bounce back from life’s daily challenges.

We may also experience a lack of self-care, and difficulty in our relationships.

We end up feeling powerless and unable to make decisions.

How Confidence Affects Your Emotional Health

What causes it in the first place? Psychology Today answers that question and helps us understand five different reasons we may experience a lack of confidence.

Confidence is also an energy. Because every thought is energy with a particular vibration. And like attracts like. So, if you’re in a habit of thinking and feeling bad things about yourself, you will bring about more to feel bad about.

How Confidence Boosts Your Physical Health

Because every thought and emotion, has energy, and the cells of our body are affected by energy, there is a physiological response in the body to every kind of thought or emotion. Stuck in a regular habit of a Stress on confidence? This will create a negative vibration in the cells of your body and begin to affect your health.

A lack of confidence also shows up in your posture with slumped shoulders, a forward head, and a slouched back. Over time, the myofascial system in your body tightens, dehydrates, and can develop restrictions from repetitive, poor postures. The opposite is true as well. Walk into the room exuding Stress on confidence and self-esteem and you will
carry your body differently, standing tall with head high, and shoulders back. And a lack of confidence doesn’t just affect you physically, if left unchecked, it can create significant mental and emotional issues.

How Confidence Affects Your Mental Health

Can a Lack of Confidence Cause Depression?

The mental and emotional benefits of feeling confident are many.

A lack of confidence can lead to both anxiety and depression, including more severe eating disorders, and suicidal tendencies. It can also lead to addiction. Once you have a negative thought it can lead to repetitive negativity and limiting beliefs. When your beliefs change, your outlook on life changes. And so, goes the vicious cycle.

When you’re feeling bad about yourself, you’re more likely to avoid social interaction and connecting with others, and your relationships are strained and can suffer. When you practice the mindset of Stress on confidence you will tend to have a much better outlook on life, and that will show up positively in all of your relationships, personal or otherwise.

How Does Confidence Effect Spirituality?

Do you have spiritual self-confidence?

Some say that this is even more important than regular self-confidence. It has to do with being certain or sure about things. It’s a knowing, a strong trust in your intuition. Read more about spiritual self-confidence here. ( https://www.huffpost.com/entry/spiritual-self-confidence_b_793586 ).

By now you’re starting to understand that confidence affects pretty much everything.

Well, how about your finances?
Yes, that too.

Can Confidence Help Boost Finances?

Feeling confident enough to ask for that raise you deserve? Confront a friend about that money he owes you? Take a risk and start that company you’ve always dreamed of? It’s the belief in yourself combined with the action taking, even if you’re scared, that will create that boost in your bank account.

People who believe in themselves are usually the ones exhibiting behaviors and taking the actions that help them make more money. Increased Stress on confidence goes along with the ability to take more risks, and also the ability to bounce back when things go wrong.

Confident people have an awareness of their thoughts that helps them make healthier choices. When you have the awareness, you have the ability to choose what aligns with your health, wellness and desires in life.

What Steps Will You Take Now

Knowing how confidence can affect virtually every area of your life, what steps will you take to ensure your become as successful and as confident as you can be?

How to Become
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Learn the techniques guaranteed
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The Truckers Have Become the Uyghurs of Canada – How Will You Reclaim Your Empowerment?

Celine Healy — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 11:22:26 +0000

On 9 January 2022,

Several truckers working in western Canada started what was named the Freedom Convoy—a peaceful demonstration that aimed to protest the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for those who were to cross the US-Canada border.

Since then, the protest has erupted into a full-fledged event in Ottowa, that has eventually led Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to declare a state of emergency in the city.

Despite a few instances of violence, the focus of the protest has simply meant to peacefully fight for the right to choose vaccinations or not. Reclaim Your Empowerment The plight of the several professionals whose jobs are now challenged could be referred to as the Uyghurs of Canada.

The outcast. The denigrated. The maligned. Reclaim Your Empowerment Regardless of whether you agree with the truckers’ stance, there’s a lot to learn about how to reclaim your empowerment.

This article, therefore, focuses on this form of How Will You Reclaim Your Empowerment and how such efforts can help us manifest what we want in life. Here’s what you should know.

The Story of the Truckers’ Empowerment in Canada

The Freedom Convoy originally was a protest against COVID-19 vaccine mandates for truckers who needed to cross the Canada-US border during their transportation trips.

However, that protest eventually came to represent a protest against the government’s intervention in making COVID-19 vaccines necessary for professionals to stay employed for their respective designations.

The primary focus of this protest has been to have the freedom of choice with regards to vaccinations against the coronavirus (and, of course, others in general). Some truckers have said they want freedom, choice, and hope—something they believe is being taken away through vaccine mandate decisions.

In the case of the United States, the CDC, i.e., the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention, has discussed the effectiveness of natural immunity to the COVID-19 virus, which could give unvaccinated individuals potential hope for their safety.

What This Ongoing Incident Teaches Us About Personal Empowerment

There’s something particularly important to take away from this ongoing incident: a dedication toward self-empowerment. Excusing some of the instances of violent rhetoric, the truckers and their supporters have peacefully demanded the right to make their own decisions when it comes to their bodies, their health, and their safety.

It has been weeks that this protest has continued, and despite the challenges that they have had to face, they have continued to stay steadfast with their stance.

This steadfastness has also encouraged more people to participate in the protest—which is evident in the fact that the focus of the protest started from cross-border vaccine mandates to government influence on getting the COVID-19 vaccine on the whole.

Persistence in Manifestation

Another important lesson that this incident teaches us is the role of persistence in manifestation. When you set out to manifest something, it’s paramount that you stay committed to your decision. Manifesting success may not be immediate.

Yet, you must know that you can achieve your dreams and attain self-empowerment (or whatever you’re trying to manifest) through your consistent effort.

An important manifestation technique is to continue to imagine that you have reached your goal and that you’re working and celebrating that success with the people that are important to you.

With that technique, persistence, and belief that you will achieve, you will certainly start to reach your goal.

Last Few Words

As important as it is to take away how the trucker situation teaches about persistence in manifestation, it’s doubly important to work towards self-empowerment in your lives in the same way. For more ideas and manifestation techniques on self-empowerment, check this out!

How to Heal the Body with MSM- Methylsulfonylmethane

Celine Healy — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:46:13 +0000

There is a lot happening inside our body. It’s like a whole different universe inside. Our body needs many vital vitamins and minerals to function properly.

If there was a miracle cure for all of our ailments, would you take it?
If you had a choice of only ever using one supplement that would help you
regain your health and strength and relieve you of pain, would you take it?

If I say that there is such a miracle supplement that is based on sulphur, one of the prime elements necessary for our bodies to thrive, that could help lower your inflammation, helps in fighting effects of stress and pain, raises your immunity and increase energy levels, would that be intriguing enough to try?

Then let me tell you about MSM, and how it can help heal the body.
MSM stands for Methyl Sulfonyl Methane. It is a mineral that is water-soluble and not a vitamin. It is the fourth most abundant mineral found in the body. It is vital for maintaining tendons, ligaments, healthy joints, skin, hair, and other connective tissues.

It is also used to help and treat many other illnesses, painful symptoms, and diseases. This includes chronic inflammation, boosting immune function, and restoring healthy body tissues.

You will find this magical supplement as the basis of all glucosamine products used for alleviating and healing pain. In fact, it was originally used to treat inflammation in horses, however, the smell of the sulphur was so pungent that humans rejected it initially, until the manufacturers modified this smell, and made it more palatable for human use.

What is MSM?

Methylsulfonylmethane is the oxidized form of DMSO (Dimethyl sulfoxide). It is an organic sulfur compound also known as the organosulfur compound formed by lignan. It’s also known as methyl sulfone (dimethyl sulfone) or DMSO2.

It is organically found in some green vegetables and food products. It is also found abundantly in the human body, in animals, and milk. It is also a naturally formed substance from phytoplankton in the oceans.

This is famously used for joint health in supplements commercially due to its anti-inflammatory effects.

The many benefits of MSM as a dietary supplement are attributed to biologically active sulphur. It is also known as a sulfur donor due to its plentiful supply of sulfur.

In dietary supplements, it’s usually popularly used in conjunction with other ingredients to support joint health and boost connective tissue healing.

MSM Supplements Types:

MSM supplements are available in many forms and type that includes:

Powdered
Cream or lotion
Gel
Pill or tablet
Liquid eye drops
Crystals

It is popularly available and taken in powdered form, due to the belief that this is its most absorbable form.

The Benefits of MSM:

The benefits of MSM supplements are said to be many. But here we will list a few widely known perks.

MSM Boosts Collagen Production:

Collagen is a protein found in the body. It’s like glue that holds your body together. It is a protein that offers structural support to the skin and makes it supple. MSM promotes the production of collagen protein and makes your skin look younger, supple, and resilient. It reduces the aging effects by reducing collagen degradation.

The results are more enhanced when used with other antioxidants and vitamins like vitamin C, vitamin E, and vitamin A which all are known to build new and healthy skin cells.

MSM Aids in Digestive Problems:

MSM is known to help in rebuilding the lining of the digestive tract. It lowers the inflammatory responses in reaction to allergic responses to certain foods.

It also aids in treating leaky gut syndrome since it can help stop particles from leaching out the stomach through small junction openings, from where they can enter the bloodstream and start the inflammatory response. This happens due to the sulfur presence in MSM which is essential for the digestion process.

MSM Promotes Skin Repair:

MSM can boost cell regeneration and skin cell turnover rate. It helps in neutralizing free radicals. The MSM contains wound healing properties that may help in skin repair. The compound can help the skin in the healing and repairing process from injury, trauma, or damage caused by external stimulants like acne, scars, and cuts.

Keeping MSM in your skincare regime while cleansing, exfoliating or moisturizing may help even out the overall skin texture.

MSM Treats Osteoarthritis and Joint Pain:

MSM is well known for treating joint pain and osteoarthritis. Its well-researched benefits include improved flexibility, decreased joint inflammation, and restored collagen production. It is also known for producing connective tissues and repairing joints, tendons, and ligaments.

This is the reason it is commonly used topically on the skin and also taken orally as an arthritis diet and supplement, to reduce pain or osteoarthritis and degenerative joint disease.

Research shows that the number of patients with arthritis, joint pain, stiffness, knee or back problems experience a reduction in symptoms and enhanced quality of life while on MSM supplements.

MSM Lowers Muscle Pain and Improves Exercise Recovery:

MSM acts like a natural analgesic that helps in preventing and treating muscle pains and aches. It also helps in reducing throbbing pain, and swelling whilst improving range of motion and mobility.

According to the study published in the journal of sports medicine and physical fitness, only 10 days of usage of MSM supplementation helped decrease muscle damage in combination with antioxidant capacity.

It is all due to the presence of sulfur in MSM which is also abundantly found in our body, and stored inside the tissues that make up our muscles and joints.

MSM helps repair the rigid fibrous tissue cells in our muscles that become broken down while exercising, hence helping to prevent swelling for longer periods.

Because it restores flexibility and permeability of cell walls within muscles, the nutrients can pass through the tissues more easily and resulting in faster repair work and removing lactic acid which causes that inflammatory feeling after exercise. As a result, less time is needed for recovery and reduced pressure, soreness, and cramps.

MSM Promotes Hair Growth:

Many of us struggle with thinning or balding as we get older. MSM usage has been a great help in this regard. It helps in boosting both collagen and keratin levels, two essential nutrients to grow these beautiful strands and form new hairs.

Our hair abundantly contains these two nutrients i.e., collagen and keratin. Many hair products available in the market contain MSM which gives strength, durability, and that beautiful healthy look and helps in reversing hair loss.

MSM Aids the Body in Adapting to Stress:

Many of us have heard of adaptogen herbs or supplements that help to control how the body deals with stress. MSM works similarly. Since it helps in boosting our body’s ability to heal and helps us bounce back from the after-effects of exercise, stress-inducing events, injuries, and surgeries.

Some people have the misconception that MSM makes you feel sleepy. That’s not true, in fact, it can aid in improving energy levels and reducing lethargy.

Fitness consultants usually recommend taking MSM before exercising, such as running or stressful workouts. MSM it seems to reduce muscle damage and other markers of stress. MSM also helps in reducing fatigue that is usually felt after exercise and stress-induced events and supports uplifting mood, energy levels, and normal digestion.

MSM Aids in Reducing Allergies:

According to studies, since MSM helps in reducing inflammation and decreasing the release of cytokines and prostaglandins, supplements containing MSM can also be useful in managing your allergic reactions.

A study published in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine says that it can aid in reducing symptoms of allergic rhinitis. This also includes itching, congestion, shortness of breath, sneezing, and coughing symptoms reduction.

Common Uses and Recommendations of MSM:

Some of the common uses and recommendations of MSM include treatment of:

Chronic joint pain, including osteoarthritis, joint inflammation, rheumatoid arthritis.
Autoimmune disorders and leaky gut syndrome
Susceptibility to bone fracture and osteoporosis
Development of scar tissue, bursitis, tendonitis, and other musculoskeletal pains.
Asthma and allergies
Yeast infections
Muscle cramps
Ulcers, upset stomach, indigestion, constipation.
Hair loss, stretch marks
Skin problems include sunburn, wrinkles, wounds, cuts, skin abrasions, UV light, and windburn protection.
Eye inflammation, fatigue, high blood pressure
Poor circulation
Oral infections, toothaches, gum disease, and periodontal disease.

Other popular uses of MSM include:

Acting like an anti-atherosclerotic which helps in preventing the hardening and thickening of arteries.
Chemo-preventative compound,
Natural anti-inflammatory.

MSM has been observed to aid the body’s natural free radical – scavenging abilities. This means that it lowers oxidative stress and also many ailments that come along with it.

It’s a popular anti-inflammatory because it blocks the release of pro-inflammatory mediators. MSM also helps in down regulating certain harmful signals sent from the immune system that can affect the whole body.

Recommended Dosage:

Since we’ve discussed how MSM helps the body to maintain health and helps in reducing painful conditions, the question that comes to mind is: how much should be taken per day, or how many doses should be taken daily.

The daily dosage hasn’t been established and recognized by FDA, because of the sulfur it contains. The reason behind this is that there are no proven symptoms of sulfur deficiency so far described in the medical literature.

The usual recommendations by physicians or fitness consultants are as follows:

500 milligrams of MSM to be taken twice or thrice daily for treating osteoarthritis for up to 12 weeks.

50 mg/kg of MSM in 200 ml of water taken daily for 10 days to treat muscle damage.

According to reports 03gm to 6 gm of MSM daily, divided into 3 doses normally considered to be safe and well-tolerated.

Side Effects of MSM:

MSM is considered to be well tolerated because of its natural and organic nature. It is naturally found in the human body. So far, no serious side effects have been reported. No long-term effects have been observed.

According to researchers, it can cause mild side effects for some people. Which includes indigestion, upset stomach, diarrhea, and irritation of eyes and skin.

It is also said to not be suitable for those who take blood-thinning medications, because of its potential side effects influencing the heart and cardiovascular system that may occur.

Also, if you are pregnant, you need a consultation with your doctor.

Natural Sources of MSM:

MSM is organically found in the human body and foods. You can add MSM to your routine by consuming it by the food you eat. You probably already eating foods that contain this compound because of its wide availability.

Like all the other vitamins and minerals containing foods, it is important to consume foods in their whole or minimally processed form. If you cook or process too much of these foods, it is more likely that you destroy the naturally occurring MSM they contain.

Following are the foods that contain MSM in their natural form:

Alfalfa sprouts
Apples
Leafy green vegetables
Raspberries
Tomatoes
Whole grains
Beer
Coffee
Tea

The Takeaway:

MSM is a well-known and popular element in dietary supplements that’s very well known for its anti-inflammatory properties. It is also known for providing aid in joint pain, seasonal allergies, and muscular discomfort.

Its anti-aging and hair loss defence benefits, make it popular in beauty products.

MSM can easily be included in your daily regime because it is well-tolerated by many people and have mild side effects if occurs.

As an aside, I have been taking MSM for select periods of time over the last twenty years. I personally have found it to be that miracle wonder supplement that I would never be without. I found that if you take MSM with liposomal Vitamin C, your skin becomes more radiant as this combination acts as a powerful collagen booster.

Having read this article on how to heal the body with MSM, what will you do to gain one or more of the benefits mentioned above?

Wishing you well on your journey to good health.

Gain Empowerment With These 3 Self Care Tips

Celine Healy — Sat, 19 Feb 2022 06:41:38 +0000

If you have ever felt exhausted, had some illness, or are experiencing burnout, then you might find some of these as being useful tips, especially if you are a beginner in the stress resolution arena.

Self Care Tips for Beginners

…is an easy-to-understand infographic that sets out in point form what you need to look out for when trying to find easy solutions to avoid these kinds of things: sickness, burnout, and exhaustion.

Sickness comes from being run down and not having built up your immune system with specific vitamins and minerals such as Vitamin C, Magnesium, Zinc, and Vitamin D. See these supplements to find out what you need most.

Are You ignoring the Signs and Symptoms of the Disease?

As well as having a run-down immune system, you might also be feeling disconnected from your true purpose When this happens it can lead to mental illness as well as physical exhaustion because you will constantly be trying to overcome negative thoughts about your life purpose. This means that there is some deeply held issue or belief that has not been resolved.

What is Self Care?

Self care tips is as implied. When trying to heal the body you need to take a holistic approach and heal with the: mental, the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual aspects. Wellness is about well-being on many levels. So, it is a process that cannot be rushed.

Self-Care Issues and Stress

From my observation and experience, every human on the planet has, at some time, experienced not feeling good enough. When these emotions go unexpressed, what happens is that you hold it down and this creates the opportunity for inflammation to develop. Unresolved and unexpressed emotions are the basis of all dis-ease or diseases. In many instances, you will need to seek professional help to be able to release these negative emotions, which generally have turned into negative beliefs.

The Objective of a Self Care Tips Regime for Beginners

When implementing a self care tips regime, you will need to look at what comprises your stress barrel. You need to identify all of the possible triggers that trigger stress responses. Once you can identify them then you will be able to release the underlying causes.

A prime motivator of stress is when people hold onto unforgiveness, and the issues they have had with someone, and are not able to let go of. This holding on creates an aura of negative vibration which sets up an opportunity for disease to develop.

One of the best ways to move out of stress and into forgiveness is through the technique of breathing. Breathing is the link between the subconscious automatic reactions and the conscious, the contemplated, thinking process.

Way Forward

These tips may sound simple, however, if you are able to release the underlying causes of your stress reactions and stress triggers, then you will be well on the road to staying well and away from sickness, exhaustion, and burnout.

How Stress Resolution Outstrips Stress Management as The Preferred Method for a Long-Term Solution for Reducing Stress

Celine Healy — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 15:27:21 +0000

This article aims to give you a different perspective on how to reduce stress permanently, by offering a new a paradigm: stress resolution, which has been shown to be more effective than the stress management paradigm.

Most people think they understand the concepts of stress management, and when asked they generally rattle off ways to release tension or relax more.

However, there are deeper issues involved that I want to expose to you, so you can make a more informed decision about which strategy you might use to reduce your stress permanently.

This work on stress reduction and resolution is for you if:

You are exhausted most of the time and
You are not getting restful and restorative sleep

This work on stress reduction and resolution is for you if:

You find that you are taking longer and longer to complete tasks, are staying back at work putting in longer, and longer hours
You feel you are out of control in any aspect of your work-life balance

This work on stress reduction and resolution is for you if:

You are nowhere near operating at peak performance level, and
You find you are whinging and complaining more

And finally, this work on stress reduction and resolution is for you if:

You are not your happy self and some of your favorite hobbies and social outings have gone by the wayside, or
You are drinking or eating more or taking other substances just to get you through: more coffee, more sugar, increasing quantities of sweets and cakes, more alcohol, more tobacco, more recreational drugs and so on…

So, to understand clearly the difference between these paradigms, the question you might ask yourself is this: what traditional stress management techniques will help you overcome some of the issues above?
What is the difference between stress resolution and stress management? Does stress resolution outstrip stress management as a paradigm?

Let’s delve into this topic more fully and define these paradigms.

The Definition of Stress Management

Stress Management has been defined as: having the tools, strategies, or techniques that reduce stress. These tools and strategies also help reduce the negative impacts stress has on: your mental, physical, emotional and spiritual well-being.

So, after defining that technique what generally happens next, is people then go on to describe what specific strategies most people resort to in order to be able to manage that stress. Stress Management proponents generally do not question how or why stress arises, or what impacts stress may have on your health and wellbeing, if not attended to.

When people talk about stress and how to deal with it, they generally talk about traditional stress management techniques/ways which include:

Meditation
Eating right
Exercising
Drinking more water
Taking supplements
Breathing correctly
Being assertive
Setting realistic goals and expectations
Living by your values
Journaling
Being grateful
Having forgiveness … and so on.

It is asserted that this approach gives people the skills needed to manage stress. This means that people have accepted that stress is part of their lives, and that there is nothing much they can do about it to eliminate it. So, the best they can hope for is to implement various coping strategies, which may alleviate some of the tension or help people feel more relaxed.

The Stress Management proponents do not, at any stage, discuss the impact stress has on your life or that there may be other deeper more challenging aspects to stress, that, if not dealt with, could lead to disease. And. In many instances that is understandable, because when a modality has been around for a very long time, people tend to accept it and not question the viability of the models.

The Definition of Stress Resolution

The concept: Stress Resolution is based on my initial model of wellness titled: From Stress to Success Model of Wellness. This model recognises that if you have taken 30, 40 or 50 years to arrive at this stage of life and are still suffering from the effects of stress, then you are living life wrongly. You need to begin to heal your body/mind, one step at a time, repairing it first. And. You can rid yourself of stress when you understand the mechanism underlying how stress works and why.

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So, My Hypothesis for Stress Resolution is this:

Stress can be resolved permanently when you repair your physiology first, by changing how you respond to stress. When this happens other body systems will also heal. This automatic stress response mechanism sets off a whole chain reaction of automatic events in the body/mind.

The overall objective is in this first step of my model of wellness, is repairing your physiology. What that means is that you will be able to increase your baseline resilience to stress, when you correct and retrain the mechanics of how you respond to stress. You will then have more energy to be able to direct it to where it is needed. You then gain control over your emotional and mental life!

How does this work?

Further background evidence that backs up my hypothesis and my definition of stress resolution is The mBIT model of wellness – the 3 Brain Model: head, heart and gut. This means: multiple brain integration techniques. It has been researched and proven that there are three distinct brains – this means these areas all have the same elements that make up a brain. It has also been shown that the heart brain overrides the head brain and therefore has the primary function in any stress interaction.

The head brain has the thought, the heart feels the emotion and the hurt, and the gut helps you process, assimilate and digest what is happening. The heart attaches various emotions to thoughts, and together they signal parts of the body/mind to produce various chemical reactions that attach to these emotions during a stress response.

So, combining these concepts, it is asserted that: you can resolve permanently when you can:

– repair your physiology first, and

– then change how you respond to stress
– and this will change your emotional and chemical response, and
– help mend your heart

So, how do you do this?
How you do go about repairing your physiology so that the stress mechanism can be turned off and bring you back to balance and health?

As stated above, scientific evidence indicates that the Heart is now the major brain centre of our physiology. The heart emits up to 60 times more electrical and electromagnetic signals than does the head brain. Because it has been found that the heart is now the true brain centre, in order to heal, we must heal the heart as part of the process.

Extrapolating, if we can control our emotions and our emotional responses, we can control our stress response mechanism. Our head brain will then respond differently, and we then get an opportunity to change our patterns of behaviour. So, stress resolution is a process. A process of retraining your body/mind so you can heal on many levels. And. The key to being able to do all of this is through correct breathing.

What does the definition of Stress Resolution teel us about Stress as a Process?

Ok. So that is an introduction to the two different paradigms. I now want to take it back a little and define stress from two angles: my definition and my observations from that definition of exactly what stress is, and what it means.

If you are feeling: overwhelmed, lacking in focus, straddling somewhere in between depression or anxiousness, some aspect of your life will be hurting because you will be experiencing tension, whether it is muscular or mental or emotional turmoil.

People call these symptoms stress. Because this topic encompasses so many different symptoms, and so many different feelings and emotions that are all tied up with this term, this short-hand terminology seems to cover it all. Even when being cryptic, people seem to understand what the person is suffering, when they say: “I am stressed.” However, in no way could they truly understand the inner torment that creates these symptoms, or where they stem from.

From my observations and experience I then uncovered a definition of stress.

The Stress Resolution Definition/My Definition of Stress is:

You are stressed if:

If you are struggling to achieve anything
If you are straining against something
You are coming from a position of lack
If you are in a rut
If you are in pain or have tension anywhere in your body/mind

– In effect, as soon as you go out of a positive emotion and into a negative emotion or feeling, then you are going into a stress state.

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This definition shows that this thing called stress, is the result of some action, some thought or some event. It is a process.

If you are struggling to achieve… means you are beating your head against some unknown forces, or your own expectations. It means you are lacking in skills or resources and therefore have come up against some resistance to your desired outcome.

If you are straining you are all pushing hard against some obstacle. This also means that you are lacking in some element, whether it is a lack of help, the right people or the right skills necessary to halt that strain.

If you are coming from a position of lack… means that you are behind the eight ball and are feeling inadequate in some way. Lack implies inadequacy. It could make you feel incompetent. It could make you feel not good enough. In all cases these situations arise when you compare yourself to others.

If you are stuck in a rut… means you keep repeating the same thing over and over yet, in most cases, you are expecting a different result. It’s like Groundhog Day. Nothing ever changes, no matter what you do. And. In fact you do not seem to know what else to do. It implies you do not have the necessary skills to be able to change your outcomes.

And. If you have tension or pain anywhere in your body/mind you also have a barrier to achieve an end result. The tension blocks off intuition and creativity and this can construct a wall to you achieving what you desire. This tension or pain also means that normal blood flow is cut off and if that is the case, then nourishing oxygen is not getting to the brain to allow full access to your capabilities.

So, the totality of this definition of stress revolves around you going out of positivity and into negativity, out of consciousness and into unconsciousness, out of your power and into disempowerment, out of awareness and into lack of awareness. It means you have slipped into negative thinking or feelings. You then slip into feeling inadequate or not good enough. (See this article for an expansion on this aspect of your chakras, the solar plexus, which relates to feelings of adequacy and competency- How to Heal the Body With Energy Healing.)

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So, when you look at the traditional model of stress management people generally do not look deeper into possible emotional issues or mental issues that are actually driving those stressful feelings, or stressful states.

Stress as a Process

Stress is not an emotion. It is not a negative thought. It is not a specific behaviour. Stress is a process that involves all of these different aspects: mind, body, emotions, behaviours and habits, attitudes and beliefs… in effect, the way we do life. My model of wellness indicates that stress does not somehow creep up on us and becomes part of our lives. Stress stays there and builds up, until we do something about it. It revolves around deeply held negative emotions that have remained unexpressed, and which have been lodged somewhere in the body/mind. It is cumulative and builds up over time when we do not get to express our feelings when a stressful event occurs.

The general symptoms evident immediately after a stressful event occurs could include:

Sweaty palms
Shortness of breath
Feelings of being scared or fearful
An increase in chemical reactions throughout the body – the flood of cortisol and the activation of the adrenal glands
Feelings of anxiousness or dread … and so on…

When people ask where does stress come from, the triggers are so many and varied that this is impossible to answer. However, as a general concept, these arise in your early childhood years when we develop our beliefs and attitudes from our primary care givers. These beliefs help shape our perceptions and thus influence how we feel and experience evets. (For more detailed discussion on how stress evolves – please see this article: Let Go of What is Holding You Back). Thus, stress is a process.

Let’s Examine the Stress Process:

The precursor to a stressor trigger is: a thought, a feeling, an event or someone saying something to you that activates an automatic stress reaction
This trigger instigates feelings of threat, either imagined or real. Stress is about feeling your body/mind is under threat of some kind. When this happens the body/mind goes into an automatic subconscious process where various aspects are activated – which we will now discuss. The stress response is one of the body’s primary inbuilt automatic responses that was designed to keep you safe. If you feel threatened in any way, your subconscious, the limbic system is alerted, and then various electrical and chemical reactions take place.
At the same time your body/mind is trying to assess whether the threat is good or bad. Should I be concerned? Should I not?
If the perceived threat is assessed as not worth worrying about, then the body/mind dismisses this feeling and the body settles back down to pre-event levels.
If the threat is perceived as bad, what happens is that the brain, as the processing unit, initially sends a message to the heart and the heart attaches an initial emotion to that event. Then the brain sifts and sorts and goes through the filing cabinet of all events and experiences that the person has had in their life time, and tries to find an event with a similar emotion attached, so it knows what to do.
What happens next is this, if the brain decides that the event is similar to a previous event, it knows exactly what emotion and behaviour you have attached to that previous event, and therefore the brain will respond automatically with that same or similar response to this new event.

So, what that means is this: similar events or stressful situations are stored as pictures in the body/mind. These pictures have emotions attached. If the picture has a negative emotion attached, this will have heat in the memory. (We will discuss the relationship of stress and disease a little later.)

In that basket of files if the brain recognises something similar, it then says: ‘OK, I know how to respond to this because I have responded this way before.’ This then sets up the body/mind to react to that perceived stressful event and exhibit similar patterns of behaviour, and similar symptoms. So, like it stored as like, and generally in the same places.

From there the person will display certain behaviours, feelings and thoughts that are similar to, a previously stored memory. The behaviours all depend on your beliefs, attitudes and habits, and how you responded previously.

Essentially why you are storing memories or pictures of past negative stressful events is this: at the time of experiencing the stressful event, if you were not able to express how you felt at the time, then this unexpressed emotion is what is stored. And. This is what drives your feelings of stress.

So, essentially, stress, and the stress response, is about not having expressed how you felt at the time. If you had expressed how you felt at the time the emotion/s would have been dissipated. Because they are not dissipated, then they get stored in your body/mind, generally in a place where you have a propensity to weakness. (We will discuss this later.)

So, you can now see how, what a person calls stress, is the result of your automatic stress response mechanism. It is a process. Remember, the key to commence the stress reaction, is you feeling under threat. The threat can be either imaginary or real.

In general, most people are not aware of the underlying steps involved in the process of getting to a stressed state. So, hopefully this short explanation gives the reader a better idea of what happens in the body/mind, prior to their statement: ‘I am stressed.’

So, the question that now needs to be asked is this:

Can traditional Stress Management Techniques help in Reducing the Effects of the Stress Process?

The stress management paradigm states that you need to instigate some of these stress reduction modalities so that you can reduce stress and tension, so you will be able to cope more easily. In effect they are saying: I cannot get rid of my stress, my stressful states or how I respond to stressor triggers, so I accept that stress will always be there. What I will do to reduce the stress or tension is I will instigate some of the traditional self-care strategies mentioned above.

Remember, the techniques above that people use when dealing with stress in the traditional way. Can you say that these methods get to the deeply held underlying emotional issues that are the real cause and drive of your stress?

Look. I am not saying do not do any of those things. By all means everyone enjoys a massage or a hot bath or some kind of self-care strategies. All I am saying is this: in my personal experience and observation, these are superficial methods to relax and relieve some tension only. You will feel better for a short period of time, however, the tension, pain or the effects of stress will return until you deal with the underlying emotional issues which are the real cause of your on-going stress.

So, there is only one answer. You need, somehow, to be able to access these emotional issues that drive your stress. How do you do that?

If you come for a stress resolution paradigm your first thought will be this: I feel threatened in this situation. What I need to do is to be able to assess which value or belief that is running that response so I can dissipate that emotion. In effect you are finding the underlying negative belief and statement you have made about that previous threatening situation, and you are going to bring that negative emotion to consciousness, so it can be dissolved.

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The next question you may ask might be: how do you do that?
(We will discuss that a little later on.)

Let’s now look at why both modalities or approaches to stress reduction are necessary.

Why is Stress Management essential?

You will have:

Fewer headaches. stress headaches or tension headaches which cause
dull, aching pain, or a feeling of pressure in your forehead. …
Less joint pain. …
Better sleep. …
Less indigestion.
It helps reduce heart disease, digestive issues and blood pressure
Plays a part in reducing mental health issues such as anxiety and depression
It can help the body adapt and gain more resilience to negative events
It can help you become more productive, healthier and happier
It can help change your mood
It may help in relationship with others
It may help with performance at work

Why is Stress Resolution essential?

Stress resolution is essential for:

Accessing your inner strength, your potential.
Increased energy and vitality
Increasing your ability to think more clearly
Increased ability to focus and concentrate
Improvements in peak performance and decision making
Reducing anxiety and depression
Improved communication
Increased productivity
Increased intuition and creativity

In Summary: you may notice that the end result of stress management is that generally physical symptoms are reduced. Whereas then end result of stress resolution is a combination of: physical, mental and emotional improvement.

**Before we close off let’s discuss those elements not discussed form above, which relate to: the impacts of stress on disease, and how emotions become stored in areas of weakness in your body.

The Impacts of Stress on Disease

Dr Bruce Lipton, a biologist, in his seminal work: The Biology of Belief, ha stated that up to 95% of all dis-ease and disease is stress based, or stress based.

What this means is this, these responses you have to stress are emotionally based, and ae the result of the emotions attached to negative beliefs, which when unexpressed, get stored as pictures or memories in various organs, tissues and muscles within the body. These emotions are generally negative. Memories have degrees of acuity. They have heat. The heat helps create inflammation which wears down the surrounding tissues.

Inflammation also implies that there is tension which blocks off blood flow to those areas. Disease lives in places where there is no oxygen. Essentially, if you are not getting enough oxygen through correct breathing, you are setting yourself up for inflammation to develop.

The other issue with these memories is this, when we want to project ourself to the outer world, we put on our best facade. We tend to hold down aspects of our personality that we do not want people to know about us. This holding down of memories, emotions and negative beliefs, takes enormous effort. Eventually, truth will out and these issues come to the surface. So, part of the problem is that we purposefully hold down and do not express the worst parts of ourselves, thus inviting issues later in life. Tis holding down also depletes our energy and that can be the reason that so many people are exhausted so often.

Why are Reactions to Stress Stored in Areas of Weakness?

Various researchers have looked at this topic, and one of the early pioneers was Louis Hay. In here book titled: You Can Heal Your Life, Louise looked at this very topic and researched the functions of the various organs e.g. the liver, the stomach, the skin and so on.

Louise Hay found that if someone had a liver problem, looking at the function of the liver – what it is supposed to do in the body– the liver is supposed to break down all of the blood which flows through it. The liver then breaks this blood down into nutrients and sends it out to be used in a more effective way.

Louise Hay found that the liver is the seat of anger and primitive emotions. If you are constantly complaining or you tend to justify fault-finding, you are deceiving yourself. This means that underlying all of this, the person experiencing liver or anger issues around love and peace. They either have not experienced much love or peace in their lives, or they do not have that value within their conscious psyche.

So, in essence, how you find specific emotions and negative beliefs within specific organs, tissues and muscles, is through observing the symptoms first, and then working back to understand the function of that organ, and then uncovering the value that has been lacking in that person throughout their life.

In my book titled: Boost Success in All Areas of Your Life – there are tables that set out various diseases and symptoms that lead back to what main negative belief is driving that disease, or what specific underlying negative emotion the person is feeling, or, a value they have lacked throughout their life.

Necessarily, this means that if you want to alleviate or eliminate that dis-ease or disease, you need to be able to release that negative belief that is underlying cause of your disease, and diffuse the negative emotion, and take the heat out of the memory.

Way Forward

Having looked at the difference between the Stress Management paradigm and the Stress Resolution paradigm, you can see how one is more surface level than the other. In some instances, you may be able to uncover and dislodge a negative emotion or belief utilising self-care strategies. However, I think it may be self evident that Stress Resolution does get to the heart of stress, and explains, why and how it arises, and how you can resolve stress permanently, by being able to express those hidden negative emotions and release the negative emotion driving that belief, and, which has been trapped within the body/mind.

My recommendations to release these blockages include: seeking professional help such as a kinesiologist. Or use one of the self-care techniques such as E.F.T. Or, seek the services of an energy healer. Whichever you choose, at the basis of all stress reduction and resolution is correct breathing. If you do not get sufficient oxygen throughout your body, you open yourself up to increased inflammation and disease.

So, knowing all of this now, what will you do to improve, alleviate or eradicate stress in your life?

We wish you well on your self-improvement journey.

Blessings!

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How to Heal the Body with Energy Healing

Celine Healy — Fri, 11 Feb 2022 13:49:53 +0000

Sometimes it can be very confusing when people research personal development topics and they come up with names such as: self-improvement, self- growth, personal growth, self-development and so on.

Although these terms can be synonymous, the essence of this movement is all about self help. Self-help developed out of the psychology movement, whereby clients were encouraged to take more responsibility for the outcomes they desired in their lives.

As people nowadays are focusing more on personal development, or self improvement of some kind, it is handy to know what personal development is?
Personal Development has been defined as something that:

Enhances self-awareness and recognition.
Helps develop perspective and talents
Build up human capital and allows employ ability.
Increases quality of life
It makes it easy to realize aspirations and dreams.

In simple words, personal development is about enhancing or improving yourself, and being a better version of yourself. It makes you healthier, smarter, stronger and better, in all sectors of life. This means that the range of topics revolves around so many different areas such as: the mental, spiritual, emotional or the physical aspects of life.
We have listed out some topic categories for you to investigate.
Here are, what we consider to be,

How to Heal the Body with Energy Healing

This meant that people were encouraged to do it themselves. Hence the proliferation of books and courses and webinars and seminar.

17 of The Best Categories for Personal Development Topics:

Health: It is one of the most important topics in this sector and is now a little underrated. When you enhance this sector of your life, you will also enhance other sectors of your life. A large number of people write as well as read on health-related topics.

It involves things like eating healthy, carrying out things like doing yoga and other such healthy routines. Heal the Body with Energy Healing When you are healthy, it becomes easy to become a better form of yourself. When your body can perform at its best, you will do better in all sectors of your life.

You will be better and happier, more, focused, and will become more productive. With more energy, you will feel more confident and motivated.

So, a lot of things depend on your health, and this is the reason it is one of the top trending topics on personal development in 2021. Even health is not everything, but nothing is fruitful, without good health.

Some of the top Wellness trends for health topics include:

Mindful eating
Flexitarians diet
A holistic approach to health
Biohacking
Gut and brain health
Priority to emotional well-being

This is the reason there is a lot of content on “how to enhance your self-confidence?” With this topic, people learn how to develop trust in themselves, make use of affirmations and increase their comfort zones.

It is all about those things that you are afraid to do. When you do things, you are afraid of, you increase your self-confidence.
Some of the trending topics under this category of Confidence include:

Ways to build confidence
How to develop self-confidence?
Build your confidence with practical ways.
Daily practices to boost your self-confidence.
How to build self-esteem

Focus: When we are not focused, we fail to keep track of goals and dreams. So, when you want to achieve your goals, you need to have some focus. This is the reason a large number of people want to focus better.

There is huge content in this sector of personal development. One of the most prevailing is “Tips on how to increase your focus”. Successful people focus more on their goals. This is the reason why more and more people are interested in this topic.

Trending topics for focus include:

How to sharpen your focus and confidence?
How to increase your focus quickly?
Useful tips for enhancing your mental focus.
Brain hacks for improving your focus at work.

Communication: This is about how to be a better speaker or listener and be capable of doing clear communication. It is a vital part of every relationship, everyday life, as well as at work. Life is all about expressing yourself and being a better communicator within relationships.

Heal the Body with Energy Healing This is the reason people have a great wish to master this area of their lives. There are so many trending topics on communication, and it feels like you can always ingest something new in this area.

Some of the Best topics for Communication include:

Why communication is important at workplace?
What are different barriers to effective communication?
What are various kinds of communication?
How can I improve communication?

Love and compassion: There are several people who are highly interested in loving better. Increasing love and compassion is one of the important goals for many. A large number of people in the spiritual sector write on this topic. It is all about having compassionate feelings for others, as well as for oneself.

Some of the important topics for love and compassion include:

What is communication and love?
Reasons why compassion is important for mental peace.
Ways to feel more compassion and love for oneself.
Why is compassion important for humanity?

Bonding and dating: Going deeper, everybody needs a loving bond and a successful dating life. This is an important part of your personal development journey. Over the internet, you will find a large number of gurus who want to preach on how to date. Heal the Body with Energy Healing This is the reason there is a lot of content on this topic. Even though you are in a relationship, still there are so many things to learn, so that you can enhance your relationship with your companion.
Some Trending topics for bonding and dating include:

Ways to increase bonding in your relationship.
Best creative bonding techniques for your relationship.
What is bonding in relationships?

Make more money: Everybody wants to make more money. It is one of the most important things to live a wonderful, as well as, free life. But we should not rely completely on money. It is all about searching for how to offer more value and earn more money. The more value you offer others, the more money you will make. There are a huge number of topics in this sector. Earning a handsome income but in an ethical way, is also an important part of personal development.
Some of the important topics on how to make more money include:

Best ways to make money online.
How to make money online?
How to earn money online?

Career: Having a good career is closely related to making more money. But the goal is mostly different. It is everything about having a good career as an employee, trainer, or anything that you do. Many people want a promotion or want to climb the ladder of a successful career. Heal the Body with Energy Healing Many of them also want to have a good career as a self-employed professional. If you want to have more focus on your professional career, then topics in this sector will suit you perfectly.
Here are few topics under the category of Career:

Career development topics that follow you through your life.
Important skills you will need for jobs.
How to decide on a career?

Strong vision and perfect purpose: Where do you want to be in ten years from now? This is one of the most powerful questions, and this is the reason you should have a clear vision. It helps you to stay on a proper track. Heal the Body with Energy Healing When you want to reach your goals, it is often best to have a clear vision in your life. Topics in this sector of personal development assist you in developing a very clear vision of where you want to go in your life. A clear vision for your future pulls you like a strong magnet, in tough times.
Here are few important topics under category strong vision and perfect purpose:

Why you need to have a strong vision in life?
How a strong vision helps you in your career?
A strong vision and purpose is important for a stressful life.

Happiness: Almost everyone wants to be happy in life. But not all are or have ever been happy in their lives. This is the reason many people are searching for happiness in their life, and they consume a lot of content on this topic.
Some of the important topics under category happiness include:

Why is happiness important in life?
Happiness is important than money in life.
Why happiness is difficult to define?

High productivity: Here, the goal is to become more productive. People search over the internet to know how to become more productive. When you are more productive, things are done more easily. And this is also the reason you can achieve more.
Vital topics under the category of High Productivity include:

How to achieve high productivity in work?
Things to keep in mind for achieving high productivity.
What causes high productivity?
Why high productivity is important?

A proper mindset: Why does someone need a positive mindset? Because with it, you will be able to achieve more, live a good and happy life. These reasons, and many others, help give people a more positive attitude. This sector is very big. Heal the Body with Energy Healing There are several dozen books on this topic. People are also highly interested in setting up their subconscious minds for attracting more positive things.
Important topics that fall under category proper mindset include:

The importance of mindset.
Mindsets that improve your lifestyle.
What mindset is and why it matters?

Proper motivation: Motivation assists us in taking proper action. When we have a proper answer as to why, then we become more motivated, in the long term. All content on this topic assists us in finding our personal motivation. Heal the Body with Energy Healing At the same time, several other tricks can assist you to motivate yourselves in the short term. The topics in this sector are about motivating yourself to take action, and pursue your goals.
Trending topics under proper motivation category include:

What is constructive motivational thinking?
Strategies to focus at work.
Proven ways to find work-life balance.

Proper management of stress and meditation: Stress management is one of the most vital issues. As people often have less time and more things to do, in stress management, the topic of meditation is highly popular. People nowadays want to be free from stress. They need to eb able to manage their stress effectively. This is the reason topics related to this part of personal development prevail.
Topics that are trending under the category of Proper Management of stress and meditation include:

How to practice meditation for stress management?
Which is the best way to manage stress?
5 tips for stress management.

Setting goals and managing time: A large number of people are highly interested in techniques related to goal setting. How can you achieve your particular goals? What are the best ways to set goals? Topics involve perfect processes, for setting up goals. This makes one of the best personal development topics for 2021.
Similarly, managing time is one of the important traits required for becoming more productive and having less stress, both at home, as well as at work. Heal the Body with Energy Healing When someone has good time management skills, then all things are completed on time, and there is more time for doing other fruitful things. Proper time management is also necessary for the perfect balance of work and life.
Here are a few trending topics under the category of Setting Goals and Managing Time:

Why setting goals in life is important?
Effective management of time is way to success.
Benefit of meditation for managing stress.

Use of creativity for solving problems: In life, everybody will fall into a situation where they have to solve problems. Having proper skills to do this is highly valuable both at home as well as workplace. But when you come up with some of the creative solutions, you can easily solve many complicated problems. With problem-solving skills, you can have a good and positive impact on everyone with whom you are associated.
Conclusion and Way Forward
I hope you enjoyed finding out the myriad number of personal development topics that people write about. There should be something for everyone in this list.
Everyone likes to read topics that are interesting and of perceived use to them. Every topic can help improve your life in some way.
At Wellness That Works, we are committed to giving our readers, only the most useful topics that you can use, to easily enhance your quality of life.
For some, health is more important. Others prefer articles on career. Most people will need to improve self-confidence on some level.
My personal philosophy is that good heath is the overriding topic, hence our name: Wellness That Works, without which, your life cannot function effectively. And, Heal the Body with Energy Healing At the basis of all health issues, whether it is mental, physical, spiritual or physical, is the need to address stress and how to reduce or eliminate it first, before undertaking any other type of course.
So, it is your personal choice about what you might commence your self improvement journey doing. Heal the Body with Energy Healing From my experience and observation, at any stage of your journey, you will also need to address your confidence issues.
To your success?
Blessings!

How to Gain Empowerment Through Holistic Healing of the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Celine Healy — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 13:35:23 +0000

Sometimes it can be very confusing when people research personal development topics and they come up with names such as: self-improvement, self- growth, personal growth, self-development and so on.

Enhances self-awareness and recognition.
Helps develop perspective and talents
Build up human capital and allows employ ability.
Increases quality of life
It makes it easy to realize aspirations and dreams.

In simple words, personal development is about enhancing or improving yourself, and being a better version of yourself. It makes you healthier, smarter, stronger and better, in all sectors of life.

This means that the range of topics revolves around so many different areas such as: the mental, spiritual, emotional or the physical aspects of life. We have listed out some topic categories for you to investigate. Here are, what we consider to be,

How to Gain Empowerment Through Holistic Healing of the Body, Mind, and Spirit

Gain Empowerment Through Holistic This meant that people were encouraged to do it themselves. Hence the proliferation of books and courses and webinars and seminar.

17 of The Best Categories for Personal Development Topics:

It involves things like eating healthy, carrying out things like doing yoga and other such healthy routines. When you are healthy, it becomes easy to become a better form of yourself. When your body can perform at its best, you will do better in all sectors of your life. You will be better and happier, more, focused, and will become more productive.

With more energy, you will feel more confident and motivated. So, a lot of things depend on your health, and this is the reason it is one of the top trending topics on personal development in 2021. Even health is not everything, but nothing is fruitful, without good health.

Some of the top Wellness trends for health topics include:

Mindful eating
Flexitarians diet
A holistic approach to health
Biohacking
Gut and brain health
Priority to emotional well-being

Confidence: Another vital topic in personal development or self-improvement is self-esteem and confidence. A lot of people are working on personal development as they want to become more confident. This is the reason there is a lot of content on “how to enhance your self-confidence?”

With this topic, people learn how to develop trust in themselves, make use of affirmations and increase their comfort zones. It is all about those things that you are afraid to do. When you do things, you are afraid of, you increase your self-confidence.
Some of the trending topics under this category of Confidence include:

Ways to build confidence
How to develop self-confidence?
Build your confidence with practical ways.
Daily practices to boost your self-confidence.
How to build self-esteem

How to sharpen your focus and confidence?
How to increase your focus quickly?
Useful tips for enhancing your mental focus.
Brain hacks for improving your focus at work.

This is the reason people have a great wish to master this area of their lives. There are so many trending topics on communication, and it feels like you can always ingest something new in this area.

Some of the Best topics for Communication include:

Why communication is important at workplace?
What are different barriers to effective communication?
What are various kinds of communication?
How can I improve communication?

What is communication and love?
Reasons why compassion is important for mental peace.
Ways to feel more compassion and love for oneself.
Why is compassion important for humanity?

This is the reason there is a lot of content on this topic. Even though you are in a relationship, still there are so many things to learn, so that you can enhance your relationship with your companion.
Some Trending topics for bonding and dating include:

Ways to increase bonding in your relationship.
Best creative bonding techniques for your relationship.
What is bonding in relationships?

The more value you offer others, the more money you will make. There are a huge number of topics in this sector. Earning a handsome income but in an ethical way, is also an important part of personal development.
Some of the important topics on how to make more money include:

Best ways to make money online.
How to make money online?
How to earn money online?

Many of them also want to have a good career as a self-employed professional. If you want to have more focus on your professional career, then topics in this sector will suit you perfectly.
Here are few topics under the category of Career:

Career development topics that follow you through your life.
Important skills you will need for jobs.
How to decide on a career?

Topics in this sector of personal development assist you in developing a very clear vision of where you want to go in your life. A clear vision for your future pulls you like a strong magnet, in tough times.
Here are few important topics under category strong vision and perfect purpose:

Why you need to have a strong vision in life?
How a strong vision helps you in your career?
A strong vision and purpose is important for a stressful life.

Why is happiness important in life?
Happiness is important than money in life.
Why happiness is difficult to define?

How to achieve high productivity in work?
Things to keep in mind for achieving high productivity.
What causes high productivity?
Why high productivity is important?

A proper mindset: Why does someone need a positive mindset? Because with it, you will be able to achieve more, live a good and happy life. These reasons, and many others, help give people a more positive attitude. This sector is very big. There are several dozen books on this topic. People are also highly interested in setting up their subconscious minds for attracting more positive things.
Important topics that fall under category proper mindset include:

The importance of mindset.
Mindsets that improve your lifestyle.
What mindset is and why it matters?

At the same time, several other tricks can assist you to motivate yourselves in the short term. The topics in this sector are about motivating yourself to take action, and pursue your goals.
Trending topics under proper motivation category include:

What is constructive motivational thinking?
Strategies to focus at work.
Proven ways to find work-life balance.

People nowadays want to be free from stress. They need to eb able to manage their stress effectively. This is the reason topics related to this part of personal development prevail.
Topics that are trending under the category of Proper Management of stress and meditation include:

How to practice meditation for stress management?
Which is the best way to manage stress?
5 tips for stress management.

When someone has good time management skills, then all things are completed on time, and there is more time for doing other fruitful things. Proper time management is also necessary for the perfect balance of work and life.
Here are a few trending topics under the category of Setting Goals and Managing Time:

Why setting goals in life is important?
Effective management of time is way to success.
Benefit of meditation for managing stress.

But when you come up with some of the creative solutions, you can easily solve many complicated problems. With problem-solving skills, you can have a good and positive impact on everyone with whom you are associated.
Conclusion and Way Forward
I hope you enjoyed finding out the myriad number of personal development topics that people write about. There should be something for everyone in this list.
Everyone likes to read topics that are interesting and of perceived use to them. Every topic can help improve your life in some way.

At Wellness That Works, we are committed to giving our readers, only the most useful topics that you can use, to easily enhance your quality of life.
For some, health is more important. Others prefer articles on career. Most people will need to improve self-confidence on some level.

My personal philosophy is that good heath is the overriding topic, hence our name: Wellness That Works, without which, your life cannot function effectively. And. At the basis of all health issues, whether it is mental, physical, spiritual or physical, is the need to address stress and how to reduce or eliminate it first, before undertaking any other type of course.

So, it is your personal choice about what you might commence your self improvement journey doing. From my experience and observation, at any stage of your journey, you will also need to address your confidence issues.
To your success?
Blessings!

How to Heal the Body With Supplements to Support The Immune System

Celine Healy — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 16:48:11 +0000

Sometimes it can be very confusing when people research personal development topics and they come up with names such as: self-improvement, self- growth, personal growth, self-development and so on.

So, what we are going to do here, is to outline the best personal development topics that proponents of self-help might want to investigate. Remember. All of these topics are essentially about helping people increase their wellbeing.
As people nowadays are focusing more on personal development, or self improvement of some kind, it is handy to know what personal development is?
Personal Development has been defined as something that:

Enhances self-awareness and recognition.
Helps develop perspective and talents
Build up human capital and allows employ ability.
Increases quality of life
It makes it easy to realize aspirations and dreams.

How to Heal the Body With Supplements to Support The Immune System

This meant that people were encouraged to do it themselves. Hence the proliferation of books and courses and webinars and seminar.

17 of The Best Categories for Personal Development Topics:

When you are healthy, it becomes easy to become a better form of yourself. When your body can perform at its best, you will do better in all sectors of your life. You will be better and happier, more, focused, and will become more productive.

Some of the top Wellness trends for health topics include:

Mindful eating
Flexitarians diet
A holistic approach to health
Biohacking
Gut and brain health
Priority to emotional well-being

Ways to build confidence
How to develop self-confidence?
Build your confidence with practical ways.
Daily practices to boost your self-confidence.
How to build self-esteem

How to sharpen your focus and confidence?
How to increase your focus quickly?
Useful tips for enhancing your mental focus.
Brain hacks for improving your focus at work.

Why communication is important at workplace?
What are different barriers to effective communication?
What are various kinds of communication?
How can I improve communication?

What is communication and love?
Reasons why compassion is important for mental peace.
Ways to feel more compassion and love for oneself.
Why is compassion important for humanity?

Bonding and dating: Going deeper, everybody needs a loving bond and a successful dating life. This is an important part of your personal development journey. Over the internet, you will find a large number of gurus who want to preach on how to date. This is the reason there is a lot of content on this topic. Even though you are in a relationship, still there are so many things to learn, so that you can enhance your relationship with your companion.
Some Trending topics for bonding and dating include:

Ways to increase bonding in your relationship.
Best creative bonding techniques for your relationship.
What is bonding in relationships?

Best ways to make money online.
How to make money online?
How to earn money online?

Career: Having a good career is closely related to making more money. But the goal is mostly different. It is everything about having a good career as an employee, trainer, or anything that you do. Many people want a promotion or want to climb the ladder of a successful career. Many of them also want to have a good career as a self-employed professional. If you want to have more focus on your professional career, then topics in this sector will suit you perfectly.
Here are few topics under the category of Career:

Career development topics that follow you through your life.
Important skills you will need for jobs.
How to decide on a career?

Strong vision and perfect purpose: Where do you want to be in ten years from now? This is one of the most powerful questions, and this is the reason you should have a clear vision. It helps you to stay on a proper track. When you want to reach your goals, it is often best to have a clear vision in your life. Topics in this sector of personal development assist you in developing a very clear vision of where you want to go in your life. A clear vision for your future pulls you like a strong magnet, in tough times.
Here are few important topics under category strong vision and perfect purpose:

Why you need to have a strong vision in life?
How a strong vision helps you in your career?
A strong vision and purpose is important for a stressful life.

Why is happiness important in life?
Happiness is important than money in life.
Why happiness is difficult to define?

How to achieve high productivity in work?
Things to keep in mind for achieving high productivity.
What causes high productivity?
Why high productivity is important?

A proper mindset: Why does someone need a positive mindset? Because with it, you will be able to achieve more, live a good and happy life. These reasons, and many others, help give people a more positive attitude. This sector is very big. There are several dozen books on this topic. People are also highly interested in setting up their subconscious minds for attracting more positive things.
Important topics that fall under category proper mindset include:

The importance of mindset.
Mindsets that improve your lifestyle.
What mindset is and why it matters?

Proper motivation: Motivation assists us in taking proper action. When we have a proper answer as to why, then we become more motivated, in the long term. All content on this topic assists us in finding our personal motivation. At the same time, several other tricks can assist you to motivate yourselves in the short term. The topics in this sector are about motivating yourself to take action, and pursue your goals.
Trending topics under proper motivation category include:

What is constructive motivational thinking?
Strategies to focus at work.
Proven ways to find work-life balance.

How to practice meditation for stress management?
Which is the best way to manage stress?
5 tips for stress management.

Setting goals and managing time: A large number of people are highly interested in techniques related to goal setting. How can you achieve your particular goals? What are the best ways to set goals? Topics involve perfect processes, for setting up goals. This makes one of the best personal development topics for 2021.
Similarly, managing time is one of the important traits required for becoming more productive and having less stress, both at home, as well as at work. When someone has good time management skills, then all things are completed on time, and there is more time for doing other fruitful things. Proper time management is also necessary for the perfect balance of work and life.
Here are a few trending topics under the category of Setting Goals and Managing Time:

Why setting goals in life is important?
Effective management of time is way to success.
Benefit of meditation for managing stress.

Use of creativity for solving problems: In life, everybody will fall into a situation where they have to solve problems. Having proper skills to do this is highly valuable both at home as well as workplace. But when you come up with some of the creative solutions, you can easily solve many complicated problems. With problem-solving skills, you can have a good and positive impact on everyone with whom you are associated.
Conclusion and Way Forward
I hope you enjoyed finding out the myriad number of personal development topics that people write about. There should be something for everyone in this list.
Everyone likes to read topics that are interesting and of perceived use to them. Every topic can help improve your life in some way.
At Wellness That Works, we are committed to giving our readers, only the most useful topics that you can use, to easily enhance your quality of life.
For some, health is more important. Others prefer articles on career. Most people will need to improve self-confidence on some level.
My personal philosophy is that good heath is the overriding topic, hence our name: Wellness That Works, without which, your life cannot function effectively. And. At the basis of all health issues, whether it is mental, physical, spiritual or physical, is the need to address stress and how to reduce or eliminate it first, before undertaking any other type of course.
So, it is your personal choice about what you might commence your self improvement journey doing. From my experience and observation, at any stage of your journey, you will also need to address your confidence issues.
To your success?
Blessings!

How to Heal the Body With Vitamin C

Celine Healy — Sat, 05 Feb 2022 11:31:23 +0000

Sometimes it can be very confusing when people research personal development topics and they come up with names such as: self-improvement, self- growth, personal growth, self-development and so on.
Although these terms can be synonymous, the essence of this movement is all about self help. Self-help developed out of the psychology movement, whereby clients were encouraged to take more responsibility for the outcomes they desired in their lives. This meant that people were encouraged to do it themselves. Hence the proliferation of books and courses and webinars and seminar.
So, what we are going to do here, is to outline the best personal development topics that proponents of self-help might want to investigate. Heal the Body With Vitamin C Remember, All of these topics are essentially about helping people increase their wellbeing.
As people nowadays are focusing more on personal development, or self improvement of some kind, it is handy to know what personal development is?
Personal Development has been defined as something that:

Enhances self-awareness and recognition.
Helps develop perspective and talents
Build up human capital and allows employ ability.
Increases quality of life
It makes it easy to realize aspirations and dreams.

In simple words, personal development is about enhancing or improving yourself, and being a better version of yourself. It makes you healthier, smarter, stronger and better, in all sectors of life.

How to Heal the Body With Vitamin C:

17 of The Best Categories for Personal Development Topics:

You will be better and happier, more, focused, and will become more productive. With more energy, you will feel more confident and motivated. So, a lot of things depend on your health, and this is the reason it is one of the top trending topics on personal development in 2021. Even health is not everything, but nothing is fruitful, without good health.

Some of the top Wellness trends for health topics include:

Mindful eating
Flexitarians diet
A holistic approach to health
Biohacking
Gut and brain health
Priority to emotional well-being

Ways to build confidence
How to develop self-confidence?
Build your confidence with practical ways.
Daily practices to boost your self-confidence.
How to build self-esteem

How to sharpen your focus and confidence?
How to increase your focus quickly?
Useful tips for enhancing your mental focus.
Brain hacks for improving your focus at work.

Why communication is important at workplace?
What are different barriers to effective communication?
What are various kinds of communication?
How can I improve communication?

What is communication and love?
Reasons why compassion is important for mental peace.
Ways to feel more compassion and love for oneself.
Why is compassion important for humanity?

Ways to increase bonding in your relationship.
Best creative bonding techniques for your relationship.
What is bonding in relationships?

Best ways to make money online.
How to make money online?
How to earn money online?

Many people want a promotion or want to climb the ladder of a successful career. Many of them also want to have a good career as a self-employed professional. If you want to have more focus on your professional career, then topics in this sector will suit you perfectly.
Here are few topics under the category of Career:

Career development topics that follow you through your life.
Important skills you will need for jobs.
How to decide on a career?

When you want to reach your goals, it is often best to have a clear vision in your life. Topics in this sector of personal development assist you in developing a very clear vision of where you want to go in your life. A clear vision for your future pulls you like a strong magnet, in tough times.
Here are few important topics under category strong vision and perfect purpose:

Why you need to have a strong vision in life?
How a strong vision helps you in your career?
A strong vision and purpose is important for a stressful life.

Why is happiness important in life?
Happiness is important than money in life.
Why happiness is difficult to define?

How to achieve high productivity in work?
Things to keep in mind for achieving high productivity.
What causes high productivity?
Why high productivity is important?

This sector is very big. There are several dozen books on this topic. People are also highly interested in setting up their subconscious minds for attracting more positive things.
Important topics that fall under category proper mindset include:

The importance of mindset.
Mindsets that improve your lifestyle.
What mindset is and why it matters?

What is constructive motivational thinking?
Strategies to focus at work.
Proven ways to find work-life balance.

How to practice meditation for stress management?
Which is the best way to manage stress?
5 tips for stress management.

Why setting goals in life is important?
Effective management of time is way to success.
Benefit of meditation for managing stress.

At Wellness That Works, we are committed to giving our readers, only the most useful topics that you can use, to easily enhance your quality of life.
For some, health is more important.

Others prefer articles on career. Most people will need to improve self-confidence on some level.
My personal philosophy is that good heath is the overriding topic, hence our name: Wellness That Works, without which, your life cannot function effectively.

And. At the basis of all health issues, whether it is mental, physical, spiritual or physical, is the need to address stress and how to reduce or eliminate it first, before undertaking any other type of course.
So, it is your personal choice about what you might commence your self improvement journey doing. From my experience and observation, at any stage of your journey, you will also need to address your confidence issues.
To your success?
Blessings!

Wellness That Works

Soul Healing: Best way to Heal Soul Wounds

How to Heal Soul Wounds

1. Understand Your Soul

2. Deepen Your Connection with the Divine Being

3. Find Your True Purpose and Passion

4. Engage in Relaxation and Meditation

5. Dive Deep into Your Feelings

6. Take Baby Steps

7. Be Patient and Consistent

Final Words

Violet Flame

What Is the Violet Flame?

Violet Flame Meditation

1. Set Your Intentions

2. Follow a Mantra

3. Visualize a Sphere of Light

4. Transform That Light into the Violet Flame

5. Close Your Flame

Final Words

Alchemical Process: A Guide to Spiritual Alchemy

You Have the Power to Heal Yourself

Alchemical Process: The Seven Stages

Stage 1: Calcination

Stage 2: Dissolution

Stage 3: Separation

Stage 4: Conjunction

Stage 5: Fermentation

Stage 6: Distillation

Stage 7: Coagulation

Final Words

Emotional and Spiritual Healing

Seven Stages of Emotional Healing

1. Exploration

2. Expression

3. Comfort

4. Compensation

5. Perspective

6. Channelling

7. Forgiveness

Final Words

Thinking of Starting a New Relationship? What to Include in Your Relationship Needs List

Specific Elements of a Starting a new Relationship Needs List

Trust Is The Potent Foundation

2. Sense Of Respect

3. The Feeling Of Security

4. Maintaining Your Self-Respect

5. Assess Your Feelings

6. Maintain Your Independence

7. Creating An Equal Partnership

8. Communication Is Essential

9. Honesty And Loyalty Are Must Have

10. Forgiveness Makes Your Life Easier

Way Forward – Getting Ready for a Relationship

Feel The Joy of New Relationship Energy

New Relationship Energy Blocks

How to Increase Positive Self-Concept During and After a Pandemic and Coronavirus Isolation

How to Increase Positive Self-Concept

How to Become More Confident!

How to Become More Confident!

How to Heal the Body With Vibrational Sounds

How to Heal the Body With Vibrational Sounds?

Relationship Wellness How to Build Healthy Relationships

Relationship Wellness How to Build Healthy Relationships

– Showing Respect and Kindness

– Taking Things Slow

Qualities of Relationship Wellness

Wrapping Up

Untangling Complicated Relationships: A Perspective

Solutions for Complicated Relationships

Identify the Problem

Understand If You’re Contributing to the Problem

Don’t Mix the Good and the Bad

Create An Environment in Which You Two Can Talk Freely

Communication is key for Discussing Problems

Have a Support System You Can Rely On

Summary and Way Forward

What Really Matters?

What Is The Worst Thing That Can Happen To You ( What Really Matters )?

What If You Lost Your Job?

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