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Reclaiming Your Power

Reclaiming Your Power As fall turns to winter, it is a time of rebuilding. Hibernation is not simply about sleep, but more importantly about allowing our inner resources to grow and building the foundation for our path in the new more

Energy Healing

Energy healing is a very widely used term for any form of healing which balances, rejuvenates, or restores the levels of energy in the body. The principles of energy healing are rooted in the belief that in addition to biological and more

Do You Think You're In Control Of Your Life?

You've got the talent, you've got the ability, so why can't you overcome your problems? You're highly motivated to change, but you still can't seem to stop behaving in ways you hate. You have excellent problem-solving skills, yet you can't more

Personal Coach: How Do You Choose Which One?

Getting a personal coach can be the single most important decision in a person's life. For many, it's like having a second chance at growing up -- except they get to choose their teachers this time. But how do you more

Alcohol Rehab When It's Necessary

Alcohol rehab has been made public through such organizations as AA, Alcoholics Anonymous, as well as other famous institutions that treat alcohol related issues. Alcohol rehab is important because it can bring back a promising life that is on the brink more

Alcoholism Signs - Ten Warning Signs Of Alcoholism You Should Know

Alcoholism signs - are there ten warning signs of alcoholism? Yes! Understanding alcoholism signs can help you determine whether there is alcohol abuse or dependency. Consuming a drink or two per day for healthy men and a drink a day for more

Starter Guide To Self Improvement - A 7 Step Process

I seem to lost count on how many times I've read and heard of celebrity marriages failing almost left and right. Not that I care (and personally I don't), it seems strange that we often see movie and TV stars as more

Loving Yourself Unconditionally

Most religions teach us altruism and to 'love your neighbor like yourself'. Have you ever wondered, whether your neighbor would actually like that? Because, frankly speaking, how much do YOU love yourself? Of course we all love ourselves. more

10 Steps To Inner Happiness

I find it interesting that although the United States is considered by many to be the most prosperous country in the world and the most prosperous society in history, so many of us are unhappy. It has also been my observation more

Courage, The Bridge Between Fear and Peace

Change and loss mark life on the physical plane. We will ultimately lose everything, including our loved ones, possessions, and ultimately, the body. At death, we must face the abyss, the infinite unknown. Fear, a natural and intelligent response more

How To Heal Your Life

How To Heal Your Life Many talk about healing but it's amazing how few people -- even the experts -- know much about it. When I developed a book proposal for my healing workbook I went to secular and Christian more

The Power Of Beliefs

Your beliefs shape your life. How's your life right now? Any areas you'd like to change? If there are, you have the key - your beliefs. Even more amazing is that it's really not that tough to change your beliefs. It more

Be An Original Not a Copy

Do you go through life trying to be someone else? Perhaps someone rich and famous or someone you grew up with that you think has it all? Well, Stop. If God wanted two people to be exactly alike he more

Self Confidence - 7 Secrets Steps For Building Unshakable High Confidence

The following strategies may be useful to overcome such self-conquering thought habits. Consider these steps as the building blocks for greater confidence in any aspect of your life. 1. Begin with writing a journal. One benefit in self-analysis more

The Seven Day Life-Changing Happiness Challenge!

You are about to discover a simple technique for creating massive changes in your quality of life. Do you want to be happier? This technique can help. Do you want more time to spend with your family more

How To Attract Everything You Desire Effortlessly!

Be Simply Irresistible . . . How To Attract Everything You Desire Effortlessly! 1. Create an environment that naturally pulls you forward so things like commitment and discipline are optional. Being pulled forward is attractive, pushing forward is not. more

The Positive Effects of Ambient Music

Ambient nature sounds have the ability to aid sleep, reduce stress, and provide a relaxing atmosphere for activities such as yoga, tai-chi, and meditation. Most of us spend our days surrounded by the sounds of vehicles, televisions, and office machines. more

50 Questions To Help You Find Your Life's Purpose

Let's get straight into it! If you want to live a happy life, then you MUST spend some time deciding what you want to do with your life, and then make the effort to live that life with passion. more

The No-Fail Way To Get Anything You've Ever Wanted

If you really want to reach the goals you set for yourself this year, simply writing them down as a list and telling your friends is just not going to cut it. Reaching your goals is easy when you use more

Strategies To Help You Believe In Yourself

Your mind is the most powerful supercomputer in the world. It's a pity if you would not be able to explore and utilize its vast potentials. Many people are using just a very tiny portion of their mind's abilities. more

Managing Your Fears As An Alternative To Abuse And Addiction

Everybody deals with stress and anxiety, however some people sometimes take it out on others through abuse or take their fears out on themselves through addiction. Both of these alternatives are wrong. There is a better way to deal with your more

Hypnosis

Chaos Theory: Self-hypnosis for Your Own Peace of Mind Your boss ends the day with a stack of papers and instructions that you submit the report in the next 42 hours. Your significant other doesn't answer your calls. Your mother more

Top Ten Ways To Live Authentically

1. Know your purpose Are you wandering through life with little direction - hoping that you'll find happiness, health and prosperity? Identify your life purpose or mission statement and you will have your own unique compass that will lead you to more

Top 10 Steps For Freeing Ourselves From The Downward Spirals Of Life

1. NOTICE THE SPIRAL YOU'RE IN As is so often true, awareness is the first step to intervention. Much of the power of a downward spiral comes from our continuing to be unaware of the direction of our life. Like a more

Help For A Common Obstacle To Confidence: How To Translate Inspiration Into Reality

This article is designed specifically to support you in tackling one of the biggest obstacles that may come in your way as you work on developing your confidence and changing how you live and interact with others. Learning how to more

A Simple Yet Very Powerful Way To Beat Your Negative Emotions.

Negative emotions, like insecurity, fear, despair, discouragement, frustration, anger, deception can pollute your life. Throughout the day, you experience all kinds of emotions, some are positive and others are negative and painful. Feeling positive emotions, like happiness or peace is more

Five Thoughts About Effective Communication

Communicating effectively can sometimes be difficult to do. So here are some thoughts, based on borrowed wisdom, on how to communicate clearly - and make a better connection with the other person too. "To get your ideas across use more

Taking Your Life Back

Lately, have you found yourself saying, or thinking, any of the following?: I'm just not myself anymore.... I can't keep up with everything! I'm so tired.... I want to feel normal again..... I don't care....it doesn't more

Self Confidence Creates Power

If you feel like you are battling with your own self-confidence, it is time to take a look at some of the most confident people of our time. Confidence and high self esteem made them the successful people they are today, more

You Know Your Life Is On Purpose When You Can Witness Your Inherited Purpose

"If you are able to stay alert and present at that time (that the pain-body awakens) and watch whatever you feel within, rather than be taken over by it, it affords an opportunity for the most powerful spiritual practice, and a more

7 Public Speaking Survival Tips

I used to be terrified of public speaking - now it's natural and fun. Dry mouth, fast heart, sweaty palms, blank mind - yeah I've been there! It's easy to fear public speaking. But I was never just content with more

5 Tips To Create Positive Changes To Your Life

As we settle into the New Year, millions of good intentions and ambitions to make this a better year have already been abandoned. It's an annual triumph for fear, as it knows that the hope and exuberance of New Year celebrations more

How To Become The Most Interesting Conversationalist Around

Are you intimidated by the thought of trying to carry on a conversation, and even more afraid of being seen as boring or unoriginal? Have you ever frozen up in the middle of a conversation, not knowing what to say more

A Six-Step System To Live A Much More Successful Life, Everyday!

To live a more successful life, you need to live a more balanced life. The areas where you need to focus your attention are: your personal development, family, business or career, health, relationships, financial independence and the kind of service you more

12 Steps To Break ANY Bad Habit in 21 Days -- Guaranteed!

IMPORTANT: These are the SAME secrets and steps that real people - just like you - have used to break the cycle of deeply entrenched, lifelong, habits.. forever! ALL are covered fully in the PROVEN system "Habit Busting: A more

Ten Roadblocks To Creative Success

To stay competitive in the world of work today, you must use your imagination and creativity. These innate gifts have the potential to give us an edge in business and in life, yet we are often blocked and fail to accomplish more

Why Desire Holds The Key To Self-Help And Living Life

Desire is nature's motor power, the propulsive force thatpushes everything forward in its evolution. Desire stimulates you to action. As you obtain your original desire, a new one replaces the old and lures you onward. If you were beginning a more

Why You Behave In Ways You Hate

And What You Can Do About It People tell me over and over how "impossible" it seems to change their unwanted attitudes and that they have "no idea" why this is. If you're reading this book, clearly you want to more

Seven Personal Characteristics Of A Good Leader

How often have you heard the comment, "He or she is a born leader?" There are certain characteristics found in some people that seem to naturally put them in a position where they're looked up to as a leader. more

Guilt, Resentment, And Our Struggles

There is a profound connection between the feelings of guilt and resentment and the problems you struggle with: sex, money, weight, ambition, relationships, and parenting. A deeper understanding of these feelings will help you solve these problems. Why Do more

Destination Freedom

I don't know about you but these days I often hear peopleusing the word 'enlightenment' as if it's a common experience. According to Buddhism enlightenment is the complete cessation of all sufferings and a permanent state of peace and happiness. more

Are You Co-Dependent? Take This Quiz To Find Out!

One of the greatest benefits of having close friendships is that our friends can support and help us when things get rough in our lives. In exchange for the support our friends give us during a crisis, most of more

Have You Reached Your Full Potential

Each of us possesses an untapped potential within. We are all destined to be someone and achieve something in the course of our lives. However, due to the multitude of challenges and obstacles that we encounter everyday, we neglect that we more

The Power Of The Subconscious

Are you happy with where you are in life or would you like to make some changes? If you find that you don't like where you are in life you must ask yourself what thoughts you are engaging in that more

Find Happiness By Giving Happiness

Have you ever heard this quote? "There is a wonderful, mystical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind- are always attained by giving them to someone else." more

Fear Of Flying

There are a few fears in life that defy logic. Fear of spiders may be one, fear of lifts is another, and perhaps a fear of flying is another. Everyday, thousands of planes take off around the world, carrying millions of more

Self Improvement Seminars: Worth The Investment?

Imagine, a three day weekend with your favorite motivational speaker. The conference room is filled with hundreds of adoring fans including yourself. At this self improvement seminar, the speaker gives his all, and the whole time you are there you feel more

Life Coach, Another Trend?

"Go-Go-Go" Is life coaching another American New Age fad, delivering yet another empty promise of helping us live better lives? Whether we want to lose weight, get a new job, succeed in business, more education, relationship help, financial relief, smoking, more

Fulfill Your Basic Human Needs To Become Healthy And Happy

Human touch and emotional closeness are as important to human beings as sunshine is to plants. We inherently need close human contact to flourish and grow. Touch is one of our basic needs. According to James Prescott, a neuro-psychologist, "deprivation more

The Misunderstood Power That Determines What You Get In Life

If there were one power which was like a magic wand, andwherever you pointed it, suddenly it shoots out a puff of smoke, and voila, instant riches... would you want to learn how to use that power? Silly question. Of more

Seven Ways To Turn Past Failures Into Springboards For Success

Perhaps your professional life isn't going exactly like you thought it was supposed to go. Maybe you've made a series of bad decisions or even one really bad choice that you can't seem to bounce back from. Maybe you've been downsized more

Who Am I? A Life On Purpose Perspective

I've had a feeling for sometime now that there's a deeper level to go with the Life On Purpose Process. It's been incubating for several months, surfacing from time to time, often while I'm reading something of a spiritual nature. more

Four Powerful Tricks For Successful Lucid Dreaming

Lucid Dreaming is a very interesting subject, and is definitely worth taking a look at. As we continue to grow in our knowledge of what happens while we are sleeping, and how we can use our brains to help us achieve more

How To Improve Your Life Exponentially

With the amount of excellent material available in books, courses and on the internet these days, it's unlikely that you are short of ideas about how to improve your life. But how many great ideas have you read and more

The Truth About Body Image

Have you ever considered how much your body image - your personal packaging, contributes to your business and personal success? The multi million pound cosmetics industry is acutely aware of the value of packaging. You'll know this if you've ever more

Ten Tips To Create A Brand New You!

Looking to reinvent yourself, to create a brand new you and get even more happiness and fulfilment from life? Here's the first 5 of 10 exciting ideas to help you transform yourself... 1. First and most important of them all, more

Building Good Self Esteem

Let's take a good look at self-esteem. First of nearly everyone wishes they had more self-esteem?. What tends to happen around self-esteem is that most people assess themselves through externals and tote up their self-esteem by how well they've done more

Growing Beyond Your Comfort Zone

It has been said that "If you are not growing, you are dying." As learning human beings, we are on a constant journey called life. Rick Warren has been quite successful at stimulating thought and faith in his fine book, A more

Is Your Life Just OK? It Doesn't Have To Be That Way!

I have some questions for you. Are you ready? How would your rate your life on a scale from one to ten; ten being fantastic and one being the worst it could possibly be? Are you happy with the most important more

Simplify Your Life, Revealing 5 Proven Ways To Own Your Life

Do you own your life or does it own you? If you're struggling with your life, this could be an indication that you're making your life much too difficult than it needs to be. You're here to live a more

10 Easy Steps To Improve Your Self -Esteem

10 Easy Steps to Improve your Self Esteem Having taught Confidence Building courses I've found the following ideas have made big improvements for my students; 1. Learn how to do something well. Being good at something boosts your confidence more

In Search Of Contentment

What is contentment? The dictionary defines it as "the experience of being satisfied, of not desiring more than you have." As simple as that sounds, contentment can be seem very elusive to most of us. We know that it more

Do You Know How to Visualize and Affirm Your Deepest Desires?

It's been a long time since I played basketball. But I have a passion for it. Everyday I would think that I am making jump shots from every angle of the court. Then I would also imagine that I've won the more

Optimism - Explore The Possibility

Copyright 2005 Mark Myhre We constantly project into the future. We can't help it; that's part of what makes us human. Our frontal lobes - the area of the brain right behind the forehead - constantly thinks about the more

How To Visualize Yourself To Success

If you've ever read anything about visualization, you're probably familiar with the basketball study. I don't recall who did the study, but it went like this: half of the basketball team practiced free throws on the court everyday for a period more

Afraid To Fly? Turn Your Fear Into Your Passion

If you have a fear of flying you probably don't understand why anyone would enjoy getting into a plane, strapping themselves in and feeling the rush of power as the plane shoots into the sky with you inside. In fact the more

5 Tips To Increase Your Chances Of Actually Achieving Your New Year's Resolutions

Even in January, more and more people forget about the well-meaning resolutions they made on New Year's to improve their lives. Here are five tips from my new book, Inside Every Woman, Using the 10 Strengths You Didn't Know You more

Guilt And Self-Destructive Behaviors

Guilt: Parents' Weapon of Choice Do you ever wonder if your parents graduated magna cum laude from Guilt University? Do you ever suspect that they majored in Suffering with a minor in Acting Out of Control? All the while earning more

Ten Tips To Send Your Audience To Sleep

Have you ever fallen asleep when listening to a speech or presentation? Sometimes a little nap during a presentation can boost your energy for the rest of the day. Speakers- if you want to be the one to send your audience more

The Power Of Everyday Rituals

The Power of Everyday Rituals The performance of rituals in regards to manifesting a desired outcome relates directly to the principles of thought energy. Intent and belief are focused through the use of rituals and transformed into thought energy. more

Your Mind And Its Super Powers Hidden Within

The human mind is an Infinite wonder. It has the power to transmute your Inner desires into their physical counterparts once focused. What the mind can conceive, You can achieve, just as long as you have the inner Belief more

Reclaiming Your Inner Child

Remember when you were a child. Everyday seemed to be an adventured filled with laughter and giggles. There was humor all around us. Children laugh 400 times a day up to 4 years old, while adults laugh 15 times a day. more

Preparedness Plus Chance Equals Success

How many times has something good come into your life and you were not prepared to embrace it? This happens to so many people. When a special chance to do or have something great presents itself, most people will not be more

What End Result Do You Want?

Ever noticed that when you have swags of time to complete a task then it takes much more time to complete it than is necessary? I'm aware of a similar phenomenon with money. When I have my mortgage or more

Changing The Way You Act To Change The Way You Feel

No matter how big or small throughout our lives we are faced with various situations that require us to make decisions on how to react. Not only can our decisions affect the people around us, but how more

I Just Want A Simple Life!

It was one of those days when you felt like winter was almost over. The sun was shining, there was no wind, and it actually felt a bit like spring! It was not a day to stay in the house. So, more

We Don't Plan To Fail...

Thoses of us that actually manage to set goals often give up at the first setback. They mentally beat themself up by saying "I knew I couldn't do it, so why did I bother trying" and other such self destructive comments. more

How To Have A Beautiful Life In A Mad Dash Society

When you go out, look at the people around you. Don't they look like they're in a hurry to get somewhere? When you ask your friends out for a gathering, do you often get, "Sorry, I've got an appointment, or I've more

5 Tips For Getting Your Life Back On Track -- After Taking A Wrong Turn

We've all experienced moments in our life when we hear ourselves say "YES" to a job, person or situation we know deep in our heart isn't right for us. And still we do it. As soon as "yes" leaves our lips more