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BRAIN POWER Our Genie to Success - by Michele Blood- How Negativity Can Impact Your Efforts - by Submitted on Jun 02, 2009 from Jennifer LimMany of us know the harmful effect of negativity. Attitude make or break us as in the words of Napolean Hill, author of Think and Grow Rich; "There is very little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is ...
Views: 1619 - The Doorway Technique for Problem Solving and Stress Reduction - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2009 from Kenneth VandreThe Doorway Technique, based on the idea that obstacles can be seen as doorways if viewed in the right way, is a simple and powerful stress-reduction, emotional-release and problem-solving tool. After a particularly stressful day at work a few years ago, I sat on my bed and did cathartic ...
Views: 1618(4 votes) - Thoughts and Their Consequence - by Submitted on Aug 15, 2008 from Peter Field‘All that we are is the result of all that we have thought. It is founded on thought. It is made up of our thoughts.’ The Buddha, Dhammapada Perhaps the most basic of all ‘mental laws’, and one hopefully drummed into every student of psychotherapy and the mind, is ...
Views: 1618 - Got Milk? Feed Your Inner Mouse - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2013 from William FetterGot Milk? Feed Your Inner Mouse I often fancifully imagine a snake, mouse, and monkey inside myself. My last message focused on meeting our core for safety and was titled "I love Lucy." This Message focuses on our core need for satisfaction - broadly defined - with the hopefully not too ...
Views: 1617(2 votes) - Are You a Giver or a Taker? - by Submitted on Jan 15, 2017 from Lisa BoussonI’m sure you’ve read something I’ve written saying that it’s important to be able to give to yourself so that you can continue to give to others… and that continues to be true. However, giving to yourself is much different than taking (receiving) from someone else. The cycle of abundance ...
Views: 1616 - Daily Affirmative Prayer - Making Peace with My Today - by Submitted on Sep 02, 2009 from Gayle Dillon“Making Peace with My Today Will Improve My Future... It may sound odd, but the fastest way to get to a new-and-improved situation is to make peace with your current situation. By making lists of the most positive aspects you can find about your current situation, you then release your ...
Views: 1616(3 votes) - PRAYER: Powerful Real Answers You Enjoy Regularly! - by Submitted on Mar 09, 2010 from Deb ScottPRAYER: Powerful Real Answers You Enjoy Regularly! So many people tell me, "Well Deb, I've tried everything else to solve this problem, I guess I should try to pray." This is exactly the upside down thinking I'm talking about getting rid of! Prayers should not be the last resort, it ...
Views: 1616(4 votes) - How Can I Develop a Positive Attitude? - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2010 from Lorna BlakeThere’s a saying I grew up with as a child: “Ungrateful worse than obeah.” It means that living in a state of ingratitude for life, your situation, your circumstances is going to keep you locked into your difficulties… It doesn’t mean that we never complained but whenever we did the elders ...
Views: 1615(1 vote) - Positive Thinking: 5 Benefits of a Positive Attitude - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2011 from Lea BullenA person’s attitude and way of thinking contribute greatly to their personality. People who think positively have a better outlook on life and an ambitious attitude. These are factors that directly affect your perception when it comes to creating the kind of life you want. Studies show that you ...
Views: 1615(2 votes) - Positive Thinking: 5 Benefits of a Positive Attitude - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2011 from Lea BullenA person’s attitude and way of thinking contribute greatly to their personality. People who think positively have a better outlook on life and an ambitious attitude. These are factors that directly affect your perception when it comes to creating the kind of life you want. Studies show that you ...
Views: 1615(2 votes) - Positive Thinking: 5 Benefits of a Positive Attitude - by Submitted on Jul 25, 2011 from Lea BullenA person’s attitude and way of thinking contribute greatly to their personality. People who think positively have a better outlook on life and an ambitious attitude. These are factors that directly affect your perception when it comes to creating the kind of life you want. Studies show that you ...
Views: 1615(2 votes) - Taking Charge of Your Life - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2006 from Roger EllertonHow do you live your life? At cause or at effect? It is important to be aware of this distinction. It is the rare individual who always lives his or her life at cause; however, far too many of us live a large portion of our lives at effect - responding to the whims, desires or emotional states ...
Views: 1614 - ***Being a Rainmaker - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2014 from Rob WhiteAfter decades of striving to get before giving, it has become increasingly obvious to me that learning to give is the right way to live. Rainmaking – the art of giving productively – is a most important for right living. Rainmaking is nourishment to the spirit, as wholesome food is ...
Views: 1613 - Go With the Flow - by Submitted on Apr 16, 2012 from Rev. Elaine Torrance-GingrichWe already understand that having the desire is the first step in deliberate creation. What we tend to struggle with is allowing our desires to flow to us. We get so caught up in the "how", we don't allow ourselves to be guided and "go with the flow". Let's face it; we weren't raised with ...
Views: 1613(1 vote) - How to be more positive and stop negative thinking now - by Submitted on Mar 01, 2011 from Laura SilvaIt doesn’t really matter who you are – the fact is, we all have our ups and downs. If your downs seem to outnumber your ups, and negativity seems to be taking hold of your life in various ways and at a lightning fast speed, then you could certainly use a boost. Here are ten wonderful ways you ...
Views: 1613(2 votes) - Life issues Pt. 3 - An Attitude of Gratitude - by Submitted on Apr 29, 2003 from Nicholas Dixon============================================================ Special Requirements For Reprint: Article may be freely reprinted in your ezine, in your e-book and/or on your web site with the authors resource box included and without any ...
Views: 1613(1 vote) - Obligations and Responsibilities Towards Yourself and Others - by Submitted on Mar 29, 2011 from Dion DalyIn this fast-moving world, you need to consider not only yourself, but others as well. What you do does have an influence on other people, just as other people's negative or positive attitude affects the environment around them. What is magnificent these days is that most people are ...
Views: 1613(3 votes) - Redundancy - Disaster or Opportunity? - by Submitted on Apr 23, 2009 from Julia BarnickleWhen your job is made redundant, it’s all to easy to see it as a disaster - as though you’re unwanted, unloved and you’ve been assigned to the scrap heap. Even if you’re quite happy to leave the job you’re in, and move on, you may go through a period of ‘mourning’, of feeling rejected and ...
Views: 1613 - The Law Of Attraction Cannot Be Denied - by Submitted on Sep 08, 2014 from Brian LewisHave you ever wanted something so bad that it made you hurt? I'm sure that you have, we all have. How did you feel once the thing that you simply had to have arrived or did it? I wan to share a recent experience that I had that once it was received literally brought me, a fifty year old grown ...
Views: 1613 - 5 Secret Steps the Positively Successful Take in Response to Change - by Submitted on Feb 17, 2014 from Joey FaucetteI live in a part of the U.S. that received a once-a-decade snowfall last week. At least 12,000 flights were cancelled. Millions of people were home from work, rearranging untold numbers of meetings and assignments. Such rapid change is commonplace in our world today. Snow is forecast. Other ...
Views: 1612 - Our Information Intake - Food For Thought - by Submitted on Jun 14, 2013 from Baridi TZNutrition is generally defined as ‘the process of providing food necessary for health and growth’. Nutrition is always referenced to food. This was born out of the increasing unhealthy consumption of food, the realization that the problem exists and the general consensus that proactive steps ...
Views: 1612 - Things That Happy People Do Not Care About - by Submitted on Sep 17, 2014 from Cecile PeterkinIf you are serious about becoming a better and happier person, what’s important is that you keep your focus on your main goal, which is to be happy. Once you find your own happiness, you will instantly be a better person in every aspect of the word. Finding what can make you happy isn’t the ...
Views: 1612 - A Healthy Self Image Can Lead to Love and Happiness - by Submitted on Jul 02, 2020 from Amanda HarveyA positive self image is one of the most essential things we can have in our quest for happiness. It is also very important in being able to find love and create a healthy relationship. Your self image is the way you see yourself. Your thoughts, feelings and beliefs about what kind of a ...
Views: 1611 - Love Child - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2014 from Kelli WilsonDo you ever look at your child, I mean really look at him or her and think to yourself, “Wow, here is an amazing small human being in my care”? Of course you do, you’re a parent. I have been given the amazing responsibility to care for these human beings to the best of my ability for at ...
Views: 1611 - Re-invent Yourself When Times Are Tough - by Submitted on Jun 04, 2008 from Paul KeeneLet's face it. Times are tough. Everything seems to be on a price increase except the paycheck. When the economy goes sour and times are tough it creates an open market for negativity. Fear-based motivation is the last thing we need in order to make sound decisions. Yet, it moves in with ...
Views: 1611 - Are You on The Most Important "Best Of" List This Year? - by Submitted on Oct 26, 2014 from Michael MantellThere is an African-American proverb that says, “God makes three requests of His children: Do the best you can, where you are, with what you have, now.” It’s that time of the year again, when the “Best of_____” lists begin to appear. You know these lists. They include everything from the best ...
Views: 1607 - Self-Employment and the Keys to Staying Power - by Submitted on Aug 30, 2013 from Michele FitzgeraldA few weeks ago I was enjoying dinner with my brother, Tom, and we got into a discussion about self-employment. We have both been self-employed for many years and have successfully weathered a variety of economic storms and personal life crises that would surely cause most budding ...
Views: 1607(3 votes) - Christmas Waves A Magic Wand - by Submitted on Nov 13, 2008 from Susan Del GattoChristmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.--Norman Vincent Peale Isn’t that the truth, Christmas waves a magic wand? So many people rush through the months not having much consideration for each other and then the spirit of the ...
Views: 1606 - Jane get me off this CRAZY thing. . . - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2010 from Suzanne ToroDuring this summer, I was given the opportunity and an invitation to move beyond my mental constructs. A mind, which I manage to keep empty most of the time, that was still filled with intellectual reasons, obligations and long dissertations to rationalize whatever I thought was or should be. As ...
Views: 1606 - Life is a Co-Creation - by Submitted on Nov 04, 2010 from Erica BoucherWhenever I think back to the times when my life was a struggle, there was always an element of me trying to force something. Either things weren’t happening as quickly as I wanted them to, according to my time frame, or what was showing up didn’t look exactly as I wanted it to, and therefore I ...
Views: 1606(1 vote) - Newborn Left on a Doorstep--Saying Thank You 20 Years Later on Facebook - by Submitted on Jan 06, 2010 from Rena ReeseA Facebook "friend" is a loose term that can include anyone from your brother-- to an old elementary school buddy. You may receive a friend request from your best friend's cousin, a neighbor or a coworker from your last job; each claiming a general place among those on your friend list. And ...
Views: 1606(1 vote) - Breathe New Life into You - by Submitted on Sep 25, 2011 from Kimberly MitchellEvery single day we wake up and determine what we need (or want) to do on that given day. Perhaps we already have plans or responsibilities. Maybe we are one of the lucky ones who have the opportunity to decide day by day…in the moment. Either way, while making your decision for the day, do you ...
Views: 1605(1 vote) - O PURITY PERSONIFIED! OFFER YOUR ENTIRE BEING TO SUPER POWER YAJNAS - by Submitted on Jan 02, 2013 from Yuga Rishi Shriram SharmaIn the Rig-Veda (10/7/6) it is said: O one with a divine nature! On your own you must perform Yajna/worship of demigods present in your intellect and surrender to them. What can a rank ignorant person do to you who are mature and pious? Just as you worship demigods, based on various seasons, ...
Views: 1604(1 vote) - *Fed Up With Unforgiveness? Three Ways to Affirm Your Way to a New Tomorrow! - by Submitted on May 09, 2007 from Charlene ProctorDo you feel captured by old thoughts and emotions that no longer serve you well? Do you spend more time in the past than in the present moment? And do you often find yourself feeling physically ill, depressed, or even angry just by spending time with your memories? Having a “positive today” ...
Views: 1603 - Let Friday The 13th Be A Good Day! - by Submitted on Nov 16, 2009 from Michael DennisLet Friday The 13th Be A Good Day! @ 1,680 words Yesterday was Friday the 13th and I am proud to say that it was a good day for me and I sincerely hope that it was a good day for you as well. It got me to thinking and I thought I'd write a little article because when I talked ...
Views: 1603(3 votes) - The Number One Spiritual Road Block Is… - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2011 from Jennifer UrezzioAs you know, I’m a Teacher of Integrity (Axiom of Translation). I speak with a lot of leaders and healers. One of the statements that really frustrates this part of my Soul is the belief that because someone is in the spiritual field there is no need for new awarenesses. I have a coach and I ...
Views: 1603(2 votes) - 7 Secrets to Combat Negative Bombardment - by Submitted on Jun 22, 2011 from John Di LemmeWhen you think of combat, you think of a war – a battle. Right now there’s a battle inside you...are you going to commit or are you going to quit? Too many people these days will not commit, they will quit. There are 85,000 negative thoughts a day fed into our minds. You can be depressed just ...
Views: 1602(1 vote) - How To Be Wealthy and 2 Wrong Beliefs - by Submitted on Apr 05, 2011 from Rishan BCreating abundance has become a hot matter of debate lately, particularly since the launch of The Secret. Together with all that discussion has come two harmful myths. Let us discuss those wrong beliefs in this article. You you'll have a simpler time working on being wealthy if you only ...
Views: 1601 - Make Your Journey Remarkable With Stay At Goa Beach Resort - by Submitted on Sep 13, 2012 from Vibhas PrasadGoa with its sun kissed beaches, historic forts, natural beauty, mesmerizing hotels, carnivals, traditional dance & music and magnificent churches needs no introduction to any of the beach lovers across the globe. It is one of the highly acclaimed touring destinations of India. The scintillating ...
Views: 1601 - How to Make an Unhappy Life Happy - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2016 from Lucky BalaramanIf you think your life is lousy, believe one thing first: you can make your life a pleasure to live. It just calls for a change in mindset, which takes a bit of mental work until the job’s done. Let’s dive right into the subject… You probably think you life is miserable because nothing is ...
Views: 1600 - The Secret to Better Sleep & A Happier, Longer Life - by Submitted on Nov 25, 2010 from annie breathingspacetherapies.co.ukHappy Thanksgiving! I’ve been privileged to join in the celebrations with our friends and family in the States on a few occasions. To me, it’s a lovely celebration – just a great time to be with the people you love and to give thanks for all the good things in your life. But giving ...
Views: 1599 - Courage: Getting Your Fear in Gear - by Submitted on Jan 22, 2010 from Rena ReeseCourage is granted to each of us equally, not just firemen, explorers and military heroes. Like a muscle that will atrophy if not exercised, our courage is also strengthened and grows with use. Lucky are the children who have courage breathed into them by parents, teachers and role models ...
Views: 1597 - Law of Attraction and It's 2 Needed Elements to Attract Money - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2011 from Rishan BIn this article I’m going to show 2 keys to attracting abundance using the Law of Attraction. As you’ll soon find out, we need to have a special care when it comes to money because we have need it in our daily lives. Making use of these elements into our lives will allow you to get over ...
Views: 1597 - Positive Thinking Exercises - by Submitted on Jan 26, 2012 from Richard LuckWillpower is a powerful weapon to have in your personal arsenal. With enough willpower, it is possible to survive traumatic experiences that most people wouldn’t think it was possible to survive from. For example, if you get into a car crash, you can just give up and let yourself go, or you ...
Views: 1596 - Going Beyond The Law Of Attraction by Ton Pascal - by Submitted on Feb 06, 2012 from Ton PascalOur mind is in a constant dialogue with itself, sending out messages that will create our living experience according to our present perceptions. This mental chatter is our consciousness deciding whether or not we should have this or that, whether to run to or from, whether to think this or ...
Views: 1595 - *Emmet Fox and the Power of Positive Thinking - by Submitted on May 16, 2007 from Charlene ProctorPositive thinking is a discipline that trains the human mind to change a perceived reality by repeatedly making positive mental statements. A person practices positive thinking when they derive a positive sense of well being, optimism, belonging, meaning and/or purpose from being part of and ...
Views: 1594 - *The Path to Women's Empowerment - by Submitted on May 09, 2007 from Charlene ProctorToday’s empowered woman feels great and I am no exception. Depending upon how we honor our feminist foremothers, we’ve learned to be secure about being single, single mother-dom, or asking the butcher for a single chicken breast. During the last 30 years, Empowered Female evolved into a voting ...
Views: 1594 - Are You Bringing Your Whole Self to Work? - by Submitted on Apr 30, 2018 from Mike RobbinsFor us to truly succeed, especially in today’s business world, we must be willing to bring our whole selves to the work that we do. And for the teams and organizations that we’re a part of to thrive, it’s also essential to create an environment where people feel safe enough to bring all of who ...
Views: 1594 - Endings and New Beginnings - by Submitted on May 15, 2011 from Rev. Elaine Torrance-GingrichAs we sense an ending in our lives, it is normal to feel a certain amount of grief and a bit of anxiety for what may come. Afterall, we're about to step into "unknown territory" and that can be a daunting prospect. Moving out of what had become our comfort zone can be a challenge but life ...
Views: 1594(1 vote) - Motivation In A Minute - by Submitted on Feb 25, 2011 from Tim RyanDon't blame your unsuccessful way of life on anyone but yourself, even if you feel the need to do so because you are feeling so badly about it. Whatever your history and baggage regardless of how difficult your life has been, you shouldn’t let it prevent you from future success. Rather than ...
Views: 1594 - Nothing around you holds the power to make you unhappy! So why do you let it? - by Submitted on Mar 04, 2012 from Susan (Teacher Su) McKenzieTHE POWER TO BE HAPPY BLESSING B: Bump up your mind to the highest level by reminding yourself that nothing can make you unhappy. L: Little things should never take away your precious peace of mind, so reduce every issue in your life to its smallest point and then crush it in your thoughts and ...
Views: 1593 - Taking Charge Of Your Life - by Submitted on Jul 27, 2008 from Roger EllertonHow do you live your life? At cause or at effect? It is important to be aware of this distinction. It is the rare individual who always lives his or her life at cause; however, far too many of us live a large portion of our lives at effect - responding to the whims, desires or emotional states ...
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