Meditation to Reduce Stress and Anxiety

The use of meditation to reduce stress and anxiety has been a part of everyday life in certain cultures for centuries.  In modern society, the demands of an increasingly complex world have made finding effective coping strategies imperative.  Many are turning to meditation as a way to bring balance into their lives and to learn methods for handling stress before [...]

Remarkability: Seth Godin’s Key to Success

Seth Godin has a message for people – which he delivers brilliantly and hilariously, in one of the funniest not-to-be-missed talks on TED. The message is simple: be different; be remarkably different, different in such a way that people will talk about just how different you are. That is not Godin’s only message. Seth Godin [...]

Do Positive Affirmations Have Negative Consequences?

From Norman Vincent Peale’s The Power of Positive Thinking to today’s best-selling The Secret, positive affirmations have been a staple commodity in the self-help field.  Positive affirmations whisper almost inaudibly from subliminal tapes,  repeat like mantras from MP3 files and CDs, and are accompanied by nature scenes to pulsing light shows in therapeutic videos.  Schools [...]

The Impact of Core Beliefs on Quality of Life

What Are Core Beliefs? Core beliefs are entrenched, often subconsciously held beliefs generally formed during childhood or at significant crossroads in life which form our perspective of reality. In essence, our experiences are filtered through our belief system.  Core beliefs can be negative or positive in nature; indeed, one can hold contradictory core beliefs. Identifying [...]

Core Belief Reprogramming Through EFT

“I don’t deserve to be happy.” Millions of people suffer from this kind of involuntary, negative self-talk. While doubts and fears may be a natural result of negative experiences, they can also lead to disastrous emotional and physical consequences. Emotional Freedom Techniques® (EFT) offers a holistic solution: a way to reprogram the mind and cleanse [...]

Religion and Health

Is religion good for your health?  Over half of America’s physicians say yes, according to the results of a random sample study reported in the Archives of Internal Medicine of two thousand practicing American clinicians across the spectrum of specialties. The study found 56% of the clinicians believed that religion and spirituality has either some [...]

Information Overload: Myth or Misunderstanding?

There has never been as much information available to people as there is today.  In America alone, over 60 billion pieces of junk mail are delivered annually, and over 41 million photographs are taken daily. 260,000 billboards dot the roads, 40,000 new book titles are published each year nationally – 300,000 globally – as 11,520 [...]

Can Atheists Be Happy?

Atheists do not appear to be viewed solely on their merits, but rather through a lens of judgment based upon their absence of belief in eastern or Western religions or philosophies. In the United States, traditionally a bastion of tolerance and support for the free expression of opinion, polls indicate that roughly fifty percent of [...]

Is It Possible to Achieve a Balanced Life?

In the modern world, where self-worth is so often equated with productivity, achievement and busyness, it is easy to understand why many people feel disconnected from their true selves.  Striving to be what others want and expect can cause one to lose touch with oneself. Achieving peace and self-awareness involves finding balance, and this can [...]

Positive Ways to Stop Negative Self-Talk

Modern psychological research has confirmed what folk wisdom has long known:  what you say to yourself affects your mood, your actions, and even your health.   Known technically as subvocal speech, researchers have established that the process of thinking results in slight but observable movements of the speech muscles.  Thinking and silent speech are linked.  And [...]

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