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5 Powerful Tips for Using Positive Affirmations
5 Powerful Tips for Using Positive Affirmations I’m sure you’ve heard that positive affirmations can help you be more motivated and can help you achieve your goals. Did you know there are ways you can supercharge your affirmations to make them even more powerful, dare I say even transformative? If better health is your goal, maybe you want to lose weight and get fit. If your affirmation is “I will lose weight and go to the gym every day,” how does that make you feel? You may feel there’s a “heaviness” about the energy of that statement that isn’t very motivating. The statement focuses on the negative aspects of your…
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Setting Up Your Mental and Physical Environment to Develop Good Habits
Setting Up Your Mental and Physical Environment to Develop Good Habits When you’re trying to develop good habits, the environment you have set up for yourself can have a huge effect on whether you succeed. It can really support your efforts in a positive way when your surroundings are conducive to being successful. It’s a good idea to begin by keeping your environment clutter free. Your focus on good habit development will be tougher if you have to fight through a wall of clutter. For instance, if one of your goals is to be more productive, it won’t help if you have to spend a good portion of your day…
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Dump Those Thoughts and Let Your Mind Be Free!
Personal Freedom Begins in Your Mind I thought this was an interesting topic to address given the current state of our country and the world. Our personal freedom is certainly being curtailed for the moment and for our own good. Rather than point a finger or cast blame for the unfettered spread of the virus, I thought it would be more productive to address how we think and how we can adjust our thinking going forward. You might be surprised to learn that the biggest obstacle to your personal freedom is right between your ears. A negative mindset is the biggest block to your freedom. There are so many parts…
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The Power of Self Belief
The Power of Self Belief If you believe in yourself, there is little that can stop you from achieving whatever you want to have or be in life. Self belief gives you the power to push forward and defy the odds. You will be able to face and to handle any roadblocks that come your way. You’ll also have the power to brush off the naysayers. You will have peace of mind when you maintain your self-belief. To keep that self-belief strong, you need to define your goals. You wouldn’t expect to begin a long road trip without a map. You need a map to guide you on your journey…
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How to Turn Everything Into a Game and Get Better at It
How to Turn Everything Into a Game and Get Better at It Let’s talk about how to turn everything into a game. Have you ever wondered why it is you enjoy games so much, and have you ever wondered why it is you dislike your job so much? What is the difference between pressing buttons on an Xbox and pressing buttons on keyboards? The answer may surprise you; it actually comes down to your effort and how much you care about what you are doing. You care about the games you play, and you make the effort because you want to get better at them… because there’s constant variety and…
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Use Failure to Succeed
Use Failure to Succeed Do you try to avoid failure? Most of us do. It makes sense too, because failing is not fun. It would be great if we could leap right into success. However, that’s most often not a realistic expectation. You can use tools to help you believe in yourself, and find success. One of the best tools to help you, oddly enough, can be failure. In fact, you can use failure to succeed. When you fail, you can use the experience to figure out what went wrong. You can evaluate the steps you took and try to find the point of failure; where exactly did it all…
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Is It Faith Or Optimism…
Is It Faith Or Optimism Is it faith or optimism? Your faith can either unlock the door to success for you or keep you from ever experiencing it. It can be a positive power by which you realize the things you dream of, or it can be a negative power which causes you to live in despair and fear. The faith we’re talking about here is not religious or even spiritual; it is a belief or outlook on life… you might call it optimism. This faith exists in the mind-body connection and is the miracle that leads ordinary people to lift a car when someone is trapped underneath it or…
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Brain Health and Vitamin B9
Brain Health and Vitamin B9 I just read a fascinating article on LinkedIn about brain health and vitamin B9 and felt compelled to share it with you immediately. A little personal background…Brain health is front and center as a concern for me as my mother suffered with vascular dementia and my father had the version of delusional dementia associated with Parkinsons Disease. In this article, titled, “One Nutrient Benefits Alzheimer’s”, Dr. Mike Greenberg sites a study done with nuns, brains and folic acid, also known as vitamin B9. It’s a quick but fascinating read. He writes: “The most remarkable scientific study done to figure out Alzheimer’s was performed in a…
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Is Depression Sadness
Is Depression Sadness or The Fight Against It? This is a question posed by one of my favorite alternative gurus, Dr. Kelly Brogan. She published an article addressing this a while ago and discussed our general resistance to and reticence to experience and process sadness. She wrote in part: “Through this process of rebranding sadness as necessary, we may even learn that what we are calling depression has less to do with felt sadness than with the persistent resistance against it. Sadness, sorrow, grief, and pain are kinetic and dynamic. They rise and release. They move. It is the fight against these forces, the conditioned fear of them, and the effort to ignore the banging…
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The Power of Mood
The Power of Mood The power of mood is real! Expressions we often use reflect the link between mind and body. The phrase “died of a broken heart” has anecdotal evidence behind it. Suffering the loss of a loved one actually increases the survivor’s chance of a heart attack by 20 times! Someone who is experiencing depression might develop chest pains even when there is no medical reason for it. In fact, one of the symptoms of depression is physical pain. A stressed individual might be said to be “carrying the world on his shoulders” where a related symptom of stress is back pain or shoulder pain. The mind controls…
