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Let The Music Heal Your Soul

Do you want to live a life of more ease, happiness, balance and prosperity? Of course you do! Why is it so hard for some to move closer to these goals? The answer lies within.Each one of us carries deep within us subconscious beliefs that contribute to our actions, and thus the actual conditions of our lives. If we believe at this level that we only deserve a certain amount of happiness, or. . .

Happy First

What is it that we are so afraid of? Why won't we let go?A shark cannot rest, it cannot stop swimming or it will die, it will drown.Humanity seems to be acting in the same manner. It is though we are running for our lives. We are being chased and if we stop we will die.There is an urgency to get somewhere, anywhere, and we do not know what to look for or where, but it is always out there, somew. . .

Reaching Forgiveness

“How can I forgive my parents when they were so abusive to me when I was growing up?”“How can I forgive my spouse for cheating on me?”“How can I forgive my best friend for abandoning me?”“How can I face and forgive unforgiving abusers and manipulators?”“How can I forgive myself when others do not forgive me and throw my past in my face every chance they get?” These are some of the questions ab. . .

Calling All Writers--It's Party Time!

"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes." -- Walt Whitman, Song of Myself The dedicated writing student must continually search for tools to explore the core balance of plot, character, and poetics, multiple ways of climbing the great, misty mountain called story. But the major difference between Lifewriting™ and other systems is that we c. . .

Making The Most Of Now

“You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.” --Henry David Thoreau (1817-62) American writer, author, naturalist How do you actually spend your days? Are you focused and committed to everything you do? If you are. . .

Get Started! Do Something!

This is about getting started. Taking that first step. It is so easy to moan about our lives and complain that things aren’t how we want them to be. We all do it. We all have done it! So how can we break out of that moaning habit and turn it into a doing one? Making the decision to do something is the first step – but taking action is the most important one. So you get it wrong. It can happen. . . .

Too Many Things to do and not Enough Time? Mind Mapping t...

Time management is a pet topic that has been explained ad infinitum. Yet, many people go about their lives struggling to keep time and maintain balance amongst their personal, business and social needs and responsibilities. This invariably leaves a great many people stressed, exhausted and overworked, and alas, nowhere near achieving their goals or objectives.Although there are innumerable ar. . .

How to Tap into Your Creative Powers with the Magic Tool ...

Creativity is no more just a buzzword. It is just what makes the world go. Think of all the creativity that gave rise to inventions. From using a blade, to landing on the moon have all been made possible because of the wonderful ability - creativity. It is looking at a concept/idea/perception in an entirely new dimension. We are categorized as ‘Right’ brained when we display a good range o. . .

Stairlifts To Heaven

Many elderly people face a difficult choice in their later years, as their ability to tackle the stairs in their houses becomes more difficult. Do they sell the houses they love and move into a bungalow or sheltered accommodation or do they convert their dining room to a bedroom and live downstairs, assuming they have a bathroom on the ground floor. Of course, there is a third option, which is . . .

How To Find Good Counseling

Counseling is a profession that aims to help people. It is one that the practitioner enters into knowing that they get the most out of making the lives of those they work with better. And in order to find the type of counseling that works best for you, it is critical that you understand this - the counseling professional you choose is there to serve you, first and foremost. So as you evaluate c. . .

Are You Doing What You Love?

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful. --Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965) We are busier than we have ever been, working long hours and feeling under more and more pressure. How do you spend your days? For many people work and pleasure are seen as separate, with work being a chore that has to be done to pay the. . .

3 Powerful Tips To Help Manage Everyday Stress

Often times stress will manifest when we carry over yesterday’s concerns into our present day concerns. An accumulation will almost always end up in a high stress level. Therefore, we must be able to “dump” all of our concerns from the previous day or days and concentrate wholly on our today.So here are 3 stress busting tips - Stress Busting Tip #1 Resolve right now to release every thought fro. . .

We Are All Special But…

We are all equal in this world. There is no one better or at a topper level over others. This is the reason why our society encourages equality and respect for everyone. Their social background, ethnicity, gender, social status etc does not matter. We are also talented or gifted in some way or another. This is also the reason why we often hear successful people advice others to do what they lov. . .

How to Identify Your Self Limiting Beliefs

Beliefs drive attitude and behaviour. Self limiting beliefs result in self sabotaging attitudes and behaviours that prevent us from getting what we want in life.So the first step to self transformation and change must involve a change in our belief system. Without this change, nothing else you do will lead to a permanent change in your life.However, we acquire most of our beliefs unconsciously.. . .

The Power of Beliefs

Of all the things that influence our lives, our beliefs is perhaps the most important. What we believe shapes our attitude and behaviour, and if we want to change or transform our lives we cannot truly succeed without changing our beliefs.The Internet is filled with stories about how the power of belief can and has changed a person's life. What is less obvious to most people is how our beliefs . . .

Identifying Limiting Beliefs

Beliefs drive attitude and behaviour. Self limiting beliefs result in self sabotaging attitudes and behaviours that prevent us from getting what we want in life.So the first step to self transformation and change must involve a change in our belief system. Without this change, nothing else you do will lead to a permanent change in your life.However, we acquire most of our beliefs unconsciously.. . .

Going For A Win-Win Result - A Guide To Being Assertive

"The basic difference between being assertive and being aggressive is how our words and behavior affect the rights and well being of others” Sharon Anthony Bower It is interesting that many people still confuse being assertive with being aggressive. How about you? Have you learnt the difference? Forgive me if you have, but for those of you who still aren’t quite clear, here is a quick guide to . . .

When You're Smiling!

“ Smile , it is the key that fits the lock of everybody's heart." Anthony J. D'Angelo Back from Florida ahead of Hurricane Wilma, I asked my teenage son what he thought I should write about this time and he said ‘doughnuts’. I explained that although I found the topic an intriguing one (my mind immediately leaping to how I could link this into an interesting piece), it really needed to be more. . .

The Get-Along Guide

Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 37th President of the United States. Politically, he has gone down as one of the most unsuccessful presidents in history due to his inauguration following the assassination of President Kennedy and his pursuit of Kennedy’s policy in Vietnam. However, Johnson was a great people person who endeared himself to thousands of people through his personal touch. He wrote d. . .

The New Years Resolution - It’s That Time Again!

I have a small poster on my wall, it reads...“What's the point in having dreams..... if you're not going to make them happen?” Many of us have ambitions and dreams that we never seem to act upon, there’s always something that gets in the way of making a start. So here you are again, seeing out the old year, along with its broken promises and failed, good intentions. Fresh with newly found convi. . .

K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple Sweetie

We live in such a fast paced world and finding ways to simplify your life can help to create a more relaxed and satisfying life for you and your family. Simplicity involves freeing your time, money, and energy so that you can pay more attention to what is important to you. Here are just a few tips on how to simplify your life: 1 - Control your time. Take a good hard look at your dialy schedule . . .

Luck is an Attitude

A friend of mine who started playing the dollar-a-week lottery 4 years ago seems to have a knack for winning. He has won at least 5 times, each win ranging from $200 to $1000.I can’t help but feel a bit envious. I can explain away his good fortune by saying that he has more luck than I. But when I compare his situation with mine, I see a different story. His luck comes with a perfectly rational. . .

How To Look After Your Watch

How often have we bought watches and never given it a thought as to how to take care of them? Here's some ideas: Hand-wound watches With a new watch, wear it every day for at least two weeks. First wind the watch, then set the hands.Wind slowly and regularly.Wind daily, if possible, in the morning. Automatic watches With a new watch, wear it every day for at least two weeks.First wind the watch. . .

Doing Your Part In The Co-Creative Process

When you drive a car, do you start the motor, put it in gear, then open the door, jump out, run around behind and push? Of course you don't! You stay in your seat with your hands on the steering wheel and guide or steer the car to wherever you want it to go. The point here is that when you attempt to do the car's part, you fail to do your own.Your part in the Creative Process of Manifestatio. . .

3 Simple Steps To A More Restful Sleep Tonight

Picture this: It's 5:27 PM. You're hungry after a busy day at work, itching to get home to see your family, and now you're stuck in traffic. Frustration sets in. But you're used to it since this is an every day occurrence.So you finally stroll into your house at 6:04 PM, your 2 young children are clamoring for your attention, and they're hungry too. You pop some frozen dinners in the microwave . . .

What In The Heck Can A Personal Coach Do?

I just wanted to spread the word about Life Coaching and what it can do to help just about anyone. No, not every coach is suited for every client but the right coach/client combination is such powerful tool. I hear different variations of the following questions and statements a lot: "What can a coach do for me?", "I can't afford to pay a coach!", "What does SHE know that I don't know?", "I don. . .

Brain Function and Exercise

Better brain function with exercise? The evidence is clear. Not only can you get long-term benefits for your brain from exercise, but you can boost you brain power in the next ten minutes. Exercise can help your brain work more efficiently and actually make you smarter.The thinking ability of subjects was tested in one study. After these tests, the subjects ran on a treadmill for thirty minutes. . .

Alchemy Of Creating Reality - A to Z

Creating reality, can you really do it? Of course you can, I know this because you're already doing it. How you ask? Well, you're living what you've been paying attention to. I know it may be a difficult thing to grasp. Think about it; if you have more struggle than ease in your life, you've been putting more attention to thoughts, feelings and looking for the evidence to support the thoughts a. . .

How to Increase Your Mind Power by being a Whole-brain Th...

The term ‘ambidexterity’ means being adept in using both right and left hand. It is a rare inborn trait but it can be learned. The versatility displayed in the use of each hand determines a person’s ambidexterity. Michelangelo, Leonardo Vinci, Einstein, Fleming, Harry Truman, etc., were all ambidextrous. In modern times, you will find many, who were originally left-handed but in the course of. . .

8 Steps For Coping With And Healing Attention Deficit Dis...

Attention deficit disorder is a serious disorder and it is not going away. It causes depression, inattentiveness, relationship and behavorial problems, deviant behavior (crime), can lead to drug abuse, alcoholism and even suicide. To better understand this disorder and correct it there are 8 steps we must follow:1. Education. ADD can manifest itself in several different ways all depending upon . . .

How Mind Mapping Can Greatly Enhance Your Memory

An important element of any learning is memory. Without it all our learning will be futile. While some are endowed with razor sharp memory, there are others, who find their memory failing them at the most crucial moments in their life. As in everything else, memory can be improved a great deal by applying some of the memory techniques.In any new learning, you can grasp new information easily. . .

Who Else Wants To Know About Enhancing Speed Reading Util...

Speed Reading is a method for improving our reading ability so we can assimilate and understand information faster. In the current era of information overload, speed reading will be a great boon to smoothly tide over the flood of available information. Just think about the way in which you are reading this article. Most people read the way young children read – moving letter-by-letter or wor. . .

What is the Quality of Your Excuses?

What aspect of your life don't you feel really great about? Is it to do with your job and the direction your career, a particular relationship, your body or fitness level, how you manage your finances, where you live? Or could it be the lack of balance you feel between your work and family? Whatever it is I'd like you to think about something specific that you would really like to change or im. . .

Psychic Attack: Spiritual Purification and Cord Cutting

Energy stealers are everywhere! They are your family members, your friends and they are your co-workers and YOU may even be one yourself. A more common name is a Psychic Vampire and we all know what vampires do! In this case the vampire is sucking our vital energy, depleting us and causing us to become unhealthy emotionally, physically, mentally and spiritually. Spiritual purification and cord . . .

A new year, a new you!

For many the Christmas season is their favorite time of the year. This is due to the overall positive spirit spread in the air. Some examples of this are the gift giving/exchanges family gatherings etc. But, some people anxiously wait for Christmas to end in order to start new a chapter in their lives during the month of January. This is when many start implementing their new year’s resolution.. . .

Self-Definition: The Only Makeover You'll Ever Need

Maybe it's just me, but the increasing number of reality television shows based on transforming their female participants through plastic surgery has got me concerned. As these hopeful young women stuff, slice, and dye their God-given bodies into a shell of its original packaging, one has to wonder about the "self" that is left behind. Has it been healed by this "transformation?" Are its hopes. . .

The Far Realms of Computers and Self Improvement

Imagine a future in which your personal computer becomes a doorway into a world of enhanced intelligence and creativity, emotional stability and previously unrealized personal success. In this world, the computer has become more than just a word processor or a web browser; it has become both an instantaneous communication tool for contacting seminar leaders or personal therapists and an interac. . .

How to get the Mind of a Zen Buddhist Monk

It has been 8 weeks since I started Bill Harris’ Holosync Awakening Prologue. And I must say that I have been pleasantly surprised by the results. I was not looking for gut-wrenching changes in my personality. After all I am, on the whole, quite even in temperament. Like most folks, I am happy, confident and secure most of the time.What attracted me to Bill Harris’ program initially was the fac. . .

Spoonman

I've always taken pride in having an open mind ...So, when the invitation came to visit Uri Geller at his estate in the English countryside back in the summer of 1987, I couldn't pass the opportunity to personally experience the phenomenon he represents and/or channels.Uri Geller has made a career out of being controversial. His claims of possessing paranormal talents have not necessarily polar. . .

Hurlock’s Study: Praise verses Criticism

Research studies can be intellectual, academic, difficult to understand, and sometimes even irrelevant to our specific application. But there are other studies that can be very insightful and help us understand how better to do our job. There is one such study that I would like to discuss in this month’s column. The information is so timely and connected to managing others that I think we all n. . .

Procrastination- 4 Essentials for Breaking Through

“I have learned that most regrets come from the things I DIDN’T do. I have learned that regret lasts forever.” Simply BrilliantProcrastination- putting off what you can do today until tomorrow. 7 years, 5 months, and 2 days later you’re wondering why you never started that book. It would have been completed. You could be reaping the rewards and writing full time. You see yourself sitting on the. . .

I Hate Lists

List making comes naturally to me. I learned how to spell writing out grocery lists for my mom. She would walk around the kitchen checking to see what we were low on and call out things for me to write on the list. My job was to spell it out as I wrote it, or she would have me sound it out, correcting when necessary. I not only learned how to spell, but the value of that list as well. But . . .

Wealth Building Profit Plan - What's Yours?

When it comes to wealth building, there's a big difference between 'potential' and having a good wealth building profit plan.This recent story is a great example…My friend, Roy and I were hanging out by the pool chatting while his son was swimming.Roy kept mentioning all the 'potential' he thought his business ideas had.Well, he recently lost his wife to cancer, he's a single dad now, and his f. . .

Philosophical Underpinnings

Awakening one self is discovering of the hidden force in one's self. The problemwith one's image is that someone else view of you.The way one thinks of one's selfis not the way most people fell about them self.People let other people dictate how one's fell about them self's. That why peopledon't do the things that they know they can do . People do the things that will benefitthe other person no. . .

How Two Little Kids Schooled Me In Motivation Techniques ...

How Two Little Kids Schooled Me In Motivation TechniquesPart 1Remember, I motivate people for a living, but I got a Hard Lession on Motivation Techniques Here!To make it quick.Here's a summary of what I learned-Make them teach themselves-People will take advantage of you if you let them.-Different languages are not always a barrier.How can these Motivation Techniques Translates into Workplace M. . .

How Can You Deal With Your Holiday Stress?

When traveling with your family, it should be a wonderful spending time together. Sharing and caring with loved one sounds wonderful, but often there is an undercurrent of tension that can make this a difficult and dreaded time for some. Why does this happen, after all the holidays only come around once a year and we deal with family tension all year round. Families, who don't normally spend a . . .

Begin with the Mind and the Body will Follow

It Is Commonplace Knowledge In The Weight Loss Industry That Just Going On A Diet Or Being On A Weight Loss Program Does Not Guarantee Permanent Weight Loss Results. You Will Invariably Gain Back All The Weight You Have Lost Unless You Are Convinced In Your Subconscious Mind That You Will Be Lean And Strong For Life. This Mindset Is One Area That Is Missing In Most Weight Loss Programs. However. . .

Self-Growth: Building Character And Integrity

It's been said that character is defined by what you do when you think no one is watching. What an illuminating concept that is.Most of us have a public face and a private face. There are parts of ourselves we don't want the world to see. Typically, we tend to hide the aspects that would not be viewed favorably by society. Greed, lust, jealousy, pettiness, fear and so on. We also tend to hide o. . .

The Fastest and Most Powerful Affirmation

"There is nothing that you cannot be or do or have."-- from the teachings of Abraham-Hicks*This fully empowering declaration can manifest through you in infinite ways. It can put food on your table, love in your home, wisdom in your words, a car in your garage, and can bring you anything else your heart desires. It all comes down to a matter of alignment. Your desires and your beliefs must m. . .

4 Secrets Men Keep And Why You Should Let Them

Many of us believe that if we are close to our man, we should know everything he is thinking, the secrets he keeps are little enemies, tearing us apart. Nothing could be further from the truth. It is absolutely necessary for each person in a relationship to have their own personal world, their thoughts, feelings and boundaries that belong to them and no one else.Being close doesn’t mean being “. . .