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Alcoholism Facts - Facts Of Alcoholism You Should Know

Alcoholism facts can help one better understand the extent of alcoholism and alcoholism warning signs. One of the alcoholism facts is that alcoholism is a type of drug addiction that can be both physical and psychological.Facts of alcoholism include the reality that alcohol acts as a depressant on the central nervous system, resulting in a decrease of activity, tension and inhibitions. Alcohol . . .

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. Easy! We love ourselves in those times when things go well, when we do the right things, when we act gracefully, when we are likable and can feel proud of oursel. . .

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.2. Over respond to every event. By over responding instead of overacting, you evolve which is very attractive.3. Build reserves in every area of yo. . .

Communication Skills

COMMUNICATION A lifelong process in the human life, COMMUNICATION is a way to express oneself in various ways : using words and without using a single word.COMMUNICATION is the exchange or interchange of ideas or objects between two people or designated locations. More precisely the definition of communication is the consideration and action of impelling an impulse or particle from source point. . .

Less Talk, More Action!

It is time for less talk and more action - loving action.Loving actions are those actions that support our highest good and the highest good of others. Loving actions are those actions that are motivated by love rather than by fear.Many people who have been on a path of personal and spiritual growth have spent a lot of time talking. Talking with friends about what is wrong and what they want. T. . .

There Is Hope In Managing Your Depression And Fears

When your fears and depression have the best of you, it is easy to feel that things will not get any better. This is not true. There is hope in dealing with your fears and depression. For instance, there is much help available in today’s society and the best way to deal with your fears is to find effective ways to overcome them. As a result, here are some techniques a person can use to help man. . .

They Are Just Excuses!

Sometimes people develop a tendency to find excuses for all their failures or mistakes. I have heard all types of excuses from people. They range from having bad parents to hanging out with the wrong crowd. Although sometimes external sources can impact our actions, it is not the right approach to solve problems and move on. Everyone knows that we are not able to control other people’s behavior. . .

Mind Chatter About Luck

During a conversation recently, the word "lucky" was mentioned and you know how it is when your mind latches onto a word and throws it around awhile in your thought process. I couldn't help but explore the word a bit more. Here are a few thoughts from my musing.You take a coin and eagerly scratch the coating off the small ticket that holds awaiting monetary promises. You turn to the tv chann. . .

Knowledge Must Be Shared

I am pleased to issue the first-ever Surgeon General's Report on MentalHealth. In doing so, I am alerting the American people that mental illness is a critical public health problem that must be addressed immediately. As a society, we assign a high priority to disease prevention and health promotion; so, too, must we ensure that mental health and the prevention of mental disorders share that pr. . .

Supporting a Friend With Mental Health Difficulties

Someone who is experiencing mental health difficulties is usually able to live a successful full life, particuarly if they are receiving help to manage their illness. However, it is not uncommon for stigma to be attached to experiencing mental health difficulties. This often causes people to feel embarrassed. Often people with mental health difficulties worry that people will tease them or trea. . .

How Common Are Anxiety Disorders?

Anxiety disorders, as a group, are the most common mental illness in America. More than 19 million American adults are affected by these debilitating illnesses each year. Children and adolescents can also develop anxiety disorders. What Are the Different Kinds of Anxiety Disorders? Panic Disorder—Repeated episodes of intense fear that strike often and without warning. Physical symptoms include . . .

People with Serious Mental Illnesses in Jail and Prison

Their Stories People with mental illnesses often come into contact with the criminal justice system. • Steven, 28, has bipolar disorder. He can maintain a normal family life and a job as a landscaper. He had never had problems with the law or any history of violent behavior. One night while he was driving, the police pulled him over. He heard voices telling him to keep going. He did, was shot i. . .

Dreaming

It will be several hours until the alarm buzzes, but suddenly a man bolts up to a near-sitting position in bed. The room is peaceful, yet he's terrified, and can't immediately reason why. Then, after convincing himself that all's calm and he's safe, he begins to unravel a few details of what has just scared him awake. Another alarm sounds and a woman shuts it off, pulls the covers over her he. . .

Hate Your Job? It Could Be Worse

Seeing the looks on employees faces when I visit local businesses tells me what many people already know, a lot of people hate their jobs. Spending 40 or more hours of your week at a place you hate can be very difficult. Regardless of the hatred people have for their jobs they need to realize that it could be worse.If you flip through the employment section of your local newspaper I am sure tha. . .

GRATEFULNESS: Planting the Seeds of Success for 2006

I think, often during January, the beginning of the new year, it is easy for us to get caught up in the DOING, and forget to BE. I know that I often get busy planning for the year and DOING my goals All in all, January can end up including a lot of DOING and busyness for many people. Instead of being so focused on the DOING, practice BEING grateful first. Gratefulness is the fertile field in wh. . .

Separation Anxiety Disorder

WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW Between the ages of 8 months and 2 years, it's normal for a child to cry when its mother leaves the room or a stranger enters it. Neither overprotection nor constant punishment will change the situation. It's a natural stage that usually passes on its own. If, however, an older child continues to react to potential separations with unreasonable fear, professional help may b. . .

Anxiety Disorders

Introduction Anxiety disorders are serious medical illnesses that affect approximately 19 million American adults. These disorders fill people's lives with overwhelming anxiety and fear. Unlike the relatively mild, brief anxiety caused by a stressful event such as a business presentation or a first date, anxiety disorders are chronic, relentless, and can grow progressively worse if not treated.. . .

Fish Fry?

One day I was training for my championship fight I had coming up. I was running around the edge of the lake, the water just seemed to calm my nerves and made the fight seem not so important.I just finished my fifth trip around the man made lake and I could not believe what this man who was fishing was doing, every time I passed him he would throw back the biggest fish that he would catch and I . . .

Manic Depression

So, What's the Difference? Manic Depression is also known as Bipolar Illness. Like depression, people with this disorder go through stages of depression, but Mania or Manic adds a cycle. Mania is a very "up" mood, over elated, over happy. Too much of anything is no good, and because of these cycles, people experiencing Manic Depression visit the two extremes of depression and elation. Sure, sou. . .

Relaxing The Mind

What is relaxation?In common terminology, relaxation means that we leave ourselves free of tension. Relaxing mind may mean that the mind is not under stress or active. In today's lifestyle, this looks difficult. Isn't it?Now a days, most of us believe to be being under stress during most of the week and relax only on the weekends. This is considered the common way of life. Is this the right way. . .

Forget Hollywood A-Listers African Relief - American's Li...

America is the most "kind and giving" nation on the planet. Each year Americans give more than $240 billion to the more than 700,000 charities that solicit your donations. From the disastrous Tsunami that hit the Pacific Rim and Southeast Asia in late December 2004, to the havoc of Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma, that devastated millions last year, Americans dug deep to support local, reg. . .

5 Tips To Conquer Your Fear Of Taking Action

When an opportunity arises to change your life for the better, your fear will generate excuses to spoil it for you. Each excuse is a single piece in the loser’s jigsaw. The end picture is an unhappy picture of you. Here’s how you can build a happier one.Let’s say you’ve seen someone you really fancy. You can’t take your eyes off them and you want to get it on with them. As soon as you think abo. . .

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)

Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) is a condition that becomes apparent in some children in the preschool and early school years. It is hard for these children to control their behavior and/or pay attention. It is estimated that between 3 and 5 percent of children have ADHD, or approximately 2 million children in the United States. This means that in a classroom of 25 to 30 childre. . .

Broke? Fix It Yourself: BE Wealthy

If you’re reading this right now you probably have been broke, are broke, or know someone who is struggling with being broke. The pain and suffering of being in this state is truly awful. Being broke causes thoughts of despair, feelings of failure, desperation, struggle, lack and need. Being broke prevents us from reaching our potential, from living our lives freely. Being broke prevents us fro. . .

An Easy Wealth Exercise: Ten Steps To Wealth

Welcome to this simple, fun and easy exercise to improve your wealth consciousness, focus your mind and get behind yourself so that you can achieve wealth for real, and easily.The following exercise is just one of 365 different daily “wealth gym” mini-workouts that you can do right there and then, in front of your computer, without even having to get up, and which doesn’t take any more than 60 . . .

Recovering Your Mental Health

Taking a Look at YourselfHave you been told that you have a psychiatric or mental illness like depression, bipolar disorder or manic depression, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dissociative disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder, an eating disorder or an anxiety disorder?Do any of the following feelings or experiences make you feel miserable or g. . .

The Top Seven Reasons People Break Their New Year's Resol...

Have you broken your New Year's resolution yet?If so, you aren't alone. Studies suggest that 20% of resolutionsare broken within the first week of January. At least 80% are broken within one year, and the actual figure is probably muchhigher.But the big question is: Why?An even bigger question: What can we do about it?In this article, we'll explore the top seven reasons for breaking resolutio. . .

2006 Leader Tips

In a knowledge-intensive world of continuous innovation and change, I assert, every professional must be a real leader. There are no generally accepted, prescribed 'steps' to becoming a great leader. Rather, there are key leadership Tips that, in my opinion, all successful leaders demonstrate, and that you will need to follow:1. Respect the organization and focus on building trust by talking h. . .

Is It Really ADHD?

Is It Really ADHD?Not everyone who is overly hyperactive, inattentive, or impulsive has ADHD. Since most people sometimes blurt out things they didn't mean to say, or jump from one task to another, or become disorganized and forgetful, how can specialists tell if the problem is ADHD?Because everyone shows some of these behaviors at times, the diagnosis requires that such behavior be demonstrate. . .

It’s Your Move: The First Step to Accountability

Every place I go, if I’m in an organization long enough, I’ll hear people lament about the lack of accountability. Specifically, I hear things like: “They just don’t seem to care enough, I guess.” “Those action items never get done – I don’t know why we even identify them.” “I have trouble getting people to be committed to achieving the things they are responsible for.” “Everyone wants to blame. . .

How to deal with difficult people Part 4-The aggressive d...

45 year old John terrorized his family when they were his passengers. He would yell at them if they complained about his driving.He would ignore them when they showed signs of discomfort and even seemed to enjoy scaring his passengers with his maneuvers such as tailgating, weaving in and out of traffic, passing other cars dangerously, and pulling too far into crosswalks so pedestrians are unabl. . .

Abusive Relationships

When ever people are involved in an abusive relationship, they have a tendency to blame the aggressor. However, both parties are responsible for their overall interaction. I know, it sounds weird but let me further explain myself. In order for a person to continuously mistreat or abuse another one, the victim must be permitting it. If you observe this situation closely when a person truly loves. . .

Disorders that Sometimes Accompany ADHD

Learning Disabilities.Many children with ADHD—approximately 20 to 30 percent—also have a specific learning disability (LD).10 In preschool years, these disabilities include difficulty in understanding certain sounds or words and/or difficulty in expressing oneself in words. In school age children, reading or spelling disabilities, writing disorders, and arithmetic disorders may appear. A type o. . .

The Fear of Expressing Anger

There is much to learn from anger, yet many people are afraid of this feeling because they don’t know how to express anger in ways that are helpful rather than harmful. I teach a process at my weekend Inner Bonding workshops called “The Anger Process.” This powerful process, which is described below, is not only for releasing pent-up anger in harmless ways, but for discovering what your respons. . .

Stopping Fear from Ruining Your Life

The use of hypnotic states can be extremely helpful in combating the stress associated with fears and phobias. It is a natural and effective means of achieving a profound state of mental and physical relaxations. It eliminates stress and anxiety and allows the body and mind to heal themselves.Being hypnotized is very similar in feeling to what you experience just prior to sleep our while dayd. . .

MORAL ARMOR'S Irrational Parenting, Part II

Handing Down Malignancy. Children may begin bright and eager to face the world, but are often inundated with the conditioning of their fear-ridden predecessors speaking of lost dreams—taken by no one in particular. Their guardians appear learned, but seem not to damn the worst traits in men. In facing life’s greatest question, venturing into their future lives based solely on the hopes of an un. . .

8 Tips to Manage Your Anger

Experiencing uncontrolled anger is dangerous to your health. It causes your adrenaline and blood pressure to rise up at above normal levels. Moreover, you could end up hurting someone or doing something that you will regret later on. You see the results destructive anger every day on the news. Also, uncontrolled anger destroys relationships. I use the word uncontrolled deliberately. Everyone g. . .

Let's Get to the Bottom of Low Self-Esteem

If you suffer from low self-esteem, it’s because you don’t know yourself well enough to appreciate how basically wonderful you are. This is not empty flattery. It is true. Sadly, many of us are totally estranged from ourselves, from what really makes us tick. This ignorance of our true nature results in relentless self-sabotage of both our work lives and all our relationships with people. Wheth. . .

Who's Creating YOUR Reality?

“What is happening within us will create what happens outside us.” “There is no ‘out there’ out there, independent of what is going on in here.” “We are operating as if today were yesterday.” These quotes are taken from the movie, “What the Bleep Do We Know?” This fascinating film demonstrates cinematically what the Seth material told us years ago. Its basic premise is that we literally create . . .

Four Disciplines To Getting What You Want

I bet you’re like me - you want results now, without having to put in the effort and time to make things change. We want to pray a prayer and have instant results. Kind of like microwave Christianity! But God isn’t our sugardaddy. He wants to build character in us so that once things do change we can handle the new lifestyle and be better equipped to fulfill His plan for our lives. And building. . .

You Made A Mistake? Way To Go!

Mistakes have gotten a really bad rap. Whether you call it an error, a blunder, a screw-up, a faux pas, a gaffe or a boo-boo, no one wants to be guilty of committing one. The fear of not performing "up to snuff" leads many people to procrastinate or even worse, never to act at all. For many, this has become a major debilitating problem. Besides the obvious lack of productivity and the numerous . . .

How to Create Hip, Mature and Lush Harmonies

Rarely is a chord played with its tones contained in a single octave, the root on the bottom, the third in the middle, and the fifth on the top.Usually chords are "voiced!"This basically means that the positions of a chord's tones are scattered over the keyboard. The tones may be altered, doubled, added to, missing, and so forth.There are a great variety of possibilities available in voicing c. . .

Real Charisma, Clinton Style

What exactly is Charisma? Most would agree that it is a magical, illusive, personal quality, divinely endowed on some people more than others. One thing for certain is that it is more easily identified than defined. It is the secret to being liked by others. It is the much sought-after quality that causes some people to envy others because of their congeniality and ease at which they interact w. . .

Self Confidence and the Way You Use Your Words

The way we use language can have a huge impact on how we feel about ourselves.By that, I don't mean what language we speak (English, French, Spanish, etc) but how we communicate with ourselves and with others.We all have a constant dialogue going on in our heads and this has a strong impact on our self confidence. If our internal dialogue is negative, then we tend to feel negatively about ourse. . .

How to Ditch Negativity and Reach Your Goals

Watching the news can be hazardous to your health. It's a fact, especially when you're watching events related to terrorism, kidnapping, murder, accidents, or calamities. These incidents make you worry and will leave you feeling weak and insecure. Imagine the uncomfortable feeling of becoming a victim someday. These thoughts will have a direct negative effect on your outlook in life. All of you. . .

Remarkable Remedies for Low Self-Esteem

If you are suffering the mental crisis of low self-esteem, serious action should be taken to raise it before it leads to more serious conditions - depression for example.What can you do to revive your self-esteem? Here are some remarkably simple yet effective steps:1. Satisfy or Indulge Yourself. Eat whatever you want, play a sport you're most interested in, go to places that make you happy.. . .

Create Your Own Confidence Bank Account

This is a technique that sounds a bit silly when you first hear about it (and doesn't seem at first to get much better as you read on) but WORKS, which is what counts, if you apply it to your life. The idea is to "open" a Confidence Bank Account for yourself. Bear with me on this!We all feel at times that our confidence could be at a higher level than it is, whether that is in the moment or ove. . .

Meditation - Staying Awake

Why is staying awake while meditating important? Falling asleep is certainly relaxing, and can be good for you, but to get the full range of benefits from your meditation you need to have your brainwaves in the alpha and theta ranges. When you are asleep, your brainwaves range from theta to delta. Meditation should be a state of relaxed alertness (primarily alpha brainwaves). Try the following . . .

7 Essential Beauty Tips

Beauty Beauty is defined as the phenomenon of the experience of pleasure, through the perception of balance and proportion of stimulus. It involves the cognition of a balanced form and structure that elicits attraction and appeal towards a host, creature, inanimate object, scene, music, idea, etc. It's as well seen as An assemblage or even graces or even properties pleasing to the eye, the ear,. . .

Self Confidence and Posture

Our use of body posture plays a key role in how we feel. When we are feeling "down", our bodies show this by hunching the shoulders, we stare at the floor, our heads hang forward. When we are seated we tend to be slumped rather than relaxed. Our walk is more of a shuffle, speech is slow and quiet.Compare this to how we feel when on an "up". Shoulders back, eyes forward, head held high and so on. . .