Self-Improvement and Interesting Knowledge
  • Chakras

    The best way to understand the energetic body is to think of it as a quantum biomechanical entity. What I mean by this is that the potential of any of its parts has a direct relation to the amount of attention that it receives. Your big toe has as much ability to create energy as does your head or heart. This attention is not located in any specific area, non local, and can be projected anywhere either inside or outside the body. Chakra is actually a Sanskrit word that means wheel, which implies that there are certain energy vortices within

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  • Dream a Little Dream

    Everyone, at some point of his or her life, has dreamed of being somebody special, somebody big. Who hasn't fantasized about being the one who scores the winning goal? Who hasn't dreamed of being the hero? And how many times have we dreamed of being rich, or successful, wealthy, and happy in our relationships? Often, we dream big dreams and have great aspirations. Unfortunately, our dreams remain just that - dreams. And our aspirations sit around collecting dust. This is a sad thing and the moment that we realize that we have given up on our dreams can be devastating. Instead

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  • The Power of Self Esteem

    Self Esteem means staying positive about yourself, and having a real good Self Image. Self image is the idea that you have about yourself. When you look into the mirror of your mind's eye, what do you see? There are a number of things that can bite at our self esteem as we make our way through planet earth. Sometimes it even feels like the world is actually conspiring to give our self esteem a nice right cross. But we must realize that the way we perceive things has a great deal to do with how we perceive ourselves. Knowing

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  • Benefits of Stretching

    The body is flexible. It is supposed to be flexible. You must be able to bend and reach that something you dropped on the floor. You must be able to zip the back of your favorite dress on your own. You must be able to reach that book you need to read at the top shelf. These are simple activities. Nothing grand about them, you merely stretched out a bit. However, if there are difficulties in doing such simple motions, then you have to stretch your limits. You already need a stretching program. What is stretching? Stretching is simply the

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  • Empathy

    The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines empathy as: em•pa•thy Function: noun Etymology: Greek empatheia, literally, passion, from empathēs emotional, from em- + pathos feelings, emotion 1:the imaginative projection of a subjective state into an object so that the object appears to be infused with it 2: the action of understanding, being aware of, being sensitive to, and vicariously experiencing the feelings, thoughts, and experience of another of either the past or present without having the feelings, thoughts, and experience fully communicated in an objectively explicit manner; also : the capacity for this Empathy is one of the most essential skills. With it you will

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  • Self Improvement

    Improve Yourself and Find Peace Sometimes, when we feel the full weight of all our insecurities and doubt, a little internal dialog starts that goes something like, “I wish I was somebody else.” More often than not, we think and believe that someone or rather, most people, are better than us... The reality of course is that most people are as insecure and scared as we are.We are in a constant state of over and underestimating those that we meet as we make our way through life. If you are overconfident then you underestimate those that you meet and most

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  • Why You Should Love Yourself

    We tend to hear a lot of terrible things about the ego. How the ego destroys your life by burying you selfish emotions and acts. I have written a few articles myself on how the placation of the ego can be a most draining and self defeating idea. But I think that there can be a great mistake made if you pursue this to extremes. The problem comes when we get lost in semantics and when slight variations in language obscure the greater reality. This happens when as Alfred Korzybski said, we “confuse the map with the territory”. Tomato and

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  • Overcome Any Fear

    "I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. “ --- Frank Herbert, Dune I like that quote. I like it because it is very true, fear is the little death; it obliterates your mind and your common sense. Fear, if unchecked can destroy any good effort that you might achieve. Everyone gets nervous, anxious, and fearful. But if you let these emotions overpower you, YOU are lost...literally. Let us take for example one of the biggest fears that people have; the fear of Flying. This fear is so powerful that many of us have

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  • Find Water and Stay Alive!

    Is it me or do there seem to be more disasters lately? I am sure that if some research was done on the subject, it would be the case that disasters, hurricanes and volcano eruptions are no more prevalent today than at any other time. But to set my mind at ease, I submit to you the following article.Water is the lifeblood of all that we do. We run our bodies with it and we also run our machinery with it. The average person can live only about three days without water.Since one should always be prepared for the unexpected,

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  • Inner Space Meditation

    In an earlier article I introduced you to a method that would show you How to Beat Insomnia. This article introduces you to the method of keeping completely still in order to willfully put yourself to sleep. This article will focus on the same technique but the outcome this time will be slightly different. I am going to teach you a very simple method that you can use to attain deep meditative levels. Essentially it is a method that you can use to get almost asleep and in this way be able to attain a greater understanding of your psyche

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  • Reality Bites 1

    The world is changing very rapidly. We are being bombarded by new bits of information everyday, at a rate that would have driven our ancestors insane. TIME has just made YOU, that’s you and me and everybody else, person of the year. YouTube has created a universe that we might not have pondered just a few short years ago, and who knows what is on the horizon in the years to come. Information, information everywhere! Introspection, self absorption, personal development, self motivation, personal growth, and internal development. The World Wide Web has opened our eyes to things that would make

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  • Reality Bites 2

    Have noticed that the world seems to be getting freakier; The American Presidential race is incredibly odd this time around. You have one candidate that is doing everything to emulate the great JFK himself and he even seems to be making his wife dress like Jackie. He has a name that is derived from a word that means blessing in many languages but, to those in the know, it means a man in black who would beguile you with his tongue (just before he takes you straight to hell by the way). While the other candidate is an ex-POW that

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  • Ending Trauma

    We have all experienced traumatic events. These events are a natural part of life on earth. I suppose you could say that the act of walking presupposes that you will fall down every once in a while. Some of us though, perhaps not as lucky as others, have encounter personal trauma that has left incredibly deep scars. These traumatic events, whether they are a personal loss or abuse for example, can leave scars so deep that it becomes almost impossible to carry on with our lives in the same way again. People that are plagued by traumatic events in their

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  • Listening Meditation

    We all have huge amounts of stuff running through our heads all the time. If we are not thinking about what just happened then we are thinking about what we are going to do. Our brains are constantly jabbering away about one thing or another and try as we might, there seems to be no way to stop this incessant noise. Internal dialogue as it is commonly called, can bring all sorts of grief, and is the little evil voice that seems to bring us nothing but misery. What all meditative practices are really out to accomplish is to bring

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  • Don't Be Shy, Think About Your Thumb

    Are you one of those really shy types? The kind of person that just can’t seem to bring himself/herself to talk to a new person or group? Perhaps you are a bit of a wallflower and it all has to do with the fact that you just can’t get the courage to go up to that interesting/hot person that you have been dying to meet. Actually I think that most of us suffer from shyness to one degree or another. You can remember back to the days of the old school dances when you were a kid and how it

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  • Swine Flu And How To Fight Back

    WHO (World Health Organization) has just declared that the Swine Flu (H1N1) has reached pandemic proportions1. This means that health experts believe that it is now an unstoppable virus. This new virus can be transmitted from human to human and causes influenza and the symptoms related to it. Many are very worried that this will kill many people, cause global panic, and economic downturns. With this in mind, we hope that this article will shed some light on possible preventions and how you can fight back so that you don’t feel so powerless in this coming storm. First and foremost,

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  • Ways To Get A Good Night's Sleep

    The prerequisite to any healthy lifestyle is a good night’s sleep. With our hectic everyday lifestyle this can sometimes be a difficult thing. Nerves that are held in a constant state of tension, due to our stressful lifestyles, make it very difficult to relax when we finally get to bed. There are things that you can do to help you get to sleep on time and to be able to sleep on a regular basis: • First on the list is exercise. If you have an office job or any kind of a job where you are stationary for large periods

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  • Control Your Thoughts With Mindful Meditation

    The power of our thoughts is seldom fully realized. Most people pay very little attention to the thousands of thoughts that go through their minds every day. This is a shame because thoughts play a monumental part in our lives and can truly be said to shape our reality. Our minds mechanically judge every aspect of our existence and these judgments are first interpreted by us through our thoughts. We might be driving on our way to a meeting for example be barraged by thoughts of worry and anxiety. This is a good indication that we have apprehensions or fears

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  • Is the Future Written in the Stars?

    I posit that the oldest profession was not prostitution, but that it was instead Prophecy. If we think of man as a creature evolving over time then we could also speculate that sex was always an important topic and most likely one of our oldest desires. But if we continue to contemplate our evolutionary man then there certainly was a time when man the animal became the thinking man. At this time, when conscious thought as we know it first appeared in our species, man must have found himself alone and afraid in a very big and very dangerous world.

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  • Reality Bites 3

    The time has come, the gig is up. No more can we sit around and say that life is happening to us.Are there conspiracies? Are we being manipulated by a select few? This is no longer a valid question. The answer to every question is: YOU MAKE YOUR OWN REALITY! There are so many conspiracies and so many theories about what will happen next, that it’s almost starting to get funny…almost. If you are to believe some; there will soon be a global disclosure on the existence of aliens. Some see this as a great event that will herald a

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  • Future Shmucher

    The Future is a Paradox Looking around the world, it is easy to get lost in fear. Natural and man-made disasters seem to be happening everywhere. The local and international news does not let us forget about how close we all are from world oblivion.Perhaps someone should let these agencies know that all of this is old news. I for one would really like to start hearing something different. If you think that I am being glib, perhaps you should ask your grandparent or great-grandparent (if you are lucky) about it. Your grandparents will be happy to tell you that

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  • External Mental Influences

    The law of attraction movement seems to be growing, not dissipating. This is perhaps an indication of the times and of a new frontier in human consciousness. Most people are starting to take responsibility for their consciousness and for the thoughts that fill their heads. The Law of attraction very basically states that all things that are alike tend to attract each other. This law can be seen at work in all things in life; whether it is subatomic particles, people or even stars. This law, as it concerns us human beings, is most evident in our conscious thought patterns.

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  • How To Get A Good Night's Sleep

    The prerequisite to any healthy lifestyle is a good night’s sleep. With our hectic everyday routine this can sometimes be a difficult thing. Nerves that are held in a constant state of tension, due to our stress, make it very difficult to relax when we finally get to bed. There are things that you can do to help you get to sleep on time and to be able to sleep on a regular basis: • First on the list is exercise. If you have an office job or any kind of a job where you are stationary for large periods of

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  • Turn A Diffficult Family Member Into An Ally

    Do you have a family member that just doesn’t agree with your choice in life style? There is always someone, especially a parent that is upset by a choice that you have made and by the kind of life that you are leading.I hope that I don’t need to tell you that there is no one that should be able to tell you how to live your life. If you are an adult, then you have all the right in the world to do as you like with your life. Even if you are living in a parent’s or a

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  • Top Four Things People Think Will Happen On 2012

    The end of the great long count is upon us and we are all wondering what will happen on December 21, 2012. Perhaps nothing will happen and many will be reminded of Y2K. But there does seem to be something special about this coming date and it has many curios and some downright scared. Perhaps it’s the fact that there seem to be so many crazy things happening right now. People look around and see the wars, climatic changes, and the natural disasters and they are reminded of the prophesized end times. Others see psychological changes in people; noticing how

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  • You Are A Psychic Radio

    We had discussed in a previous article (External Mental Influences), that there are many energies out there that we pick up on. That in one way or another, we are aware of all of the thoughts that surround us now. This is a very powerful statement if you believe in the law of attraction and in the power of human thought. I want to take this idea further so that you begin to really understand some of the implications that I am presenting here. The best metaphor I think for this awareness is to say that in essence you are

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  • How To Meet All Your Goals

    Many people set goals for themselves, which is a good thing. Unfortunately following through on those goals becomes a very difficult thing for most and most goals are never achieved. In this article, we will explore some techniques that you can use to help you meet the goals that you set for yourself. Let us begin though by becoming very clear on what you want your goals to be. To do this, you will have to spend some time alone and explore your inner visions. See a picture of your ideal future self and work backwards to find out what

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  • What Will Really Happen On 2012

    Note: The information in the article below is the result of a decade of personal research. I hope you read it and interpret it with your own personal objectivity, and I hope that it motivates you to do your own research on the subject. Since all of the work is really based on hearsay evidence, there is no way to prove any of it to a scientists satisfaction. But all myth is like this and yet, if one knows of the powers of the mind of man, one realizes that in all cases myth is far more powerful than objective

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  • Neutralize A Negative Thought Or Phobia

    There are times when try as we might, we cannot stop thinking about something that makes us feel awful. Thoughts like these can be incredibly detrimental to our mental state. Since our mind controls our body and our personal reality, it is very important that we learn to manage these negative thoughts.Thoughts like these are often like a chronic pain. We know what is wrong, we know what it’s about but try as we might we can’t stop ourselves from reliving them. A chronic pain is like this, the injury is known and we are trying to fix the physical

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  • Be A Little Selfish

    I want you to do something for yourself and for all those around you that you care about. I want you to be a little selfish. I know that this is a pretty hard thing for many to do, especially if you are a very giving person, perhaps a parent, or both. But I want you to do this for others as much as you might think that it is all for you. It is often thought that being self-involved can be a very bad thing, but if you are willing to really look into what this means, you will

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  • What Does The Black Sun 2012 Enigma Mean?

    In my earlier article, What Will Really Happen on 2012, I wrote about certain theories, myths (most possibly facts) that I have been following concerning the 2012 enigma. I told you that there are certain schools of thought and certain information that seems to show that there might be an incredible shift taking place on December 21, 2012. I told you that this had to do with the ‘Platonic Year’ and with the ‘Axial Rotation’ of the Earth. In this article I want to go into more depth as to what this might mean for us in the future and

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  • You Can't Get Rich Working Hard At It

    It is very difficult to get rich through hard work. You have to be able to come up with some kind of idea that will get you get you to the next level. Your imagination is the key. First you have to get yourself out of poverty if you find yourself there. In order to do this you have to be able to find some work and to get paid well. You need to find a way to support yourself and your family, for this you will need to work. So yes this part of the equation does require that

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  • Keep Track Of Your Goals And Accomplish Anything

    In order to get things done you must keep track of your goals. We all have certain things I we to accomplish, and we all have time schedules. The only way that you can accomplish these desires is to be able to monitor what you have done and what you need to do.Begin to keep track of your goals by asking yourself, “what have I done and so far”? It is most important that you are honest with yourself and that you are able to see that the only way that you will overcome hurdles is to keep a very

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  • Learn To Be Alone To Find Your Success In Life

    Don’t be scared to be alone. There is a big difference between being alone and being lonely. To be alone is a good thing, it gives you time and the space needed to perform things that you cannot do around others. Loneliness is an emotional response that is usually brought around by a feeling of self pity.There are many times in our lives when we need to be alone. Sometimes it seems like these alone periods in our lives happen on purpose or perhaps for a bigger reason. I believe that these alone times happen because our inner self wishes

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  • To Become A Success You Can't Lower Your Standards

    Never lower your standards. Many people would love to bring you down just to make themselves feel better. Don’t give others this kind of power.The world is full of those that would judge you. You might say that we are all programmed to judge others. It is after all a survival mechanism. If you are able to judge others, you are able to predict what they will do. This is a very powerful way to be able to take charge of any situation and to be able to control the outcome. It is for this reason that we are all

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  • Test To See If You Are An Introvert Or An Extrovert

    Here is a simple exercise to find your personality type. This is a very good way to see if you are an introvert or an extrovert. It’s good to know what kind of personality you have because it makes it much easier for you to understand yourself. Each personality type has different needs when it comes to many facets in life. This is especially true when it comes to dealing with others and the world at large.An extrovert wants to go out there and get his/her hands dirty. They are usually participating and often want to be seen. Extroverts have

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  • How To Stop Being Someone You Are Not

    It is very difficult to always try to be someone that you are not. People have a way of projecting their expectations on you; this can lead to a desire to be someone that you aren’t in order to please others. This is the most common and most powerful way that you become inclined to become someone that you are not. It’s an easy rut to get into, and there are 2 major causes for this:1) Parents are the biggest unintentional culprits here. Parents after all are the ones that instantly become your role models when you are born. They

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  • How To Learn To Handle Setbacks

    Learn to handle setbacks. We all have occasions when we fail or when we are not able to accomplish that which we wanted to do. Learning to handle these situations will allow us to have the energy required to try again. Without this energy, any setback, will stop any effort that we’re making and will stop us almost as soon as we got started.You can never plan for everything. Life is an open system, where anything can be introduced at any time. This means that there is no way to be able to plan for every single circumstance. As a

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  • Always Challenge Yourself

    Learn to always challenge yourself and different ways. The best way to always stay on your toes and therefore to always stay sharp, is to challenge yourself in new and interesting fashions. New challenges keep our brains well exercised, and they inspire us to grow in new ways. Challenging yourself does not mean over working yourself. This is indeed a challenge, but not a very creative challenge. To challenge yourself to pull on a rope is not creative, any farm horse can pull on a rope. A creative challenge would be to try and figure out how to avoid having

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  • Diets Don't Work But This Does

    The fact of the matter is that diets, per se, do not work. I think that this topic has been given some thought and air time but it is a truth the warrants repetition. The reason for this is that there are still many groups and individuals trying to entice others into participating in this or that diet. The latest of these involve some kind of modification in your eating habit, where you are told that you can eat as much as you want as long as you don’t eat meat, or carbohydrates, or whatever. One of the big reasons

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  • You Must Schedule Your Time

    We all have a limited time on this earth. There are only so many hours in a day. We all have personal values that are very important to us, and we all have personal desires that we wish to satisfy and goals that we wish to accomplish. Is very important that we schedule our time properly so that we do not waste any of the small amount of time that we have on planet earth.You must schedule your time or else you will wake up one day and you will realize that most of your life has passed you by,

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  • How To Do Bone Breathing

    In this article I would like to share with you a very powerful technique called Bone Breathing. It’s an ancient technique that goes back to India and to China, it has been practiced by both Yogi’s and Chi Kung masters in different variations. You can also see variations of it in the west and in all different parts of the world. The reason for this is that it is an incredibly powerful technique that allows you to literally suck in energy from the environment around you.In order to understand how this technique works you must first understand a little about

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  • We All Have A Lot Left To Learn

    We all have a lot left to learn. Through many stages in our lives, we believe that we know all there is to know about everything. This sometimes happens when we are young and we believe we have everything figured out, and it also happens as we age and we believe that we know everything because we have experienced everything. Anytime that we let ourselves believe that we know everything and we have nothing left to learn, is the time when we're the most vulnerable. The reason for this vulnerability is the fact that this is the time we can

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  • The Power Of Eye Contact

    Making eye contact when you are interrelating with others is very important. Eye contact is the most important physiological aspect of interrelating with others. In many ways it crosses the boundaries between internal feelings and external actions. The saying goes, “the eyes are the windows to the soul”, and truly they play a key role in how others perceive us and how we perceive them. It is always very important that you make eye contact when you're speaking to someone else. There are many rules about how long this eye contact should be, but this is actually a very touchy

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  • How To Become Excellent

    The only way to truly become excellence is to develop your intellect. You must learn to keep your mind occupied and to always give it new things to work on and new ideas to contemplate. Excellence can be achieved by exercising your brain, developing your mind, and always working on expanding your intellect. In this way you will develop new levels of excellence in all your personal endeavors.There are many forms of excellence, but all have a direct link to your intellect and the kind of level of consciousness that you can bring to anything in your life. Even strictly

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  • How To Follow Your Natural Rhythms

    We all have a natural rhythm. Being able to follow this natural rhythm can make us much happier, and it can allow us to fulfill ourselves in ways that we didn't think we could. Following your natural rhythm is really a way of being more natural and being kinder to ourselves; by considering ourselves important enough to be able to do what we want to do when we want to do it. In order to follow your natural rhythm you must begin by asking yourself what you want to do at the moment. You must do something that most people

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  • How To Meditate Properly

    We are all told over and over again nowadays that meditation is good for us, but few of us know how to meditate properly. Meditation is supposed to be very good for mental health and also for our physical well-being. In a highly stressed out life, where the average person works about 40 hours a week, meditation seems to be a wonderful way to bring balance. In order to meditate properly you must realize that the one key factor is that you must be able to focus your mind on one particular thing. By focusing the mind, you give yourself

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  • Want To Help Others? Get A Retail Job

    Many want to know how they can help others. They find themselves in a good place in their lives, and they wish to share the wealth that they now have. Many now are also discovering their spirituality and are seeking a meaningful way to connect with the world.A great way to learn empathy, is to give of yourself to those that are in need. Identifying with those that are in need and connecting with them on the spiritual level allows anyone, who takes the time, to discover the brotherhood of man. This is a way to connect with your heart

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  • How To Spot A Tornado

    Your first line of defense in tornado weather is always the ability to spot one. If you know one is coming ahead of time then you have more time to be able to find shelter or get out of the region. All States and Provinces have what is referred to as a “Weather Watch” and this can be further classified into a “Tornado Watch” when the threat becomes high enough. If you live in a tornado prone zone then make sure that you keep track of any kind of weather watch; the reason for this is that certain strong conditions

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  • How To Make Sure Your Goals Are Doable Before You Start

    In our lives we all have many goals and we would like to accomplish. There is always one task or another and always a reason why we have to get something done, goal setting therefore is something that we should all take seriously and that we should all strive to become very good at. Perhaps the best way to accomplish any goal is to write the goal down. By writing a goal down you make it concrete, and this has a wonderful way of enticing your mind and therefore all of the powers that you have access to, to help

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  • The Difference Between Hypnosis and Trance

    Hypnosis is defined as; an artificially induced trance state resembling sleep, characterized by a heightened susceptibility to suggestion. Hypnosis then is one way to go into trance. It is good to be clear on the fact that hypnosis is not trance but just one way to attain trance. Why this is important is because, in personal change, trance is very important while hypnosis is just one method of attaining this most important state. Hypnosis essentially requires a hypnotist. The hypnotist basically becomes a guiding force for the patient and becomes an authoritative figure that leads to patient’s consciousness into a

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  • Money Is Not Happiness

    We all naturally seek more happiness in our lives. I suppose you could say that life and living is really a struggle for pleasure; where most organisms seem to seek pleasure and stay away from pain. We to tend to classify what we consider to be good as pleasure and what we consider to be bad as pain. It is the case then that we seek happiness because happiness usually means that we are accomplishing what we want, and getting the things that we desire from life.In our modern consumer age most of the things that bring us happiness tend

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  • Always Face Your Problems

    You must always face your problems. In order to overcome whatever obstacles are in your way, you must address the problem. Problems happen to all of us, and there is seldom a time in our lives when we can say that we are free of them. While it is true that we must always face our problems, there is a difference between facing a problem and dwelling on it. When you are dwelling on the problem, you are basically reliving an old situation and re-creating every emotions and personal hardships you faced at that time. To dwell on the problem

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  • You Are Psychic

    You must realize that you are psychic. Many people have a natural internal feeling that tells them that they should be able to perceive more. Many also have a sense that there is more to life than they are allowing themselves to perceive.. These are natural feelings that hint at our desire as a human species to expand consciously and spiritually.Science has become the new religion. It has created incredible marvels and allowed many of us to live a kind of luxurious life that would have seemed impossible to our recent ancestors. That being said, it has also created an

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  • How To Avoid Mistakes

    In life we all make mistakes. It is essentially impossible to avoid not making a mistake. We are all human after all and as such it is really impossible for us to do anything without making some kind of mistake. The reason for this is that we are designed to learn from our mistakes, a mistake then is sort of like a correctional system the tells us how to do things better by showing us the wrong way to do it. Never get yourself down because you made a mistake as this is just a correctional system that we all

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  • Turn A Complaint Into A Question

    To complain is natural. Complaining just means that you are at odds with whatever is happening at the moment. Complaining then really is a form of self empowerment where you express your feelings in order to motivate yourself and others to change a situation.Complaints though can have a negative side, where too much complaining and very little doing becomes the norm. When this is the case a complaint is just really away to drain your energy and the energy of others. Besides being very draining, too much complaining can stifle creativity and stop you from looking beyond the problem in

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  • Wake Up To Your Life

    We all naturally take our life for granted. It seems the most natural thing on earth to think that our lives will last forever, that we are all immortal and that we have infinite time. Contrary to what some might say this is actually a good feeling. The feeling of immortality comes about because of a joyous pleasure that we feel about our lives and our situation in the present moment. We must sometimes remind ourselves though that we are only given a certain amount of years in this life and that we should take advantage of these years in

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  • How To Bury An Old Memory

    There are times when old memories can haunt us. This is usually the case when we can't seem to let go of things that we have done in the past, or things that have been done to us in past. These old ghosts or skeletons can make any future progress difficult and can cause us great heartache.Here is an interesting little technique that might allow you to get over these old skeletons. It should help you to let go of these negative memories and create some space so that you can move on with your life.1. Take a piece of

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  • Why You Must Never Compete

    We are all told in one way or another, from the beginning of our lives, that life is competition. Whenever you look around it seems that we have to compete and fight for everything that we want. Science tells us that evolution, which is the fundamental law of life, is competition. But is this true? Or perhaps a better question is; is competition the best way to win in life?As a child growing up you were most likely put in competitive situations early on. Whether you were fighting for crayons with a sibling or whether you were engaged in some

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  • Let Go Of Bad Friends

    Someone once told me that we do not choose our friends but that the universe chooses them for us. I found this statement to be very intriguing and the more that I thought about it the more that I realized that this is only the case on the surface but that there is far more going on in a spiritual level. I think that while the universe does indeed seem to choose our friends, we are actually the ones that choose them. We choose them by how we relate to the universe; this is done through our beliefs, thoughts, and

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  • Ways To Make Chage Easier

    There are often times when we want to change something about ourselves or our environment. Change, if it is positive, is a good thing because it means that we are growing and expanding ourselves. Changes also a way of keeping things fresh and making life less dreary. Change is also needed when life becomes difficult and you need to change something in order to make things easier again. Quite often change means an alteration or a modification of a bad habit so that we are able to prosper instead of be consumed by a habit that is negative.In order to

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  • How To Stop Lying To Yourself

    Believe it or not we are all constantly lying to ourselves. We all pretend to ourselves that we did not see a certain thing or that we did not experience this or that. It is amazing how powerful our minds are at being able to completely ignore certain data in order to make us feel better.The first big reason why we lie to ourselves is that we are trying to avoid pain. Quite often when we do not want to experience a negative feeling, we will often overlook internal thoughts and external sense data. This is actually a great coping

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  • Empathy Is More Powerful Than Logic

    Empathy is an incredibly powerful tool. It is the ability to see from the perspective of the other and in this way to be able to experience, to a greater or lesser degree, what the other is experiencing. Some would have you believe that empathy is dangerous and that it can cloud your ability to function correctly. This fear is expounded because there's a belief that the ego, or your personal self, will become completely overwhelmed by what you feel while you are experiencing things from the other perspective. Science tells us that empathic ability is impossible. That at best

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  • The Positivity Movement Is Not That Positive

    We have all heard of the positivity movement. This is the movement that tells us that in order to better our lives we must try to stay as happy as possible. With good intentions they expound the idea that happiness is the key to greater happiness. What is meant by this is that they believe that you should try and suppress your negative emotions while at the same time trying to express as much positive emotion as possible. As I said, this is a well-meaning group, that tells you that the best way to be happy is to fake it

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  • Are You Spending Your Time Wisely?

    Time is a very precious thing. We are only given so much time on this Earth so its always a good idea to make sure that you are spending your time wisely. It is also possible that others could rob you of time if you are not careful and discerning as to how and with whom you want to spend this precious resource. The most important thing that you can do to stop wasting this precious resource is to develop a greater sense of self-worth. Self-worth might not be directly related to time and time management but it is actually

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  • How To Find Your Personal Motivations

    Finding our personal motivation is very important. Our motivations are really our values and these values are essentially the most important things in our lives. These values are very important because they are the underlying motivating factors of our lives. You can say that they are sort of like our guiding principles that point us in the direction that we want to go and also set the standard of how we're going to get there. Finding out what your motivations are, will greatly increase your personal focus in life. This personal focus will allow you to develop greater personal happiness

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  • Learn To Take Breaks

    There are times when you just need to take a break. There are times in our lives we to seem to be flooded with things to do and there doesn't seem to be a light at the end of the tunnel. Looking at the machines around us, it is sometimes easy to identify with them and to believe that we to should keep going without stop. It is very important that you realize that you are not a machine and that unlike them you need to take a break.We need a break at the time we think we have the

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  • How to Deflect Any Argument, The Fine Art Of Aikido Arguing

    No matter what you do or where you go there will always be someone that is critical of your actions or beliefs. It can even be the case that some of these criticisms can turn into very negative remarks and insults. Most of us can usually deal with these negative remarks and insults easier than we can deal with less aggressive criticism because it is far easier to dismiss hysterical remarks. It is possible that some of this criticism is well-founded. It is always a good idea to maintain objectivity when others are being critical of you because it is

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  • Learn To Walk Away When You Have To

    There are situations that you can't change. As hard as you try there will always be things that you cannot change. Time changes and through this change you change as well, there are times therefore when you will not be able to do things that you might be able to at a different time. It is possible that something can be beyond your powers at the moment, learn to accept this fact. It is even possible that there are certain things that you do not want to change at this moment, and that you are not allowing yourself to make

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  • The 5 Points That Create Success

    In order to become a more successful person you need to always have a plan. Success can only be achieved if you're willing to take the time to think about your actions before you take them. Successful planning means that you take certain points into consideration and that you use them as a catalyst to plan your time effectively and to make sure that you have the correct strategy that fits within whatever time constraints you are working with. Consider these points before you take action slight you become a success in whatever you do: 1. Take time to plan

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  • Learn To Let Go Of Stuff

    We all have a lot of stuff. We all tend to accumulate things as we grow and change, which seems to be a natural consequence of our expansion in the world. We amass things as we grow but we forget to let go of those things that we no longer need. This is unfortunate because things have a way of holding us down. Continually ask yourself; what can I can let go of? Look around, what do you actually use? Taking the time to always look around at all your stuff and answering honestly the above question can be a

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  • Wise Words From A Kindly Preacher

    I remember that as a kid I used to love the poltergeist movies. They scared me silly but I used to love to watch them because I suppose I used to love to be scared. In “poltergeist two” I remember that there was this great character that made a huge impression on me. He was a kindly preacher that did his best to impart great wisdom to all those that he came in contact with. His greatest line, and the line that I believe had the greatest amount of insight was, “you're all gonna die!” If you take it to

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  • How To Motivate Yourself To Start Your Goals

    Having wonderful goals that you wish to meet is key to success in life. Many of us are great dreamers and there are many things that we would like to accomplish in this life. Some of us are even good planners and can set up different ways that we want to get these goals accomplish. But the most important thing about having goals is the ability to get started on them and to accomplish them. In order to be a to get started on your goals, you must develop incredibly good reasons why these goals need to be accomplished. You

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  • Do Only Those Things That Empower You

    We are all busy bees. Modern life has become so fast and so complicated that it is sometimes hard to keep up with how we are feeling inside. We are also all required to do our duty and these external responsibilities can create great pressure. On top of that, external peer pressure can sometimes be incredibly overwhelming, pushing us to do things that we would not normally do if such pressures were not applied upon us. In this modern world it has becoming incredibly important that you take time for yourself. Time for yourself is the only break that you

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  • How To Acomplish Anything Easily

    Accomplishing your objectives can either be difficult or easy depending on how you go about it. Most people believe that it is a difficult world where we are all going uphill. With this personal belief any objective becomes very difficult. The reality of the situation though is that most of us do not use our minds properly and instead of using them to motivate us and to ease our tasks, we mostly use them to reinforce our beliefs in a hard life. Most would tell you that in order to begin any task you must begin with action. It is

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  • Hunters Must Learn To Empathize With Their Prey

    Empathy is not just wishy-washy and touchy-feely business. Empathy can actually be a very useful tool that can be used by all people to expand their awareness and their functionality within their own space. Hunters for example could greatly benefit from being able to empathize with their prey. A great hunter must be able to know all the routines of his prey. He must understand his prey implicitly and be able to anticipate future moves. If a hunter could also learn to become one with the environment in which the pray besides, he or she would become even more successful.

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  • What is True Confidence?

    We all want to be confident. Confidence is definitely something that is of great help when we are trying to accomplish anything. Confidence is also a state of being that promotes happiness; this is so because confidence speaks of a well-balanced individual that is of strong character. Confidence speaks of a well grounded being that is assured of his or her personal capabilities. While we tend to see confidence as a general thing, it is important to realize that confidence is not just one particular thing, for example each one of us lacks confidence in some area. There are those

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  • You Don't Have To Change

    Personal change is a big priority with many people right now. This site for example is devoted to personal change and personal improvement. The underlying belief here is that you need to make a change of one kind or another in order to improve yourself, so here is some information to help you make that change. What you must realize though is that this change that you make must be done for the correct ‘personal’ reasons. Many for example would have you change the way that you feel, telling you that if you make this change you will increase your

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  • How To Develop Self Confidence

    Self-confidence comes easily to some while it is most difficult for others. Self-confidence can really be boiled down to a belief about your personal self. Even though it is the case that external circumstances tend to make self-confidence easy or very difficult, it is personal belief that is the source of all self-confidence. A belief in your own ability and in your own self-worth is imperative. Self-confidence is not something that many are born with. It is the case then that self-confidence must be practiced. To do this you must motivate yourself and make it a goal to always question

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  • Find Balance In Your Life

    You need balance. The most important thing that you can devote your time to is balancing your life. This means that you need to examine and prioritize depending on your needs. Balance is the ability to finely tune your time and efforts so that you are getting what you want out of life. You could picture for example one of those circus performers; he is on a high wire, spinning ten plates on long skinny sticks and balancing a chair on his chin. Most people could identify with this amazing character and agree to the fact that their lives can

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  • How To Stop A Bad Habit

    Many of us have habits that we would like to stop. Over time we tend to develop habits that we consider to be bad and as we recognize these as hurtful habits, we often commit to stop them. Many find that stopping these negative or bad habits can be very difficult. Always remember though that a habit is really just a routine and a routine can always be replaced by another one. In order to try and change this old routine, make the decision right now that you are going to change. Do not be halfhearted about it, truly commit

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  • How To Develop Real Self Discipline

    Personal discipline is important in everything that we do in life. You can come up with the best ideas but these ideas will be forever outside of your realm until you develop the discipline to create them. Discipline is what allows us to take action in areas that we find difficult. Discipline allows us to become creators, it allows us to bring to life our greatest ideas and vision. While many see discipline is a type of endurance under stress, true discipline is really great personal understanding. Many would tell you that life is either ‘the pain of discipline or

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  • Good Manners Give You An Edge

    Many believe that manners have gone out the window. As we look around it does become somewhat evident that few people treat each other pleasantly anymore. I think that there is a natural relation between the amount of people in any one place and the kind of courtesy that they used to treat each other with. I find it that the more crowded the environment the less likely that people are to be pleasant and to use good manners. Manners are an incredibly powerful thing. Many write about the fact that you should learn persuasion or how you should learn

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  • Understanding Your Truths Equals Focused Action

    Truth is very essential thing for all of us. In one way or another we are all searching for truth. It is important to realize though that truth is a relative issue and that even though some would like to tell you that truth is an absolute thing, the reality of the situation is that everything is relative. This does not mean that truth does not exist, what it means is that truth is relative to each individual and that the only truth that you can rely on is your own personal truth. Discovering your own personal truths is a

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  • Truly Listening To Others Is An Art

    We all need to learn to listen better. The best way to be able to develop good relationships with others is to be able to listen and pay attention to what they have to say. Listening attentively shows respect and shows that you care about what the other person is saying, that this person is important enough and that what they have to say is worthy of scrutiny. Many people have huge amounts of difficulty listening to others. It is quite often the case that they do not try to listen to understand, they are just waiting for the other

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  • How To Stop Being A Clutter-Bug

    We can all be clutter-bugs at times. We all tend to want to hoard things believing that we will eventually need whatever it is that we now have. Many people are also visual in nature, they remember and keep track of things by knowing where they are visually, this means that some of us are not just clutter bugs we also like to spread our mess everywhere. Being a clutter-bug is not necessarily a bad thing, but if it is starting to take over your life then you need to do something about it. Whenever possible you need to ask

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  • Tips On Developing Personal Discipline

    I believe that there are two types of work. There is the work that you have to do and then there's the work that you personally want to do. With the first kind of work, the kind of work that you have to do, you are essentially made to perform in a certain fashion. For most of us this means a job; we are told when to show up, what to do, how to do it, and when we can stop. If we do not do satisfactory work, we are reprimanded and we are told how to do it properly.

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  • Learn To Express Your Anger Naturally

    Many believe that they need to control their anger. While it is true that you need to control your emotional responses around people, some tend to believe that controlling your anger means stifling yourself. All emotions should be felt and experienced naturally, if you do not do this you will end up hurting yourself because emotional repression can lead to mental aberrations and even ill health. For many of us anger is a very powerful emotion. All emotions are energy, energy that is supposed to be naturally used to take action and create change, and anger is perhaps one of

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  • How To Take Criticism Correctly

    Many of us find it very difficult to take criticism. Generally criticism is taken as a direct attack on the self. While it is the case that some criticism is given in order to derail a person, most criticism has the positive benefit of showing you where you are going wrong. Any criticism should be handled with objective detachment that can only come from personal control of the ego. When you are being criticized, you should analyze the situation carefully and determine if you have acted wisely. It is always good strategy to admit your mistakes openly and honestly, always

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  • The Power of the Here and Now to Change Your Reality

    Very few people are aware of themselves. They tend to go about things, trying to change the world and themselves but they forget to pay attention to what they are doing at the moment. Self-awareness is the real key to creating positive change, without this awareness there is only haphazard intention and therefore haphazard effectiveness. Every single day is made of moments. Every single moment exists like an individual pause where the entire focus of your body, mind, and soul become one. As you read these words, this is a moment. This moment can be defined as the here and

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  • Develop True Pride and Become A Success

    Depending on who you talk to, pride can either be a positive feeling or a negative trait. The difference between the two is really a difference in definition; while some consider pride to be a good feeling that shows that you like something about yourself on what you have created, others believe that pride is a negative attribute that can lead to negative self importance. Essentially it is better to have the former and it is not good to have the latter. I'm sure that if you look back in your life, you will be able to find a time

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  • A Blind Spot Can Curtail Your Success

    We all have a blind spot. We all have areas in our lives that we just can't see because we are too deeply involved in ourselves. Our ego and our familiarity with certain things can make us blind to what others might find to be obvious. This personal flaw can be very serious when we are competing in a high-stakes game or when we are trying to seriously improve ourselves. This blind spot does not allow us to see our weaknesses. Often times our ego will not allow us to see ourselves in a clear way because by doing so

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  • Let Go and Find a Solution

    You must always try to consider time as your friend and not your enemy. Most of us have little patience and tend to rush into things that we end up regretting in the long term. While I have said in the past that impulses are something that should be used to your advantage, because they tend to usually be subconscious messages that are far more legitimate than many realize, it is also the case that ‘forbearance is a virtue’. If you do get an impulse or a desire of some kind, to act in a certain way, then you should

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  • The 3 Critical Factors of Success

    Success is a natural desire that we all have. We tend to define success as the ability to accomplish an aim or a goal. Some even define success as the attainment of wealth and profit, perhaps even the attainment of popularity and fame. The best definition of success is the ability to accomplish our desires and to fulfill our values in life. Success then goes beyond the accomplishment of a particular externally defined ideal, into the fulfillment of personal values. As we look upon the world, we see that there are some people that are very successful while there are

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  • In Order to Accomplish Anything, You Need to Start With a Good Schedule

    Having a good scheduling system can be the difference between getting things done and failing at whatever it is that you do. We all have a desire to accomplish things. We sometimes have plans or big ideas that we would like to see come to fruition. Many have these great ideas and plans but are never able to get anything done, as a result they think that they are dreamers that will never be able to accomplish anything because they just don't have the power or the discipline to get things done. Most don't realize though that the reason that

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  • How To Stop Hypocrisy in Yourself

    If you want to be true to yourself, you must continually be on the lookout for times when you are giving people a double standard. A double standard is really a form of hypocrisy where you hold people accountable in a certain way but you do not hold that same accountability for yourself. In order to develop your ‘self’ and your personal integrity, you have to be able to hold yourself to the same standard that you hold everyone else to. A double standard is most obvious when we tend to have a certain standard for ourselves but then we

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  • The Importance of Being Humble

    We can all be a little prideful at times. When we have devoted a lot of time to certain thing it can be quite easy to believe that we know everything about that particular thing and it can be very difficult to hear another person's point of view. This is natural, it just shows that you take pride in the amount of effort that you've put into something and have developed a certain sense of confidence in this area. You should always be careful though that you don't become overconfident because this overconfidence will create a barrier that won't allow

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  • Better Study Habits

    In order to become smarter we must either learn to explore our inner reality or we must learn from books and the exterior world around us. In whatever way you wish to, you need to always try and develop your intellectual capabilities. It is truly the case that the quality of your life is directly related to your intelligence and to the quality of your thinking. You don't need to have schooling or some kind of higher learning education certificate. But you do need to constantly strive to increase your intelligence by reading and studying those things that are important

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  • If Life Has Become Endless Work, Then You Need to Redefine It

    We all want to achieve success in our lives. We all strive for great achievement and personal triumph. There are times though when we tend to confuse personal success with hard work. Now I am not saying that there is anything wrong with hard work, but there are some of us to get stuck believing that great success and hard work are the same thing. If you ever find yourself in this situation, where you seem to be working all day long trying to achieve personal triumph, it is a good idea to question yourself and your motives. The best

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  • Tips on How to Maintain a Proper Diet

    Personal diet is incredibly important. Your body is truly your sacred Temple and you must do everything that you can to always give it the best. Your diet is directly linked to your health, this is something that most of us understand and believe. What many forget to consider though is that personal diet is also directly linked to how happy we feel about ourselves and our life. Correct nutrition makes you feel strong and gives you a good deal of extra energy, this extra energy is completely responsible for how good you feel. Feeling good is directly related to

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  • How Not to Waste Your Precious Time

    Time is a precious thing. We seldom contemplate the fact enough; that we are all mortal beings. If we were to contemplate this on a regular basis, we would realize that the time that we have is indeed precious. Whether we believe in an afterlife or not, the time that we have on this Earth is indeed limited and it is therefore very important that we use this time wisely. If you think about it, you'll easily come to the conclusion that how you spend your time is how you spend your life. Now this might seem quite obvious but

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  • Good Preparation Guarantees Success

    We all want to be more successful. To most of us success means being able to accomplish those things that we wish to accomplish. The nuances of the definition of success can have small shades of variation from person to person. It is a good idea to define success for yourself in order to discover in greater detail what it is that you wish to be successful at. I think that we can all agree though on the fact that we would all like to be more successful in our personal endeavors. All success is really a matter of preparation.

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  • Freedom Is A Choice

    Personal freedom is something that I believe we can all say we want. Yet it is something that is often misunderstood both in its relation to our personal lives and on how to go about getting it. On this May Day celebration, May 1, 2012; many protest demanding equal rights and more accountability from those that would oppress the greater individual majority. While most of these protests, that are now occurring around the world, focus on the inequality of wealth distribution, there is the underlying tone of oppression. This inequality could not be possible of course if the people were

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  • How to Stop Imagining the Worst

    Stop imagining disasters. Our imagination is an incredibly powerful thing and if it is left alone to ramble about it can sometimes create terrible scenarios that can cause us great stress. It is very easy to take a very minor incident and turn it into a horrible thing. It is easy to imagine for example that someone’s tardiness is actually a car accident or some other terrible thing. We all worry excessively sometimes about minor things just because we let our imaginations get the best of us. It can be very straining and consuming to always imagine the worst case

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  • Stop Negative Self-Talk Now!

    One of the biggest concerns that you might have about negativity is that you might believe that it is completely out of your control. That these negative thoughts and impulses might seem to come at random times and happen for no good reason. You might believe that you are helpless and powerless, that you cannot change the tide of this debilitating energy. This is not the case. You can find out why you are having these negative thoughts. It is possible for anyone to find the source of this negative self-talk and overcome it. I was able to get rid

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  • How to Stop Procrastination

    One of the most difficult aspects of getting anything done is getting started. Procrastination can be a very difficult obstacle to overcome and unless you discover ways to overcome this inertia, you will never begin any worthwhile project. Okay, so we have decided on what our goals are and we have made a list of all the things that we want to do, but how do we get started on this list and overcome this very difficult first obstacle? It is always a good idea to begin by identifying some of the things that will present themselves as different aspects

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  • Empathy, the most Important Skill of the 21st Century

    I have mentioned on a number of occasions that empathy is one of the most important skills that you can have in life. I would dare say that empathy is the one skill that has the ability to take humanity into the next level of awareness. Empathy, once you have become proficient at it, will be a catalyst that will completely change the way that you interact with others. Empathy can be a great advantage when you have to interact with others. It is very important for example that you always acknowledge the feelings that another person is having at

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  • The Benefits of being Empathic

    There is nothing more powerful in sustaining a relationship then to acknowledge the other person's feelings. A relationship does not necessarily mean a relationship between lovers; a relationship can happen any time that you are engaging in any kind of communication with someone else. Even a small conversation with a clerk at a grocery store is a relationship and this relationship can greatly benefit by having you acknowledge the other persons feelings and subjective state. In an earlier article I discussed the importance of empathy. I told you there that empathy can actually be a very powerful way to become

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  • How to Control Your Emotions

    Emotions can be incredibly debilitating if we do not have a way of dealing with them. Emotions that we consider negative such as; anger, fear, sadness, can destroy our ability to act in a logical and coherent manner if we let these emotions go unchecked. Emotions can cloud our better judgment and can affect our ability to perform even simple tasks correctly. I have mentioned in other articles that you should deal with these emotions by finding out the beliefs that are causing them. I believe that the best way to deal with any kind of negativity is through the

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  • The Great Secret to Success

    Many often wonder what the greatest key to success is. The truth is that successful people in any field, people who get ahead in life, are constantly challenging themselves to trying new things. The one key factor of success is growth. If you want to be a more successful person, in whatever endeavor you wish to pursue, you have to be courageous enough to push yourself to grow as much as possible. If we are not growing, then we are staying in the same place without change. Without change we cannot develop and increase our skill and ability. Without this

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  • How to Pick Perfect Fruits and Vegetables Everytime

    On many occasions I have gone on about the great power of empathy. I keep making a big deal about it and telling you that it is the most important skill that you can develop. Many believe what I am telling them but they tend to have a limited perspective of how you can use the power of empathy. Your ability to have empathic understanding of the world around you is very powerful, it can allow you to perceive things in a far deeper level and as a result it can give you an edge on everything in your life.

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  • Make Any Task Easy by Using Good Time Management

    Getting things done can be a very a difficult or a very easy task. The difference between the two is time management. But time management requires more than just writing down something on a simple journal, it involves your ability to understand your personal routines and to use this to your advantage. Effective time management begins when you realize that time is precious and you should be a miser with it.Being good at time management has many benefits. It should first and foremost allow you to reduce pressure and allow you to take a more relaxed approach to life. If

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  • Explain Your Actions If You Wish To Maintain Good Relationships

    Whenever we have problems with other people, it is usually the case that we are not taking the time to look at things from the other person's perspective. If you take the time to look at things from the other person's perspective, you will see that they have the same desires needs and emotions as you do. In order to be successful in any relationship, whether this is a business or intimate relationship, you need to be able to take that person's feelings into consideration or there will be conflict.Imagine that you wake up in the morning and you find

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  • How to Become More Likeable and get what You Want from Others

    Having other people like us can be very important. You can see how this is a very positive survival trait because the more that others like us, the more that they are willing to help us and give us what we need. Developing ways to become a well-liked individual can greatly increase your success rate both in business and in everyday life, it is therefore of great importance that you develop ways to increase your likability factor. Becoming more liked by others can be accomplished in a number of ways but the simplest and most natural method is: How someone

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  • A Description of Hypnosis in the Modern World

    Hypnotism is an incredibly powerful form of therapy that is being used with more and more frequency. Even though there have been many great advances in science, the subtle workings of the human mind still eludes us. As a result, science does not quite fully understand how hypnosis works. Even though science does not understand how hypnosis works, it has been able to prove that the effects caused by hypnosis are quite real. Using brain scans and different physiological monitors, scientists have been able to prove the fact that hypnosis has a direct effect on the physical body and the

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  • How to Overcome the Fear of Failure

    Everyone in the world suffers from the fear of failure, it is perhaps one of the most often felt phobias. It is true that failing has a number of bad consequences and a fear of failure is a quite natural thing; that it is giving you both a warning signal and energetic impetus to try and get you to perform at your best. Unfortunately too much of this fear without the realization that this fear is actually an ally, can stop you from taking any kind of positive action and this can be something that will stop any great success

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  • How to Create More Spare Time in your Life

    Spare time is something that we all seem to be having less and less of lately. The hustle and bustle of life can get the best of you if you don't take the time to make the time for yourself. If you consider the fact that you sleep for one third of your 24-hour day and that you work on average between 7 to 10 hours a day; you actually have in between 6 to 8 hours of free time. So during a 24-hour period, you might have six hours a day to yourself, and this does not include any

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  • Will-power, how to Motivate Yourself to Accomplish Anything!

    Motivation is one of those things that seems to go in cycles. Sometimes we are highly motivated to do something and then there are other times when we just don't seem to have the energy to do anything at all. Motivation is an internal sense, or it might be better to say that it is an internal feeling that propels us to take action. While many might say that it is discipline that creates motivation through initial action, it is indeed the case that there can be no positive action without internal motivation firstly.People find it very difficult sometimes to

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  • Your Legacy, How to Create a Personal Mission Satement

    Have you ever heard of a mission statement? I am certain that if you know anything about large corporations or you have worked for one yourself, you know that most of these organizations have a mission statement. A mission statement is basically a definition of who you are and what you are going to accomplish, more than this it is a definition of how you will meet the challenges that you face by defining the values that you wish to exemplify.When we are young the last thing that we think about is our legacy. But as we get older we

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  • How to use you Fight or Flight Response to Gain Great Power

    As we all know it is quite difficult to stay relaxed in some situations. We all have a certain physiological response under certain circumstances which makes it quite difficult for us to maintain composure. While this physiological response can be quite helpful if we ever find ourselves in a dangerous situation, it can be quite detrimental (supposedly) under modern normal social circumstances. This physiological response is colloquially referred to as the ‘fight or flight’ response.How it works is that if you ever find yourself in the situation that you find emotionally difficult, the limbic system will take over and get

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  • Increasing your Subtle Energy Level Part 1

    Very few people are aware of the kind of energy that they have. For the most part they tend to become aware of their energy level when becomes really low, in which case they are usually looking for a power drink or a cup of coffee. The reason for this is that most people tend to believe that their energy level is a direct result of their metabolism only. While it is true that the kind of foods you eat and how much you eat tend to greatly affect your energy levels, your metabolism is not the only source of

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  • How to use Loving Energy to Help Others

    There is a very powerful energy that many people are beginning to work with. This energy is usually referred to as ‘love’ energy and can be equated with the warmth of the heart that we feel for someone we love. This is indeed a type of great energy and must be separated from the petty sentimentality's of the ego which is a completely different thing altogether. This energy is beyond man and exists as a type of internal nourishment and cohesive power that helps connect all the things around us. This energy is usually seen as pink in color; pink

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  • Increasing your Subtle Energy Level Part 2

    In the last article, we had discussed how ingestion alone will not allow you to acquire all the energy that you need in order to stay healthy. We are conditioned to think that all of the energy intake that we need has to come through some kind of food or drink and as a result we tend to believe that this is the only way that we will get the energy that we need to stay healthy and strong. The reality of the situation though is that there are different ways to acquire this energy and even though you should

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  • How to Control Your Anger

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  • How to Overcome the Fear of Rejection

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  • Why you experience negativity from family and friends when you practice Self Improvement

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  • Through Self Acceptance you can beat crippling emotions

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  • Win friends and Influence people, the honest way!

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  • Cure Carpel Tunnel with DVORAK (?)

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  • Is It Bad to Play Video Games?

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