How to Change Your Thinking by Using Self-Affirmations
Your mind is an interesting tool and lives in symbiosis with the sensations from your body. It is proven that your emotions can alter your perceptions and actions, but also that your actions can alter your mood.
All the time these two factors affect each other, that is why smiling when sad makes you happier and it is why you laugh when you find something funny. Read the Rest of This Article »
Building Self Esteem With Writing Therapy
One of the most common techniques used for building self esteem is the use of affirmations. Affirmations are things you tell yourself on a regular basis to “affirm” your personal strength, beauty and value. Affirmations are great, but unless there is a real belief in what the words represent, they will do nothing for your true self esteem. To get at your true self esteem, you must dig a bit deeper; and for this purpose I recommend writing about your life. Read the Rest of This Article »
6 Affirmation Secrets to Make You Feel Better
I learn so much from my clients. Anyone who is a coach will attest to this. It really is a blessing to work with people who are striving for a better life and way of living…. these people are such an inspiration to me and they are some of my best teachers.
Recently, I was working with a client who has having trouble feeling good. He was feeling so miserable about his job, about his current situation and about his responsibilities. He was feeling overwhelmed and he didn’t know what to do.
One morning he woke up feeling really bad. So I taught him how to use affirmations to change the way he feels.
So he started saying the affirmation, “I feel great,” “I feel great,” “I feel great,” “I feel great,” … over and over again for 5 minutes straight and realized he still felt like shit.
But he didn’t give up…
He kept using the affirmation (“I feel great”) on and off for the rest of the morning in 5 minute mini-segments… and later that afternoon he started feeling better. In his own words, “I had a few insights and started to really enjoy myself. I started to feel really good.”
So with that in mind I thought I would share with you 6 Affirmation Secrets to Make You Feel Better: Read the Rest of This Article »
Everything You Need To Know About Happiness
“Happiness” courtesy of Zhong Bioa
The truth about affirmations:
With all of these books around touting the benefits of affirmations, Psychologists became curious to know whether they actually worked.
They brought together many different subjects, having various degrees of self confidence and told them to repeat positive statements about their self confidence such as “I am confident” and “I am worthy”
What was found is that confident people felt more confident after the experiment while those who lacked confidence felt even worse.
The explanation is simple, when you repeat a statement that matches your inner belief system your subconscious mind will be reminded of the statement and will let you feel good if it was a positive one, on the other hand if you tried to force your subconscious mind to believe in something against its belief system it will sense the deception and so make you feel guilty.
In short, affirmations can never make you happy if you weren’t already happy nor can they make you more confident if you weren’t already feeling confident. Read the Rest of This Article »
3 Simple Tools to Boost Your Confidence
Confidence is something we would all like a little more of from time to time. Even the most confident people can feel out of their depth in some situations. If you are anything like me then you probably find yourself confident in most familiar situations, but perhaps get a little nervous when you are put into a new situation…or at least that is how I used to feel 
This article is going to show you 3 simple and quick tools / methods you can use to boost your confidence. All of these things are quick boosts that you can do to help boost your confidence when you need it, and the more you use them the stronger your confidence will get in the long term, too. Read the Rest of This Article »
Affirmations: A More Effective Way To Kick Off The New Year
According to those who follow the cycle of the moon, the solar eclipse that took place on January 15 is actually the day we should all be making New Year resolutions. Whether it be January 1st or the 15th, we all tend to feel pressure to ‘resolve’ ourselves to do something when January rolls around: lose weight, workout, spend less, make amends. Ultimately, when we revisit New Year’s Eve on that same year, we look back and realize we have fallen short, or even worse, haven’t accomplished any of these resolutions. And if we haven’t had enough champagne to dull the nagging sense of failure, we are left feeling a little defeated, maybe lazy or worse, without real direction in our lives.
Why do we torture ourselves like this?
And what exactly is a ‘resolution’ anyway? A resolution is a firm decision to do something. “ I resolve to lose 20lbs. this year.” “I will stop smoking this year.” “I am going to run a marathon this year.” These are all very firm, and certainly noble decisions, but sometimes life itself gets in the way, and our decisions become our burdens simply making us feel guilty for not being able to achieve them. What if you have spent the entire year trying to quit, but just can’t seem to put the cigarette down, or what if you’re constantly on the road for work, eating out all the time and away from the gym making it impossible to lose the weight? Why put yourself in a specific box… why commit yourself to the possibility of failure? Furthermore, and more importantly, why make one decision on one day that you are committed to accomplishing in one year?
A firm decision sets an expectation and more often than not, an expectation is just a resentment in the making. Read the Rest of This Article »
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