by Soni Pitts…
“Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor.”
–Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa), SANTEE SIOUX
This intriguing quote landed in my inbox the other day and brought up some interesting thoughts…we all know that we’re supposed to give without strings attached and without desiring thanks. And yet it’s human nature to Read More→
by Tama J. Kieves…
Do you want to discover your true life’s purpose? More ease? Maybe even more money? I have one simple answer, so simple you’ll push it away thinking that it could never work. Here it is:
Stop judging yourself. That’s it. End of story.
Oh, you have questions? Of course, just like me. Read More→
by Sean M Kelly…
“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not be false to any man.” William Shakespeare
I sat alone having my breakfast at my mother’s, and turned on the television. There was a group of academics discussing a story by Tolstoy entitled, The Death of Ivan Ilych. I had never heard of it before. It tells the story of a man, Ivan, who, during his life succumbs to the ‘hypnosis of social conditioning’ and lives a life that everyone else expects him to live. As his life is coming to an end with terminal illness he begins to question how he has lived. He asks himself, ‘What if in reality my whole life has been wrong?’. He wonders if he was ever true to himself. The only time he remembers being true was when he was a child. Read More→
An affirmation is a statement that is being declared as something to be true as defined in the dictionary. So how come so many affirmations do not work?
The problem with affirmations does not lie within the affirmation. An affirmation MUST click with you. It must resonate with you. It must feel true even if your circumstances are far from what you are declaring.
When something is highly emotionally charged, the cells in our bodies record that information. We form neural pathways in our brain (like files in a computer) that keep track of the emotional charge of the experience. It becomes a true experience for us. Read More→
by Tracy Latz, M.D. & Marion Ross, Ph.D…
This is an excerpt from the BBC News Health article on Friday, July 3, 2009 titled “Self-help ‘makes you feel worse’” based on findings in a study appearing in the journal Psychological Science:
“ Repeating positive self-statements may benefit certain people, such as individuals with high self-esteem, but backfire for the very people who need them the most. ” Joanne Wood University of Waterloo
The Association for Psychological Science issued a press release on July 2, 2009 titled “The Problem with Self-Help Books: Study shows the negative side to positive self-statements” Read More→
