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ARTArticleA Big Dose of ActionI hope you're doing well. I truly do. This means you have taken some deliberate steps, clear or not so clear action, that has led you to doing well today. You'll know, if you've read some of my other articles, that I'm a firm believe in paying close attention to your thoughts. Thoughts can regulate emotion which can change the chemistry of your body. Thoughts are what must come before anything else. When you realize without thought we wouldn't have airplanes, cellphones, computers, priceless artwork or awe-inspiring architecture, I think you'll quickly understand what I mean.ARTArticleA Different Perspective On VictimhoodYou hear it all the time. Someone gets angry and dissatisfied with someone else and the person whom they are upset with is the victim. Here is an important question. Why would someone who is happy and content want to abuse another? It just does not make sense. Let's take some less serious examples and move on to more serious abusive incidents.ARTArticleA Mother’s Secret for Treating Anorexia.A sufferer’s mother is the most important person in helping a daughter or son to beat anorexia. A Mothers connection to her child is a sacred connection. Most mothers can not only see but they can feel what is happening to their child. Nowadays we know that the anorexia lives in the subconscious level of the mind. The subconscious is a level where our feelings and emotions live. It is also a level where people keep their deepest beliefs about themselves and their world. The content of our subconscious mind depends a lot on what our parents put in there.ARTArticleABUSE!! And what would you do??The Grand Jury file on reports filed against Sandusky in the Penn State Sex abuse scandal illustrates some of the most egregious rationalizing (right up there with the Catholic Church's sexual abuse of children) in our country. There are some people involved who attempted to do the right thing and according to the report there are those who simply lied. If you want to educate yourself on minimalizing, rationalizing, doing the right thing, doing the right thing but others sabotaging your report, and not doing the right thing, read the report.ARTArticleAdvice for getting treatment for schizophrenia and understanding the diseaseDo you often feel like you don’t fit in your world? Do you sometimes see or hear things that other people don’t? Do you often feel like you have trouble paying attention and have lost interest in things that you used to enjoy?. Do you sometimes have trouble speaking and getting organized? Do you have memory problems? If you have the first two of these symptoms along with some of the others, you may be suffering from schizophrenia.ARTArticleAn Inspiring Story Of A Pro Athlete Who Overcame An Anxiety DisorderOne glorious day, a small miracle happened. It was at a professional tennis tou ament in Turkey that I was about to play in. I was in the qualifying draw and playing against someone who was ranked much higher than me. He was also bigger, hit the ball harder, played smarter, and was much younger than me. (Yeah, good luck with this one, Dennis!) I knew going into the match that the only way I would have a chance was to hope that he was having a very bad day and get into a mental rut (which he was known to do), so I could string some points and games together.ARTArticleAnarcho-PsychologyOne of my clients, a thirteen year old boy, related to me about his prior time at a residential treatment center.ARTArticleAnorexia : How to Change Wrong Beliefs .Anorexia starts from special beliefs: beliefs about themselves, body image, control and perception of beauty. These beliefs are tightly connected to strong emotions – both negative and positive. These “Beliefs+ Emotions+ action” form the long-term memory in the brain. So, why do these memories get so ingrained in a person’s brain that nothing seems to change them? This happens because these “Beliefs + Emotions+ action” actually change the structure of a person brain.ARTArticleAnxiety Attack First Aid KitIt is rather simple to mistakenly take an anxiety attack for a real heart attack. In fact, most casual observers would not even know the difference between the two if they see it happening right before their eyes. The clear signs of an anxiety attack reflect the commonly known signs of a heart attack, with the differences being only apparent if one knows what to look for. Unfortunately, this close similarity also makes it difficult for people to know what to do in the event that a person experiences one or the other.ARTArticleAre You Sleeping? Is it ADHD, Depression, Anxiety, or a Sleep Disorder?Do you or your child toss and turn at night and experience daytime sleepiness? Have you or your child been diagnosed with ADHD, depression, or anxiety. Fifty percent of children in a recent study that had been diagnosed with ADHD had difficulty sleeping. They felt tired on awakening, had nightmares, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, trouble getting up in the morning, and significant daytime sleepiness. And stimulant medications further impaired their ability to sleep.ARTArticleAthletes and Sports PsychologyWhen the chips are down, the athlete often cannot share his/her inner fears, anxiety and anger issues with the coach or their parents. Now, the athlete has a critical ally...the professional Sports Psychologist (also referred as the professional Sport Psychologist).ARTArticleAttention and Work/Life ProductivityOn average, dealing with distractions and interruptions at work can consume more than two hours out of your whole workday. It’s no different at home. The boundaries between work and life are blurred and technology and our fast-paced lives interfere with our productivity and sense of wellbeing. Unfortunately, most people are unaware of the connection between lack of attention and their work/life productivity ARTArticleBackbone Power"If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything." Gordon A Eadie Why do I need a backbone? I just have my simple little life. I don't aspire to be famous. Hmmm! Everyone's simple little life is going to be given an opportunity to take a stand for something, someone, some passion, some principle, some cause and you want to be ready.ARTArticleBecoming an “Inner Winner” in Your Sales CareerApply the Secrets that Sport Psychologists Use With Elite Athletes to Skyrocket Your Sales Performance By Jack Singer, Ph.D. Matt is a sales manager with a computer software company. His sales people have the responsibilities of generating new business by making “cold calls” and following up on leads from potential customers who respond to inquiries that his company receives.ARTArticleBreaking Up is Hard to Do!!(A simple way to let go with dignity) "The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." Mother Teresa ARTArticleBring Back Our Girls"You must do the things you think you can't do." Eleanor Roosevelt ARTArticleCan Water Therapy Control Feelings Of Panic And Anxiety?Our ancestors kept telling us that we become what we eat; and highlighted the importance of the connection food has over the way we think which ultimately leads to the actions we take. Our diet is extremely important to our happiness as well as to the way we think, to the way we love one another, and so on. In the case of depression and anxiety, there are known and proven diets that can curb high levels of anxiety and depression without the need for any medication. The role of water against anxiety ARTArticleCan You Find Enlightenment in the Trunk of Your Car?I don't know about you, but I hate losing things. Losing things wouldn't be so bad if finding them wasn't such a chore. There's always the chance you'll never find what you were looking for. I was in this exact predicament today. I was at a store purchasing screwdrivers. I know, not the most exciting thing in the world, but it had to be done. I knew what store I was going to because I have their store credit card and also earned rewards to use for the purchase. I just couldn't find the credit card.ARTArticleChange Your Attitude by Tricking Your BrainSometimes it is so hard to get fired up to do what we know we really want to do. We get tired, life makes us weary, and we feel frustrated. So, it’s time to trick yourself. You must tell yourself thoughts that you may not even believe. You must put pictures into your mind to trick your brain and change your attitude. Let me explain. It can be really hard to stay on your chosen path sometimes.ARTArticleConsistently Outperform Your SalesAdd Sales TRIUMPHS Model to Your Selling Skills Repertoire ARTArticleCreate an Environment That Fosters Mental and Physical HealthYour environment and your behavior affect how you feel physically and emotionally. For example, if you are in a stressful environment at work and at home, you feel anger and anxiety which can make you prone to heart attack and any disease epidemic that there is. Whether it's the flu, a stomach virus, or just the common cold, getting anxious and angry makes it worse. The best thing is to see if there is anything you can change at work or home, and change how you respond to it.ARTArticleDenial- Take a Whack at Yours Today!" You will never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore." Christopher Columbus Denial is a mechanism we use consciously or unconsciously to alter reality, usually to pretend it is better than it is. We don't want to see aspects of life for which we have no solution or we don't like the solution.ARTArticleDiscovery of The MindNot even the greatest inventors and discoverers of all time really “discovered” or “invented” anything, they just became aware of a concept, or a possibility that was there all along. The Earth did not become round, when we discovered it was not flat. The Sun was the Sun long before humans became aware of and started to contemplate the great big yellow object in the sky. We do not need to re-discover what “everyone knows”; things and concepts that are part of common knowledge.ARTArticleDomestic Abuse"Never make yourself feel like nothing, to make someone else feel like everything!" Rationalizing has to be prevalent when there is Domestic Abuse because how else could you convince yourself to stay. First you have to recognize that you are being emotionally, physically and or sexually abused.ARTArticleDRAMA“Being honest may not get you a lot of friends and it will get you the right ones.” We all have been there! Maybe you had a friend or you know someone now who is in a big DRAMA! The situation keeps getting worse and you can’t believe the stories… affairs, lying, addictions, bills not paid, bullying and on and on. I am not referring to illness, accidents, natural disasters; I am referring to things that can happen to us when we don’t have a Backbone.ARTArticleEveryone Of Us Has The Anxiety Guy Inside Ready To Come Out26.2% Yep, you're not alone in North America or throughout the world if you are currently going through a condition called anxiety disorder. To put things in perspective for you 26.2% of people in America older then the age of 18 (1 in 4) are suffering from some sort of mental disorder, so to tell you the truth The Anxiety Guy was created mainly out of frustration. I'm No Superman That's For Sure, But I Do Know What Works And What Doesn't When It Comes To Anxiety...ARTArticleEvolution of the MindWe do not have a brain: according to Maclean, who first proposed the model of the triune brain, we have three brains, the Reptilian, the Mammalian and the Thinking Brain, stacked on top of each other in the order they have evolved. The oldest and the most primitive of the brains, the reptile brain remains basically unchanged since it first appeared in reptiles. It’s main “concern” is to keep our body alive and reproduce. It does not “think”, it does not have emotions, it only “acts in a cold and uncalculated way.ARTArticleFamily Co-dependence Stifles growth and developmentDriving home from his last landscape design consult, thirty-three year old Craig’s stomach was in knots wondering if Sophie would have gotten over the row she had with her mother the other day. He felt bad for his wife who had tried and failed to arrange a family dinner, taking out her frustration on him. His temples began throbbing and his breathing became quick and shallow as he felt the overbearing sense of heaviness that came over him when he approached his front door.ARTArticleFamily co-dependency: the difference between supporting and rescuing a loved oneTrudy a twenty-nine year old local newspaper reporter and Max a thirty-three year old limousine company owner had endless fights about who was doing the lion’s share of parenting their two children. They argued about what to do, how to do it, when to do it and who should take the blame when things went wrong. Trudy’s sister Sophie got mad at Max when she saw her sister miserable and at a loss. Sophie rescued Trudy countless times, and usually felt heroic in the process.ARTArticleFamily Codependency part 3 - five more steps a couple can take to support rather than resuce each otherDespite the relief that Craig felt when his wife Sophie did his bookkeeping for his landscape business he was frequently choked with shame. The conflict made him snappy and uninterested in spending leisure time with her. He dreaded going to bed at night because he didn’t want to face his impotence when he forced himself to try and make love to her. He was trapped in a cycle of neediness, shame and anger at the very person whom he relied upon to keep his business afloat.r

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