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It is a truism:  If you do not respect yourself, nobody will. Stated differently, if you don’t love yourself, how are you going to get anybody to love you? You — and you alone — provide the model for how others treat you.

So here are is one key way to learn to love yourself:

Embrace your past. Certainly, you’ve had a heartbreaks in your past. However, whatever is in the past, it is important to leave it in the past. The past is past.  There is little that you can do to change it.

Allow yourself to learn that the past has made you the person that you are today. Rather than regretting the past, endeavor to learn from what has occurred in your past.

When it comes to change, be clear with yourself.  While you cannot change what has occurred in the past, what you CAN change is the present — the here and now.

ATTENTION:  Exciting new course on Udemy — “The Financial Relief Mindset:  Rich or Poor — YOUR Choice!”

Have you been plagued by Financial doubts and fears?  Are you looking for a Workable Solution?

Look no further!  This course describes the requisite Mindset for creating Financial ease.  It discusses the differences in the attitudes, ideas and actions that comprise an Abundance Mindset from the attitudes, ideas and actions that make up a poverty Mindset.

Sound too simple?  Then, read on …

This course presents information on the Stress and dis-ease that arise when Financial pressures are active … and provides practical, workable solutions for how to relieve that stress.  PLUS this course provides simple, straight-forward techniques for creating a Positive Mindset of Abundance.

“The Financial Relief Mindset:  Rich or Poor — YOUR Choice!” is presented in a variety of formats.  These include video, audio, quizzes, workbooks, inventories, textbook, and other written resources.  Because it is an interactive experience, this course will take as long as YOU dedicate to working with your mind and changing your scripts.  That being said, viewing the materials should take 1-2 hours.  It is the hope of this instructor that your USE of these materials — you applying them actively in your life — will span your lifetime!

Why take this course?

You would want to take this course Read more

We have discussed ways to begin to become aware of Negative Thinking.  This is a prelude to CHANGING the Negative Thoughts to that ever-more-productive way of thinking — namely, Positive Thoughts!

TAKE CONTROL, ACHIEVE MORE!

Once you have started to be aware of your Negative Thoughts, you can begin to see how your subconscious mind — the deep part of your mind, which creates that which you are thinking — has been operating in your life.  Incredible, isn’t it?

That’s right — even without you realizing it — your subconscious mind has been hard at work, creating outcomes in your life.  Now that you recognize this … can you start to see the possibilities?

Once you can appreciate the amazing creative power of Read more

Here are some of the characteristics of your Subconscious Mind:

1. your subconscious mind functions by its very nature to create what it is told, and
2. your subconscious mind does not care what it creates — it just creates what you have commanded through your thoughts.

This being the case, do you want to waste energy on it creating in directions counterproductive to your goals? Of course you DON’T! So, you might be asking, “What can I do?” …

AWARENESS OF THOUGHTS:

You can begin to be aware of the thoughts in your mind. Now, that might sound weird to you! You might be saying to yourself, “Hey, they’re my thoughts. I KNOW what I am thinking!” Do you?

HABITUAL NEGATIVE THOUGHTS:

If you are like most people, many of your thoughts pop into your mind, unbidden. Many of your thoughts are reflections of things that others have said to you about you. Many of your thoughts are based on past — possibly no-longer-relevant — habit! The problem with this is that those unbidden habits might be directing your subconscious mind in OTHER Read more

Would like to better understand yourself and what has been keeping you “down”? … with the idea of bounding back up?  Read on …

• Have you been glum?
• Are you unhappy with yourself and your mood?
• Are you interested in developing a more-positive attitude?

A Positive Attitude is a prerequisite to creating positive outcomes in your life. Positive attitude serves as a springboard to positive thought. To say this in a different way, positive thoughts spring naturally from a positive attitude.

Your subconscious mind – the deep part of your mind – uses your thoughts as the commands from which it creates your life. The words that you say to yourself – the ideas that you think – make up the orders that direct your subconscious mind in what to create your life to be. When your thoughts are positive, the creations of your subconscious mind are also positive.

So, if your attitude is positive and your resultant thoughts are positive, the outcomes that you experience in your life – as created by your subconscious mind – are also positive! You can Read more

One of the new modalities for Distance Counseling and Distance Psychotherapy is phone therapy.  Those who have used phone therapy — client and therapist, alike — report that it is convenient, time-saving (no to-the-office commute), AND effective!

According to University of Cambridge researchers, phone therapy might be even-more effective than face-to-face treatment.  These clinical experimenters compared the outcomes of more than 39,000 British adults, suffering from anxiety disorder and from moderate-to-mild depression.  These were all adults who had been treated through England’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies program.  This program is a national initiative whose purpose is to allow more people access to non-medical, low-intensity therapies.

Findings were different Read more

Researchers from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, have released findings from their 3-year study.  Over the 3-year duration of the study, the Researchers found that those who participated in more physical-activity experienced less brain shrinkage than did those study subjects who exercised less.  The brain-size variation was documented by MRI scanning.

Those in charge of the study examined MRI scans and records of 638 older adults.  Researchers also inquired of the subjects about other routine behaviors.  These were recorded and included as data for this study:

•  exercise habits
•  engaging in social activities
•  participation in mentally-stimulating activities

Study findings indicated the importance of consistent, persistent exercise.  This research demonstrated that regular exercise may be better than social or mental activities for protecting older adults from having their brain shrink as an effect of age.

New data on the dangers of tobacco has been released.  Perhaps you do not use tobacco … Good for You!  You are acting positively toward creating Good Health for yourself!

Possibly, you know someone who does use tobacco.  Or, perhaps, you love someone who uses tobacco.  In either of these cases, here are some facts that you might elect to share … it could mean the difference between Life and Death.

In the US, cigarette smoking is the most common form of tobacco use — about 45 million adults currently smoke cigarettes.  According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) Morbidity and Morality Weekly Report, 9/10/10, about 22% of men and 17% of women were smokers in 2010.  Almost 80% of these people smoke daily.

The American Cancer Society reports that education is linked to smoking rates, with lower smoking rates in groups with higher levels of education. More people smoke in the Midwest (22%) and South (21.0%), and fewer smoke in the West (16%).  Further, according to the American Cancer Society, cigarette smoking has decreased among adults in the United States from about 42% of the population in 1965 to about 19% in 2010 (the latest year for which numbers are available).

Tobacco use does not end with cigarettes; other forms of tobacco use are common. In 2010, a survey by the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration found that 8.9 million people used spit or smokeless tobacco. The same survey reported Read more

Dr. Lee Berk, a preventive care specialist and psychoneuroimmunologist, of Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, CA, paired with Stanley Tan, MD, PhD an endocrinologist and diabetes specialist at Oak Crest Health Research Institute, Loma Linda, CA.  These doctors and their colleagues examined the effect of “mirthful laughter” on individuals with diabetes.

Diabetes is a metabolic illness characterized by the risk of blindness, heart attack, and other blood vessel, neurological, immune-system complications. These researchers used mirthful laughter, as a preventive adjunct therapy in diabetes care.  They found that mirthful laughter raised good cholesterol and lowered inflammation.

The Study

Twenty high-risk diabetic patients with hypertension and hyperlipidemia were divided into two groups — Group C was the control group; while Group L was the laughter group.  Both groups were started on standard medications for diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia. Groups were followed for 12 months.  Both Groups received standard therapies.  In addition, Group L viewed self-selected humor for 30 Read more

Almost thirty-three years has passed since the time that Norman Cousins popularized his findings on the healing which can be effected by laughter.  Since that time , solid research has been performed that demonstrates just how laughter triggers healthy physical changes in the body.

Dr. Lee S. Berk is a psychoneuroimmunology researcher and preventive care specialist at Loma Linda University’s Schools of Allied Health (SAHP) and Medicine and the director of the molecular research lab at SAHP, Loma Linda, CA.  He has conducted research with Dr. Stanley Tan since the 1980s.  Together, they have studied the human body’s response to a positive-stress reaction, which they termed “mirthful laughter”.

Dr. Berk, Dr. Tan and their colleagues experimented with repetitious “mirthful laughter,” which they call Laughercise©.  The studies of conducted by these researchers have shown that repetitious “mirthful laughtermcauses the body to respond in a way similar to moderate physical exercise. Laughercise© Read more

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