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Dealing with depression can make people feel like their world is ending. Taking medications may be something you prefer not to do.

Tips to Reduce Depression:

Avoid consuming too many products with artificial sweeteners when trying to overcome depression. Artificial sweeteners can cause insomnia and headaches, which are two things that depression itself causes. In addition, they block serotonin from being produced. It is important to remove these items from your diet, and avoid consuming them.

You can start to overcome your depression by deciding to help others. When you lend others a hand, your mind is so occupied with positive thoughts of how you can support them that you don’t have time to dwell on negative thoughts, feelings, or emotions.

TIP! Keeping up a consistent exercise routine can be a great way to offset depression in your life. Exercise and activity is a proven way to deal with the effects of depression.

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Stay in the present.  To better enhance you relationship, focus on what is happening right now.  Stop bringing up the past!

Once you have discussed a problem and resolved it, exercise care to leave it in the past.  Resolve with your partner to not bring it up again.

If it happens again, obviously, you must discuss it again. If the same problem keeps coming up over and over, this means one of two things —
* either it really was never resolved or
* one of you did not keep your prior agreement

Keeping agreements is one of the most important factors in good communication. In this case you might want to try an “I” statement such as, “1 feel disrespected (disappointed, disregarded, etc.) when you don’t keep your agreements. Let’s figure out what we can do to resolve this so it doesn’t keep coming up.” If your mate is unable or unwilling to keep his/her agreements, relationship counseling or coaching would be very helpful.

To learn more about relationship mistakes … and how to handle them, click here or go to http://thelifecoachdr.com/magazine_3.pdf

For relationship success, it is extremely important to be straight-forward and honest about who you are, what you want, and what you expect. You need to be able to let your mate know what your needs, desires, thoughts, and feelings are. Dishonesty — and lack of disclosure — is a huge mistake.  For creating a healthy, long-lasting relationship, dishonesty is not OK.

Masking your desires is not being considerate.  Be careful not to confuse yourself about this.  Your partner cannot work with you on accomplishing your desires and sensitivity to your feelings if s/he does not know what those desires and feelings are.

One reason it is important for you to be clear and honest is that it gives both of you an opportunity to assess whether or not you are going to be a good match. You need to know this as soon as possible. Another reason it is important to be honest and clear with your partner is that people respect bold, honest, straight talk.

At the same time, exercise care not to go on and on explaining why you want what you want. Keep it light and simple.

Also, when you are not being direct and Read more

The New Year has just begun.  Let’s say that one of your New Years resolutions is to improve your primary love relationship.  This is a lofty goal which might encompass any number of different approaches.  What can you do — specifically — to follow through with this resolve?

One of the most beneficial elements you can undertake to better your relationship is to improve communication.  Communication is essential to your relationship’s health and well-being.  Good communication can help deepen the intimacy and loving bonds in your relationship.

To improve communication with your partner, you might choose to do 1 thing each day to better communicate with your partner.

What might you choose to do?

The five key components of good communication are —
1) Stay calm and objective;
2) Listen and understand;
3) Be honest about Read more

For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;

For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gratitude is a state of mind and heart.  What we focus on, expands and increases.  Since this is the case, focusing on giving thanks for the blessings in our lives keeps us in the dual energies of feeling blessed and mindful of abundance.

This is the PERFECT energy for more blessings to occur!

To build on this experience,
* take a few minutes and pay attention to the positive elements in your life
* write down the key positive elements
* allow the feeling of abundance to fill you … and to spill out around you, wrapping you up safely and securely

Gratitude allows you to bring MORE into your life!  Read more

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.”  — Confucius

Consider how much better your life could be if you delighted in arising and getting on your way out the door each morning.  Imagine how much you — and all those around you — might benefit by you being excited about your life.

Here are some tips to use to find your way to PASSION in your daily life:

1. Make a List of What You Love Most:  What do you get really excited about? Is it some element of your job?  Is it volunteer work that allows you to provide service? Is it a hobby that you really love?  Really thing about this … and, then, write of list of each item that you discover.
2. Make Additions to Your List:  What do you fantasize about?  Going back to school? Changing professions? Being a Big Brother/Big Sister? Use these items to add to your list (from #1).
3. Read and Study:  Do some research. Pick the most exciting option from your list and look into it. Talk to some people that are already doing it.
4. Try It Out:  See if it truly “fits” you.  Shadow a professional. Get additional practical experience.
5. Key Question:  “Is this something I would like to do every day?”

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When you leave home each day, do you KNOW what will occur as the day progresses? If you are like most of us, you remain attuned to the workings of your day … then, respond — hopefully, in a beneficial way — to each event that occurs!

The truth is that you do NOT know what will occur around you … at any given moment of the day or night.  What you CAN know — and the script that you are able, and responsible, to write is how you elect to respond to the events that occur.

For example, when you leave your home, you do not know whether the first traffic signal you will reach will be red or green.  Even something that basic is an unknown!

So, why aren’t you FILLED with apprehension and uncertainty as you begin the day?  You aren’t apprehensive because you have an approach- strategy.  You know how you will respond when you get to that first traffic light.  Namely, if the traffic light is red in your direction, you will stop and wait until it turns green.  If the traffic light is green in your direction, you will proceed cautiously through the intersection.

Armed with your strategy, you can easily handle any possible traffic-light eventuality that arises.  There is no dilemma, just a clear Plan of Action!

So, too, with other, not-so- Read more

Peace is one way to help you create happiness in your life. Today’s society does not tend to promote being peaceful as a lifestyle. As soon as you start your day, you face pressure and tension one way or another. This constant bombardment to your psyche robs you of being at peace with yourself and the world.

When you look up the word peace in the dictionary, you will find it to be defined as a state of quiet and calm, freedom from disturbing thoughts, and an agreement to end hostilities. So, since this is the definition of peace, how often do you really have it?

It is logical to presume in order to have peace externally, you have to be at peace internally. Many times, you have emotions and feelings pent up from events and situations that prevent you from feeling a peaceful state. One would have to think that if you are not at peace with yourself or the world, you cannot feel happy. It’s very healthy to be able to release the emotions that prevent you from finding peace in a constructive and even healing manner.

Here is a step to use to begin releasing the common tensions and emotions that can block peace from entering your life:

1. Listen to Yourself —

The first thing is you need to do is listen to yourself. In order to do this you have to get in touch with your feelings. Most of the time we fly off the handle and go ballistic because we don’t consciously acknowledge our anger, rage and resentment.

When you can recognize that you harbor these three things and say it out loud “Yes I am furious because of” (whatever it is) you are beginning to release these feelings. Suppressed anger is consuming and even dangerous once it is released because you are like a time bomb waiting to explode.

2. Accept Responsibility For Your Feelings —

It’s okay for you to say “Yes I am angry; and I am responsible for my feelings now not you”. When you start to take responsibility for your feelings even when they are negative, you are de-powering the source that made you feel that way. For instance, you can say, “ I am not going to put up with the way you talk to me, I don’t like it” as opposed to, “You are making me angry”.

When you start to change your thinking to include the idea that no one can make you do anything against your will then you are taking control of your feelings. This is not an easy step and takes practice. Changing your mindset and taking charge of your feelings Read more

Feeling pleased about life is a choice that we can make each day. We can accept our experiences as they are and look forward to the happiness we receive from whatever is happening in our lives from day to day.

When something in our lives brings us displeasure, we can choose to take the initiative to change the troublesome situation. We can understand that we have a responsibility to ourselves to create a life that brings satisfaction and contentment.

To maintain our upbeat attitude about our experiences, we can write notes about the activities that bring us joy and pledge to put our best efforts into those activities. In addition, we can surround ourselves with people who love us and whom we love.

Only we have the power to choose how we feel each day. We alone hold the key to our own contentment. We are in control of our emotions and our life. We can recognize that we truly deserve to live a life of satisfaction and peace.

Today, we allow ourselves to prioritize our activities and organize our time so we can spend as much time as possible doing what is most important to us. Doing what we enjoy and spending time with those we love most brings us contentment and happiness with life.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1. How can I remind myself to make a conscious choice each day to feel content?
2. Am I willing to create time for the activities I most enjoy? What can I schedule today?
3. How can I regularly seek out friends who bring me support, stability, and peace?

We can put an end to self-doubt through renewed optimism. True belief in our abilities can give us the confidence to conquer fear and spring into action. We can live a life free from regret when we are willing to take risks.

Instead of thinking negatively and talking ourselves out of ideas, we can choose to convince ourselves to embark on new journeys. Fresh challenges can be appealing when we enjoy the thrill of a new adventure more than fearing the unknown.

We can take chances by acting based on our instincts, instead of rationalizing every detail of decisions because sometimes opportunities are inexplicable. The only way we can achieve the unfathomable is by believing it to be possible.

When we combine fervent faith with active determination, the possibilities are endless. We then act because we expect amazing things to result out of our actions. It is that anticipation which propels us to jump into action when others waiver in doubt. We can choose to focus on how something can be done rather than on current constraints.

We can draw a clear line differentiating between what we consider being reckless and taking a calculated risk. Although we might venture beyond our comfort zone to seize opportunities, we can stop short of violating our peace. We can give ourselves time to take up challenges at a manageable pace.

Today, we can choose to lay fear and pride aside and dare to act in an unexpected way. By doing something we have never done before, we can reap results superior to any previous achievement.

Self-Reflection Questions:

1. How can I prevent another opportunity from slipping through my fingers?
2. Why should I focus on future possibilities rather than current constraints?
3. In what area of my life do I need to allow optimism to triumph?

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