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Please confine your submission or search to: psychological topics how and whyreaders can improve their own outlooks and how to understand people in general.Publications treating spiritual development appear in the Astrology,Metaphysical & New Age section, as well as in Religion. Markets forholistic mind/body healing strategies are listed in Health & Fitnesssection. (2147 Editors)
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Abundant Practices
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| on 2010/6/30 16:20:00 (87 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com) --- Creating daily practices for success is always a big focus when I first begin working with a client. The trick is to make sure that the stuff you say you want to practice is a "want to" not a "have to". The practices that most people want to focus on have to do with exercising, eating, action steps to take while working, cleaning, reading and bookkeeping. I'd like to suggest that you also have practices that support you in feeling and acting abundant. Not just abundant with money but to also know that your world is bursting with abundance of all good things.
If you feel a shortage of time, daily practices for you might be: 1. Reading a fun book for 15 minutes 2. Blocking out time for special projects you've been meaning to do 3. Before you get up in the morning intend for time to feel expansive
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Personal Development: The Herd is Dangerous
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| on 2010/6/29 17:40:00 (90 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com) --- Have you the guts to be different? Have the guts to stand out from the crowd, to stand apart from your own little herd? Have you what it takes to set yourself apart from all the sad, pathetic people that you hang out with? Yes, normal people are sad and pathetic - and most of us are normal. Seventy years psychological research proves that normal people are crazy, that the normal mind is out of control, preferring to take its instructions - that dictate our behaviour, reactions and our lives - from key events in our formative childhood years, rather than actually taking real action - the only kind of action that will achieve real and exciting results.
Unfortunately, however, you're probably afraid to be different, you're probably afraid of what people will think of you. I've met many people over the years who have told me that they couldn't be super-successful because they'd be afraid of losing their friends. More often than not, the very same people, years later, have come back to me to tell me that they feel liberated by the fact that they no longer hang out with some of their old acquaintances! It turns out that normal people hang around with other normal people as part of some bizarre support mechanism - normal people like to form their own little victim support groups!
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : 3 Powerful Goal Setting Strategies That Will Help You in Your Life By Shawn Lim
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| on 2010/6/24 18:20:00 (412 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com) --- Do you believe in goal setting? Do you set any goal in your life? If you do, this is the perfect article that you cannot miss. What you are going to discover here is going to change the approach you set your goals and live your life forever. Goal setting is not something difficult, the difficult part is what you do after you have set your goals. Most people do not do anything after they set their goals. They thought that setting goal is like a magic wand and things will happen automatically. The truth is that it is not. You need to do something to make your goals come true. So here are the 3 powerful strategies that you can use to help you achieve your goals...
1. Tell at least 10 people about your goals and what you need to do to achieve them. The key in doing this is to put yourself on the line so that you will have no other option but to go all out to achieve your goals. Whenever you make a public commitment, you are telling your brain that you are serious about achieving your goals. You will do whatever it takes to achieve what you want.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Presentation Success: How You Can Own the Room by: George Torok
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| on 2010/6/20 18:20:00 (113 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com) --- A successful presentation starts with the presenter owning the room. When you know and own the room, you will be a more powerful and confident presenter. That leads to more successful presentations for you.
Consider this While strolling in your neighborhood you will feel more comfortable and confident than in a strange town. A sports team usually feels stronger when playing at home. Delivering a presentation is certainly a competitive sport. Why not do it on your home turf? As a presenter, how do you own the room? "Owning the room" is a feeling that you can generate within yourself by knowing the room. How do you know the room?
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Psychic Wisdom: Positive Readings of the Oracle by Jim Cassa
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| on 2010/6/14 6:20:00 (97 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com) --- Psychic Oracle Psychics can often give insight and clarity on how to stay positive.It a bit like having your own personal oracle. We live in changing times and new energy is coming through to the planet. This brings massive changes to the energy of the earth and to the well being of individuals. This energy shift is fascinating to watch. It makes the dark energy more black and the good energy a much lighter shade of white.
Feel Good Readings Asking a psychic questions can often be a good feeling. You have something you wish to say and want to express your thoughts out loud for some guidance and clarity on your issues. Your questions have meaning to them. They represent your internal energy and you have a right to have all your questions answered by a professional psychic.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : How Important Is The Power Of Your Thoughts
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| on 2010/6/8 20:20:00 (107 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com) --- Throughout the ages mankind has attempted to control his world around him by many different means. In the physical world we have invented all kinds of ways to make our lives better. If you believe the bible then in the beginning everything was perfect, mankind was in need of nothing. God took care of everything, He provided food and not much else because there was no need for much else. Mankind did not even need clothes. Can you imagine that, everybody going around totally naked! Anyway if we are to believe the bible, and I do by the way , I am a Christian, mankind began to look out for themselves after the story of thru fist sin. The first item they made was clothes. Thereafter we have been constantly inventing and making anything that will make life easier for ourselves, from houses to cars, boats, airplanes, microwave etc, etc. Look around you, with every glance of the eye you will see something that mankind has made in an attempt to better out lives. That is unless you are in the middle of some untouched part of the world where man has yet to disturb and even then you are probably not naked. We must admit that as far as material things go we have come a long way. The question is, with all that we have done materially to make life better, why is it that so many people are unhappy, feel that they are not loved, many do not see any purpose in life and tragically some reach the point of ending it all in suicide. This is the question, why?
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Life After a Catastrophic Injury Involving a Semi Tractor-Trailer
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| on 2010/6/5 14:20:00 (102 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com) --- The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reported that 4,229 people died and 90,000 people were injured in traffic crashes involving large trucks in 2008. The fatality statistic accounts for 11 percent of all traffic fatalities in 2008, although large trucks made up only four percent of all registered vehicles. These comparisons show that collisions involving large trucks are much more likely to be fatal and to cause serious, catastrophic injuries to vehicle drivers and their passengers.
While the number of large commercial vehicles involved in fatal and serious injury crashes has fallen over the last decade, according to data from NHTSA, they are still happening and almost always result in catastrophic injuries to the passengers in the other vehicles. But for those victims that do survive catastrophic truck wrecks, the decline in numbers is meaningless. Their lives - after a wreck or a collision with a large tractor truck - are irrevocably changed.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Brain Hurricane Teaches Students To Be Competitive
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| on 2010/5/10 20:00:00 (135 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com)--- Students who are studying from Kindergarten to eighth grade can enjoy the simple and easy ways of learning offered by Brain Hurricane. Created by Reed Howard, a teacher with 35 years of experience in teaching, this program makes learning fun through its innovative and informative teaching methods. These teaching methods help the students to learn their lessons in a better manner and also reduce the stress of cramming on them. It teaches the students teamwork, individual critical thinking skills, creativity and a positive approach to deal with real life problems as well.
Brain Hurricane is popular with students as it includes several movement activities like Multiplication Basketball and Spelling Jump Rope. These activities are performed at the beginning of each day and help in invigorating the sleeping minds of students and making them attentive in the class. Similarly, at the end of each day, certain competitions are held and skits based on lessons learnt are performed by the students which help them in recalling what they have learnt in the whole day. To help the students in understanding the value of team spirit, the students are divided into teams. Another thing that students experience by working in teams is an increased competitive behavior as they are required to perform better than the rest of the teams in order to win.
A Survey was conducted by Brain Hurricane in 2008-2009 which included 253 parents of students who studied in Chicago Public School System. According to this survey, 68.7% of the parents accepted that the tutoring program is liked by their children, 72.2% parents appreciated this program and showed keen interest in signing up their child for this program again. 75% students said that they like the instructors at Brain Hurricane.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Sanctuary of the Mind: an Integrated Approach to Psychic Reading is the Latest in Psychic Development
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| on 2010/5/7 21:20:00 (162 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com)--- Rhiannon Paille, a world renowned Metaphysical Therapist from Canada has discovered the formula for brilliant psychic readings. That formula is the focus of her book, “Sanctuary of the Mind: An Integrated Approach to Psychic Reading.” As a leading Metaphysician she has helped hundreds of people find their way to clarity through her methods of work. She is by far a “Psychic” that is above the standard, and she owes her success to the simple approach she found four years ago. “Integrated Psychic Reading is a process that breaks down the elements of psychic reading to their small parts and puts them into perspective. The student is taught not only how to awaken their intuition, but what their intuition can accomplish in the real world, how to use it to help people.” – Rhiannon Paille.
The book is divided into three parts which train the student on an inner level, an outer level and then combines the inner and outer to create coherence and structure. Along with the lessons in the book, Rhiannon Paille is candid about her life experiences, both good and bad, that have shaped her lessons and her perspectives on Psychic Reading. “This book is no holds barred. Rhiannon isn’t afraid to talk about things like negative feedback, mistakes, or embarrassing situations. She lays it all out there for the reader to truly understand what it means to be a Psychic Reader.” – Kimberly Grahn, Pennsylvania.
Available now through www.lulu.com, Sanctuary of the Mind: An Integrated Approach to Psychic Reading is a must have for anyone on the path to spiritual awakening.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : The Kamlak Center's Dr. Betty J. Kovacs Will Present "What's Death Got To Do With It?" at Joshua Tree Retreat Center on Saturday, May 15, 2010
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| on 2010/5/7 17:20:00 (152 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com)--- Fear of death limits the mind’s ability to think, to perceive and to experience beyond the physical world. Our survival depends on knowing for ourselves what the Mystics have been saying for centuries. This presentation will help you to kick the habit of living in one square inch of reality.
Dr. Kovacs has spent decades researching how the understanding of death has influenced the development of our consciousness. In this presentation she will share her experiences surrounding the multiple deaths in her family as well as new scientific insights that support the survival of consciousness.
- Experiences of the mystery of death and new discoveries in science are allowing people all over the planet to embrace a new understanding of Death--and Life. - Our understanding of death influences the development of our consciousness and shapes our worldview. - Our healing depends upon restoring the mind’s wholeness by honoring both dimensions of consciousness: the rational, conceptual mind and the dreaming, visionary, intuitive mind. - Dreams, visions and after-death communications heal and transform our lives. - Aging can open us to spirit and prepare us for birth into another dimension. - Death can teach us to live life more fully. - Our growth and survival depend upon a deeper understanding of the mystery of Death.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : How DISH Network Can Help You Gain Knowledge
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| on 2010/5/6 15:40:00 (100 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com)--- If you are a person who loves to know about a wide array of things, then you are sure to have a great time with DISH Network. The satellite TV provider brings you a wide variety of TV channels. These TV channels bring you some of the best quality educative programs that can open a whole new window to knowledge. If you have a thirst for knowledge about any specific subject like art, science, geography, history or wildlife, you are sure to get a wide variety of programs to satisfy your needs with DISH TV. There are a great number of popular satellite TV channels that bring you specific knowledge on a variety of subjects. You can gain knowledge on any topic just by watching these channels.
Wildlife You can respond to the call of the wild with the wildlife related shows shown on different channels. You can get to see a wide variety of wildlife programming on DISH Network. The channels that offer you high quality wildlife programs include National Geographic Wild and Animal Planet. These channels are also available in high definition mode. With the HD channels you can watch the amazing and rare moments straight from the jungles right inside your living room with life-like clarity.
Countries and Culture Are you a traveler at heart? Get to see some of the most exotic places, meet people belonging to different culture and enrich yourself with the travel programs on DISH TV. The programs are featured on a number of channels including National Geographic and the Travel Channel. These channels bring you the best of travel related programs and take you to the most amazing places that you can never see with the naked eyes.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Just Don't Do It
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| on 2010/4/27 13:40:00 (104 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com)--- Sometimes, it feels good to be a nomad. Nomadic in the sense that when you feel you don’t want your job anymore, you’d call the local movers in springdale arkansas and move on. The hippies did it for some time in the 70s, why can’t we? Of course, this is an excuse for taking social responsibilities and contributing to a more stable self. But just the idea of going everywhere and anywhere with the help of movers in Arkansas just gives that feeling of more freedom. Freedom comes with limitations and accountabilities. With regulations, freedom becomes lawless and anarchistic. But what about just doing the things that we want? Most of us get burnout once or twice. There maybe tips and tricks to overcome that “I’m-through” attitude. Sometimes, however, it’s good to completely let go by saying “I quit” then calling an arkansas moving company for a speedy arkansas packing business.
Surely moving your heavy-duty equipment may frustrate you. You better call piano movers in Springdale, Arkansas for that. To escape that another responsibility, just let go of it. Let it be. You don’t have to move your things always. The main point here is you moving, traveling, and living. We always complain how our bosses give us a hard day, how the bills mess our budget, and how we have to save for the future. Well, just say no. Just say no to your boss, let the bills be, and spend your savings. When was the last time you went to a spa? Or flew to Singapore? Moreover, when was the last time you saw yourself in the mirror without a stress at the back of your mind?
Spend your money. Travel and get crazy. It’s for your sanity’s sake. Go out with your family. If you still have small kids, congratulations, you will make their days. If you got working kids, good luck. If you are alone, the better, right? People put so much time and effort on things they don’t want nor like to do. They need to support themselves today and their futures. Well, don’t work too hard just to save money for the hospital bills or morgue. Don’t deprive yourself from good healthy food while eating preservative-added instant food every mealtime. Waste your money on yourself. We are living in a world where human power is a demand being exhausted. We see the flow of money rolling everywhere. We are afraid of spending money to satisfy our materialistic needs. We fear that actions today will have grave consequences tomorrow. We always think that when we do better in our jobs, we will get promoted and have lots of money to spend. Only then we will be able to be satisfied.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : How to Confront an Office Bully
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| on 2010/4/24 14:10:00 (176 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com)--- The tragic story of Phoebe Prince's suicide after relentless bullying and mobbing by teenagers at her high school in South Hadley, Massachusetts, is capturing international media attention. Nine students have now been indicted in this case. However, until all the media scrutiny, the bullies suffered seemingly no consequences. Many peers and teachers were aware of what was happening, but only a few reported this behavior to school authorities, including Phoebe's mother. Nothing was done until it was too late. In a similar situation in 2008, 31-year-old Jodie Zebell from Wisconsin committed suicide after enduring months of workplace bullying from her peers and supervisor. Last week, the Wisconsin legislature listened to her story and others as the Healthy Workplace Bill was introduced.
Gary Namie and Ruth Namie in their book The Bully at Work describe how bullies thrive on secrecy, shame, and the silence of others. The authors' Labor Day 2008 Survey (of which 95% of the 400 respondents had been targets of bullying) revealed that 95% of the target's co-workers of any rank — peers or managers — witnessed the mistreatment at least once. Yet 53% of the employers did nothing to stop the mistreatment when reported. In fact, in 71% of the cases, employers actually retaliated against the person who reported being bullied. The authors provide many reasons for "Witness Paralysis" including a natural human aversion to risk, Groupthink, rationalization, and blaming the victim.
Bullies are hugely expensive for corporations in terms of lost dollars, productivity, employee retention and wellness. The research strongly suggests that the only way to get organizations to take this issue seriously, particularly in competitive environments where bullying behavior is implicitly rewarded, is if it impacts their bottom line. It will be immensely more expensive once the Healthy Workplace Bill — which has now been introduced into 17 states — is actually passed. Bullying can't survive in workplaces that won't support it. Intervention by management is a powerful weapon to reducing bullying in the workplace. Most targets can't win alone — most bullies will never stop. It's a complex issue, and intervention often carries consequences. But there are situations where it's worth the risk, personally and professionally.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Don't Get Distracted by Your Plan
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| on 2010/4/22 8:50:00 (131 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com)--- Wait a minute, I thought, as I looked up from the trail we had been hiking for several hours. Where are we? I knew I was lost. Unfortunately, I wasn't alone. I was leading a thirty-day wilderness expedition for the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS). Which, in this case, meant there were eight 16- to 24-year-old students following me. For most of an expedition, NOLS groups travel off trail. We use topographic maps that reflect the physical features of an area — mountains, streams, valleys, ridges — and we navigate through the wilderness by comparing what we see around us with what's on the map. Each morning we agree on our goal — where we plan to camp at the end of the day — and then choose a rough path through the wilderness. We know the general direction we're moving and maintain our course by paying attention to the environment — keep that mountain to the left, that small river to the right, and that craggy peak in front.
Every once in a while there happens to be a trail that travels in the same direction we're traveling so we follow it. It makes for easy walking. But a dangerous thing happens when we follow a trail: we stop paying attention to the environment. Since the trail is so easy to follow, we allow our minds to wander and neglect to observe where we are. Then we forge ahead, moving with speed and purpose, right to the point where we look up and realize, like I did that day, that the environment around us is no longer recognizable. Our focus blinded us. This is not just a hiking thing. In business and in life we set all kinds of goals — build a company, meet sales objectives, be a supportive manager — and then we define a strategy for achieving that goal. The goal is the destination; the strategy is our trail to get there.
Only sometimes we get so absorbed in the trail — in how we're going to achieve the goal, in our method or process — that we lose sight of the destination, of where we were going in the first place. And we walk right by the opportunities that would have propelled us forward toward our planned destination. Which is what happened to Sammy, a religious man, who was caught in his house during a flood. He climbed up to his roof and prayed, asking God to save him. Sammy saw a wood plank in the water and let it float by. "God will rescue me," he said to himself. After some time, a man came by in a boat and offered him a lift but Sammy declined. "God will rescue me," he told the man. The water continued to rise; it was up to his neck when a helicopter flew overhead. Sammy waved it off saying "God will rescue me." Finally, Sammy drowned.
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Self-Improvement & Psychology : Regulators' Challenge: Correct the Error or the Cover-up?
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| on 2010/4/21 10:50:00 (108 reads) |
(SkyNewswire.com)--- The outrage over the Upper Branch Mine Disaster in West Virginia is profound even almost two weeks after the horrific event. One of the first instincts driven by outrage is to clamp down more tightly — more rules, greater punishment — so this won't happen again. The reaction is utterly understandable. One needs to look no further than the families and loved ones of the 29 miners to leap in that direction. But as much as the outrage is legitimate and the desire to clamp down is understandable, clamping down harder will not necessarily reduce the probability of another such disaster. To understand why, we need to understand why disasters happen. Because the facts are not yet clear in the Upper Branch disaster — and there is undoubtedly litigation to follow — I will use other examples to illustrate. Disasters can happen for two entirely different reasons: error and cover up of error.
Twenty five years ago, I witnessed a disaster of the first type. I was picking up my rental car at the Hertz lot at Detroit Metro Airport when a Northwest Airlines jet crashed a couple hundred yards from me killing everybody aboard except a baby strapped into a car seat that miraculously survived probably because it was oblivious to the crash. After an extensive investigation of the crash, it was determined that the crash was a direct result of pilot error. The pilots failed to extend the wing flaps for take-off. This guarantees a crash in a full plane with a full load of luggage, which was the situation for this ill-fated flight. In this case, the crew and passengers died directly because of error. Interestingly, there was also cover up of error. Numerous pilots testified at the safety hearing that they saw the plane take off with the wing flaps fully extended. They were attempting to cover up for their fellow (late) pilot friends. Unfortunately for their credibility, the wings at the crash site did not have the flaps extended, nor did the black box show that the flaps were ever activated. But in this case, cover up had no negative impact on the passengers and crew; error was the problem.
Contrast this with another disaster, an e-coli outbreak in the water system of a small Ontario town about a decade ago that killed seven people and sickened hundreds more, some of whom will live with terrible side-effects for the rest of their lives. The reason that the seven died is that a chlorinator in the town's central water system failed and the general manager of the public water utility knew that the chlorinator had failed. Tragically, not only did he do nothing about it, he both falsified the water readings coming out of the failed chlorinator and when questioned early in the disaster by the Medical Officer of Health, denied that there was any problem in the water system. Had the general manager phoned the Medical Officer of Health the minute the chlorinator failed, the Officer would have gone door to door in the town to issue a boiled water warning and nobody would have died or been sickened. So in this case, error (break down of the chlorinator) was not the problem: cover up of the error was the killer.
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