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- On Lying in Adolescence - by Several questions submitted recently to my web site, www.parentingadolescents.com, are from parents concerned that their children have lied to them. For
instance, a mother writes in to complain of her 13-year-old's having invited a friend over after school instead of practicing his piano while ...
Views: 2838 - On not being afraid of fear - by Several years, I was listening to a radio talk show hosted by a psychologist. A young woman caller said, "I just got accepted to medical school!"
"Congratulations!" said the host. "That's terrific."
"And," continued the caller, "I'm scared to death."
"Of course you are!" said the host. "Just ...
Views: 1022 - On the heaviness of weight - by Mother goddesses of ancient cultures often are voluptuous figures with pronounced breasts and thighs. A successful nowadays paintress fills her canvasses with sensuous, joyful and overweight ladies, and everyone I’ve showed her pictures becomes happy and starts smiling. To this paintress big ...
Views: 1713 - On The Read to Accelerated Reading - by Another recent entry into the Accelerated Reading field offers quite an intriguing approach. Tested with dramatic results at the US Air Force Academy and taught in 10 countries worldwide, Ed Strachar, Inventor and facilitator, looks at it from a purely mental perspective.
Ed says reading ...
Views: 1111 - On The Read to Accelerated Reading - by Another recent entry into the Accelerated Reading field offers quite an intriguing approach. Tested with dramatic results at the US Air Force Academy and taught in 10 countries worldwide, Ed Strachar, Inventor and facilitator, looks at it from a purely mental perspective.
Ed says reading ...
Views: 1605 - On the Wings of Joy - by Joy gives us wings! In times of joy our strength is more vital, our intellect keener, and our understanding less clouded. We seem better able to cope with the world and to find our sphere of influence.
· Ábdu'l-Bahá
Linda Popov tells the story of her child opening a Christmas present while the ...
Views: 801 - On Truth and Lies - by ON TRUTH AND RELATIONSHIPS:
The big game of relationships is life. The relationship between ozone and skin cancer, between kindness and wisdom, between a mother and a son, between two lovers, between mass its speed and its gravitational balance. Everything in this universe is based on ...
Views: 2049 - On Writing about Fear - by “These are days full of loss and pain, of suffering and sorrow. But they are not days of waste.” These are the words of the Reverend Leslie D. Weatherhead (The Will of God), spoken in 1944 in the midst of World War II, but they could not be more relevant today, as we go about our daily lives in ...
Views: 2550 - ONE DAY, SOMEDAY, TOMORROW - by How do you change a thought, how do you live into a new thought, how do you embody a new thought? The starting point is waking up to the current thoughts; then consciously making choices about the thoughts we have and creating a new thought pattern, a new habit of thinking. Here's one story:
I ...
Views: 1782 - One Man's Meat is Another Man's Poison - by Hippocrates was an early observer of the importance of food to your health and equated food to medicine. Yes, if you have the right knowledge, food becomes medicine to heal you! However some foods can be toxic to your body, slowly poisoning you even though you may not be aware of what is ...
Views: 912 - One Minute Fitness Coach: Had Enough? - by Have you had enough? Enough of being tired stressed and overweight? Have you had enough of squeezing into your clothes? Have you had enough of being embarrassed about your body? Have you had enough failure with your fitness?
Success in a fitness program is frequently achieved only when there ...
Views: 1057 - One More Day - by Each time we say goodbye there are hand squeezes, smiles and knowing looks. Because each time we say goodbye we know it could be for the last time. We don't talk about it and haven't since that sad day in the hospital after he learned that his throat cancer could not be cured and would soon take ...
Views: 965 - ONE SACRED MOMENT IN TIME AND SPACE - Essay poem - by We have entered this human body for a short, scared moment on Planet Earth.
Each moment is precious At each moment we make choices on how to navigate our soul through time and space.
Our soul seeks to experience love in the human form, in physical reality.
Each choice determines our past, ...
Views: 2870 - One Small Adjustment - by I know that a lot of advice pundits often instruct you to focus on the “big picture”. And it certainly has it place in helping you move toward a better life. But it runs the risk of letting you think that you need to totally redesign your life. And that’s just not true! Often it only takes one ...
Views: 911 - One Step Ahead - by Well, it's that time of year again where we get ready to send our children off to school. I just saw my oldest manchild off to his 3rd year in college. At age 22 he's really a man, but he'll always be my child. So I lovingly refer to him as my "manchild". One thing Bible College has taught him, ...
Views: 686 - One Step Ahead - by Well, it's that time of year again where we get ready to send our children off to school. I just saw my oldest manchild off to his 3rd year in college. At age 22 he's really a man, but he'll always be my child. So I lovingly refer to him as my "manchild". One thing Bible College has taught him, ...
Views: 875 - One Teacher Can Make a Difference - by Our third grade class was listening to our teacher, Miss Pratt. She told us she was disappointed that we were not making the progress she had expected with multiplication tables one through nine. She explained that we really understood the meaning of multiplication but that we had not spent ...
Views: 1637 - One Thought at a Time (More Reflections on September 11) - by I harm or heal myself
One thought at a time.
I discover myself and others
One thought at a time.
I live my life
One thought at a time.
My telephone rings,
I choose a thought.
I choose to choose from among the many positive thoughts.
A connection with the outside world.
A friend. A client. ...
Views: 1059 - ONE WOMAN'S SEARCH FOR AUTHENTICITY - by Cynthia Meier describes her second marriage, which ended when she was 32, as “four years of wedded bliss, one year of severe struggling.?And for three years after the divorce she “hung on like a pit bull,?says the 45-year-old operating room nurse, trying to retrieve the relationship with her ...
Views: 969 - One-hour Marketing Solution - by There are people who have found ways to market with integrity and have lots of fun, too. If this describes you, then skip this article! Other people would rather be doing anything else - even getting a tooth pulled (well almost) - instead of marketing. If that describes you, then start marketing ...
Views: 1068 - Online Medical Research (free course) - by I really enjoy your selfgrowth.com site! I am an instructor at California State University who is in the process of developing a free version of my Online Medical Research distant education course. This free course is for low-income individuals and healthcare educators. It covers:
* How to get ...
Views: 1763 - ONLINE reviews - Forgivness - by Forgiving someone does not mean "Okay, you can continue to treat me like a doormat." It doesn't mean that the person can continue to treat you in a disrespectful way. But what does it mean? How does forgiving others help you? This month's sites offer a number of valuable resources, processes, ...
Views: 982 - Online Trading Forum for Innovators Gets Global Attention - by An online trading forum developed by Minnesota-based Global Commerce & Communication (GCC), has attracted the attention of national and international news media. CNN, Computer World Magazine, and other leading news media have given the online innovation coverage during the past several months. A ...
Views: 2281 - Open Sexual Communication - by Jim and Mary are a typical middle-class Americna couple. They've been married for ten years, and both work at careers they enjoy. Two or three times a year they go on vacation; either a romantic cruise to the Caribean or a ski excursion to Switzerland.
Both are attractive and successful in ...
Views: 2542 - Open Up the Flow to a Fulfilled Life - by I had a really neat experience this morning. I was having a conversation with a friend when he suddenly asked me to chat with his wife and briefly explain what "life coaching" was about. Although I was a bit surprised by his sudden request, I happily agreed.
Within seconds, I heard his wife ...
Views: 706 - Open Your Arms to Receiving - by Did you know that there is enough money on this planet for everyone (yes, everyone) to have a million dollars? So why is it that Bill Gates has BILLIONS, others have a million, and others have only a small amount? The answer is simple: consciousness. Each of us has played out the beliefs from ...
Views: 901 - open your mind to recieve prosperity and abundance - by " the power to change lied within you".you already have eveything that you need to create prosperity and to change your life, when you choose your thoughts you choose your results. take a mental note now to decide that YOU ARE GOING TO OPEN YOUR MIND TO RECIEVE .
in order to have success, it ...
Views: 787 - OPTIMAL HEALTH - by Without your good Health, nothing else matters. . .
OPTIMAL HEALTH IS ACHIEVABLE!
Never before has scientific evidence been so clear and strong that the greatest of all doctors is Mother Nature herself, and her medicines of choice are 100% safe vitamins, minerals and supplements. This remedy ...
Views: 1022 - Optimism - by It's an age-old battle. Pessimists think optimists are foolish, optimists think pessimists make themselves unnecessarily miserable. A lot of research has been done on this issue in the last 30 years. Have we answered the question yet? Is the glass half-full or half-empty?
Martin Seligman and ...
Views: 1593 - Optimism is Healthy - by Chris Peterson was teaching a class in abnormal psychology at Virginia Tech when he told his students to fill out an Attributional Style Questionnaire-a carefully designed test that determines a person's level of optimism and pessimism. The students also answered questions about their general ...
Views: 956 - Optimist or Pessimist-Which One Are You? - by Ronald Reagan used to tell the story of two little boys-one an optimist, the other a pessimist. The pessimist was placed in a room full of toys and he continued to whine and cry. In contrast, the optimist was placed in a room full of horse manure and given a shovel. The optimist was happily ...
Views: 1992 - Options to Motivation by Self-Flagellation - by Have you ever asked yourself questions like:
"Why am I in this situation, again?"
"Why am I with this guy/girl?"
"Why am I staying in this job that I hate?"
"Why do I put up with being treated like this?"
Just rhetorical questions, right? NO!
Isn’t it funny how we are much more ...
Views: 1707 - Organize your childs room - by Are you constantly tripping over books, clothes, and toys in your childs room? When you ask them to clean their room, does everything get shoved under the bed? If the answer is yes then it is time to attack the clutter and get their room in order.
A well thought out plan of attack will ...
Views: 1099 - Organize Your Spring Planting - by Spring is finally here. This means we can go to the nurseries and buy all of the beautiful flowers we want. Right? Well you might want to take the time to plan your garden this year, before making costly some mistakes. I have listed here for you a few things you might want to consider before ...
Views: 914 - Ortho-BionomyR: Slow Dancing in the Still Point - by Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets, "Burnt Norton"
"My body is stiff after a restless night of sleep following a ten-hour drive from Tucson, Arizona to Santa Fe. Now lying on a massage table at the New Mexico ...
Views: 1937 - Orthodox versus Traditional Eyecare: An interview with Dr. Marc Grossman - by An interview with Dr. Marc Grossman, co-author of Natural Eye Care-An Encyclopedia recently published by Keats, practitioner of Behavioral/Holistic Optometry for over 20 years, Licensed Acupuncturist and director of Integral Health Associates located in New Paltz, New York and Rye Learning ...
Views: 1941 - OUR BELIEFS ARE LIKE ADDICTIONS - by The week seems to have been quite long for many of us. I am hoping that many of you that have written to me are feeling better. Some one said it was an astrological aspect that hit us all. Whatever the reasons might be, it is important to be aware of the fact that we have choices.
Basically it ...
Views: 671 - Our Children's Needs - by A human being is pretty much formed and programmed in his or her concepts about himself or herself and the surrounding world by the age of eight. Most of the work, which is done today by psychologists and psychiatrists, is to solve the problems and fill the gaps left by the experiences of those ...
Views: 898 - Our Closet Memory - by He was my first born. He was my baby. He was so incredibly bright, sweet and unique. He was 19 years old.
There's nothing that could have prepared me for this day or kept it from hurting. I just wasn't ready. But he was. So I helped him move.
After 19 years of knowing where he was all ...
Views: 740 - Our Hidden Faces - by Whether we like to admit it or not, we all have many faces and most of them are hidden from others (and some from ourselves).
We put on one face when we are courting someone with romance in mind, another face when we are angry, another face when we think we are in control of someone, and yet ...
Views: 1092 - Our Journey is Our Work (Book Excerpt) - by A role as God’s messenger is not what came to mind when I thought of myself prior to age fifty. Nor is it what most of my friends would say of me today. Yet, we are all messengers.
This book is you, and it is me. Yes, you will find yourself, like it or not, in this book. Yes, we are in denial, ...
Views: 687 - Our Self Image and Our Self - by So we've identified what we want in our lives. We've set our goals and made a plan. All of which is great and vital in achieving what we want. But in itself it’s not enough. It’s only part of the picture, the other part is contained in the behind the scenes activity of our minds.
What we really ...
Views: 785 - Our Thoughts Need To Match Our Faith - by Each and every day, for the past 13 years, I have watched myself and countless others saying one thing and doing another. Most Christians want to believe that their own behaviors are Christ-like, but this is not always the case.
"I know what I need to do, but I seem to have a problem doing ...
Views: 973 - Out With The Hype, In With The Business Model - by The Internet, 2002!!!
Will it bring us a sound business model?
Yes!
During 2001, two simultaneous and drastic changes took place on the Internet. Thousands of unprofitable websites closed down and the business philosophy of “FREE” changed to “PAID”.
Economic reality has forced webmasters ...
Views: 791 - Out with the Old - by Think back to a situation where you felt resentful. Or think back to the last time your heart was broken. The next time you encounter a similar situation, will you be free to choose how you act, or will you instead automatically attempt to protect yourself? If you are like most people, the ...
Views: 878 - Overcome Objections and Close the Sale - by Unfortunately, the first two orders many new salespeople receive are “get out and stay out!” It is human nature for your prospect to procrastinate when asked to make a decision involving money. Studies indicate that a prospect will say no on average five times before they actually buy. As a ...
Views: 933 - Overcome Performance Anxiety, Stage Fright & Self-Conciousness Through Singing - by Art Nefsky, internationally acclaimed performance coach, vocal instructor and performance anxiety specialist has been said to be to the Conservatory of Music what Patch Adams is to the medical world.
If you are someone who, by desire or necessity, has to make a public presentation of any kind, ...
Views: 2229 - Overcome Your Fear of Public Speaking - by Knocking knees, butterflies (who came up with that word?) in your stomach, sweaty palms, quavering voice. We’ve all been there – some of us more than others. I’m going to share with you some of the tricks of the trade to help manage and reduce your anxiety before and during your presentation. ...
Views: 2153 - Overcoming Adversity in Sales - by Do you wish you could close sales faster? Are there times when you dream of landing a huge multimillion-dollar account? After you lose a client do you ever think, “I wish I could keep my clients forever?” And at the beginning of every month when your commission feels like zero, do you wonder, ...
Views: 1117 - Overcoming Fear in the Face of Terror - by Today, more than ever, we need to learn how to handle fear. We are definitely a frightened people and our fear seems to be increasing every day. If we don't learn how to confront and control fear, we risk losing our emotional and physical health and ultimately the joy of living.
A life of fear ...
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