Examples Of High Self-Esteem

It can be helpful to create family systems that limit our exposure to triggers when we're having a tough time coping with the day-to-day, but triggers are often unavoidable, so it's critical that we learn how to support ourselves through them. Often I could not tell whether Henry saw one …

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Who Feels Hot?

Resting in your ONE primary energy, without having to balance a mix of the two within you, can be deeply nourishing. Donny developed his abilities over years of working with and thinking about dates, reaching the point where he knows each of the fourteen different calendars as well as you …

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Showed Me Things I Cannot See

Western psychologists have given specific attention to self-compassion because of how pervasive shame and self-criticism are in the West, particularly in people entering psychotherapy. Further, conventional mattresses are often made of petroleum-based petrochemicals, plastics, flame-retardant chemicals, and synthetic latexes like styrene, a known human carcinogen. Hundreds of millions globally suffer …

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The Ardor Approach

Some types of yoga are strictly physical, while others have a spiritual component; But when it went off, he was so tired from lack of sleep that he just hit the snooze button. STEP 5: REPEAT STEPS 2 THROUGH 4 UNTIL YOUR INITIAL DISCOMFORT IS NEAR 0 A positive attitude …

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High Or Low Functioning

And the longer the friends had known each other, the less steep the hill appeared." Think for a moment about the last time you met someone you didn't like. For example, there are specific uncomplicated steps Austria, Belgium, France, Germany. If it irks you, you may have something that you'd …

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On The Power Of Suggestion

If you live with a person who clutters and you've been quietly (or not so quietly) struggling with how to speak to him or her about how the mess affects you, try this three-step process. Ultimately, every person has to decide for themselves what to do. So the key part …

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No Time Left To Say Goodbye

One day you'll be sitting in the boss's office that people get called to, and hopefully on that day you'll treat them with the same respect and sensitivity that you wish someone had shown you. For example what if we have carried, possibly from childhood, a Belief that we are …

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If I Put The Wheels In Motion

I was reminded of this during a recent visit to New York City, where I was giving a guest lecture to students at New York University. Distractions - A person's willpower allows a person to focus on one task until it is completed. The most useful thing we can do is …

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Say Its Easy, But Its Not

Imagine how often this has occurred in the past and still occurs in the present, and how many secrets of indigenous cultures have been lost to us because of this outsider approach. If you find that your child's anxiety is affecting their decision-making, reduce the number of choices. The causal …

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Is It Time To See Attachment Yet?

Neuroplasticity is widely studied and constantly changing. Horrified by what he recognized as the rise of fascism in his homeland, Gebser fled to Spain. Acceptance means accepting that the thoughts happen and that you have little control over them and refraining from trying to control them or assigning meaning to …

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Snacking - Making It Healthy

In life sometimes you will win, sometimes you will lose, and at other times you will get off with a tie. Did you sleep poorly for the past few nights (we crave salty and fatty foods when we are fatigued)? But when we expose our needs, we are able to …

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Coping With Partiality

Diaphragmatic breathing activates the upper torso yet creates a full, deep pattern of breath. Many survivors look to create something meaningful from their loss: They work to prevent suicide in young people, lobby for more funding for mental health programs, organize suicide support groups in their communities, or reach out …

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The Street Only Knew Your Name

Despite my attempts, Hannah was resistant to facing the falsity of believing it was selfish, petty, and a nuisance to ask for her needs to be met both in her marriage and other relationships. If you're a long-distance caregiver you can probably relate to some of this. Coming into a …

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How Our Personality Is Formed

One of the ways I treat my child-self as my father did is-- I have the sense, and it steadily grows, that she's listening to more than my words. Most of us will find activity scheduling and setting up rewards for making changes to our behavior to be helpful ways …

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Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone

You could even swap out your couch for beanbags--getting in and out of those requires core and glute engagement. That said, it is more likely that you will not experience any improvement in symptoms by the end of this article. One saving grace that has ameliorated some of the effects …

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It Was Supposed To Be Easy

During a short rest period, Joe left the room for a couple of minutes and returned with two bottles of Coca-Cola, one for the subject and one for himself, saying "I asked him [the experimenter] if I could get myself a Coke, and he said it was OK, so I …

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Can't You Hear What It Says To You

We still don't know why metastasis sometimes happens and other times does not. While a number of studies have shown correlations between female students' achievements and the gender of the instructor, particularly in male-dominated fields, only recently have researchers been able to exploit a naturally occurring experiment to test causal …

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Above The Horizon

I'm going to not bury the lede on this one: The best results I've had, in terms of how I felt my body looked and my actual weight when standing on a scale, came from training purely for strength. Back in Colorado, I would have assumed he was flirting with …

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Relax The Back Of Your Neck

If you feel more comfortable and more peaceful, then that is great, but if you do not, that is ok as well because you are still getting used to the process. Sometimes a person's trespass is so harmful or severe that continuing the relationship is impossible or inadvisable. In a …

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