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Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing: The Last Self-Help Book You Will Ever Need

June 18th, 2010
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Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing: The Last Self-Help Book You Will Ever Need

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Tap Your Troubles Away

It’s that simple. Meridian Therapy is a self-healing system that can be learned in minutes and can relieve a lifetime of emotional pain. A cutting-edge technique based on the ancient art of acupressure, it involves stimulating the energy meridians in the body by tapping on specific energy points and awakening their healing power.

In Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing, noted therapist Gloria Arenson explains the scientific basis of Meridian Therapy and teaches readers the five easy-to-follow steps that will allow them to break free from stress and negative emotions. Meridian Therapy can…

Five Simple Steps to Emotional Healing: The Last Self-Help Book You Will Ever Need

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Self-Defeating Behaviors: Free Yourself from the Habits, Compulsions, Feelings, and Attitudes That Hold You Back

May 17th, 2010
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Self-Defeating Behaviors: Free Yourself from the Habits, Compulsions, Feelings, and Attitudes That Hold You Back

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A guide to freeing ourselves from the inappropriate and crippling behaviors that sabotage our success.

Self-Defeating Behaviors: Free Yourself from the Habits, Compulsions, Feelings, and Attitudes That Hold You Back

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When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable

May 14th, 2010
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When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable

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Based on a popular course given at the New School in New York City, When Am I Going To Be Happy? teaches that many of the negative emotional habits that make us unhappy are learned behaviors which can be exchanged for habits that are life-giving, not life-wrecking. HC: Bantam.

When Am I Going to Be Happy?: How to Break the Emotional Bad Habits That Make You Miserable

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Life in 5 bottles

January 22nd, 2010

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Your Mission

January 22nd, 2010

I believe I know what your mission is.

Does that seem like a big claim to make?

Follow me on this…

Imagine you are in a huge dark room.

Everyone in the room is holding a candle and so are you.

You are at the front of the room looking out at the others.

They are doing their best to look at you, but the room is so dark that they cannot see much.

There is only one difference between you and them.

Your candle is lit.

When you light the candles of everyone else in the room, their lives are brightened.

When you see their happiness, your life is enlightened too. And, here is the best news:

your candle is diminished in no way by sharing your flame with hundreds or millions of others.

Share your light. Teach what you know.

You may be hesitant fearing that you have nothing to teach. My experience is that you indeed do have valuable information to teach others.

If you have been at your job for at least one year, you know immeasurably more than you knew when the job started.

If you have children, you have learned giant life lessons.

If you are single, married, divorced, or remarried – in all those matrimonial states, you have learned huge lessons.

If you’ve recovered from a severe illness or a big accident or a huge business failure or an investment calamity, then for sure you have learned lessons.

Your candle is lit.

There are so many others standing hopefully in front of you wishing that they knew those lessons you have learned. They want you to light their candle.

Light their candles.

Teach them what you know.

Brighten the world.

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What is your New Year Resolution?

December 30th, 2009

Everyone is thinking about their “New Year’s Resolutions”.

What if this year was the year you actually KEPT all your resolutions and achieved your goals?

“The secret to achieving goals is to achieve them BEFORE you achieve them!” WHAT?!! Stick with me and I’ll explain… It’s easier to do something when you’ve already done it before. That’s why, if you want to double your income(for example), you should take the point of view of having already done so–before you’ve even doubled it!

Let me explain. You see, you’re mind doesn’t really know the difference between a goal that you’ve actually achieved and a goal that you just say you’ve achieved. At least, not entirely. You can put your brain’s gullibility to use by pretending that you’ve already achieved your goals. How? Simply write down the goals that you want to achieve. Want to make six figures next year? No problem. Just write down, “Finally broke the six-figure barrier this year. I earned $___,___.” But that will only get you halfway there. Next, you should write down how it feels to have broken that $100,000 milestone. Write down how it felt when you did it, as well as how it feels to be someone who has already accomplished this milestone.

Maybe you adrenaline shot up when you realized you’d achieved your goal. Maybe you laughed. Maybe you cried. What else did you do? What did you say? How and does it feel to know that you accomplished that goal that once seemed so impossible to you? You probably feel more confident. More relaxed. And the thought of doing it again now seems totally possible. That’s good–because now you’re ready to do it for the first time! What’s with all the psyching ourselves out and playing make believe? And how on earth can you use this trick to double your income? If you’re like 95% of the population, at some point in the paragraphs above, you got lost in the narration and began to feel how you imagined you’d feel when you reached a new level of income (or whatever your favorite goal was). And, if you’re like virtually every other human being who’s ever lived, you find it much easier to perform a task after you’ve already done it at least one time in the past. That’s one reason it’s great to imagine that you’ve already done what you want to do–before you do it. Because it tricks your mind into thinking that the hardest part is already over. This lowers your stress and increases success. It also activates the Law of Attraction. Or, as the wise old saying goes, “Them that has, gets.” When you hold a feeling of success in your heart–even when you haven’t yet accomplished every single one of your goals–you draw more success towards yourself. So if your goal is to double your income, go ahead and pretend you’ve already doubled it. Of course I don’t mean that you should spend more money than you actually have. But spend a little bit of time each day thinking about how you feel now that you have doubled your income (or whatever your goal may be), and you’ll be surprised at how quickly you make it there (once you’ve already made it)!

HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR 2010

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Change Begins with Choice

December 30th, 2009

Any day we wish; we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year. We can also do nothing. We can pretend rather than perform. And if the idea of having to change ourselves makes us uncomfortable, we can remain as we are. We can choose rest over labor, entertainment over education, delusion over truth, and doubt over confidence. The choices are ours to make. But while we curse the effect, we continue to nourish the cause. As Shakespeare uniquely observed, “The fault is not in our stars, but in ourselves.” We created our circumstances by our past choices. We have both the ability and the responsibility to make better choices beginning today. Those who are in search of the good life do not need more answers or more time to think things over to reach better conclusions. They need the truth. They need the whole truth. And they need nothing but the truth. We cannot allow our errors in judgment, repeated every day, to lead us down the wrong path. We must keep coming back to those basics that make the biggest difference in how our life works out. And then we must make the very choices that will bring life, happiness and joy into our daily lives. And if I may be so bold to offer my last piece of advice for someone seeking and needing to make changes in their life—if you don’t like how things are, change it! You’re not a tree. You have the ability to totally transform every area in your life, and it all begins with your very own power of choice.

by Jim Rohn

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Beautiful Thoughts

December 28th, 2009

Anger is a condition in which the tongue works faster than the mind.

You can’t change the past, But you can ruin the present by worrying over the future.

Love…and you shall be loved.

God always gives His best to those Who leave the choice with Him.

All people smile in the same language.

Everyone needs to be loved…Especially when they do not deserve it.

The real measure of a man’s wealth is what he has invested in eternity.

Laughter is God’s sunshine.

Everyone has beauty…..But not everyone sees it.

It’s important for parents to live………..The same things they teach.

Thank God for what you have, TRUST GOD for what you need.

If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries of tomorrow, You have no today to be thankful for.
Man looks at outward appearance; But the Lord looks within.

The choice you make today…Will usually affect tomorrow.

Take time to laugh, for it is the music of the soul.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

Love is strengthened by working through conflicts together.

Harsh words break no bones but they do break hearts.

To get out of a difficulty, one usually must go through it.

We take for granted the things that we should be giving thanks for.

Love is the only thing that can be pided without being diminished.

Happiness is enhanced by others but does not depend upon others.

For every minute you are angry with someone,You lose 60 seconds of happiness that you can never get back.

Do what you can, for who you can, With what you have, and where you are.

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Parents are Precious

December 28th, 2009

This was narrated at a Seminar recently on Human Relations :

Venkatesh Balasubramaniam (who works for IIT) describes how his gesture of booking an air ticket for his father, his maiden flight, brought forth a rush of emotions and made him (Venkatesh) realize that how much we all take for granted when it comes to our parents.

My parents left for our native place on Thursday and we went to the airport to see them off. In fact, my father had never travelled by air before, so I just took this opportunity to make him experience the same. In spite of being asked to book tickets by train, I got them tickets on Jet Airways. The moment I handed over the tickets to him, he was surprised to see that I had booked them by air. The excitement was very apparent on his face, waiting for the time of
travel. Just like a school boy, he was preparing himself on that day and we all went to the airport, right from using the trolley for his luggage, the baggage check-in and asking for a window seat and waiting restlessly for the security check-in to happen. He was thoroughly enjoying himself and I, too, was overcome with joy watching him experience all these things.

As they were about to go in for the security check-in, he walked up to me with tears in his eyes and thanked me. He became very emotional and it was not as if I had done something great but the fact that this meant a great deal to him. When he said thanks, I told him there was no need to thank me. But later, thinking about the entire incident, I looked back at my life. As a child, how many dreams our parents have made come true. Without understanding the financial situation, we ask for cricket bats, dresses, toys, outings, etc. Irrespective of their affordability, they have catered to all our needs. Did we ever think about the sacrifices they had to make to accommodate many of our wishes? Did we ever say thanks for all that they have done for us? Same way, today when it comes to our children, we always think that we should put them in a good school. Regardless of the amount of donation, we will ensure that we will have t give the child the best, theme parks, toys, etc. But we tend to forget that our parents have sacrificed a lot for our sake to see us happy, so it is our responsibility to ensure that their dreams are realized and what they failed to see when they were young. It is our responsibility to ensure that they experience all those and their life is complete.

Many times, when my parents had asked me some questions, I have actually answered back without patience. When my daughter asks me something, I have been very polite in answering. Now I realize how they would have felt at those moments. Let us realize that old age is a second childhood and just as we take care of our children, the same attention and same care needs to be given to our parents and elders.Quality time and politely answering them with out making them wait is important. Now I realise that I must look at their eyes and answer them pleasantly and not pretend to be reading papers and answer in mono syllables. Rather than my dad saying thank you to me, I would want to say sorry for making him wait so long for this small dream. I do realize how much he has sacrificed for my sake and I will do my best to give the best possible attention to all their wishes.

Just because they are old does not mean that they will have to give up everything and keep sacrificing for their grandchildren also. They have wishes, too.

Take care of your parents. THEY ARE PRECIOUS.

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Life’s little Instructions

December 28th, 2009

Try to adopt the maximum in your life from the points below. It will change your life.

1. Look people in the eye.

2. Sing in the shower.

3. Own a great stereo system.

4. If in a fight, hit first and hit hard.

5. Keep secrets.

6. Never give up on anybody. Miracles happen everyday.

7. Always accept an outstretched hand.

8. Be brave. Even if you’re not, pretend, no one can tell the difference.

9. Whistle.

10. Avoid sarcastic remarks.

11. Choose your life’s mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90% of all your happiness or misery.

12. Make it a habit to do nice things for people who will never find out.

13. Lend only those books you never care to see again.

14. Never deprive someone of hope; It might be all that they have.

15. When playing games with children let them win.

16. Be romantic.

17. Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.

18. Loosen up, relax. Except for rare life-&-death matters, nothing is as important as it first seems.

19. Don’t allow the phone to interrupt important moments. It is there for your convenience not the caller’s.

20. Be a good loser.

21. Be a good winner.

22. Think twice before burdening a friend with a secret.

23. When someone hugs you, let them be the first to let go.

24. Be modest. A lot was accomplished before you were born.

25. Keep it simple. Beware of the person who has nothing to lose.

26. Don’t burn bridges. You’ll be surprised how many times you have to cross the same river.

27. Live your life so that your epitaph could read, No regrets.

28. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on life, you’ll regret the things you didn’t do more than the ones you did.

29. Never waste an opportunity to tell someone you love them.

30. Remember no one makes it alone. Have a grateful heart and be quick to acknowledge those who helped you.

31. Take charge of your attitude. Don’t let someone else choose it for you.

32. Visit friends and relatives when they are in hospital.

33. Begin each day with some of your favourite music.

34. Once in a while take the scenic route.

35. Send a lot of Valentine cards.

36. Answer the phone with enthusiasm and energy in your voice.

37. Keep a note-pad and pencil on your bed-side table. Million-dollar ideas sometimes strike at three a.m.

38. Show respect for everyone who works for a living, regardless of how trivial their job.

39. Send your loved ones flowers. Think of a reason later.

40. Make somebody’s day by paying the toll for the person in the car behind you.

41. Become someone’s hero.

42. Marry only for love.

43. Count your blessings.

44. Compliment the host when you have a good meal in someone’s home.

45. Wave at children in a school bus.

46. Remember that 80% of the success in any job is your ability to deal with people.

47. Don’t expect life to be fair.

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