Can you recognize your pain points on the pain timeline? Are you feeling lots of pleasure points or is your life filled with anger, anxiety, guilt, remorse, shame, and regret — what I call stress? We recognize the pain timeline to show visually how pain is present in the past, present and future. Pain perception is about how appraisal triggers arousal (emotional response) in your body. Deepak Chopra explains that cognitive appraisal in the brain arouses only two impulses—pain or pleasure. We all want to avoid pain and experience pleasure. Therefore, all the complicated emotional states we find ourselves in are because we are unable to obey these basic drives. … [Read more...]
What Is Limerence?
Have you ever imagined that you feel limerent toward your partner? Is this "urge to merge" affecting your relationship because your partner does not have reciprocal feelings? What is Limerence? It is a term coined by American psychologist Dorothy Tennov in her 1979 book Love and Limerence – The Experience of Being in Love to describe the fabulous feelings most of us experience in the early stages of a romantic relationship. It is a temporary phase marked by physical, intellectual and emotional changes. We can’t eat, we can’t sleep, we stay up all night talking, yet we feel full of energy the next day. Many people lose weight at this time. We feel euphoric and are convinced no one … [Read more...]
Be Positive Live Longer
Do you see the glass half-empty or half-full? Which one of these choices will help you be positive and live longer? Ask yourself: what’s the benefit... to yourself, your partner, your children, your family... to be someone who, even under difficult circumstances, sees the proverbial glass as half full rather than half empty? Be positive live longer. Be optimistic. Are these words we connect with bottom line results? In most cultures, not really. It’s surprising, (and positive) how much research and experience is showing us that these attitudes and behaviors really do produce real, bottom line results. How much more bottom line can we get than our own … [Read more...]
Manage Emotional Stress
?How Chronic Emotional Stress Can Ruin Your Health Learn how to effectively manage your emotional stress and know that there is always reason to hope for improvement in your health What's the most powerful step you can take to manage emotional stress and dramatically improve your health?My answer is this: Learn how to effectively manage emotional stressAll of my clinical and personal experiences over the years have me convinced that no other factor has more influence over your health. Not diet, not exercise, not even how much you sleep.Why is emotional stress is one of the most significant causes of all chronic health challenges?Because your body cannot defend itself against the … [Read more...]
How To Resolve Resentments
Are you choosing to be miserable and holding on to your resentments? Have you considered how much ‘cost’ is accumulated when resentments build, such as from not getting what you want in a broken relationship? Dr Mike Gosling shows us how to resolve resentments.Recently, my cousin referred me to a video on the web. I learned so much from Randy Pausch's life experience - his fight against pancreatic cancer, his humility, his gratitude. He said, "Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want." How often in life have you not gotten what you want? Aldous Huxley said, "Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to … [Read more...]
What Is Forgiveness?
What is forgiveness, and how do you ask to be forgiven? How do you grant someone the gift of forgiveness? Getting this right is critical in having a great relationship! What is forgiveness, and how do you ask to be forgiven? More importantly, how do you grant someone the gift of forgiveness? When you’re hurt by someone you care about, forgiveness is usually the last thing on your mind. Getting this right is critical in having a great relationship. Invariably in a relationship, you’ll be hurt. How you deal with the pain can be the difference in a relationship that is healed and one that drifts apart. What Is Forgiveness?Think about this question: What is … [Read more...]
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