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...]

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...]

?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...]

Our system for flight or flight reactions A 'fight person', wants to display your emotion immediately while a 'flight' person is more likely to become withdrawn, taken aback or even frozen Have you ever wondered what's happening to your body when your heart starts beating faster, your breathing quickens and you feel warm? That's part of the fight or flight reactions common to many when faced with a threat to themselves.  So what's going on when your nervous system and muscles instinctively respond to any physical threat to your body.When you are a 'fight person', it does not take many surges of Adrenalin to cause you to want to display your emotion … [Read more...]

Want to be more effective in improving yourself? Here are 20 tips by Helen Elizabeth that will save you time and money Helen provides 20 tips for effectiveness, making the most effective use of your time and working smarter, not harder.Most of us are interested in improving something about ourselves: our productivity, our sanity, our organization, our happiness, our effectiveness, our impact on the environment, our minds, our dreams.And you can spend hundreds of dollars on books and thousands of hours on websites looking for your answers. Are you usually punctual or late? Do you finish things within the time you stipulate? Do you hand in your reports/work … [Read more...]