When I first came across the technique of visualization I thought it was a little quacky. I thought it was self-help non-sense. A ploy to sell books about manifesting your dreams into reality through thoughts alone. Well, those books certainly exist and talk about this practice, but there actually is...
Where Do You Get Your Happiness?
Are you happy in life? When you are happy, does it last, or is it fleeting? Where do you derive your happiness? If it seems like it’s temporary or elusive, it may be because you’ve been looking in the wrong places. Happiness comes from within. It doesn’t come from anyone...
Affirmation and Self-Talk
Affirmation is another powerful tool that helps improve well-being. It is simply self-talk. But affirmation is about being intentional with the way we're talking to ourselves. We talk to ourselves all the time in our heads. But many times, we fill our minds with stressful and fearful chatter. When we...
You Are Not Your Thoughts
I’ve often heard the term you become what you think about most. That might be wealthy, famous, healthier, a nicer human being, or more intelligent. While I do somewhat believe in that notion, I must say that I also believe that you are NOT, actually, your thoughts. A thought is...
90 Seconds of Emotions
Do you ever have those days where someone does something to you or makes you mad or hurts your feelings and it seems to last all day? We’ve all been there. And it’s not fun. But it doesn’t have to affect us the way it does. See, biochemically speaking, there...