• Tomorrow’s Happiness Begins Today

    If you want to be happy tomorrow, you need to work at it today. Some people spend their lives waiting for happiness to arrive on its own and it never comes. Others work hard at creating wealth but still aren’t happy, discovering that money only brings a whole different set of problems. Happiness is a state of mind and not the size of your bank account. Happiness is emotional and not physical. Each individual needs to work at creating their own happiness.

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    I like how Richard Bach, the author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, put it when he said, “If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.”

    To find happiness, you first have to understand where happiness comes from. Memories are to the mind what a mirror is to the eyes – a reflection. The mirror reflects the physical while our memories reflect the emotional. When you look in the mirror, it reflects what you look like; when you look in your mind, it reflects who you are. One big difference between the two is that you can change what you see in the mirror, but you can’t change the memories reflected in your mind.

    We spend a lot of time trying to improve what we see in the mirror, but little or no effort trying to improve our thoughts. Every action creates a memory. Do you really think that the person who is bitter and angry today was happy and cheerful yesterday? If a person says or does something which angers or upsets us, we can either add to the painful memory with our own negative actions or we can replace them with positive actions and create positive memories.

    If you want to be happy tomorrow, you must choose carefully what you do today, because today’s actions will be reflected in tomorrow’s memories and you can not make them go away. Everything you do today will be in tomorrow’s reflection. The next time a person angers you, instead of lashing out, try imagining that you are holding up a mirror that bounces the reflection back at him, knowing that his actions or words reflect him and not you.

    We all want to like what we see in the mirror. To be truly happy, we also have to like what we see reflected in our minds. What the mirror reflects is not nearly as powerful as what the mind reflects, for it reflects our words and actions.

    What will your reflections be filled with? Will your reflections/memories be filled with goodness and joy, or with bitterness and anger? What have you done today that will bring you happiness tomorrow?

  • Power Within Self Confidence Through Hypnosis

    Ever wonder why some people do not find it hard to feel confident? If you must know, confidence is basically a state of mind. Before you feel confident, you think about being confident. Surprisingly, you can easily learn about being confident. For starters, stop trying to become someone you are not. To be confident, you must be comfortable with who you are and accept your limitations. By doing this, you can act naturally and you will not have to worry about pretending.

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    Being confident is a lot of hard work. No one is born with it and it takes a serious amount of commitment and dedication to become confident. Being confident can improve your work and personal life. You will be able to make presentations to large groups of people and speak with important clients. On the other hand, it would require a certain level of confidence to introduce yourself to a stranger or ask someone on a date.

    Another important factor in confidence is determining your strengths, skills, and talents. If you know these, you can trust yourself to accomplish your tasks properly. Funnily enough, there are people who have all the skills in the world but cannot use them because anxiety or nervousness overcomes them.

    If you are one of these people who has problems with confidence, the first thing you should do is to learn to manage this anxiety. You can try a few self-help techniques, such as deep breathing, stretching, or meditating. These would lower your heartbeat and help you focus on more important things. Meditation is an effective way to relax your mind and your body, ridding yourself of negative thoughts and feelings.

    If these are not effective, then you might have a more serious problem that would require professional help. Psychotherapy can help build your confidence by determining and managing the reasons for your anxiety and fear. You could suffer from low self-esteem because of things that you have experienced before. It is also possible that your anxiety comes from expecting too much from yourself. Whatever the reasons are, psychotherapy can help.

    Another fast and effective way to treat anxiety is through hypnotherapy. It usually involves being hypnotized, and the hypnotist will alter your behavior by making suggestions to your subconscious. It is believed that the subconscious is more receptive to changes than your conscious mind.

  • Advantages of Being Confident

    Almost all successes and attainments in life come from your ability to feel certain that you can accomplish what you set out to achieve. Confidence is the gateway to success; to the life that you wish to lead and to the dreams that you desire to live.

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    With confidence, you can boldly progress towards your ambitions and aspirations. With confidence, you can rise and handle life’s demands and challenges. You can tackle any hurdle and obstruction, and move on to the next step of your journey to fulfilment and achievement.

    One of the principle requirements of anything you want to do in your life is confidence. Confidence is an indispensable part of your development, betterment, progress and success, both at a personal and professional level. With confidence, you can forge ahead to fulfil your potential and perform at your peak level.

    Having confidence is the crux that allows you to achieve your true potential in whatever situation; in your relationships, your work or career, your finances and your self-image.

    When you experience a lack of confidence, it may stop you from striving for what you want. This feeling of lack of confidence can be the root of many complications and hardships that block you from achieving your desires. It can be like a large thorn that continually bursts into the bubble of desire.

    There may have been times when you have felt a level of confidence when you were engaged in an activity that you were good at; such as driving a car, being a parent, or managing your team. At those times, you would have displayed a high level of certainty, which is confidence.

    However, there may have been other circumstances where you found you felt less confident. On these occasions, you would achieve a fraction of what is truly possible for you. With determination and focus to pursue and gain confidence, you can develop the strength and fortitude to climb out of the depths of any circumstances, and take advantage of the opportunities and successes that lay ahead of you.

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    In the same way that you have learned to lack confidence, you can also learn to have unlimited confidence. And the simplest and quickest way to kick-start the engines of your brain is to know and accept that confidence can be an acquired process; it can be learned and formatted to suit all moments.

    As your confidence increases, you can take a front-row seat in mastering many areas of your life. You will find that you become more and more comfortable and confident in multiple areas, including:
    • Moving ahead in your career
    • Starting your own business
    • Embracing the risks of everyday life
    • Refusing to be held back by fear
    • Creating circumstances rather than waiting for them
    • Smiling more and enjoying life
    • Dramatically improving your health

    Successful and dynamic people have gained mastery of how to feel courageous and confident. When you develop and build on your own confidence skills, you, too, will feel and become a different person. You will feel much more enthusiastic, motivated and determined in every aspect of your life.

    Once you improve on the way you think and feel about yourself, your beliefs and your actions will follow. You will confidently overcome the challenges that life thrusts upon you and you will manage them with newfound belief and faith in your capability to do so.

    As you become more confident, you abandon worry, hesitation and, more importantly, you side-step fear. The focus here is on your whole being, every part of you; your thoughts, the images in your mind, your emotions, and ultimately your behaviour and the actual outcomes in your life.

    Remember, as you focus on change, change happens. It is fun, motivating and very rewarding to feel and see yourself growing and improving and becoming more confident and effective day-by-day and week-by-week.

    There is great power in believing that you can succeed in your quest for greater confidence. With awareness and consistency, this is attainable. Your confidence can stretch beyond any measurable scale and further still, knowing no boundaries.

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  • Tips to Increase Your Self-Esteem and Confidence

    Whenever one is beset by a situation that he or she is unsure of – facing someone admired, having to perform in front of an audience, or simply talking to others – he or she is facing a goodly amount of stress. Confident people can usually face these situations without blinking; but the rest of us will probably melt away and try to run away from the situation.

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    For most people facing this kind of low self-esteem, these situations present an opportunity for them to make fools out of themselves. This is a very embarrassing prospect.

    If you are one of the millions of people that would like to stop fidgeting in front of others, trying to squirrel out of such situations, and being so unsure of yourself when facing presentations, here are a few tips to set you on your way.

    1. Competence is Confidence – Some organizations, like the Toastmasters, help those afraid to speak in public toughen up by stressing this credo – and it really works. One secret to confidence and self-esteem is to trust what you can do. This comes with a lot of practice and study. Whenever you practice a skill, you increase your own confidence in your capability to perform even in front of other people.

    Before a big presentation, study up. Try to know everything about the topic before you step in front of the audience. If you have practiced way before the presentation, you will be in a better position to knock their socks off.

    Practicing in front of supportive people you trust will help you get feedback on how to improve your performance.

    1. Believe in Yourself – one reason people are not confident in themselves is the fact that someone already convinced them that they will fail even before anything happens. Never underestimate the power of the mind. If you believe you will fail, you indeed will! A better exercise would to be to believe that you can succeed. Set your mind towards succeeding and you probably will!
    2. Take Criticisms, whether Good or Bad – Most people are bad at taking criticisms. Instead of taking the criticisms personally, use every comment and suggestion to make yourself better. However, you will also have to look out for some criticisms that were never meant to benefit you. Ignore them and move on.
    3. Remain Calm at All Costs – Panicking benefited nobody. If you are suddenly in a situation where you are unsure of what to do or what will happen, keep your composure. If you don’t know the answer, say so calmly. If you do not know what to do, it would not be bad to admit it. However, beneath your cool facade, always try to keep a deliberate, quick thinking, demeanor. This itself could take a lot of practice, but it is well worth it.
    4. Don’t be Afraid to Fail – Many people are afraid to fail; they quit trying because they are not confident in their skills. If you are afraid to try, you will get stuck where you are. Failure can only make you better. Remember that every great man took risks and failed a lot before arriving at greatness.
    5. Don’t Base Your Confidence on What People Think Of You – While other’s opinion of you can be important, it should not sway you from thinking that you are important. They do not know you better than you do. If you free yourself from the shackles of peer opinion, you will be free to try new things and learn new skills. It does not matter if they think you cannot accomplish anything – take whatever good that can be gleaned from their advice and move on.
  • What Causes Depression?

    Usually in our adolescence, we are exposed to many sudden and inexplicable mood swings because of our body undergoing various hormonal changes that prepare us for adulthood.

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    Aside from increased social pressures, the onset of menstruation, for example, introduces adolescent girls to premenstrual tension (or premenstrual syndrome) and the menstrual cramps, the former being a mixture of physical and psychological symptoms, including temporary weight gain, fluid retention, depression, fits of temper and the like.

    Of these, depression is perhaps one of the most commonly identified conditions that both males and females attest to, particularly at the onset of puberty.

    Depression is a term we colloquially use to pertain to any particular period of prolonged sadness and lethargy. Colloquial use would even allow us to call depression any ‘low’ point in between periods of ‘high’ or happiness. A popular one-liner, which many of us are familiar with, even goes as far as saying that depression is in fact simply anger without enthusiasm.

    However, the real essence of depression is the fact that you can’t simply ‘snap out of it’, and that it has the capacity to disrupt your daily activities. It is characterized by prolonged sadness, anxiety, unusual mood shifts accompanied by a degree of irrational thought, pessimism, and is responsible for changes in the way we eat, sleep, or interact with other people that in effect incapacitates us from participating in productive activities.

    Depression is deemed a disorder that requires treatment and attention first because it may be a cause for withdrawal from society as it gives a semblance of suffering, pessimism, and low self-esteem. Secondly, depression may cause changes in physical behavior (like eating or sleeping) that may disrupt regular daily activities or may be mortally dangerous for whoever suffers from it. It may also, in effect, harm interactions with other people, particularly those within the atomic community (like family and friends).

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    Lastly, the accompanying decrease in rational thought causes some people to eventually result to thoughts of harming oneself or even suicide.

    Should you find yourself potentially exhibiting that degree of depression, it is best that you seek immediate help from a professional. The reason is because the many forms of depression, each varying in degree of abnormality it lends, are currently treatable. It will also allow you to accurately determine whether you may simply be suffering from a common or minor depression, which is a mild but similarly prolonged form of depression, or a severe or major depression.

    What is severe or major depression then? Severe or major depression, which medical experts also call clinical depression, unipolar depression, or major depressive disorder, is a sort of depression that necessitates medical treatment.

    This is because severe depression is thought to be a result of a chemical imbalance in the brain. This particular brand of depression is recognized as possibly hereditary by many psychiatrists and specialists.

    Doctors detect severe depression by particular behavioral patterns that emerge. The first is that of a constant feeling of sadness or anxiety. This may be accompanied by feelings of inadequacy and low self-esteem. Another is when you feel lethargic, tired, or without energy despite the fact that you did not engage in any physical activity of any form alongside a feeling of restlessness. You may also feel a decreased capacity to concentrate and make decisions.

    The more ‘telling’ signs that accompany the previous symptoms, which may be attributed to seasonal hormonal imbalances, strenuous physical activities, or physical sickness for non-depressive individuals, have a more or less social implication to them.

    If you are suffering from severe depression, you may have a feeling of being uninterested in usual activities or hobbies and you may eventually withdraw from them. Changes in your appetite may also emerge, leading to drastic weight loss.

    Another change is in sleeping habits, which may imply difficulty in sleeping, waking up too early, or sleeping too much. With these physically notable changes and the previous general symptoms is a prevalent feeling of inadequateness, hopelessness and guilt. Altogether, these may lead to thoughts of suicide or obsession over death and dying.

    The fact that depression can happen to anyone including you, should be enough impetus to better understand depression. Understanding that people around you (and there are many of them) suffer from depression will both allow you to better interact with them, or, should you be suffering from it as well, allow you to benefit from support groups or other people who can better help you deal with the disorder and stop you from succumbing to it.

  • Do Dreams Serve as a Premonition?

    Being able to foresee an unfortunate fact of life like death, disasters, illnesses, etc. through a dream is very common. Anyone may dream of something good or bad happening to someone else or even to themselves. Do dreams serve as a premonition?

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    Before we proceed in answering the question, let me first give you the definition of premonition and dreams. Based on dictionary meaning, a PREMONITION is a presentiment of the future; or a warning in advance while a DREAM is a series of images, ideas, emotions, and sensations occurring involuntarily in the mind during certain stages of sleep; a wild fancy or hope or a reverie.

    Let us first talk about dreams. We all know that dreams do play a role in our daily lives. Most people pay little attention to dreams. Dreams can help us find solutions to our daily problems and see things from a different perspective. Whenever we are dreaming, we can be who or what we want to be, regardless of the fact that in real life, sometimes it cannot be. Dreams have their own interpretation, like for example, when you dream about loose, rotten, or missing teeth, it shows that a family member or close friend is very sick or even near death. You can learn of your dream’s meaning through a Dictionary of Dreams.

    Now, what about premonitions? As defined earlier, it may be a warning in advance. Many people have had premonitions in different situations. When we say premonition, it is conveyed through dreams. A certain foreboding of what will happen in the near future, but in a vague sense. Many cases of premonitions were documented like the disaster when Titanic sank and killed many people, wherein there were fifty counts of premonitions. Some passengers who had a premonition cancelled their tickets before riding the Titanic, were saved from the horrible disaster that took place in 1912.

    Do dreams serve as a premonition?

    Well, it actually depends on the dream itself. If a person dreams about the whole scenario of an event, it can or may happen in the future. Yet, in another view, it can be just a dream that he had had but has a different significant meaning for it. A dream can serve as a premonition, yet it also cannot be.

    We could say that a dream served as a premonition when the dream itself foretold something that could happen in real life. But, if your dream was something out of a grandiose anticipation of what you have been thinking of, it may be just from your subconscious mind. My answer to the question “Do dreams serve as a premonition?” is IT DEPENDS, whether the dream you had has something to do with what could happen or maybe just out of a wishful thinking sense that your subconscious mind revealed through a dream.

  • 3 Proven Ways To Build Self-Esteem

    When someone thinks of a person with self-esteem, most people think of someone who has a positive attitude. While someone who has self-esteem could have a positive attitude, this is not what I am referring to.

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    Having self-esteem is when you have a high regard for yourself, when you value who you are. Having self-esteem is when you have a firm belief and respect for yourself.

    If you find yourself down a lot and have a hard time feeling good, you may deal with low self-esteem. Below, you will find 3 ways to build your self-esteem.

    Give credit where credit is due: When you accomplish a particular task, give yourself credit for doing something successfully. It may be something as small as thanking someone for something. That is a success because you acknowledge something that someone has done for you. So, give yourself credit for the things you do. I bet if you really thought about it, you do a lot of successful things throughout the day. Start giving yourself credit for that.

    Say good things to yourself: When you accidentally drop or spill something, what are the first words out of your mouth? If the words dummy, idiot, stupid, or any other negative words come out of your mouth, try not reacting to the situation. Take a deep breath and move on, knowing we all have accidents. The point here is not to react to the situation. Give yourself a break, think good thoughts about yourself, and don’t forget to laugh.

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    Accept the good in you: Just like giving yourself credit for the success you have each day, acknowledge the things you know how to do well. There are things you can do better than anyone. If you gave it some thought, you can come up with several things you do well. What are some things you do well? Think about it, and when you do, write them down. So, the next time you are feeling down, go back to the list you made and accept the good in you.

    Building your self-esteem is going to help you take bigger risks and have a more fulfilling life. With a high self-esteem, you can accomplish anything. You will stick with your goals and take on any challenge that comes your way. Building self-esteem takes time; however, anything that is going to help you live your life to the fullest is worth it. Try finding someone who can help you along the way, a friend, a mentor, or even a coach. You can do it, I know you can!

  • 3 Powerful Tips To Help Manage Everyday Stress

    Often, stress will manifest when we carry over yesterday’s concerns into our present-day concerns. An accumulation will almost always end up at a high stress level. Therefore, we must be able to “dump” all of our concerns from the previous day or days and concentrate wholly on our today.

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    So here are 3 stress busting tips:

    • Stress Busting Tip #1
      Resolve right now to release every thought from yesterday and be only mindful of the now…. this thought only… this breath… this moment. Take in three deep breaths and slowly release each one.
      Feel every concern, every problem, and every unresolved moment dissolve. You can deal with them at a later time. For now, you are only to be at this very moment.
      Now go to your inner quiet place. Go deep inside to a place where you feel you are at peace and then just relax and breathe in deeply and enjoy the feeling of being at one and at peace within yourself.
      Use this special time and place to be calm. Free your mind and body of all worry, all regret, all disappointment, all anger and grief.
    • Stress Busting Tip #2
      Next, think of one particular act, such as rocking your baby, taking a quick stroll, raking the leaves, and do that one simple thing. All the while, your mind is calm and you are in your own special place within. Practice this act of calmness each day and you see you will accomplish so much more. At the first sign of being stressed, go back to this mindful, quiet place and start all over again until you have reached your inner place of calm.
    • Stress Busting Tip #3
      The very best thing you can do for yourself is to eat, drink and rest–to your health!
      Stress is easily brought on by not eating and drinking properly. When you don’t get the number of hours of sleep that you need each night, you are only setting yourself up for additional stress.
      Limit the amount of salt, sugar, caffeine and alcohol in your diet. Drink plenty of clean water each day and do at least moderate exercise each day. This will breathe new life into your skin, hair and will nourish all of your vital organs.
      Breathe properly! Take deep belly breaths to send pure oxygen to all of your body. Laugh and then laugh some more. It is food for the soul! Do the things that please you most. Engage in healthy and fulfilling relationships and work on problems that would erode the closeness that you have with someone special.
      When we are content and living a balanced life, everyday stresses seem to pale in comparison. We are better equipped to deal with the unexpected.
      You can take control today! Isolate only one particular stressor in your life and then work on it until you regain control. At the very least, have some new hope!
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  • The Spirit of Soul

    When was the last time you closed your eyes and simply paid attention to the inner world in you? As you close your eyes and pay attention to your inner self, insight is awakened. You can become conscious of what infuses our external world. Each of us has individual awareness or ways we interpret the world. Because of our unique experiences of the world, we take in multiple images across a lifetime. These experiences are imprinted in our psyche and in our soul.

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    The act of recalling these memories creates expressions or feelings in our heart. These past expressions are pondered in the inner vision of our mind and our heart as though we are re-living them in the present. In so doing, we are retrieving our soul at various points of interests that have lodged a sense of importance to our individual awareness. The movement from the world around us to the world within us is a shift in attention. This shift in our attention is a conscious choice. Here, we realize that the world around us has hidden aspects to it, reminding us just how privileged we are to be aware of our awareness. This realization alone gives us identification with whom we are.

    You and I are conscious beings who live in a body, but this isn’t our real home. We inhabit space and time, but our real self, our authentic self, our individual awareness (soul) is a unique expression of spirit, infusing our lives from an infinite number of possible correlations. We make choices every day about how our life will be lived. Each choice creates a pattern. These patterns become a statement of our character. Our character becomes a living testimony of the inner processes of our thoughts incarnating into the world we live in.

    As such, the life of our soul is revealed. Every moment, we are given the opportunity to experience our soul in a variety of ways. These experiences are facets of our inner world that manifest themselves from a single expression we call spirit. The intent to focus on our past, our present, or our future desires leads us to a path. This path is a revelation of our soul seeking an opportunity to live out our purpose. Purpose gives us meaning and hope beyond our present circumstances. It is a path into what can no longer be seen and moving our lives and our soul – into SPIRIT.