Do you have memories that recur from time to time that are painful? Are there events from the past that upset you every time you recall them?
Looking back at such experiences we often realize they weren't nearly as bad as they seemed. In fact, sometimes they even turned out to have a lot of benefits, yet at the time they seemed like disasters.
If you feel emotional discomfort about social situations, interactions with others, or being evaluated or judged by others, you may have "social anxiety" -- a problem shared by almost 20 million others in the United States.
Between our obsession with our looks and the national crisis involving obesity, losing weight is constantly on the minds of tens of millions of people.
You can make massive positive changes in your life -- such as taking actions you were afraid to take and ridding yourself of such negative feelings as anxiety and anger -- by eliminating your limiting beliefs.
At that point I realized that beliefs weren't the only cause of our feelings and that stimuli could be conditioned to cause emotions, such as being told what to do causing anger and not living up to expectations causing anxiety.
Some emotional eaters specifically crave sweets. They will eat non-sweets if that is all that's available, but they prefer sweets when they have been triggered (or when beliefs drive them) to eat.
One of the best proofs that beliefs have a powerful impact on our health has existed for years right under the noses of every physician in the world: the placebo effect.
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Are you one of the many executives who secretly feels that you are an impostor who doesn't really deserve your success? If so, you are not alone.
Today an organization's management either recognizes the need to change or it will watch helplessly as market share and profitability slowly (and in some cases, quickly) disappears.
A recent survey of entrepreneurs and small business owners that I conducted revealed that most of them were afraid of making a decision. One of their...
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The basic beliefs that underlie common psychological traits were almost always formed in childhood, in our interactions with our parents.
In order for anything to exist, it must be distinguished from everything else. If no distinction is made between a specific thing and everything else, then there is only an undifferentiated everything -- which is another way of saying nothing.
The meaning you give to what happens to you totally determines your reaction to what happens to you. One meaning can lead to suffering; another meaning of the same event can lead to excitement and happiness.
Eliminating the relevant beliefs definitely will change your behavior and feelings. But having wealth involves much more than beliefs, although getting rid of crippling money beliefs is certainly a precondition.
How does a low level of confidence affect us? What changes in our lives when we gain confidence? What is confidence anyway? Where does it come from? Why do some people have more of it than others?
If you want to discover why your anger seems so scary that you need to hide it, even from yourself, and if you want to learn how to experience anger without fear, read on.
