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.
Now, today, we might realize that innovation is possible only if we are willing to try new things that might not work out. Mistakes are part of the process of doing something new and different.
Seth Godin did it again. I recently read his newest book, Poke the Box, and it's just the right book for our times. It probably will become his 13th...
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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.
Bragging isn't bad, and it isn't wrong. It's merely the inevitable result of certain beliefs. It's not the bragging that you want to get rid of; it's the beliefs that have you brag to get the approval of others to feel okay about yourself.
When I wrote my blog post on August 18 about how my new de-conditioning process would stop emotional eating, I made a few statements that I've since discovered just aren't true.