Affirmations Aren't Just for People Who Love Sedona: You Can Rewire Your Brain

If you feel destabilized and don't want to read right now, that's okay. If your emotions don't feel workable, take good care of yourself. You can use the practices in this article to engage with your emotions, ask their specific questions, and develop your Empathic Mindfulness skills, but if your emotions won't settle down, you're not failing! We all need help to regulate our emotions and deal with our difficulties. I know that professional mental health care is a luxury for many people, but fortunately, talking things through with a trusted friend or loved one can soothe your emotions and help you feel more at ease. If you need more information and support, the HelpGuide website (helpguide. If you're ready to move forward, the next article will help you learn how to tell the difference between anxiety and its family members fear, confusion, and panic. Knowing which emotion (or emotions) you're feeling will help you develop stronger emotion regulation skills, certainly, but it will also help you know which forms of emotional genius are being brought to bear on your situation. When Anxiety Teams Up with Other Emotions The Difference Between Fear, Confusion, Panic, and Anxiety Make sure you know your loved one's current needs and the medications they're taking. Keep a contact list of their doctor, neurologist, pharmacist, and any health care workers who are involved in caring for your loved one. You may also want to have financial and legal documents available in case they're needed. Check in on finances Talking about money is always tricky, so be sure that when you do speak to your loved one about this topic, you do so tactfully. Many people won't ask for financial help even if they're in dire straits, but if there's a need and you can help, offer to do so. If your loved one won't accept monetary assistance, they may take your help in purchasing needed items for their care or allow you to help pay for utility bills, transportation costs, or housecleaning or yard services. Be kind to your loved one's caregivers Let those who are caring for your loved one close by know that they are appreciated. Whether it be something as simple as a thank you card, flowers, or something more elaborate like a gift basket, such shows of appreciation can mean a lot to someone who may be tired from all the demands of caregiving.

However, it pales in comparison with the joy, creativity, and enhanced functioning that is the hallmark of those self-actualizing individuals at the farther reaches of human nature. Therapy and personal growth and healing open the doors to these higher realms of flourishing. Unfortunately, too few people do the inner work needed for such transformation. Because the average brain is so weakened, therapy is not as effective as it is when the brain is strong and glowing. The field of mental health at present is more of a promise than an accomplished fact. This article extends flourishing into the physical level of brain health. Just as there are higher possibilities psychologically, so there are much higher possibilities for brain health. This article is about healing from the disorders of anxiety, depression, and cognitive decline. But its goal is much greater than this. It points the way to levels of human flourishing that surpass the current levels of weakened brains and simply existing. You changed your hair color. You need to use up extra money from your flexible spending account. If you need convincing to update your eyewear (see the list below), think about the most important reason to get new glasses: your eye health. Doctors recommend that all those over forty get their eyes checked at least once a year (more often if you start to have vision problems). If you can't remember the last time you had your vision checked, chances are your prescription has changed. Sure, this probably means your eyes have gotten worse, but what a great excuse to hip up your look. Don't even think about putting new lenses in old frames. The universe is sending you a chance to be more fashion-forward; Tina Fey: a model of specs appeal FRAMES ARE FASHION

If you find you are stuck with a decision or are at a crossroads and aren't sure which way to go, look to a gut feeling in your solar plexus for guidance. We are going to use this technique to check to see if it is time to let go whatever it was that you wrote in your journal about letting go. No more grasping. Place your right hand over the area slightly above your belly button. Envision and honor whatever it is you've been grasping on to. Know that it has served a purpose in your life. Notice how your solar plexus/third chakra feels when you give yourself the choice to hold onto whatever it is you've been grasping. A sinking or nauseated feeling may tell you that the decision is wrong. If it's the right decision, you may feel lightness in the area, or you may even feel like you can breathe easier. Take a deep breath, and now give yourself permission to let it go. In effect, you were asking managers to direct you, said Marvin. So your managers began with a strong directive style. But I assume that to become empowered, sooner or later they had to stop using that style with you. Remember, you said when you become a high-performing team, you can't tell who's the leader. How did the team get away from the need for the directive leadership? Almost imperceptibly at first, responded Billy. Then faster. We began to hear stories of people and teams acting in empowered ways. Teams began to do things that only managers had done in the past, and do them better. Our managers began to act like facilitators and coaches.

What I want to show you is that other people's opinions about you are their problem, not yours. It's that easy. You can't please everyone so you might as well stop trying right now. The earlier you accept it, the better. Become more authentic, be come more YOU and funn ily enough, you will attract better people towards you and the best is that you will know that they like you for who you really are! Those are the people that are important for your development. Let go of the ones that continuously judge and criticize you. When you are worried about what other people might think about you always remember: they are probably equally worried about what you think about them at the same time. The fun thing is that the more relaxed and the less worried you are about the impression you cause in others, the better it will probably be. Just relax and be yourself. However, if we abuse the body with unhealthy food and unhealthy thoughts, we contribute to our discomfort. Pain comes to us in many forms: an ache, a scratch, a stubbed toe, a bruise, congestion, uneasy sleep, a queasy feeling in the stomach, a dis-ease. It is trying to tell us something. Pain is the body's way of waving a red flag to get our attention--a last-ditch effort to inform us that something is wrong in our life. When we feel pain, what do we do? We usually run to the medicine cabinet or the drugstore and take a pill. When we do this, we are saying to our body, Shut up! I don't want to hear you. Your body will quiet down for a while, but then the whispering will return--this time a little louder than before. Imagine what would happen if you were telling your friend something important but she wasn't listening.

Likewise, decluttering your mind also has its benefits. A Decrease in Stress and Anxiety Clutter will stress you out. Feeling like your mind is messy may make you feel tired since there is a lot to do yet so little time. Similarly, mental clutter will also make you feel unconfident. You will rarely be confident about your abilities. Repeatedly, you will notice that you second-guess everything that you do. All this is happening because your mind can't think straight. There is a lot that it is focusing on and therefore, finding practical solutions to the little things ahead of you may seem impossible. By using the recommended strategies discussed herein to clear clutter from your mind, you can be more equipped to lower your stress and anxiety levels. Abel's response is, Would it help? This reaction does not imply that Abel likes the idea of dying on the electric chair, but rather that he has developed a remarkable attitude of simultaneous acceptance of the inevitable and the ability to direct his focus on where he can actually act, here and now, during the trial. Exactly like the dichotomy of control says we should. THEME 3: LIVE ACCORDING TO NATURE Diogenes Laertius explains what the ancient Stoics meant by their catchphrase, live according to nature: This is why Zeno was the first (in his treatise On the Nature of Man) to designate as the end life in agreement with nature (or living agreeably to nature), which is the same as a virtuous life, virtue being the goal towards which nature guides us. So too Cleanthes in his treatise On Pleasure, as also Posidonius, and Hecato in his work On Ends. Again, living virtuously is equivalent to living in accordance with experience of the actual course of nature, as Chrysippus says in the first article of his De finibus; And this is why the end may be defined as life in accordance with nature, or, in other words, in accordance with our own human nature as well as that of the universe. This is another bit of ancient Stoicism that derives its immediate sense from the concept of a providential cosmos, which, again, is untenable in the light of modern science.