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Finding a partner of your happiness level or higher is imperative. Is your partner adding to your happiness or draining it? Part IV - Happiness is a Choice According to the science of happiness positive psychology, 40% of our happiness is made up by intentional activities. This includes our mindset. It's not what happens to us that determines our life; It's the attitude we take towards what happens to us. You know by now that we have a choice. Bad things happen, but it's up to us to decide how we deal with the experience. We have the choice to be an optimist or a pessimist. in foods, cosmetics, and furnishings, which wreak havoc on normal hormone function. Others may dismiss your efforts to reduce and replace the toxins in your life. Ignore them, follow your instincts, and carry on. Focus on the small, proactive things you can do instead of worrying about all that you cannot. It's about gradually decreasing your toxic load; Clean Eating Cheat Sheet Shifting to toxin-free foods is one of the most important things you can do for your health. It's a win-win: It reduces exposure to chemicals responsible for behavioral, neurological, and autoimmune disorders and respiratory diseases (among other things) while increasing the nutritional value of the foods you eat. Even as I write, new information from Europe is alerting us that pesticides and other agricultural chemicals are more dangerous to the brain than we've been told--and especially hazardous to mothers-to-be and children. However, it's not always possible to do a clean sweep and go fully organic all at once, plus it can be confusing to navigate food groups like meat.

For anyone trying to stay healthy and look good, this can be a critical factor that you haven't thought of yet. Stress is the figurative `death by a thousand cuts' - you can get everything right with your nutrition, training and supplementation, but if you are in a constant state of fight or flight, stress or anxiety, you are going to struggle to hit your own natural potential. What causes stress and how to deal with it Perhaps the best way to begin is by making a mental list of the sort of things that you find stressful. You would no doubt immediately come up with some obvious examples - a partner, family, friends who are always negative, or something more abstract, things like traffic jams, the gym at rush hour or work deadlines. You might even find things like `not looking a certain way' or `comparing yourself to others' as your main stressors; Thinking about these people, situations or events can trigger an automatic release of cortisol throughout our body. Has someone ever made you so mad that even the thought of them sent blood running through your veins? That's cortisol. Have you ever found your brain racing at 3:00am because you are worried about not waking up from your alarm - yeah, cortisol showing up. Running is nothing more than a series of arguments between the part of your brain that wants to stop and the part that wants to keep going. The American author, and motivational speaker Zig Ziglar once quipped, People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily. Of course, he was referring principally to goal achievement, and how difficult it is to stay motivated on a day-to-day basis, however this is particularly relevant for us in the context of maintaining a lengthy, and let's face it, sometimes monotonous training schedule. What kept us fired up and motivated in the first week or so cannot be relied upon to carry us through the entirety of the program as the honeymoon period wears off, and the reality of routine sets in. That's why it is important to have a strategy which keeps us engaged with our training throughout the program and augments our initial reasons for starting, as well as reinforcing our commitment to continue. In this section we explore some of the key elements to consider in formulating your own strategy to keep the fires of your own motivational engine burning. Crossing the starting line may be an act of courage, but crossing the finish line is an act of faith. Faith is what keeps us going when nothing else will. John Bingham

Tell them all to please forgive you for anything you have done in any lifetime to upset them. Tell them how they are responsible for all that is happening to you now, how it is their hard work that has brought you here now, how you are indebted to them. Praise them Now take some time to see who comes to you and listen intently to what they have to say. Now ask any of them if they would like you to take them to the feet of your Divine for liberation. Next, keeping your eyes closed, ask your Divine to show you those caught in lower realms that may be suffering. Ask your Divine to free them. Tell them to open their eyes and to go to the light. Sit and hold the space for them to come to the light. Once you feel this process is complete, thank your Divine for liberating your ancestors and slowly gently come back into the space. Here's what enhances people's motivation to do something, and keep doing it, according to the evidence: Conversely, here's what tends to crush our motivation to do something: Acknowledging someone's point of view, truly listening to her perspective, and being as empathic as possible are what cultivate motivation. Telling her she's wrong (or crazy or lazy or fill in the blank), because all we can see is how we're right, tends to drive motivation straight down. We can say I can't believe you would do this. Can't you see how irresponsible you are? Or we can say You're not a terrible person for drinking too much. You drink that way because you get depressed and drinking makes you feel better, helps you sleep, and that makes sense to me. It doesn't mean this is how you want things to stay, but it does make sense to me. The former undermines motivation;

DETERMINED ATTITUDE The meaning of determined is described as having made a firm decision and resolving not to change it. Although it's a simple concept, it's a tough nut to crack. Most people with the best intentions fail to achieve their goals and reach their dreams because they give up along the way. Perhaps you have a dream you've wanted to achieve since youth, but back then it looked easier to do than what you now realize it is. So many things are happening in your life, distracting you from reaching your goal. Maybe you lost your job or your income is barely enough for the basic necessities. Debt might be keeping you from breaking free financially, or you are afraid that you will get laid off from work within the year. Perhaps you're in the middle of a family crisis, suffering from an illness or your responsibilities at work demands all your time. The situations we face and the battles we fight almost every day make us want to give up and stop trying. If there is no opportunity to visit the home, this interview can be conducted in an office setting. Regardless of location, the Hoarding Interview is best completed in a conversational manner with the client, which is somewhat different in tone from the standardized diagnostic Structural Interview for Hoarding Disorder described at the end of this article. Rather, the Hoarding Interview is intended to help clinicians and other professionals establish a relationship with the client while inquiring about important aspects of their hoarding behaviors. The Hoarding Interview covers the following areas: Human services professionals have many constraints on their professional time due to high caseloads and multiple task demands. The time available to complete a Hoarding Interview, or a portion of it, will be determined by the goals for the home visit. A police officer may only inquire about one or two of the above items while a social worker may ask for detail on most or all of the items. The mandate of the professional discipline also influences how the interview is used. For example, a housing inspector is not likely to spend much time exploring a person's values and goals when that can be the focus of a social worker's interview. And finally, the nature of the visit also dictates the focus of the interview.

If you cannot focus, organize yourself, or get things done reliably, your anxiety likely needs some help. The HelpGuide website (helpguide. Panic and Anxiety: Understanding the Difference Between Readiness and Survival Anxiety and panic are mistaken for each other a lot, and you can see this mistake in the term anxiety attack, which refers not to anxiety, but to the powerful, lifesaving emotion of panic. Panic has a different purpose than anxiety does; Sometimes when you're overwhelmed, your panic may arise to help your anxiety get things done, and this is likely why panic and anxiety are mistaken for each other. Identifying your panic clearly -- and developing supportive practices for it -- is a vital part of learning how to work with your anxiety. Emotion Gifts and Skills Internal Questions PANIC arises when you face threats to your survival. Panic gives you three lifesaving choices: fight, flee, or freeze. Geminis may be the split personalities of the zodiac, but it's Cancers who have the multiple ones. Your ruling planet, the Moon, will travel through all twelve zodiac signs in just one month, as opposed to the Sun, which takes twelve months to complete that circle. No planet changes its appearance in the sky more quickly and dramatically than the Moon, and the same goes for your moods. When you're waxing you can be loving and generous to a fault, and when you're waning you're likely to be remote and uninterested. A lot of people get thrown off by this and can start to panic, but those who know better just give you your space, confident that when you reemerge you'll be as sharing and caring as you were before. You're a cyclical creature, after all. Families have changed since the days of freshly mowed lawns and white picket fences. Single moms, gay dads, and mixed-race households are all part of the neighborhood now. Yet what these different variations on a theme have in common is belonging. Belonging is a basic necessity like food, water, and shelter.