According to the American Psychological Association 10 to 25 percent of the US population experiences the phobia of flying. Visualization for fear of flying is a technique where you imagine yourself having a positive flying experience. It’s like replaying a mental movie about having an enjoyable and relaxing flight. The Visualization steps: 1. Goal statement [...]

Many mind experts actually will attest to you that self esteem is one of the most important things when talking about the development of a child. What they are talking about is the developmental years of a child, which would be somewhere within the range from when they were born to somewhere around the 6 [...]

Depression can come in many forms and in many levels of potency to the individual and the scary thing is that you might be suffering from some form of depression and not even know about it. What you need to do when you are not sure whether or not you have depression is to take [...]

When you were a kid at school, you probably endured lots of preaching about the virtue of flexibility. Most likely, the moral speeches you heard were accompanied by fulminating diatribes against rigidity. Imprecise is right and exact is boring, you were told. Weightlessness is strength and fragility is solidity.  In the terms of ethics, this [...]

Copyright (c) 2009 Valery Satterwhite Spending an entire day at an airport dealing with one flight delay after another was once a nightmare for me.  I have since learned to look for the gift in every experience.  My recent, and much anticipated, trip to Italy began with such an unexpected day.  Instead of pouting thinking [...]

Irregular verbs and plurals are the most difficult part to memorize when you study foreign languages.  For children learning their mother tongue, atypical cases are also the most complicated.  Asymmetrical constructions are slowly assimilated by the human mind, which, at any stage of development, automatically tries to find patterns in reality. We have created numbers, [...]

To imagine a world without creative people is hard to do.  We all know that it’s these people that make our lives better.  They come up with all the inventions that make our lives more comfortable and efficient. Unfortunately many of us are not born with such talents for creativity.  Nonetheless, you can boost your [...]

There is no secret and no surprise that most people would like to be able to manifest the things that they desire and to begin to open up a world that is filled with abundance and opportunity and all of the good things that are available in life.  When you are able to manifest desires that [...]

Persuasion techniques are effective weapons of communication.  They allow you to get what you want whenever you want without having to use force.  A lot of successful people have gotten to where they are because they knew how to use persuasion techniques to their advantage.  I’m sure you wouldn’t want to miss out on similar [...]

Copyright (c) 2009 Karin Marcus Summer is the time to renew and rejoice.  It is the time to rest and play and to let the fruits of your labours, ripen.  Physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually, your hearts and bodies need this time to rejuvenate.  You have recently emerged from a long hard winter that was [...]

Stress isn’t always a bad thing.  You’re probably aware of the tense rising exciting stress you feel when you’ve been given a challenge that’s just out of your reach, but which you’re sure you can do.  This positive stress, called eustress, is what every honed athlete feels just before their “big race”.  Our bodies are [...]

Yesterday I treated myself to a massage.  It was wonderful!  Fifty five minutes of bliss – Well pain and discomfort actually – but the bliss came later.  Massages are tremendous as a form of stress relief and I really do respond well to them. I really don’t get enough massages and I’m not sure why [...]