What comes to mind when you think about the holidays?
Do you groan, feeling burdened by all you have to do? Do you dread going shopping for gifts or cleaning up after a Christmas or Chanukah celebration?
Or, do you feel a sense of fun, of delight, of joy in the celebrating, giving and receiving?
Which part of [...]
When you were a small child, your painful emotions may have felt too overwhelming to feel. If you experienced physical, emotional, or sexual abuse, your little body was not big enough to manage the painful feelings. If you were neglected, unseen, misunderstood, invaded, smothered, shamed or ridiculed, it may have felt too painful to manage. [...]
Is there a limiting belief somewhere deep in your psyche that is stopping and holding you back from the life you really want to live? Is there some crazy notion that masquerades as common sense that prevents you from taking action?
Many of us have limiting beliefs that we may not even be aware of. Often [...]
What are you looking for in your life? More peace, prosperity, someone to share your life with? What are you hungry for?
I don’t know about you, but one of the things I’ve learned on this journey of becoming more of who I am &ndash is that every person deep down inside &ndash really just wants [...]
Love. We need it from the moment we are born to thrive. We might survive but we do not thrive without abundant love. No wonder we work so hard to get it. No wonder we try to be perfect and do everything right to have control over getting love. No wonder we get anxious, angry [...]
What do you tell yourself and others about your life? Do you paint a picture of your life as happy and optimistic or as somber and sad?
It’s not what happens to us in this life but it is what we do with and about what happens to us in this life. Life is not fair. [...]
The other day I wrote myself a love note. I was feeling a little down and I needed a pick-me-up. It was simple really, and it only took me about 10 minutes. I hardly thought about it either before or after I wrote it.
When I shared it with someone a few hours [...]
Do you tell yourself that you are not a creative person because you can't draw or play an instrument or write poetry? I often hear many of my clients bemoan, "I'm not creative!"
This isn't true! We all have the ability to be creative - it is a God-given gift - but you might not be [...]
When you want to listen to a particular radio station, you tune your radio to that station, tuning in to a particular frequency. Same when you want to watch a particular show on TV. It is the frequency you tune into that determines what you hear and what you see.
Our brains operate in very much [...]
You're a diamond.
I've always said that each person was a diamond hidden in the ground. The start of the personal development journey is digging the diamond up, and clearing off the mud, is getting rid of negative emotions, negative self-image, and negative core beliefs. Most previous articles in the emotional mastery section have been clearing [...]