Healing Life Tragedies requires Stalwart Resilience This world is putting us all to the test. If tragedy is not striking us directly, then relatives, friends and those we see on the nightly news remind us that “but, for the Grace of God, go I.” Or perhaps our struggles are just not in the news, but [...]
Reducing Stress: A Whole Mind Body Experience Within the stress relief area, emotional resilience, courage and positive thinking are critical for increased coping skills and prevention of hopelessness. In the face of overwhelming events and injury, it may take a period of time before attitudes and thoughts can swing to hopefulness and positive thinking. However, [...]
Where to Start Wherever we turn, whatever happens, the quality of our lives will always, ultimately, reside with our inner selves. Within the chronic pain syndrome and/or living with disabilities, the essence of our beings, our inner wisdom, guides the ship. That does not mean you can be expected to overcome pain and hardship without [...]
When Adversity Strikes These can be dark times when your plate is overflowing with challenges. So dark that you may have forgotten about the spirit of overcoming that you’ve called upon many times. When the unbelievable happens, it takes time and strength to recover your old self who meets challenges and finds a way to [...]
Bouncing Back After Life’s Lemons Self-esteem permeates all we do. If it is low, it definitely impairs resilience and stress management skills, in addition to most other aspects of our lives. When trauma or bad events hit, it is difficult not to get inundated with thoughts about failures and perceived inadequacies. Coping with the worst [...]
Managing Stress Goes Beyond Learning Relaxation Techniques Stress is a given for everyone, as we all accept. Stress management, on the other hand, is done well by relatively few, and may take a change in the way you think about stress. A classic technique points to relaxation training, including using breathing, to calm the physical [...]
Healing Is Complicated Forgiveness adds another difficult layer in the process of applying positive thinking to overcome abuse, a particularly entrenched problem of many individuals’ personal growth process. Our culture’s Christian heritage has inserted forgiveness as a necessary step in personal development. A reader points out that forgiveness has muddied the water considerably in his/her [...]
Applying Affirmations To No Avail! “How do I use positive thoughts to change my emotions when I don’t believe the thoughts? I try changing my thoughts, but I can’t believe affirmations that others say I should use. They just don’t seem true.” These are the most frequent concerns from the layman who is attempting to [...]
She Rose Above Stress! Purrly came from an adoption shelter where the span of life was likely to be shortened unless a home was found, usually quickly! She was quiet, and the process of getting used to her new surroundings took a slow integration into the family. One other cat sibling had much more confidence, [...]
Uplifting An Entire Community It’s one thing to raise your own quality of life by your actions. Quite another feat boosts an entire community’s life quality. It is only accomplished by hard work, the ability to dream, and a determination that your life is nothing without taking others with you on the journey. Virginia Terry [...]
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