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 [...]
Anger Can Destroy Your Quality of Life When the rage hits, it can seem like you are being swallowed by it! As soon as you can begin to think straight, you know that you need to regain control. Anger has a way of taking over your life, your thoughts, your well-being–if you let it. The [...]
Strengthen the Body Core Benefits of physical activity can add new depth to the lives of seniors and the disabled–they simply have to discover the right exercises for their particular abilities. The exercise/fitness market offers so many products, it becomes difficult to find the exercise equipment that will be the best to meet specific needs. [...]
Inside Is A Real Person The old saying that you can’t tell a book by it’s cover is the essence of what it is to live as a disabled person. Whatever appears physically to be the disability doesn’t reveal the depths of emotion and struggle going on inside. The courage to face every day and [...]
Primarily, It Is Still An Inside Job In the big picture, numerous aspects of your learning and makeup either complicate your efforts to control stress or promote coping and healing. Resilience is the key. How well do you bounce back? What are your adaptive skills? What is your capacity to thrive and live to your [...]
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 [...]
To My Friend, The Day After! (Surgery was yesterday. Check out her post: “The Other Shoe Fell.” Amazingly, she went home the same day.) Every time one has surgery, the next day is a trying experience any way you look at it. So, try to keep your sense of peace. It is the first day [...]
My friend has been walking carefully through life, since her first encounter with breast cancer. Here is her story, told in her words. Her surgery was yesterday. The Other Shoe Fell, But, It Landed Gently! Breast Cancer–two words every woman never wants to hear. When you do hear it, you pray to never hear two [...]
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