Are you experiencing confusion in your life? Are you confused about your life purpose or smaller issues, like what to eat for lunch?
Did you know that there are two kinds of confusion? You can experience unhealthy confusion or healthy confusion.
Keep reading to discover the 5 signs of unhealthy confusion and how to get unstuck.
Whether you work with thoughts or emotions depends on you. When you want to change your life, you have so many options these days. You can work with counselors, psychologists, or life coaches. You can find self-help books, audios, and classes.
When there are so many options, one way to narrow down your options is to decide if you want to work with your thoughts or your emotions.
How can you decide which is best for you?
I know what you are thinking – “How can there be a gift in my emotional pain?” I am not suggesting that your emotional pain is the gift, but hidden inside (or behind) that pain is a gift.
This gift is a wonderful aspect of you. Due to a painful past experience you lost a part of yourself. Releasing emotional pain is like unwrapping the gift that is you.
Are you ready to find your gifts?
Are you celebrating yourself or judging yourself? We often hear the old saying: “Is your cup half empty or half full.” Are you focusing on your half empty cup?
How you view yourself and your life can make a huge difference in your level of happiness. A simple shift in perspective can change your world.
Being kind to yourself is a great way to celebrate yourself. Would you like to see your cup as half full?
Mindfulness is sometimes thought of as another word for meditation. It can also be defined as the ability to be aware of the present moment without judging or criticizing yourself. We are going to be using this second definition.
If you have ever tried being mindful, you know that it is easier said than done. When you discovered that you were not in the present moment, you were probably thinking about something else – an earlier conversation or what to eat for dinner. It seems that your thoughts are taking you out of the present moment.
What if your thoughts aren’t the only thing pulling you out of the present moment? Keep reading to discover the missing key.
Have you ever wondered if emotional wounds from childhood are still affecting you? Can they sabotage your success?
The person you are today is the result of all of your life experiences. Most of us have a mix of both positive and negative experiences. Even people who had wonderful childhoods are still holding on to some emotional wounds and these wounds can sabotage your success.
If you could release the negative experiences from your past – the one that resulted in emotional wounds – how would your life change?
Everyone wants to be happy, but did you know that happiness is related to your physical health?
Negative emotions also affect your health. You may have some personal experience with this concept. You had a stressful experience at work or at home and when it was over you came down with a cold.
The relationship between emotions and health is now more than something that seems true. Researchers have validated what many of us have suspected for years.
Keep reading to find out more about this important link.
When we know what is causing our anger, we can have a healthy anger response. This kind of anger helps us know when we have been mistreated or harmed. It helps us take action to improve our lives.
Anger can also be unhealthy. For example, if your partner forgot your birthday or didn’t listen to you, an unhealthy response would be to yell and refuse to speak to your partner for days.
Sometimes we are not aware of what is really causing our anger. This type of anger is often more intense and more difficult to manage.
You are going to be learning a permanent solution to your anger problem. If you want anger management tips, look elsewhere. Keep reading to discover permanent solutions to anger.
When you least expect it, you can find yourself overwhelmed by your emotions. You are just living your life and all of a sudden you are feeling fear or anger or the depths of sadness. These emotions seem to come out of nowhere. Your emotions have hijacked your life.
Do you blow up over every little thing? Do you have more fears than most of your friends? Do you worry because you overreact to everyday events? Does your family call you touchy or irritable?
What is really going on when your emotions hijack your life? Could these reactions be caused by painful events form your past?
In my last two posts, I defined emotional personality and gave you some steps to steps to discover your personality: both true and learned or false.
Now, we are going to explore how your emotional personality affects your life. Your false personality was learned in early childhood and has been your constant companion ever since.
Since your emotional personality was learned, it may not reflect your true self. You have more choices than you realize.
You can choose your true personality.