In the process of overhauling your mind to make positive thinking a dominant part of your thought process, it can become easy to get lost in the rabbit hole, and actually try too hard to think positively. This can actually end up creating the opposite effect of your original intention, and you end up feeling like you’re back at square one in mastering the art of positive thinking.
You might find yourself comparing yourselves to others, seeing how you measure up against them spiritually, or even reject negative thoughts altogether, following ill advised spiritual “gurus” who claim that experiencing the full spectrum of human emotions, including pain or frustration, will “lower your vibration” or “cause an imbalance in your chakras.” In short, the path to positivity should be yours and yours alone, not dictated by what others claim as an absolute truth. Even if you have learned to follow your own path to enlightenment, you might still encounter some of these common signs that you’re forcing yourself to feel more positive, rather than allowing it to happen naturally. Continue reading. Originally posted on Power of Positivity.
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Bryony Gordon wants a Dry Life not just a Dry January and hopes hypnotherapist Susan Hepburn can help. So how did her first session go?
Let me tell you all about my long and complicated relationship with alcohol. Actually, it’s not that complicated: we met, we became tempestuous lovers, and now we keep breaking up and getting back together. Me and white wine? We’re the Liz Taylor and Richard Burton of the booze world. Sometimes I cheat on it with a beer, or a Baileys (Baileys! What am I? Eighteen?), but I always come back to it: a nice, chilled glass of Chablis with a couple of cubes of ice in it. The ice is crucial – somebody told me it waters the wine down but actually I suspect it just makes it even more pleasant so I end up drinking it faster. Continue reading. Originally posted on Telegraph.Wellbeing. Depression needs to be treated like a physical illness — not a mental disability. With "mental disability" comes a stigma of weakness. So it's understandably something people have trouble admitting they have. But would people be less ashamed of their depression if it was regarded as a bodily condition? Because that's exactly what it is, according to a growing number of scientists.
George Slavich, a clinical psychologist at the University of California in Los Angeles told the Guardian, "I don't even talk about it as a psychiatric condition any more. It does involve psychology, but it also involves equal parts of biology and physical health." In other words, depression has just as much to do with the body as it does with the mind. Continue reading. Originally posted on Mind Body Green. It was not long ago when most people, including scientists, thought that the human brain could not be developed beyond a certain point. The terms “hardwired”, “fixed”, and “unchangeable” were associated with the nerve development of the human brain once a certain age (usually early childhood to adolescence) was reached.
Neuroplasticity is now defined as: “The brain’s ability to reorganize itself by forming neural connections throughout life.” No longer is the human brain thought to be a static, unchanging organ that is limited by our age. In fact, neuroscientists have produced accumulating evidence that demonstrates the brains ability to restructure and form neural connections to compensate for damage caused by injury, disease, and age. So not only can your brain repair and strengthen itself despite of age, it can do so even if it’s been damaged! Continue reading. Originally posted on Power of Positivity. I consider myself to be a former stress addict. Just a few years ago, I was stressed out all the time and thought that was the way life was supposed to be. I made sure I was always busy, and I didn't do anything that would help me stress less. I stayed in a job that made me unhappy and didn't allow me to earn enough money to have a better quality of life, and I was always complaining about this lack of money.
When I did have free time, I wasted it by zoning out on bad TV and disconnecting from the world. When I spent time with my friends, it was filled with my complaints about work and anything else that wasn't going the way I wanted. Luckily, I realized that being a stress addict wasn't the way I wanted to live my life, and I changed my habits. Here are five signs you might be a stress addict. Continue reading. Originally posted on Mind Body Green. “Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny.”~Steven Pressfield
This week I had the pleasure of waiting in a queue. Now, that is not normally something that I would be able to say, as I’m not the most patient woman. The queue was for the immigration department in Chiang Mai, Thailand—a busy place full of people who were stressed because they were unsure about where to get a number for their place in the queue, unsure if they had the right paperwork, unsure of how long the process would take, and unsure if their right to stay in the country would be extended. Friends had warned me that I might be sitting in that crowded room for hours, so I had come prepared with postcards to write and a notepad to write my next newsletter. I did neither of those things. Continue reading. Originally posted on Tiny Buddha. Every January 1, millions of people make New Year's resolutions. Chances are, they won't stick around for too long. Why?
Because most resolutions are unrealistic, or even unreasonable. Here are seven outdated fitness and nutrition resolutions that are destined — and deserve — to fail, along with smarter options to make sure you follow through and succeed. Continue reading. As mentioned in my last post book up for a FREE consultation and I'll help you stick to your new goals, reach those targets and remain motivated and positive throughout 2015. To help you further, if you book for a consultation before the end of January 2015 I'll give you 10% off of your first 4 Hypnotherapy sessions. Get in touch NOW by emailing merryfield.hypnotherapy@gmail.com or by calling 07718 975 185 or via the CONTACT page on this website. Make that first step. I look forward to hearing from you. Originally posted on Mind Body Green. |
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