Sunday, September 5, 2010

Going Through a Nasty Divorce? How to Cope With it Through Meditation

Submitted By: Nelson Berry
There are plenty of reasons why couples would decide to divorce, but the bottom line is this: no matter how much a former husband and wife say it’s going to be all right and it’s an amicable decision, it’s never going to be worth celebrating. A lot of things can suffer. Usually children will have a hard time coping up with the divorce. Even ex-couples have to adjust to their

new life away from each other. There will be plenty of pain and hurtful memories. There’s also the issue of finances, especially if only one is supporting the entire family.

Divorce is a leading cause of anxiety and depression, and many are currently in medication because of such.

If you find yourself battling a divorce or you are just recently divorced, these things do sound too familiar, and somehow you wish you can find a way to be able to cope with the issue at hand more effectively. Well, the good news is there is. You may want to consider doing meditation.

The Benefits of Meditation in Divorce

Meditation can help a divorcee deal with the process more effectively. One of the greatest benefits of meditation is its ability to relieve stress. There’s no doubt that divorce is a very stressful experience. As mentioned, it brings about a lot of negative emotions and thoughts, which can overwhelm your mind and body.

Meditation can lower down the stress level in the body by also reducing the heart rate and blood pressure. Proper breathing exercises can also calm the tensed nerves and make your body feel relaxed. When you meditate before going to bed, you will discover that you can enjoy longer hours of uninterrupted sleep. You will also feel rejuvenated the next morning.

Scientifically, meditation has been proven to boost the immune system. When you’re stressed, you’re increasing the secretion of cortisol in the blood. This can lead to high blood pressure. The last thing you want to happen when you’re undergoing divorce is to get sick, as this may entail more financial costs.

You can further boost the effectiveness of meditation by making use of subliminal messages in the form of affirmations. Subliminal messages are utilized to increase your level of self-confidence, change your disposition from negative to positive, and empower you. Subliminal messages can assist you in getting rid of negative thoughts and emotions, which often lead to depression and anxiety.

Some of the affirmations you can use may include the following:

• I am loved.
• I can definitely move on after this.
• I feel good in body, mind, and soul.
• I am healthy.
• I am looking forward to a new start.
• I am confident and self-reliant.

These subliminal messages can become your belief system, making it easier for you to change the way you think about the situation. You will start looking at divorce as a painful experience in your life that you can surely get through and that it is an onset of a brand-new life.
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Getting Rid of Jealousy Through NLP

Submitted By: Nelson Berry
Is it normal to feel jealous? Yes, it is—once in a while. However, if it happens more frequently, worse, it destroys relationships and makes you lose your sense of confidence and causes depression and anxiety, then jealousy is going to pose such a huge problem. You want to make sure you can find the right solution to it.

NLP, or neuro-linguistic programming, may be one of the effective means to deal with jealousy. NLP is a behavioral technology that deals with the language of the mind or how you perceive things. If you’re able to practice NLP correctly, you will discover how it’s easy for you to modify your thought patterns to allow you to achieve goals and settle issues, such as jealousy.

What You Can Do

A jealous person may feel angry or neglected if he or she sees a loved one getting cozy with somebody else. They try to treat the negative emotion by improving their level of self-confidence or by convincing themselves that there’s really nothing to be jealous about.

But there’s a huge problem with this kind of thinking. That’s like managing something on the surface. Like addiction, jealousy will rear its ugly head sooner than you thought. Before you know it, you can feel it controlling you again.

NLP tries to go much deeper. It tries to address the main causes of jealousy. The next action will then depend on the causes that you can determine. For instance, you may not really know it but jealousy may have been caused by feeling abandoned while you were young. Perhaps your parents favor your siblings more than you. You may not be aware of it, but somewhere in your subconscious you are harboring ill feelings out of these memories.

When you have already determined the cause, you will then develop the best course of action to take. This may entail changing your behavior or attitude toward jealousy. At this point, you can make use of subliminal messages.

How do subliminal messages work? Subliminal messages may come in the form of affirmations or auto-suggestions. They go into your subconscious, a part of the mind that’s free of logic or reason. When you need them, you simply have to tap them. Moreover, because they form part of the deep recesses of the mind, it’s possible to make changes within yourself.

Subliminal messages to overcome jealousy may include the following:

• I love myself.
• I value my relationships.
• I have a lot of gifts that I can truly be proud of.
• I abhor and ignore jealousy.
• I am completely secure with the relationship I have.
• I trust my partner and am trustworthy.

It may take some time, but the subliminal messages can form part of your belief system. Subsequently, you can change your thinking pattern, turning something negative to something positive.

You don’t get the results right away, but as long as you can apply subliminal messages and NLP in your life properly, you really don’t have to wait too long.
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212 the Extra Degree by S.L. Parker and Mac Anderson a Review

Submitted By: Ben Sanderson
212 The Extra Degree is a book by S.L. Parker and Mac Anderson. The book is a classic in the self-improvement field and the concepts that it teaches are extremely valuable to all that apply them. Here are the basics behind 212 The Extra Degree and what S.L. Parker and Mac Anderson were trying to teach us.

The basic idea behind 212 The Extra Degree is that the difference between 211 degrees and 212 degrees is not big from a numerical standpoint. However, the difference in results is astronomical. At 211 degrees, water is just water. At 212, the water turns into steam and can be used for a variety of different purposes. The steam can be used to turn a giant turbine and create electricity. It can be used to power a train. The steam can be used in many different ways and it is much more versatile than simply having hot water.

If you are interested in being successful, this concept should be something that you take to heart. When you are doing things, there is a good chance that you are simply going through the motions. You might just be doing enough to get by. If this is the case, if you were to put out just a little bit more effort and do things in a slightly more productive manner, you could potentially be much more successful.

This concept is also referred to as the razor's edge. Typically, the people who are the most successful do not do that much more than those who are complete failures. Many times, people think that they should give up when if they would simply press on for just a little bit further, they would achieve their goals.

Many times, adversity is what causes people to give up. Instead of giving up at the first sign of adversity, you need to keep on going. By giving that extra effort, you will be able to take your results from hot water to boiling steam.

Regardless of what industry or profession you are in, you need to think about one action that you can take every day that would make a big difference in your life. For example, if you are in sales, you might make one extra sales call everyday. While this might not seem like a big deal if you look at it from a daily perspective, it can make a huge difference over the course of a year. You could take your sales from where they currently are to a level that you have never previously reached.

If you are interested in achieving your goals, you should apply the lesson that is taught in 212 The Extra Degree to your own life. S.L. Parker and Mac Anderson definitely knew what they were talking about and provided us with one of the most valuable truths in the world today. This one concept can take you from where you are to where you want to be.
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Finding Happiness at Work

Submitted By: A. Majid
The majority of our waking hours are devoted to work. It is estimated an average human being, depending where he or she lives in the world, spent somewhere around 60,000 to 100,000 hours in a lifetime working for their livelihood. That is a huge amount and if you are not happy at work then it is a safe bet to say that you have spent the majority of your life being miserable.

Happiness is not something that simply happens. You cannot manufacture happiness. It is also not dependent on the circumstances but on you. Being happy is a state of the mind. It is true that you cannot cause happiness but you can prepare the ground for being happy.

Every stage in our life involves a unique experience and cannot be repeated. It is the same with happiness. The happiness you felt the first time you started working and earning money for yourself cannot be repeated. It was an experience that can never be repeated again. You can change jobs, you might feel excited, even happy but the intensity of it will be different.

Aristotle, the Greek philosopher once said, “Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence”. It is up to you to work at it. Here are 7 tips you can use to find happiness at work.

1. Be totally immersed. What this means is that do not separate your work with your private life. This does not, however mean that you must bring work home, but sometimes if you need stay a little longer in the office to finish a task, the do it.

Those who drop everything and rush back home just because the clock had struck 5.00pm are bound to be stressed. The thought that there is something incomplete, will be lurking in the mind and nagging you.

2. One day at a time. Be present in the moment. Don’t rewind your past or fast forward to the future. Do not waste time thinking about past mistakes or worrying what the future will be like. You cannot change the past and the only way you can “secure” your future is to live and work today the best today.

3. Focus on one task at a time. If you are engaged in two or more tasks, it is better to drop others and concentrate on the one you think is important. The more tasks you are doing at the same time, the more thinly your resources are spread. You spent more time finishing one task while doing several at the same time than doing one at a time and run the risk being stressed out.

4. Learn to enjoy your work. Find different ways doing your work. Be creative. Learn how to use your coffee breaks and lunch time wisely.

5. Avoid unhappy colleagues. Well, ok you cannot do that all the time, but unless you have something that demands you deal with, it is better for you not to be in their company. Unhappy people at work complain most of the time. Nothing is ever right for them. Over time, their words can be poisonous to your spirit and motivation.

6. Meditate. You really do not need a Zen like environment to do this. There are many meditation CDs that you can play on your computer or laptop just listen. These are proven to work.

7. Look for job when you are in control. Never look for one just because you are unhappy at the moment. This will lead you to jump on the first opportunity that comes along and that is not necessarily right for you. Also you need to change your job if you had taken all the steps to enjoy the present one and still cannot find happiness. Sometimes it is better to accept job that pays less but which allows you to express yourself or the one that is flexible.
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