Category: Positive Thinking/Visualization

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The Thought Pattern That Saves Relationships… and the One that Virtually Dooms Them

It’s very simple really, a blinding flash of the obvious but just like fish discovering water last: what is constantly right in

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Unleashing the Michelangelo Phenomenon

The Michelangelo Phenomenon is an observed effect by marriage counselors and psychologists reflecting the way couples mold or ‘sculpt’ each other over

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Have You Exercised Your Happiness Muscle Lately?

As Abe Lincoln famously said: “Most of us are as happy as we make up our minds to be.” This suggests that

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Excite Your Life: Escaping the Habituation Trap

Habituation is the human propensity, in scientific terms, ‘to diminish our response to constant stimuli over time’. Or in plain English, our

A drawing of a yellow sunflower with a smiling face with a blue sky in the background

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Think the Right Thought

What does “Think the Right Thought” mean? First, acknowledge that you have the ability to choose the thoughts you think. Now it

4 words written on a chalkboard, all with the first 2 letters crossed out with an "x": "Impossible", "Unable", "Unsolvable", and "undoable"

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Do You Experience Goal-incongruent Emotions?

Negative emotions such as doubt, fear, anxiety, depression, despair, guilt, or shame all weaken us, detract from our focus, sap our energy

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Your Thoughts Create

What are you creating? What do you choose to observe? What thoughts do you choose? What identity do you don? What mood,

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Try the Other Handle

“Every event has two handles—one by which it can be carried, and one by which it can’t. If your brother does you

"Small steps, big changes" written on a chalkboard

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There has got to be a Morning After

We have all heard of PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder); less is written about PTG: Post Traumatic Growth. PTG is the positive

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Be the Bee, Not the Fly

How you approach life powerfully impacts the life you experience. Do you stand outside yourself and observe how, in ways small and

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The Fallacy of Projecting What Was onto What Is

The ability to fully release the past is a true superpower, one within the grasp of all. Who we were yesterday need