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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 time. In other words, how…
August 29, 2024Have 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 to a large…
August 22, 2024Excite 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 tendency to take…
August 15, 2024Think 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 may be a…
August 13, 2024Do 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 and drive. It’s…
August 1, 2024Your Thoughts Create
What are you creating? What do you choose to observe? What thoughts do you choose? What identity do you don? What mood, what emotions, what…
July 30, 2024Try 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 wrong, don’t grab…
July 16, 2024There 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 psychological transformation than…
July 9, 2024Be 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 large, you are…
July 4, 2024The 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 bear no relevance…
June 13, 2024Your Soul is Digesting Your Experiences You Choose as surely as Your Body Digests the Food You Eat
We are all aware of the need to eat well and nutritiously in order to maintain our physical health yet few of us give the…
May 7, 2024