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What is Hypnosis?
by Adam Eason

Before anyone experiences hypnosis and starts using it to make wonderful, beneficial changes in their life, this article is designed to perhaps to answer a few questions you may have and also to dispel a few myths and misconceptions about hypnosis. You know, I still meet people that believe that experiencing hypnosis is like being unconscious. I always reply, “What would be the point of that? Spending money and time to be unconscious in someone else’s company?? If I wanted you to be unconscio ...

How to Save Money with Great Gift Ideas
by Ispas Marin

Want to save $1000 this year for very little effort? Gift giving is an area where impulse buying is a frequent occurrence. I was amazed to discover I was spending over $1500 or more per year for gifts. What have you spent for gifts in the last 12 months? In my experience, gifts were last minute purchases for which money was no object. I now spend less than $500 per year for gifts. Take two hours of your life and save yourself $1000 or more per year on gift giving. Get Prepared L ...

Transforming Anger
by Nikhil Gangoli

All of us feel anger and hatred from time to time. Eastern meditation and mindfulness techniques can help us mange and transform our anger so that the energy contained in the anger benefits us instead of spreading misery in others and ourselves. It is important to note that although anger causes us pain we should not reject it or disown it. Suppose your stomach or legs or some other part of your body grew diseased and caused you pain. Would you for that reason try to get rid of your stomach o ...

Easy Study Skills for Exams
by Ian McAllister

---------------------- Easy Study Skills for Exams ---------------------- Study skills: do you start reading at one end of your library and try to read through to the other end? Of course not. So you already know one effective approach. Be selective! We can build on that now. ------------------------------------- More Study Skills - what not to study ------------------------------------- Whole books Your lecturer tells you to read Author's Biography: Ian McA ...

Learning Styles Of Music
by Guy Ames

Learning styles of music can help you get work, don’t get me wrong; but you need to consider the time and expense involved in knowing a lot of music genre’s, having the goods to do them, and if your locality really wants the specific genre. DJs invariably enter the profession as a part time hobby because they love the music they play and love to see others enjoying it too. Usually DJs have an already significant existing vinyl or CD/DVD collection of music that they enjoy and they use this ...

Enhance Wellness by Doing Something Different with NLP
by Adam Eason

Many people would say that it is absolute madness to keep on doing the same thing, time after time, expecting to get a different result or for something different to happen. Alternatively, many people, especially those in the personal development, NLP and wellness fields of varying natures, would describe it as intelligent to have a goal and be wonderfully flexible about how you go about achieving it. It is this intelligent idea of enhancing wellness that I want to highlight today with NLP ...

Feel Better Now!
by Keith Varnum

Talk about hype scaring people away! Ascension takes the prize! Ascension is perceived as a high and lofty goal—yet reserved for someone else to do! Not me! … Why not? People shy away from the aspiration to Ascend because the notion of Ascension is greatly misunderstood. Many folks think “Ascension” means that they will be rising above the 3rd dimensional Earth plane and thereby having to leave behind their loved ones and life as they know it. This scenario is the Ascension that our Minds ...

Skin Care Advice At Any Age
by Elizabeth McGee

We've become a society obsessed with our looks. It's been noted that we spend more on beauty products in the west than we do on education. Why are we so obsessed? Because it's easier and more affordable than ever before.Anti-aging skincare technology has progressed leaps and bounds. We know more about the skin today than we ever did. There are advanced skincare products that can erase years, and of course, the plastic surgeon has perfected his trade such that procedures are ...

How to Get People to Listen
by Carol Welsh

How we listen and perceive is influenced by the four perceptual styles: Audio, Visual, Feeler, and Wholistic. For instance, Audios prefer to turn their ears toward you when you are speaking rather than look you in the eyes. They are filtering through what you are saying to get to the bottom line as quickly as possible. If they are listening intently, they might close their eyes. However, since childhood they have been told “Look at me when I’m speaking to you!” In defense, they might take notes ...

3 Steps to Manifesting Your Ideal Life
by Edwin Harkness Spina

Over the past several weeks I've received dozens of email solicitations for books, CDs and videos that promise to reveal newly discovered techniques to improve my life. These emails promise a wide variety of benefits: how to get rich, lose weight, meet the woman of my dreams and buy a million dollar mansion with no money down. In some cases the salesman will throw in a Author's Biography: ...

Sickness and Disease: The Bible’s Perspective
by Maurice Perry

Sickness and Disease: The Bible’s Perspective What is sickness? What is disease? Why are both of these ailments extremely prevalent in a society that is more technologically advanced than ever before? In an age where man can build super scud missiles, devastating nuclear war heads, and can build space rovers that can roll on the planet Mars thousands and thousands of miles away, why has there not been a cure for the common cold? Why has sickness and disease remained an issue since biblical ti ...

10 Tips For Conquering Your Fears
by Cari Vollmer

Have you ever had a fear that kept you from living life fully? Perhaps this fear has stopped you from having MORE fun or experiencing GREATER success. Yes? You're not alone. I have too. The fear I conquered in the story below may not be my biggest fear but with a little reflection I saw how it really stopped me from enjoying my family and life to the fullest. It also taught me a valuable lesson of how taking steps to overcome my fear resulted in increased self confidence. At the end of m ...

Be Careful What You Reinforce: Feedback and Coaching
by Richard L. Williams, Ph.D.

An employee’s effort, commonly referred to as “work,” consists of the behavior(s) that he or she performs while on the job. Effort has been described as being on a scale of high, medium, or low. An employee’s performance is the results, and is the product of effort (work) and behaviors. Performance is typically classified as being superior, average, or substandard. When coaching your subordinates you must understand and recognize the direct relationship between an employee’s behaviors, and ...

The Locker Lesson
by Debbie Friedman

My 13-year old son had started at one of the most prestigious private schools in the nation – an honor that we were paying $20,000 a year for and at a school that had 100 applications for each spot! When he came home the second month with a horrified look on his face, telling me that he’d done something awful, I was more than a little concerned. He explained that, as a prank, he had given a boy’s locker combination to someone else. That person had opened the locker, and trashed all the books ...

Speech and Debate in Homeschool Training: Persuasive Speech or Just Speaking?
by Wayne Sedlak

Henry Clay, the persuasive nineteenth century statesman from Kentucky, once was walking down a narrow sidewalk in Washington, D.C. Who comes walking toward him but his erstwhile rival, a bitter and cantankerous fellow Senator. Approaching Clay, the old Senator bellowed, Author's Biography: ...

Coaching and Performance Management
by Magella. Sergerie, M.Ed

When Performance Management replaced Performance Evaluation in Organizations, it was going to give leadership a different definition and much more credibility and accountability to all members of a team. Instead of having little control over personal development within the organization, leaders and team members could begin to create relationships that would develop a workforce with skills needed to compete in a globalizing world. Because this approach looks towards the future rather than the p ...

The Number 1 Secret of Success
by Alan Fairweather

Do you know what one of the key secrets of success is - what makes people successful in business, sport or any other aspect of their lives? Let me come back to that in a minute. Ever since I discovered that I wasn't invincible and that my body would fall apart over time, I've been a member of a gym. I've attended regularly over the past fifteen years and my body deterioration is almost being kept in check. However I've always noticed a lot of new faces at the gym, some of which se ...

How to choose cologne
by Jeff Lakie

In the morning as you're about to dash off to work, or in the evening before a big date, you probably spray some cologne or perfume on yourself just before heading out. When you chose to buy that particular perfume or cologne, what was it that made you decide? Was it a Author's Biography: ...

Make your cologne your own
by Jeff Lakie

Once you have found a scent that you feel really defines who you are and what you are all about, (and makes you just a little more unforgettable!), how do you make it your own? By that we mean, how do you make people think, Author's Biography: ...

How Can You Apply for a Furnished Apartment?
by Ispas Marin

Generally, when you are willing to rent a furnished apartment, you will be asked to fill in an application form by the landlord or the property management and you are ought to be asked to pay an amount of money for them to look over your application form($20 or $30 which should cover the costs for running your credit card). The application form for the furnished apartments is a typical one asking you to relate your name, current address, Social Security Number, workplace and monthly wage. These ...

Methods for Renting a Furnished Apartment
by Ispas Marin

If you are in need of an apartment for rental for a shorter period of time you should consider to apply for a furnished apartment. This way the whole process will be cheaper and you could save money for other urgent needs. There are many offers for furnished apartments so all you have to do is see them and decide upon the one which best suits you. Main issues to be considered when renting a furnished apartment At first you should decide on the precise location of the apartment so that it ...

Advantages of a Furnished Apartment
by Ispas Marin

The first issue for you to consider whenever you want to rent an apartment is whether you need it for a long period of time or a short one. This is very important because if you are intending to spend more years in an apartment you may consider to make some changes in it. This will be a sort of 'home' for you and the idea is that you should like it. For short-term contracts there are some hotel-type accommodations which offer furnished apartments. These are generally named 'Extended Stay Hotels' ...

Supreme Self-Esteem
by Adam Eason

Self-esteem is incredibly important. In fact, I think it is so important that I am going to say that again. Self-esteem is incredibly important. Many people have the notion that it is the same as self-confidence; however it is far more than just self-confidence. If we look further into the origins of the word esteem itself, as we look etymologically, it comes from the word aestimate, which literally means ‘to put a value on.’ As you might guess, this word shares the same root as the word ‘estim ...

This Just Ain’t Good!
by Gene Simmons

“Nope, this just ain’t good!” How many times in our lives have we had those or similar words bouncing around inside our skulls? Yeah, I’ve lost count, too! There are usually only a few reasons these annoying words show up. Occasionally, it’ll be when we just run smack-dab into an “Oh Sh--!” situation. You know what I mean. Accidents, diseases and a whole bunch of other stuff that seem to have popped up out of nowhere and suddenly we find ourselves up to our neck in swamp water with all ...

Meditation 101
by Deborah Shipley

“Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. “ -Bhagavad Gita Meditation is a bit of a buzz word these days. For some it is a requirement and a respite from life’s hectic pace. For others it may be misunderstood, overwhelming, too new age, too difficult, or completely feared. Yet, meditation, if practiced with commitment, will inevitably lead to the successful quieting of the mind. It does not stand a ...




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