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Is being stressed out a common occurrence for you? While a little stress can be good for you – it can motivate you and push you to your potential, many of us are dealing with too much stress.

Unrelenting stress, whether it is concerns about finances, job stress or the over-committed responsibilities can occur on a daily basis, can mean that the fight or flight response can be activated most of the time.

This chronic stress can be harmful to your health and well being. This makes dealing with stress a priority for you.

One of the first steps to managing stress to know what is causing your stress.

The old adage that "You can’t fix a problem until you can recognize the causes" is true of stress management as well!

Whether it is the long commute to work, the irate boss complaining about deadlines or concerns about how you are going to pay the next bill, it is important to identify those causes of stress in your life.

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Self belief or motivation is the pedestal of all positive energy and affirmative activities that you indulge in through out your lifetime. Possibly these two qualities are much more significant in comparison to your self respect. The way you express and interpret things to yourself is extremely essential. If you really wish to enhance your motivation power as well as self belief, you require a strong desire which will show you the way.

Not always motivation comes from within. At times you might feel motivated by various external factors. For instance an influential person may be your friend or relative can persuade you to begin something innovative or push you towards a positive direction. Furthermore you can feel encouraged by devotion or faith in divinity and by serving the social causes. Sometimes one can feel like starting afresh and accomplish pending tasks driven by a series of negative events.

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Gratitude is one aspect of working with the law of attraction that many people forget about. If you are not having the success that you might have hoped for in using the law of attraction to manifest your desires in your life a lack of true gratitude could be an area that perhaps you haven’t been focusing on.

But why is gratitude so important in successfully leveraging the power of the law of attraction? There are two reasons.

First, without having gratitude towards what you already have in your life and also towards what is coming to you through the power of the law of attraction you may be inadvertently sending a bit of a mixed message. I could be almost like focusing upon what is lacking in your life instead of focusing upon what you have and what is actually already a part of your life yet has not yet appeared in your reality yet.

Be grateful for what you have and the promise of what is about to appear in your life. Be happy for the shelter you have, the relationships that you enjoy, the income that is there, the health of your body, soul and mind and the ever expanding riches in all of these areas that are yours but for the taking. Live in joyous exultation for all that you do enjoy on a daily basis and the gifts in all of these areas that are promised to you that are in reality yours but just can’t be seen with your eyes at the moment.

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Mindmapping has caught on in recent years as a useful tool in the corporate and educational sectors. Using bright colors and attractive imagery, it is extremely useful in such things as presentations and group brainstorming sessions. However, it can be equally useful in so many other ways too. Here is a look at some of those ways.

It can be used to record information in extraordinary detail on a single page. Whilst studying for my diploma in reflexology, there were lists to learn of which combination’s of reflexes corresponded to various ailments – extremely complex stuff which I broke down into mindmaps or perhaps ‘footmaps’. I got through my exam with 96%… proof that mindmapping is effective because, giving my advancing years, I wouldn’t have achieved such a high mark otherwise!

How about using a mindmap to record a journey or a trip? Rather than pages of entries in a journal, instead simply use a mindmap to jot down places, events, impressions, people, food, colors, traditions, sights and sounds. You can even add your companions’ perspectives. When you get home, your mindmap/s will provide you with information to label your photos, write up your journal, produce an article, regale your friends…. a multitude of possibilities.

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As a long-time performer – singer/songwriter – many events from my private life have appeared in songs. When my brother took his own life, and many years later, when my beloved husband of thirty years suddenly died, I brought those experiences to the stage as well in the form of songs and stories.

Because that kind of public sharing is unusual, the theme struck a chord with members of the audience. I talked with many of them about how I was dealing with these tragic losses. And people have often asked me how I was able to sing and share my feelings about these deaths onstage.

The 7 tips below reflect some of the things I learned about my own grieving process. The words come from personal experience on ways to deal with grief.

7 Ways To Deal With Grief

1. Talk about your loved one – a lot.

I knew that people would wonder if they should bring up Nicholas’s name. They would wonder if I would burst into tears and suffer from the questions. The truth was that I yearned to talk with people about him. I felt better in doing so.

I think that in talking, we keep that person closer to us. When a person you love has recently died, there is often a feeling that they are still "here." Perhaps just behind a veil or just barely out of sight. Talking about him/her keeps that mysterious presence – present.

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Compulsive gambling can be a difficult thing to eliminate from your life. It’s as if the casino is a magnet and all the change in your pocket is pulling you there. It may seem that no matter what you do, you can’t seem to break that magnetic attraction. Well, there are many things you can do to reduce and eliminate this attraction and need for compulsive gambling. Following is a list of the things that you may find helpful:

1. Positive affirmations – Incorporate these into your daily life in order to develop and maintain a positive attitude.

2. Journal Writing – Notice what you were thinking and how you were feeling when you felt like gambling. Write about it in your journal as a way of determining triggers.

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Many of us grow up with a set of beliefs about ourselves which has been programmed since early childhood. Our parents, teachers and other influential adults can inadvertently create a diminished self image and install a number of limiting beliefs. This is compounded by the number of times we think, or talk to ourselves, everyday in negative terms. The use of daily affirmations is a powerful technique to change that negative self-talk into something more positive.

Leading thinkers and researchers on the use of affirmations include Jack Canfield and John Assaraf. Research on the effectiveness of positive affirmations as a life enhancing tool has led to the formation of the following eight step system for setting positive affirmations.

1. Affirmations should start with the words I AM. These are two of the most powerful words in the English language as they send a command to the subconscious part of our minds.

2. Positive – our minds like to work in pictures, therefore we cannot not think about something. So trying not to think of a pink elephant will undoubtedly bring up an image of a pink elephant. An affirmation such as I am enjoying breathing clean air will be more effective than I am no longer a smoker.

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So here is how to decide what to work on first. I’m going to give you two techniques, two different approaches, and I actually use both of them. The first approach is the most intuitive, the most logical. And this is the simple approach of figuring out what’s most valuable. Often times, it’s not easy to weigh two things against each other and figure out which one is going to be more valuable. Sometimes I’ll actually just try to figure out which is more valuable by asking how much money will it be worth. Now I don’t like to idolize money or turn money into God, but sometimes, it’s a great little measuring stick or measuring tool. So let’s say I have two things that I could do. One of them is I know I’ve got a bunch of e-mails that I need to answer, and another one is I know I need to create a sales letter because I’m launching a product. If I look at these two things and ask myself, “Okay, who are the e-mails likely to be from? What’s the value of the e-mails? If I answer all those e-mails, how much money will that actually wind up making?”

Versus if I create this sales letter that’s going to sell a bunch of my products, how much value will that create? And on the e-mails, I might estimate, “You know what? If I answer all those e-mails, it’s probably going to be worth like $50.00, where as if I create this sales letter, it’s going to lead to the sales of thousands or tens of thousands, or probably more; probably hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of products. Clearly, doing this sales letter is more important.”

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Most people have a couple of negative associations with hypnosis, despite the fact most people have never actually been hypnotized before in their life. Usually when you think hypnosis, one of two images comes to mind. Either you’re thinking about some mad villain in a bad thriller hypnotizing the femme fatale, complete with spinning circles and a dissolving background, or you’ve sat in on a hypnosis stage show and watched as the stage performer apparently made the audience act like the biggest of fools.

Real hypnotists laugh at those images and representations, as hypnosis is actually a pretty mundane thing. In fact, hypnotists will often argue that we’re technically in some sort of hypnotic state every hour of our lives. We’re always taking in suggestions and environmental cues, and we’re always operating with plenty of unconscious imprints helping to direct our thoughts and actions. The difference between a general walking around state of being and a therapeutic hypnotic state is generally just a matter of degree. When we go into a proper, deep trance state we are that much more susceptible to outside influence and suggestion.

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Overcoming fears and facing situations which appear daunting can be one of the most challenging areas in a person’s life. As we have previously discussed, all people will feel a surge of adrenalin when facing a new area, which as we now know is a part of the human make-up. The adrenalin is there (as we covered in day 2) to help a person become more ’switched on’ if there was any danger whilst on route to their goal. Facing a fear is entirely the person’s prerogative, and anyone who chooses to face their fears must also be prepared to deal with and accept the consequences as a result of their actions.

The big push

A very old school method of teaching children how to overcome their fear of deep water was to take them to the deepest part of the pool and throw them in with or without their consent. The teacher would then believe that this would be an ‘instant’ cure to the child’s phobia. If the child did respond well to this method, that was good. However, the flip side to this method is that it can send the child back even further to create a deeper fear than before as it may overpower the individual and reverse all the previous successes.

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