You’ve been there, at least once in your life and very likely quite often. Activities that get you there – to the experience of ONENESS, to the feeling of FLOW as Cskikszentmihalyi coined it are “truly rewarding experiences that require concentrated involvement and interaction with complex information. The things that give people ‘natural highs’ – … [Read more...]
Harnessing the Ego as a Force for Good
December 2, 2014 by
The ego is the “I”, the social self or personality we and others identify with, as us. It manifests in the role we play and how we play it. Our ego is the vehicle through which we act in this world to pursue our dreams, achieve our goals and get things done. Our ego is outward focused. It tends to measure success by the effect we have on others … [Read more...]
Energy Traps and How to Avoid Them
November 28, 2014 by
Stress is your experience of your body’s fight, flight or freeze response to stimuli whether internal or external. Your experience of pain - temperature, sound, aggression and your response to it – the story you tell yourself are two inter-related contributing factors that shape your experience. While there’s not too much you can do to control the … [Read more...]
Embodied Wisdom – Your Body Loves You!
November 24, 2014 by
Awareness is the greatest agent of choice. You can get stressed by a million different things; all of which act as your system’s information up-setters and distorters. When you are healthy and relaxed, life energy flows freely and unobstructed, through you. Stress, illness or dis-ease are both contributing factors and an indication that there … [Read more...]
Awakening to Choice is Self-Empowering
November 18, 2014 by
Awakening to Choice is a beautiful piece of anonymous prose I received from a friend and share it here with you. It's inspirational in its wisdom and resonates with the shifts in perspective many of my coaching clients tell me they experience. The piece gives expression to the process of awakening and accepting responsibility for choice, that's at … [Read more...]
Stress and Gender
November 6, 2014 by
Research on women’s responses to stressors suggests that women experience a wider range of life events (e.g., those happening to friends) as stressful as compared with men who react to a more limited range of stressful events, specifically those affecting themselves or close family members. Studies show that women tend to react more to chronic … [Read more...]
How is Stress Affecting your Quality of Life?
November 3, 2014 by
Stress is a recognized cause of 80% of today’s illnesses – so what are you doing to mitigate the risk of chronic stress in your life? “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself but to your own estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.” Marcus Aurelius The choices we make, how … [Read more...]
Inspired Leadership A Must for the 21st Century
October 29, 2014 by
In the midst of the global economic, cultural and ecological turbulence we live in – a time in which organizations straddle local, regional, national and international structures – leaders need to engage, empower and inspire their workforce: their human capital, their people. To do so, leaders must be inspired, engaged and empowered. Inspired … [Read more...]
Look to Workplace Stressors as Causes of Anxiety
October 22, 2014 by
In a workplace where conditions exist that are outside your control or realm of influence and where roles, responsibilities, authority, accountabilities or expectations are unclear, frustrated passion can arise, resulting in: A high stress environment Poor communication Office politics Workflow problems Diminished … [Read more...]
Self Esteem and the Power of Belief
October 16, 2014 by
Self esteem is affected either negatively or positively by how we relate to ourselves and how we respond to and interpret life stressors such as: Job promotion or being passed over Provocation Financial set-backs or challenges Unfair competitions Injustice “The belief that becomes truth for me…is that which allows me the best use of … [Read more...]
