A belief is a composite view or mindset that consists of a set of ideas or assumptions, theories we assume to be true. The belief you hold may be implicit and underlying expressed through our attitude and behaviour shaped by early conditioning – what we witnessed and observed in our families and internalized growing up as impressionable and … [Read more...]
Is Active Listening Possible When You’re Upset or Angry?
January 21, 2015 by
It's well recognized that the capacity to innovate is a function of active listening and is often compromised by chronic job and life stressors and energy traps. Your ability to listen and actually hear is influenced internally, by what you are feeling and what you are thinking and externally, by stimuli that distracts you. Active listening … [Read more...]
What’s Wrong With Christmas Gift Giving?
December 16, 2014 by
The commercialization of the Christmas gift giving tradition revs people up into a buying frenzy, leaving them overspent and exhausted. Seasonal marketing messages designed to attract buyers and increase sales, employ psychological insight to leverage personal insecurities and low self-esteem for corporate gain. The resulting impact has … [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...]
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...]
The Authentic Self ~ Key to Unlocking Human Potential
August 29, 2014 by
Your human potential is far greater than you might expect; far more expansive than the little bit that you have manifested in your physical body and conscious experience of life. Many dimensions of human consciousness are invisible and hidden. We are mostly unaware of the different states of consciousness we experience and subtle energy flows that … [Read more...]
Coping with Unpleasant Feelings
August 21, 2014 by
Death and dying provokes a host of feelings. We become aware of everything we have ever thought and felt about the person dying. Acknowledging your feelings does not necessarily mean you have to act on them. Knowing that you still harbour anger, frustration, resentment, jealousy, regret, bitterness may seem very unpleasant to you and yet it may not … [Read more...]
