by saralee | Mar 17, 2016 | Positive Thinking, Silva Method
Avoid these 7 mistakes to raise a great kid. In recent years, with the popularity of the self-esteem movement in child-rearing, some destructive parental behaviors have become commonplace. While they are well-intentioned, and often make life easier for everyone in the...
by saralee | Mar 16, 2016 | Positive Thinking
Breathe. Allow yourself 90 seconds for the anger to pass! Anger is a powerful emotion. This article isn’t to say that you should never be angry – you SHOULD – but rather to help you manage anger so that the consequences for you aren’t detrimental. Things don’t always...
by saralee | Mar 15, 2016 | Positive Thinking
“What doesn’t kill me, makes me stronger” said Nietzche. Experiencing, and getting through, adversity can actually leave us better off – and happier – than we were before. The aftermath of highly stressful life events like loss of a loved one, diagnosis of terminal...
by saralee | Mar 14, 2016 | Positive Thinking, Silva Method
“If it’s never our fault, we can’t take responsibility for it. If we can’t take responsibility for it, we’ll always be its victim.” – Richard Bach It’s easy to be a victim. It’s easy to relinquish control of your circumstances and happiness to others. It’s easy...
by saralee | Mar 13, 2016 | Positive Thinking, Silva Method
Depression drains your energy and causes chemical changes in the brain that make it increasingly more difficult to feel optimistic and capable of overcoming a deep, dark funk. Unfortunately, the things that help the most, are also the things that are hardest to do –...
by saralee | Mar 12, 2016 | Dynamic Meditation, Silva Method
It’s one of those words that people use a lot these days, but what exactly does manifesting mean in your life? Usually, people talk of manifesting as “bringing an idea to life” – but there’s another important meaning as well: Manifest: to display or show (a quality or...
by saralee | Mar 11, 2016 | Dynamic Meditation, Silva Method
Recently, I had a long conversation with a friend about meditation. She had earlier invited me to join her in attending a six week meditation course. “No, thanks,” I replied, “I think my own meditation is sufficient.” She looked at me as if I were crazy. Over the...
by saralee | Mar 10, 2016 | Positive Thinking
Get online and look up ‘happiest place to live.’ You’ll find different outcomes year to year, but also definition by definition.The same applies if you look up “happiest careers” or anything with the word happiest in it. Lots of great inspiration, but there is one...
by saralee | Mar 9, 2016 | Positive Thinking, Silva Method
You used to be a teenager, so you remember how hard it was. Of course we know now how easy they have it and how much harder it is to be a parent, but we can’t expect them to understand that. The world just looks different through their eyes, and sometimes it’s hard...
by saralee | Mar 8, 2016 | Silva Method
Do you know Jack Canfield? He is the guy who has a world record in the number of books he has sold. Not only that he is the person behind the Chicken Soup for Soul series and Success Principles. Behind the empire Time Magazine called the “publishing phenomenon of the...