Ideal Self
Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs “Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light and not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be… […]
Gratitude
Gratitude – a Happiness Risk/Reward Paradigm—Be grateful every day “Heartfelt expressions of love and appreciation are associated with a smooth, ordered, coherent pattern in the heart’s rhythmic activity The magnetic field produced by the heart is more than five thousand times greater in strength than the field generated by the brain and can be detected […]
Stages of Change
Where are you now? When we experience a change in life (gain or loss) we experience one or all of the various stages of change associated with either our emotions or the way we think. Often, these stages of change happen simultaneously. When faced with change, we can embrace, learn and grow or resist and […]
Money’s Power
The Symbolic Power of Money by Zhou, X., Vohs, K.D., & Baumeister, R.F outlines some of the pervasive affects money has on our psychological and physical well-being. The act of counting money makes people feel stronger. Recollections of having spent money make people feel weaker (why people hate tracking expenses and budgets and why the […]