How Our Brain Works

How Our Brain Works

How Our Brain Works Thoughts/beliefs create our emotions… We have many thoughts that pop into our head and not all of them create our emotions.  Some thoughts are generated and we dismiss them as false or not necessary at that moment.  Other thoughts are generated and...
Working With Emotional Intelligence

Working With Emotional Intelligence

Working With Emotional Intelligence Do you have what it takes to succeed in your career? The secret of success is not what they taught you in school. What matters most is not IQ, not a business school degree, not even technical know-how or years of expertise. The...
Search Inside Yourself

Search Inside Yourself

Search Inside Yourself With Search Inside Yourself, Chade-Meng Tan, one of Google’s earliest engineers and personal growth pioneer, offers a proven method for enhancing mindfulness and emotional intelligence in life and work. Meng’s job is to teach Google’s best and...
Real Happiness

Real Happiness

Real Happiness Thousands of years prove it, and Western science backs it: Meditation sharpens focus. Meditation lowers blood pressure, relieves chronic pain, reduces stress. Meditation helps us experience greater calm. Meditation connects us to our inner-most feelings...
The Power of Habit

The Power of Habit

The Power of Habit A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have...
Flourish

Flourish

Flourish “This book will help you flourish.” With this unprecedented promise, internationally esteemed psychologist Martin Seligman begins Flourish, his first book in ten years—and the first to present his dynamic new concept of what well-being really is....
Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional Intelligence Everyone knows that high IQ is no guarantee of success, happiness, or virtue, but until Emotional Intelligence, we could only guess why. Daniel Goleman’s brilliant report from the frontiers of psychology and neuroscience offers startling...
Difficult Conversations

Difficult Conversations

Difficult Conversations Whether you’re dealing with an under performing employee, disagreeing with your spouse about money or child-rearing, negotiating with a difficult client, or simply saying “no,” or “I’m sorry,” or “I...
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Dummies

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Dummies

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy For Dummies We all have aspects of ourselves that we would like to change, but many of us believe that a leopard can’t change its spots – if that’s you, stop there! Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for Dummies will help...
Altered Traits

Altered Traits

Altered Traits In the last twenty years, meditation and mindfulness have gone from being kind of cool to becoming an omnipresent Band-Aid for fixing everything from your weight to your relationship to your achievement level. Unveiling here the kind of cutting-edge...
It All Starts With Being Mindful

It All Starts With Being Mindful

It All Starts With Being Mindful The #1 question people ask is “What is Mindfulness and what benefits will Mindfulness give me?”  There are a number of benefits that people gain by incorporating Mindfulness into their lives and with integrating the various...
Benefits of Mindfulness

Benefits of Mindfulness

Benefits of Mindfulness There are many benefits to practicing being more Mindful.  Here are some highlights… Focus Increases Learning to increase present moment awareness allows us to gently guide the mind back to what the intention of the moment is thus...
Optimistic Re-Framing

Optimistic Re-Framing

Optimistic Re-Framing What is Optimistic Re-Framing Optimistic re-framing is all about changing your beliefs/stories.  Neuroscience tells us that we CAN change. Our active beliefs cause our emotional sates and those play out in our bodies. Our beliefs, emotions and...
Affirmations

Affirmations

Affirmations Affirmations are the grand daddy of all optimistic thinking exercises.  You can and should definitely use affirmations in addition to the other exercises listed on this site. Some people may not believe that affirmations work.  Recent findings in neural...
Counter Pointing

Counter Pointing

Counter Pointing Counter Pointing is a method of replacing negative thoughts with positive ones. If you are familiar with Cognitive Behavioral Thereby (CBT) then you will recognize this way of thinking.  It essentially is an exercise that asks you to look at your...
Mantras

Mantras

Mantras Many people not only focus on thoughts and body sensations as they Meditate, but many people also focus by way of reciting Mantras. Mantras are sayings that you recite over and over again while you meditate.  They are positive statements identical...
Meditation Practices

Meditation Practices

Meditation Practices People have been Meditating for centuries.  Meditations are commonly used to help people relax. That is a helpful tool to use in our daily lives but Meditation is much more than that.  The practice of Meditation can be used to teach us to Focus,...