The Fragmented Self and the Media
The media is versed at making us feel so inadequate that we start doubting our beliefs and values after a while. This is really detrimental since we already have such a difficult time to think for ourselves and to assert ourselves. So what the media does is to keep eroding our already vulnerable and, in some cases, fragmented self.
2010 Olympics Renew Expression of Canadian Pride in Canada and In Being Canadian
Here in Canada we are a proud people with a wonderful country in so many ways. Yet, we often don’t speak about. We certainly don’t brag about it. We often celebrate all that it means to be Canadian and be blessed enough to live in the majestic mosiac that is the pulsating heart of all that Canada is and exemplifies. The Vancouver Olympics, unfolding now, and specifically the opening ceremonies, reminded this Canadian just how vibrant and alive my pride in Canada is. Hopefully it has reminded all of us that we have so much to be proud about.
3 Negative Effects of Blocked Emotions
It is so important to mental health to be in touch with and connected to your feelings. Too many people are not successful in actually feeling what they feel. Why? Because they are too busy trying to escape or distract themselves from what they feel. Not all feelings are painful. But, feelings that are repressed, ignored, not felt or connected to, do become cumbersome, painful, and continue to grow in their negative perception and experience.
Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms – How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective
Body Signs is a very important, potentially life saving book about how our bodies send messages through external signals for inform us to become aware of some of the early signs of physical disease. Unlike physical symptoms which tend to involve pain and discomfort and are likely to send an individual running to his/her doctor’s office, bodily signals are more likely to result in scurrying off to her hairdresser, nail salon, cosmetic counter or drugstore. Symptoms, on the other hand, come in loud and clear, and they usually involve pain, fever, and bleeding. Bodily signs tend to be more subtle and difficult to interpret. However, many bodily signs can signal more serious things.
Your Family Constitution: A Modern Approach to Family Values and Household Structure
Your Family Constitution: A Modern Approach to Family Values and Household Structure
by Scott Gale
Spectrum International Press, 2009
Family dysfunction is running rampant in our culture. We live in an age of entitlement. This creates problems for parents to effectively parent their kids, and for kids to develop proper discipline and life skills. Fundamental respect and discipline [...]
The Power Of Intention
The power of intention is about looking at your thoughts and realising they have more power than you might imagine. It has become a buzz phrase in the last few years and many people have been attracted to the principles of intention. However, there are many people who simply don’t get it and believe if they intend something to come into their lives it should come, unfortunately it doesn’t work like this.
3 Ways to Get You Through the Holidays
The holidays are a tough time, when demands are constantly being made on our patience, coping capacity, and endurance! When things are not going your way or they look topsy-turvy and you just want to scream; when your day appears chaotic and you are not sure if you are coming or going; or when it feels like it is all piled on your shoulders, then this is the ideal moment to resource yourself by just stopping, being still, and breathing.
Footsteps of the Past Obstruct The Here and Now
As a Life Coach, BPD Coach and Mental Health Coach, A.J. Mahari talks with clients every day who are in the on-going experience of having their footsteps from the past obstruct their here-and-now in ways that mean unidentified and unreached goals and dreams. Footsteps from the past do not have to continue to obstruct your here-and-now. Mahari knows first-hand that the first step in creating a here-and-now unfolding authenticity in your life journey – to reach your promise and potential and unleash your passion – is to awaken to the awareness that you are looking back more than you are living now and more than you can look ahead with any confidence.
Grief – A Process of Gaining Perspective and Coping
Grief is what it is. Grief is a part of life. Grief is a process that unfolds whenever we suffer, experience, or feel loss. Some reasons for grief are obvious – the death of a loved one, loss of a job or relationship, for example. Reasons for grief can be subtle – unfinished emotional baggage from childhood interfering with goal identification and achievement in the here and now, for example. Life Coach, A.J. Mahari outlines 7 keys that help the grief process and 7 keys that hinder the process of grieving.
Can Meditation Transform the World?
Meditation is now the IN thing. Cross-legged yogis and Buddhist monks can be seen in advertisements for everything from computers and credit cards to herbal teas, major newspapers and magazines carry stories on the benefits of meditation with tips from famous film stars, and no self-respecting bookshop is without a how-to-meditate section.
Our Beliefs About Our Mental Health
Having a mental health problem such as Depression, Bipolar disorder or Borderline Personality Disorder, can be challenging enough without having to contend with the personal development process. We are all looking to better ourselves in some way, and that’s what makes us human. We don’t want to feel depressed all the time, we want to experience emotional connection with someone, we want to feel good about ourselves but it can be tough when we have been diagnosed with some form of mental health problem.
Loneliness – Pervasive, Powerful, & Purposeful
Loneliness is, on one level a universal experience. There is a collective experience, to some degree, by each and every living individual of what it means, from time to time, to be lonely. The degree to which anyone finds loneliness a painful experience, of course, varies and is related to your level of personal awareness and to the choices that you have made and are making in your own life.
New Year’s Resolutions Promote Fat Phobia
The focus on weight loss promoted by a bloated and dysfunctional diet industry causes many New Year’s resolution ideas and media-based stories to focus on people of size in ways that promote fat phobia. Size and self acceptance would be a much more productive New Year’s resolution on the part of everyone.
