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Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 26th March 2008 @ 1:18 AM

After a 3 week fasting retreat on Mount Kumara in Japan in the early 1920s, Mikao Usui developed Reiki. Two Japanese symbols make up the word Reiki, they are Rei, which is Spirit and Ki, which is life force. Therefore, the practice of Reiki is the channeling of the universal Spirit energy, life force. It involves the Reiki practitioner lying on of their hands to channel this energy into the recipients body. During a Reiki treatment, the recipient lies fully clothed upon a couch, the practitioner... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Heather Ash Amara @ Monday, 24th March 2008 @ 10:04 PM

Being in integrity is a way of life: to consciously choose presence, purpose and wholeness in everything we do. At Spiritual Integrity we provide spiritual life coaching. We support individuals to reclaim their innate mental, emotional, and physical integrity, in order to connect fully with their unique purpose in the world. Our intent is to shine brightly and dissolve limitations and agreements that keep us from expressing our brightest light. Spiritual integrity is a path to wholeness.... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 21st March 2008 @ 1:24 AM

Everyone, including you, has a tendency to procrastinate. So what exactly is procrastination? Simply put, it is when you put off something that can be done now because of laziness or carelessness. Procrastination is putting off things for another day, when it is just as easy to do them today. Many people have a tendency to put off things and then end up doing them at the very last minute or not doing them at all. Procrastination is extremely common in students who need to complete a... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Thursday, 20th March 2008 @ 7:00 PM

Hi there. Stop what you are doing right now and take a look at this interesting riddle: "I have billions of eyes yet I live in darkness. I have millions of ears yet only four lobes. I have no muscle yet I rule two hemispheres. What am I?" If you haven't figure out the answer to this no-brainer (please forgive the pun) riddle yet, it's actually quite simple. It's your brain. Your brain has billions of optic and auditory nerves, four lobes and two hemisp... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 19th March 2008 @ 10:04 AM

Many individuals experience public performance anxiety. This is a relatively common issue that people everywhere seek resolution to. The pressure of having to experience a situation in which you must face a stranger, or a large group of people can be tremendous. Public performance anxiety can happen to any person, at any time. It can even occur with an individual who has done well in the past with this type of performance. Individuals who work in executive corporations may often experience this ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Cynthia Mosher @ Tuesday, 18th March 2008 @ 10:51 PM

You hear it all the time: "success is a state of mind." There are people who would argue that success is a natural result of proper planning, preparation and focused action, and that viewpoint certainly holds a grain of truth - but there are also many exceptions to disprove that "rule." Have you ever wondered how two people can attempt the same objective in the same way and only one of them succeed? Is it sheer luck? Timing? Tenacity? More often than not, it's a person... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Saturday, 15th March 2008 @ 11:35 PM

Truly I tell you, there is a simple technique to clear all your self-limiting beliefs. It can be performed between 30 to 60 seconds once you have mastered it, does not involve any struggle, does not require any equipment at all and most importantly, is absolutely and completely free. The only things that you will need are you mind and body as you are. You can perform this technique anytime you want - when you wake up in the morning, after a warm, refreshing shower, before you go to bed or... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Saturday, 15th March 2008 @ 3:00 AM

If you've been into personal development but have not heard of The "Secret", then you might probably have never heard of the Internet. But then, what are you doing reading this article right now? The "Secret" has enjoyed phenomenal success as a movie and a book, and I am sure millions of people around the world have been affected by it in one way or another. Yet the question begs, why have we not seen more people becoming rich as a direct result of The Secret? Is it b... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mohamad Latiff Bin Rahim @ Saturday, 15th March 2008 @ 2:57 AM

Did you ever find yourself in a situation where you saw someone just becoming successful or achieve a certain breakthrough and you thought to yourself, "I can never do that." Most of us probably have, even the succesful individuals, at some point in our lives experience this feeling. This is the result of something called self-limiting beliefs that has been rooted in your mind. So what are self-limiting beliefs? Self-limiting beliefs are mental blocks, negative thoughts and belief... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Craig Miller @ Thursday, 13th March 2008 @ 2:22 PM

As you work to help others, are you still living like someone who isn't really free? Here are three success principles I have learned over the past year that, when applied, will give you your own reason to celebrate your life. 1. You are the average of the five PEOPLE you hang around with the most. When I first heard this I didn't believe it. That is until I did an honest assessment of my current social network at the time. When I began associating with people like I w... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Mike Shery @ Wednesday, 12th March 2008 @ 11:58 AM

If you are looking for a counselor or psychologist, here are some guidelines to help you choose correctly. Which Professional Is Right For Me? Mental health professionals include psychologists, psychiatrists, mental health counselors, psychiatric social workers and marriage and family therapists. Finding the right type of therapist therefore, may require some research. Sometimes, it can be helpful to describe your problems to your family doctor or, even to a person who may ... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Edward hadome @ Wednesday, 12th March 2008 @ 4:02 AM

The secret law of attraction for money wealth and success are not as secret as you think. Actually, they are staring you right in the face every day, but it's up to you to see it. Here's an example. I just watched the film, "I am legend", and it really put me in a mood. Her's this guy all alone in a cruel world, with no one to talk to, not even a single soul. Forget about money wealth and success, let alone trying to apply the law of at... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Rosamunde Bott @ Saturday, 8th March 2008 @ 6:43 PM

There are a lot of things said about opportunity. Some people say it comes along once in a blue moon. Some people say opportunity only knocks once. There are so called "once in a lifetime" opportunities, and we say "opportunities like this don't happen every day." All these sayings or ways of thinking seem to me to leave one powerless. They suggest that opportunity is something that just happens now and again and you have no control over it. What this does is leave u... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 7th March 2008 @ 4:17 PM

More often than not "going with a hunch" or "trusting your instincts" turns out to be exactly the right move to have made, a subject which is given more insight in two recently published books, namely Blink by Malcolm Gladwell and Gut Feelings by Gerd Gigerenzer. We very often know something without being aware that we know and without knowing exactly how we know. For example, you are standing in the medical aisle of your local store and you suddenly remember you are out o... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Friday, 7th March 2008 @ 4:49 AM

We've all known at least one genuinely charismatic 'people' person at some time in our lives. This is the sort of person who can walk into a room full of strangers and be chatting away comfortably in no time. Such a person can charm others into helping them achieve their goals, supporting and defending them. Charismatic and personable qualities are the wind beneath the wings of individuals who are blessed with them. This is because people rally around them and desire to hel... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 7:36 AM

We all have quiet moments we can enjoy if we wish to. In the midst of busy lives and stressful demands, we can take mini breaks and enjoy peaceful moments. However, it is easy to miss these moments if we are distracted by looking at our watches or use the time to chat on the phone. To truly benefit from them, you first need to decide to become more aware of them. When you are waiting outside the school for your children to come out you can worry about something or you can enjoy a peacefu... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Sean Rasmussen @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 2:51 AM

At some point in your life, you will encounter the basic question that keeps many of us up at night am I happy enough? When you consider the answer, you will realize that you may not be and that you need to make changes in order to make sure you can find that joy again. While many self help books and motivational articles will tell you that you need a reason to help you get started - is this really the truth? Motivation That Comes From Nowhere When you get up in the morning to ma... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Rosanne Dausilio, Ph.D. @ Thursday, 6th March 2008 @ 1:29 AM

Does this ever happen to you? Do you feel overworked? Overwhelmed? Overtired? Most of us are busier than ever: We're doing our jobs plus sometimes the jobs of one or two gone-but-not-replaced colleagues and doing it all with less support. 'Do more with less'is the unforgiving mantra of business in industry today. Make more decisions, launch more innovations, get more stuff done, with fewer people and less resources. Cell phones, laptops, PDAs, pagers all beeping, ringing,... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Wednesday, 5th March 2008 @ 1:19 AM

No matter where life takes us, we all need to be positively motivated in order to succeed. This is particularly true when things are not quite going our way and when we have undertaken business projects that do not seem to work out as we would have expected. It is at this point that fear can move stealthily into our way of thinking and a little irritating voice says that this is not going to work. So, what can be done? Well, for the most part, it is important that you steer clear of ne... more...

Personal Development » Advice | By Kevin Sinclair @ Tuesday, 4th March 2008 @ 5:38 AM

Napoleon Hill, one of the great original self help gurus, devoted a chapter solely to persistence in his landmark book "Think and Grow Rich" simply because he felt it was extremely important. This particular chapter makes reference to persistence as being the sustained effort necessary to induce faith and was regarded by Hill as the eighth step towards becoming rich. However, the importance of persistence is also laid down on page one of this chapter in another sentence. "There may ... more...