There are plenty of great reasons to want to learn Spanish. Embarking on an adventure to a Spanish speaking country, falling in love with a Spanish speaking partner, hoping to advance your professional career by becoming bilingual, or just for the excitement of learning something new. Learning a foreign and exotic language like Spanish can have many benefits.

But where to begin, there are so many choices. Classroom study, while great for face to face learning, is not always...

As a psychotherapist in private practice for over a decade, I certainly have seen it all: watching my clients suffer through anxiety and stress, watching them go from medication to medication looking for "the right pill", and rarely finding it, spending inordinate amounts of money desperately trying to find the correct method to make their stress go away.

Can Anxiety Be Cured By A Pill or through Mental Health Counseling?

Anxiety is a complex issue...not just...

At last the deadline is met. The brainstorm session is over. Its members pile out of the room; the secretaries stretch their fingers before picking up the long list of ideas. But the brainstorm process is far from finished. Ideas, even the best ideas in the world, are useless unless they are put to work.

To make sure they have collected every possible idea, some companies have a panel member call the others twenty-four hours after a meeting, to ask for all ideas they have had...

Fear is part of being on your growing edge.

I'm not certain where this statement comes from. I'd like to take credit for it, but I think someone much wiser than I am said this.

Most people consider fear an emotion to be avoided at all costs. Here, it is considered an indication of change and growth. Could that really be? Let's break this statement down and see if it is true.

FEAR

Every human, and at least higher forms of all organisms, have...

Drifting In Life?
It is with tremendous excitement that you launch the innings of your life. A great career, plenty of money in the bank, decent house with a beautiful garden, bunch of friends who care for you as you care for them, a loving spouse, children who do you proud ... yes, you aspire for all these. Somewhere down the line, you find something or the other going wrong in one or the other of these areas. You keep struggling ... yet the aspiration is beyond your grasp. At the...

Imagine having amagic penthat allows you towritewhat you desire and have it materialize before your eyes as youreadit. Imagine what you’d write down with that pen knowing it will come true.

You can witness this phenomenon first hand, by using one of the most powerful techniques in the Law of Attraction repertoire--scripting.

Scripting incorporates the Law of Attraction so you can be, do and have everything you desire.Scripting is one of the...

There is much use of the word ‘values’ in the personal development industry. It flies around as often as the word ‘coffee’. But on speaking to people who are just beginning their journey into self development, or others who are not qualified as coaches or NLP Practitioners, the word seems to be somewhat hollow. They nod and give a faint “mmm-hmm” at the mention of values, and then in secret they say to me, ‘Umm… exactly what do you...

Lying is common to people. Fear from a reprimand is the usual reason why people lie. But this cannot be referred to as compulsive lying. If a person lies because of a constant perceived punishment, it becomes compulsive lying. Lying with the belief that it is the truth despite being confronted with the truth is what normally characterizes compulsive lying.

Reasons why people lie on impulse are usually due to habitual lying. Some may lie because they see that other people do...

The Cynical Conscious
As children, we were quite open to the world around us. We were very easily influenced by the comedy shows or thriller movies they show on TV, and in our childish innocence, often imitated our favorite characters. There were no barriers between the conscious and the subconscious elements of our mind. To us, all elders were icons to be emulated unquestioningly - whether for good or for bad. The characters we admired on TV became idols whose persona we began to...

What is it about Grief & Loss that upsets us so much? Is it the heavy duty emoting that we have to do to get through our suffering? Is it the fear we have about opening ourselves to all this pain? Because, let’s face it, it’s hard down there, in the land of grieving where all those emotions toss us around like a cork on a stormy sea.

We understand that this is necessary, at a surface level, but how we are feeling is what really counts. In that place we call Grief...