The character "Gollum" from the Lord of the Rings is one of those split personalities whose distinctive personalities described as "Slinker" and "Stinker" entertained us so much in the Books and in the Movies.

Yet Psychologists today are reporting "Split Personalities" where one human being can contain several personalities who have no knowledge of each other.

The angry alcoholic who beats up his wife is a different personality from...

My daughter puts her arms around me, her brown eyes soft and beckoning. Her rounded belly and motherly curves rest against me, and for a moment I choke up. She is pregnant with a girl baby whose middle name will be Joy like mine. She will be my first grand-daughter, and my second grandchild.

I was named Joy by my great-grandmother, Blanche, the mother of my grandmother Lulu, who spent much of her childhood living with Blanche's mother. When Lulu was a young woman, she abandoned...

Low self-esteem is both physically and mentally damaging to an individual. It can be an emotional breaking point for many people, if let untreated it can result in suicide and numerous other physical and mental conditions. It's important to recognize some of the signs and what a person can do to stop them before they get out of control.

Depression is obviously the first and most recognizable symptom of low self-esteem, is very dangerous without treatment, and can lead to the...

1. Change your friends – Unfortunately, the very root of our addiction problems sometimes lie within our circle of friends. Are there any particular friends you consistently hang out with that lead you into substance abuse? It’s time to reassess what a friend really means to you and the kind of friends you should hang out with to lead a healthy lifestyle. Sometimes this means changing your phone number and moving to sever negative relationships. This can be hard but in the...

One's thought patterns, beliefs and attitudes can be used to "preprogram" actual experiences that are yet to happen. NLP is very focused on how we think, what influences the way we think, and how we structure what we think. Subscribers to the science are encouraged to closely study and then model those individuals who do things well.

When studying them, you don't ask them how they did it-just what they were thinking when they did it. For example, if you asked...

This is a question that many people who are considering taking a self confidence course ask themselves. Do the courses actually work or not?

Having had low self confidence myself in the past and read many books and courses on the subject of confidence I can answer that question. Some work, some don't. It really depends on the course and the author. After improving my self confidence through a variety of sources I decided to write my own successful self confidence course that...

One day my son ask me when can he take off the training wheels from his bicycle. I replied, “When I was your age, my father pushed me. I fell and bruised my knee. But I wanted to ride my bicycle so badly that I always got up and tried again”. My son frown at the prospect of constant falls and said, “Did you always fall every time you got up on your bicycle?” “No”, I replied, “If you practise you will learn, and it will work out fine, soon...

What is charisma? Charisma is actually a difficult word to elaborate, let alone define, but charisma is believed to be a rare trait that can be found in some people who have magnetic personalities and who have extreme charm.

These people also have the ability to dissuade or persuade people, and can negotiate on some terms easily. The people who have charisma often have the ability to lead a group of people, inspire, charm, influence or persuade other people.

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When building self confidence, many people focus solely on the mental attitude and completely forget about the physical. Confidence of any sort is a combination of mental and physical processes.

If you want to have more self-confidence then it is important that you understand how your physiology affects your confidence levels and how to use your physiology to become more confident.

The word emotion comes from the Latin word emovere which means moving and displacing. Even in...

Current research estimates that the average person has over 60,000 thoughts per day, 90 percent of which are replications of our thoughts from yesterday. Moreover, people spend almost half their time worrying, and 90 percent of those worries never come true.

On the other hand, most of us can remember those glorious moments when we experienced unbound love, sparks of wisdom and understanding; the moments when we felt total harmony with the world around us and harmony within...