The Inspiration Place

Archive for June, 2009

Through discussions of the dynamics of self-esteem, stories of successful life transformations, and powerful exercises that really work, psychotherapist and teacher Carolyn Ball shows that when we learn to love and respect ourselves, we can live the kind of happy and creative lives we have always wanted.

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Self Analysis is the first book to provide definite techniques to improve memory, speed reaction time, handle psychosomatic illness and reduce stress. It offers the means to spiritual self-discovery through a series of processes designed to give you the clearest look you have ever had into your past.

A series of tests at the beginning of the processing section enables you to assess your current emotional condition and spiritual state before starting, and provides a gauge of the improvements achieved as you progress through the book. You then embark on an analysis of your past, guided by simple and specific directions.

Through the processing contained in Self Analysis, you can discover that you are a much better friend to yourself than you ever thought possible.

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Twelve self-improvement profiles help you gain a new focus on your personal life and career.

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There is almost an uncountable quantity of stories about positive thinking both in public libraries and on the Internet. Many of these recount the author’s personal experiences and eventual success in going from a negative mindset to a positive outlook using positive thinking training and techniques. These testimonials detail the successes gained in business, personal lives and career pursuits in sports, acting and more. They make for fascinating reading and in some cases, demonstrate the author’s ability to overcome seemingly impossible roadblocks to success.

Despite the fact that these inspirational narratives are individual’s stories, they certainly qualify as positive affirmations from which good lessons about the power of positive thinking can be learned. They are interesting and well worth reading.

In terms of subject matter, the Internet has websites that feature stories of how positive thinking played a meaningful role in personal relationships, parent/child conflicts, life in general, business success, attitude change, compassion, friendship, honesty, death & dying, religion, and more. Story titles include Attitude is Everything; Be a Better Person; Blind Ambition; Challenged; Choice in the Face of Adversity; Destiny; Finish Line; God’s Presence; Breaking My Personal Records (sports); A New Point of View and many, many more.

There are business stories that define the challenges of ‘growing up’ newly-started small businesses on a limited amount of funding and how positive thinking principles helped the principals overcome very difficult challenges to achieve success in both near-term and long-term growth. These are not only inspirational, but demonstrate a workable plan of how to apply positive thinking to overcome adversity in business. One such story ended in a key message from the business founder which stated, “I believe in the power of attraction; that you attract what you expect. I expect to have wonderful customers and wonderful clients and that is what I attract.”

Anybody who is truly interested in learning the steps to and importance of positive thinking will do well to check out some of the many stories, quotes and phrases related to the subject on the Internet. While these stories may well just be stories, they might show you the ideal way to live your life positively. After all, the story of the king and the spider might not be true, but it induced a definite positive feeling inside him to achieve higher goals. Stories on positive thinking have helped millions of people across the world and can help you as well as someone you know who needs some help.

The Secret: How Positive Thinking Can Bring You Happiness Success can change your life. It contains a simple and powerful message for living a happier and more successful life.

To achieve your goals, dreams and potential you must learn how to recognize and overcome the obstacles that hold you back in life in their not handled the right way.

This book describes the techniques that will teach you how to defeat or avoid them so you can achieve the joy, success, and happiness that you look for and ought to have.

The book describes what positive thinking is, how to use it, how to recognize obstacles, overcome obstacles in your life though the power of positive thinking. Strategies and daily techniques you can do at home to attain living a happy and successful life are also included. This book includes plenty of examples, tips, and techniques.

This book will teach you:

1. Teach you how to overcome negativity and negative people

2. Explain the obstacles that are holding you back from pursuing your dreams and potential

3. Teach you how to overcome those obstacles

4. Help you appreciate yourself Help You realize you can achieve anything you put your mind too

5. Inspire you to imagine and pursue big goals dreams

6. Show you how to stay positive

7. Motivate you to take charge of your life and become all you can be

It is Stacey Chillemi aim in this book to show readers how to become exceptional people, empowering them to take responsibility for their own life, health, happiness and well-being.

Although Stacey Chillemi acknowledges the importance of positive thinking, she stresses that, there is an even deeper level of human experience that is necessary in order to produce happy, healthy, and productive life. Unlike other books on positive thinking, The Secret: How Positive Thinking can bring you happiness and success does not prescribe the same regimen for everyone. Instead, it takes a flexible approach, urging readers to create their own unique regimen by employing psychological and spiritual practices in combination with a variety of more techniques that are traditional and strategies.

While seemingly revolutionary, Stacey Chillemi message is simple: you can do much more for the life than you think you can. This is true whether you experience a few or many obstacles in your life.

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Positive Thinking Magazine is published by the Center for Positive Thinking, the organization founded by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale more than sixty years ago. Based in Pawling, New York, the magazine carries on the Center’s and Dr. Peale’s work to promote the concept of positive thinking as a major step toward personal happiness, success, health and peace of mind that adds up to an optimum quality of life.

The editorial thrust of Positive Thinking Magazine is to provide articles in every issue that describe the vital role positive thinking plays in our attitudes. Articles cover every major area of life including family, work, friendships, community, health and spirit in terms of how positive thinking influences mindsets and personal achievements. Regular tips are published on how to be a positive thinker and thus reap the rewards of a change for the better in your life.

Positive Thinking Magazine extolls the joys in our lives, whether big or small, and encourages readers to take the steps necessary to achieve a happier, healthier and more joyous existence. Articles in the magazine are upbeat and uplifting and include good ideas for outstanding vacation destinations, fun quizzes, delicious recipes and ideas for homemakers. It also heralds stories about positive people who have made and are making a difference in their lives and the lives of others as well.

The empowering, real-life stories and other editorial make Positive Thinking Magazine must reading for anyone who desires to improve their daily lives by utilizing the proven principles of Dr. Peale’s lifelong commitment to positive thinking as a beneficial mindset for everyone. The Editors of the magazine are quick to point out that “We are people like you-presumably- who believe that how we think about lives pretty much affects how they turn out. That living a positive lifestyle is the best way to avoid a negative one.”

Positive Thinking Magazine is published bi-monthly. A one-year subscription (6 issues) is priced at just $15.00 and a 100% refund is guaranteed for all undelivered issues to any subscriber not satisfied with the magazine.

52 practical and inspiring cards that will show you how to take care of your self and your life. These cards are designed to support you in changing your life one week at a time.

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If you could change your life today, what would you do…?

Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds gives you the inspiration you need each day to be the best you can be and live the life you’ve always desired. Let me be the coach who will lift your spirits, challenge you to go the extra mile, and fulfill your life’s wishes every day.

Have you ever wondered?
. How to have the most fulfilling relationship you can imagine?
. Why you keep ending up in the same situations over and over again?
. How to get the job of your dreams?
. How to maintain peace of mind in a world of conflict and strife?
. What does it really mean to be a successful human being?

I invite you to find the answers to these and other questions through meditations and journaling exercises on Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds: Wisdom and Enlightenment of the Past and Present, Pocket Edition

For those who wish to journal in-place, try my Workbook Edition

Praise for Your Daily Walk

“I have spent my life studying lots and lots of self-development books and I can say emphatically that Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds ranks in the top ten. I whole heartedly recommend this book to any seeker of self-development.” -C. Kumarbabu, MD, former chair of Psychiatry, Govt. Stanley Hospital, India

“Your Daily Walk with the Great Minds is a highly intimate and engaging philosophy and very strongly recommended for its in-valuable grasp of worldly study and in-depth analysis of the surrounding experience.” -Midwest Book Review

Workbook Edition
New oversized Workbook Edition gives you plenty of room to pause and reflect on an inquiry which follows each meditation. Also available, a compact Pocket Edition easy to carry with you wherever you go.

About the Author
Richard is formerly from Pennsylvania, however recently relocated to Grand Cayman in the Cayman Islands. He practices psychotherapy on the island and writes in his free time. Richard has extensive experience in the field of addiction treatment and mental health.

He is Humanistic in his philosophy and believes that all human beings have the capacity for greatness in whatever they pursue and desire. He consistently supports human beings in their search for purpose and passion in life. Richard passionately believes in equality among all human beings. “After all we only have one race: the Human Race.” Richard’s passion in life is to help other human beings in any way possible.

Look for his next book, Eastern Wisdom for Your Soul coming soon from Loving Healing Press (www.LovingHealing.com)

Your Daily Walk is Book #6 in the Spiritual Dimensions Series.

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The popularity of positive thinking as a method for self improvement is growing rapidly the world over. More and more people are anxious for more quality literature that is both instructive and motivating. PC users with Internet availability are finding a treasure trove of information on the subject available online and just a mouse click away.

Merely typing “power of positive thinking e-books” into a computer’s web browser produces page after page of websites with diverse literature offerings in the form of articles, reviews, e-books and CDs. They range from the e-book version of the very-first book ever written on the subject by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale to narratives by well-known motivational speakers to audio-visual presentations consisting of CDs and videos to literature dedicated to specific markets. Many of these are for sale of course, but the prices are reasonable compared to what you’d have to fork over at a bookseller’s establishment. Others are offered as free downloads provided that the person that wants them as willing to ‘log-in’ to that website.

Dr. Peale’s famous book, “The Power of Positive Thinking” was published decades ago before the Internet was established and has been reprinted repeatedly over the years. The book’s sole objective was to show the reader how to achieve a happy, satisfying and worthwhile life through positive thinking. That concept was virtually unknown when Dr. Peale brought it into popularity. It has, however, shown millions how to gain fulfillment in their lives by improving relationships, succeeding in business, learning to look at things positively and take control over personal circumstances. Now available in e-book format, it promises to be equally effective for our latest generations.

While many of today’s e-books about positive thinking are pretty similar in that they contain much of the same basic material as Dr. Peale’s book does, others are carefully tailored to specific niches like dating and relationships, business success, raising children and even coming to grips with things such as terminal illnesses. The subject niches cover about every area of human life imaginable in e-books about positive thinking.

Still other available e-books combine the general topic of positive thinking with subjects like medicine, religion, psychology and education. It’s hard to conceive of any market niche where positive thinking hasn’t been extolled in an either an e-book or in-depth articles as the ultimate practical solution. Finally, doctors and scientists have finally produced evidence that positive thinking really works when it permits a bright, happy and hopeful frame of mind which, in turn, builds our immune systems for better health. This is detailed in e-books as well.

Positive thinking has as much power to deliver in sports excellence as it does in personal relationships, business and virtually everything else. The key to winning in any athletic event starts with a proper mindset and a positive attitude about the game. You must fill your mind with good thoughts, be committed to constant improvements in your game and believe, above all else, that you can play better than you ever did before. If you do this on a regular basis, the result is almost always steady improvement that you can see and feel. Positive thinking works very well in athletics, especially when accompanied by physical conditioning and learning all the strategic fine points of competing in your chosen sport.

When you utilize positive thoughts, images, ideas and self talk to improve your game, you are applying all the important parts of positive thinking. Your aim is to do away with any negative images in your mindset. You will forget about mistakes made in the past and concentrate on preventing them in the future. Your goal is to keep striving for your personal best.

Many athletes have heard time and time again about others who have made spectacular improvements in their performance through positive thinking but have never personally tried to apply those principles to their own game. This is as important a personal commitment as physical conditioning. They work hand in hand no matter which sport is your choice. The average athlete doesn’t understand that success is not a reward, a position, a place, or a rung on a ladder. Nor has it anything to do with yesterday, today or tomorrow. Success is a state of mind! It is a mental process that can be learned through repetition and determination. It mandates that you understand who you are, what your goals are and that you lay the important groundwork to achieve those goals. You don’t permit yourself to back off, lie down on the job, lose faith or give up, because those are negative feelings that aid and abet failure. Positive thinking, ideas and self talk lead to success.

If an athlete is not playing up to his capability or he is caving in under pressure despite all the proper training and physical conditioning, it’s possible that his mind isn’t in the game. He needs a solution and the best solution has proven to be positive thinking. Coaches know this all to well. Leading athletes do too.

There is a wealth of inspirational material on positive thinking available on the Internet and much of it is absolutely free. Download some information. Study it carefully. It just might be the answer to the success you crave.