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	Coping with Your Inner Critic
Astrology, Tarot, and Self Improvement for the New Age.

Coping with Your Inner Critic

Examples of Embodied Spirit

When working with a client who is a serious body builder that regularly injured himself during his training I said to him "As we sit here now facing each other... Take a couple of deep breaths.... And let your body move... as it lightly feels some of its injuries...

As you move, let your body recall exactly how it has been injured at various times in the past.... And then at some point, freeze your body... Sit still... Feel your injuries.. And tell us what your body has learned from all of the injuries it has received."

After taking a few minutes to breathe and move his body the client froze and spoke these words, "I have come to understand that you don't really know what I am capable of and what is way beyond my means, and you don't even seem to really care. I feel like you are quite happy to punish me if it means that you might look better in front of others."

Examples of Embodied Spirit

How To Nourish The Sandwich That Is You

The "Sandwich Generation" is a term that has now made it into the dictionary. It fits an increasing number of Boomer women whose reality includes being squeezed between the demands of growing children and the needs of aging parents.

A study by AARP and the National Alliance for Care-giving identified over 44 million Americans who are caring for ill adult family members, 60% of them women. According to the National Center on Health Statistics, about 80% of women in their 40's have children for whom they are still somewhat responsible. Given these numbers, many of you may well be asking yourself, how can I balance caring for my parents, my children and myself? Here are some tips to help you sustain and nourish yourself.

How To Nourish The Sandwich That Is You

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What You Judge Won't Budge

Sheila was stuck. Even though she was trying to hard to change some things in her behavior -- especially her anger and her clutter, she found herself doing these things over and over. Then she would get upset with herself, telling herself she was stupid and incompetent.

How often do you tell yourself that you are wrong, bad, inadequate, unworthy, a jerk, stupid, and so on? I've found, in the many years I've been counseling, that most people are frequently inwardly judgmental.

What You Judge Won't Budge

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The Tyranny of "What If ..."

A number of years ago I had a client who came to me in a really bad stressed out condition. He came for one session, and then the next thing I knew I was told he had had a nervous breakdown.

When I visited him in the hospital, I was quite surprised to see that his face had a certain radiance to it. I asked how he was doing, half expecting to hear a litany of bad news.

The Tyranny of "What If ..."

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Best 8 Ways to Deal with Detractors

We have all had them as we set and go after our goals, no matter where we are or what our goals may be: naysayers, detractors, people who poke fun or get angry or tell us we can't do it. Detractors are very serious business, even if they just seem to be having a little fun at our expense. Don't let them stop you or even slow you down. How do you deal with detractors? Each one will be different, but here are a few tips:

Best 8 Ways to Deal with Detractors

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Cheerleaders

Think about the people you know. Who believes in you? Who do you think would believe in your goal? Ask them to be your cheerleaders. Don't be discouraged if there is only one person whom you feel is truly safe and will give you unconditional support. Whether it's one person or one hundred does not matter. You decide how many cheerleaders you need for any given dream and which ones to choose.

Tell them your dream. Don't be squeamish or shy about it. Just say it out loud. Ask that they hold you to your highest potential and help you to not make excuses when you are afraid and want to quit. They will say yes and do it for you or you would not have chosen them to be your cheerleaders.

Cheerleaders

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Seriously, What Are You Waiting For?

During the late 1800's, they had almost identical ideas for this AMAZING new transmitting device called "The Telephone." You can probably guess who ONE of those inventors was. Alexander Graham Bell, of course. But here's a name that you might have heard before: Elisha Gray. See, he actually recorded his schematics for the telephone about six weeks before Bell did. SO, YOU GOTTA WONDER: "Why is it that nobody remembers that guy?"

Seriously, What Are You Waiting For?

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Master The Art Of Being Rejected

How good are you at being rejected? The ability to handle rejection is one of the most important skills we can master in life. As you pursue your dreams, there will always be those who will tell you that you just aren't good enough. The road to the attainment of our goals is rarely rejection-free. Yet, when doors are slammed in our faces, many of us conclude we must be on the wrong track. It is amazing how willing we are to abandon our heartfelt dreams because someone else doesn't believe in us.

A close look at anyone who has achieved greatness will reveal there was plenty of rejection along the way. Take J.K. Rowling, for example. Every single publisher in Britain, and all but one in the U.S., rejected her first Harry Potter book. Many could offer her lots of reasons why the book would never sell.

Master The Art Of Being Rejected

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Sign Your Own Permission Slip

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sail. Explore. Dream. Discover."

~ Mark Twain ~

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Authentic Happiness: Using the New Positive Psychology to Realize Your Potential for Lasting Fulfillmen
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Martin Seligman Growing up, permission slips were a big part of school life -- essential to participating in special projects, field trips, or class trips out of state. For me to take part in any adventure outside of the classroom, my mother or father had to sign the slip. Now, as an adult, I can sign my own permission slip. In fact, I don't even need one! Yet I realize how often I don't give myself permission to be who I want to be or do what I want to do.

How many times have you decided that you wanted something, and then denied yourself permission to have it or even ask for it?

In my experience, here are the top ten beliefs that cause people to deny themselves permission to want what they want:

Sign Your Own Permission Slip

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Getting Your Power Back

During many years of observing others and myself searching for fulfillment, I've noticed an essential ingredient is often missing. I call this ingredient sovereignty, self-sufficiency or total independence from outside sources. Without this quality in its authentic form, no one I know has been able to achieve the happiness, health and peace they are seeking.

Throughout the years of assisting others and myself to feel truly joyous and free, I've watched people try to ignore, deny, invalidate or rationalize away the importance of sovereignty. I've witnessed friends and clients attempt to fake it, substitute for it, and try to steal and borrow it from others. All these efforts have been in vain. Their time, energy and intention would have been put to better use by focusing on allowing this quality to become a solid, personal reality.

Getting Your Power Back

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Does Fear Control Your Future?

Does fear stop you from striving for something you dream of doing? For some people, fear paralyzes them into inaction and appears as real as their reflection in the mirror. I'm here to tell you that even that reflection isn't always reality. When I talk to clients for the first time who dream of starting their own business, the most prevailing emotion I hear, above that of hope, is fear. This is extremely common. When asked about their fears, they admit that they are afraid that they will fail, that people will laugh at them, that they will not be viewed as credible professionals worthy of attention. There is another fear that can pop up, addressed later.

Does Fear Control Your Future?

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Boost Your Confidence
9 Success Strategies

It is difficult to always feel confident and from time to time most of us will suffer from a lack of confidence, so it is important to have techniques that we can call on to remind us of just how capable we really are.You must be your own biggest fan; you need to believe that you can do anything and when you do, others will believe you, too. Easier said than done? Here are some tips that will help you believe in yourself.

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Fear Is Nothing To Be Afraid Of

What do you do when fear shows up? Do you hide under the covers of life, shivering as you anxiously wait for the moment to pass or do you stand up with a confident smile and embrace it? Your answer to this simple question will have a considerable impact on the level of freedom, excitement and empowerment you experience on a daily basis. Whatever your response, the thing to remember is that your fears are nothing to be afraid of!

Fear Is Nothing To Be Afraid Of

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Why We Hate to Promote Ourselves

Self=promotion scares people. Getting known by the public scares them. Even thinking about it makes them feel small and inadequate. And yet they know that they must if they want to reach the people they're meant to. So they feel both guilty and annoyed with themselves at the same time.

Why We Hate to Promote Ourselves

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The Secret Way to Beat Shyness

Have you ever found yourself in a social gathering and felt intimidated? Maybe the whirlwind of negative thoughts in your head stopped you meeting new people, joining a conversation or participating fully. If only you could take charge of your thoughts. You could have a lot of fun, be yourself and make lots of new friends!

The Secret Way to Beat Shyness

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The Need to Feel Special

We all have a need to feel special. It is not the need that is dysfunctional, it is how we go about getting the need met that can be either dysfunctional or healthy. It is dysfunctional when we make others responsible for making us feel special. When others have to give us attention, compliment us, seek us out, and attend to our wants and needs in order for us to feel special, our behavior is dysfunctional.

The Need to Feel Special

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Are You Going Where You Want to Go?

In order to have fun while you conduct an effective review and renewal of your goals, first silence the Inner Critic - that negative inner voice that dishes out guilt for all the things you should have done, could have done, or forgot to do.

Perhaps you can make a deal with your Inner Critic by explaining that every action (or inaction) taken so far, is just an 'experiment'. And, we all know that every 'experiment' has value, because there is always something learned from the results, even if it's how-not-to-do something. So, evaluate your year with the Inner Critic off duty by simply observing your results - what worked and what didn't, without self-judgment.

Are You Going Where You Want to Go?

What's Self Esteem Got to Do With It?

Self-esteem is described as how you think about yourself. You may have been brought up to caution how you express yourself to others. You temper how you think about yourself so that you don't "get out of line" or become arrogant or "too big for your britches." But the fact is that by tempering yourself, you shrink yourself. And although others may not feel insecure around you if you are not any bigger or more expansive than them, the fact is that you do not get to experience all that there is of you. By being less than you are capable of being and doing for fear of being too big or too great, you are limiting yourself. When you limit yourself, the result is that you are left with a sense that you could be so much more and the world loses out because you are not giving all that you have " to BEING YOU! The more "you" you are, the greater the impact you have on the world.

What's Self Esteem Got to Do With It?

Are You Able To Say Both 'Yes!' And 'No!'?

When it is all said and done, when we delve deeply into our emotions, we almost always find that our strongest and most habitual response is covering up other feelings that we are not fully aware of. We feel hurt, disrespected, abandoned, or sad, and we cover over these feelings and lose touch with them, by expressing anger or resentment instead. When we find ways to tap into our deeper emotions we invariably find that we have been neglecting some form of pain or discomfort. When we neglect or simply don't notice our deeper emotional reactions, we lose the ability to express our full range of emotions. In the process we find that by consistently expressing only one segment of our entire emotional range, we limit our ability to be happy and feel at ease within ourselves and with those that we interact with.

Are You Able To Say Both 'Yes!' And 'No!'?

Your Best Is Always Good Enough

Do you remember that inner voice? You know -- the one that we have to put a muzzle on and train? The one that says that "we can do better," what we did was "not good enough," and even "you're a failure." Can you tell why that voice needs to be silenced? First and foremost, because it is wrong! We gain nothing from "beating ourselves" up about things. In fact, it is a serious waste of energy that could be spent building ourselves up.

Your Best Is Always Good Enough

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Virgo Horoscope

A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
~ W. H. Auden ~
Born February 21, 1907

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