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- Book Review: The Power of Now - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Spiritual Guides. Spiritual Guides are people who have attained a high level of spiritual awareness and use their knowledge to guide people on their own paths toward spiritual awakening. Reverend Barbara Marie Babish is the Official ...
Views: 1337 - Book Review: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2008 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Stage Fright and Overcoming Stage Fright. Stage fright or performance anxiety refers to an anxiety, fear or persistent phobia related to performance in front of an audience or camera. This form of anxiety can precede or accompany ...
Views: 2327 - Book Review: The Power of Positive Thinking - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Positive Thinking. Positive Thinking is a common motivational method used to boost one's attitude and promote self growth. Mindy Audlin is the Official Guide to Positive Thinking. The Power of Positive Thinking, by Dr. Norman Vincent ...
Views: 1604 - Book Review: The Power of TED* (*The Empowerment Dynamic) - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2008 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Empowerment. Empowerment is increasing the spiritual, political, social or economic strength of individuals and communities and often involves developing confidence in one's own capacities. Valery Satterwhite is the Official Guide to ...
Views: 1729 - Book Review: The Power of Your Subconscious Mind - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Mind Power. Mind power can be used to train your mind and direct the power of your subconscious mind toward success by working with your thoughts and beliefs to eliminate negative thinking. Shannon Panzo is the Official Guide to Mind ...
Views: 3770 - Book Review: The Promise of Energy Psychology - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Energy Psychology. Energy Psychology addresses the relationship of energy systems to emotion, cognition, behavior and health. Dean Allen PhD is the Official Guide to Energy Psychology. The Promise of Energy Psychology: Revolutionary ...
Views: 1341 - Book Review: The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Stress Management. Stress Management is the skills, methods, and techniques involving in managing and reducing stress either a day-to-day basis or on a long term scale. Jim Manganiello is the Official Guide to Stress ...
Views: 768 - Book Review: The Relaxation & Stress Reduction Workbook - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Stress Management. Stress Management is the skills, methods, and techniques involving in managing and reducing stress either a day-to-day basis or on a long term scale. Jim Manganiello is the Official Guide to Stress Management. The ...
Views: 2179 - Book Review: The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2008 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Marriage. A marriage is an interpersonal relationship with governmental, social, or religious recognition, usually intimate, and often created as a contract. Drs. Charles and Elizabeth Schmitz are the Official Guides to Marriage. The ...
Views: 1188 - Book Review: Unleash the Warrior Within - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Motivational Products and Services. Motivational Products & Services are those tools aimed at inspiring individuals to plan their goals, reach their dreams, and become successful. Hay House is the Official Guide to Motivational ...
Views: 3435 - Book Review: Virtual Assistant, The Series - by Submitted on Jun 07, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Virtual Assistants. Virtual Assistants are professionals who work offsite from their employer’s place of business and utilize modern communications technology to deliver their services. Typical tasks handled by virtual assistants ...
Views: 1440 - Book Review: Wake Up Live the Life You Love: The Power of Team - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Happiness. One can attain a life of true happiness by the enrichment of one's mind, character, and attitude through one's own efforts and positive thinking. Warren Wojnowski is the Official Guide to Happiness. Wake Up Live the Life ...
Views: 702 - Book Review: What CEOs Expect From Corporate Training - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2008 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Corporate Training. The design and delivery of learning to improve performance within organizations using a variety of styles and methods. Barbara Giamanco is the Official Guide to Corporate Training. What CEOs Expect From Corporate ...
Views: 1068 - Book Review: What Color Is Your Parachute? 2009 - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Career Change. Though many careers are meant to be lifelong ones, sometimes change can be good - but there's a lot more to changing careers than simply updating your resum? and qualifications. A thorough understanding of the ...
Views: 1677 - Book Review: What Every Real Estate Investor Needs to Know About Cash Flow... And 36 Other Key Financial Measures - by Submitted on Apr 15, 2009 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Real Estate. Real estate means ownership of land plus anything permanently fixed to it, including buildings and other improvements. Real estate is a popular form of investment. Trump University is the Official Guide to Real ...
Views: 1858 - Book Review: Write to Publish for Profit - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2008 from Douglas PakThis book review is part of a series that covers the topic of Publishing. Publishing includes the stages of the development, acquisition, copyediting, graphic design, printing (and its electronic equivalents), and marketing and distribution of books, newspapers, magazines, musical works, ...
Views: 1750 - Definition: Abuse and Recovery - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2008 from Douglas PakPhysical abuse is abuse involving contact intended to cause feelings of intimidation, pain, injury, or other physical suffering or harm. Psychological abuse or emotional abuse is a form of abuse characterised by a person subjecting or exposing another to behaviour that is psychologically ...
Views: 1114 - Definition: Adult ADD / ADHD - by Submitted on Apr 09, 2008 from Douglas PakAttention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), is a neurobehavioral developmental disorder affecting about 3-5% of the world's population under the age of 19. It typically presents itself during childhood, and is characterized by a persistent pattern of inattention and/or hyperactivity, as ...
Views: 1672 - Definition: Anger Management - by Submitted on Jan 12, 2009 from Douglas PakThe term Anger management commonly refers to a system of psychological therapeutic techniques and exercises by which someone with excessive or uncontrollable anger can control or reduce the triggers, degrees, and effects of an angered emotional state. One technique for controlling anger is ...
Views: 8677 - Definition: Anxiety - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2009 from Douglas PakAnxiety is a psychological and physiological state characterized by cognitive, somatic, emotional, and behavioral components. These components combine to create an unpleasant feeling that is typically associated with uneasiness, fear, or worry. Anxiety is a generalized mood condition that occurs ...
Views: 1446 - Definition: Beauty - by Submitted on Aug 02, 2008 from Douglas PakBeauty is a characteristic of a person, place, object or idea that provides a perceptual experience of pleasure, meaning or satisfaction. Beauty is studied as part of aesthetics, sociology, social psychology and culture. As a cultural creation, beauty has been extremely commercialized. An "ideal ...
Views: 1327 - Definition: Breathing - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2009 from Douglas PakBreathing takes oxygen in and carbon dioxide out of the body. Aerobic organisms require oxygen to create energy via respiration, in the form of the metabolism of energy-rich molecules such as glucose. The medical term for normal relaxed breathing is eupnea. Breathing is only part of the ...
Views: 3220 - Definition: Business Coach and Business Coaching - by Submitted on Jun 13, 2009 from Douglas PakBusiness coaching is the practice of providing support and occasional advice to an individual or group in order to help them recognize ways in which they can improve the effectiveness of their business. Business coaches work to improve leadership, employee accountability, teamwork, sales, ...
Views: 11859 - Definition: Career Change - by Submitted on Mar 25, 2009 from Douglas PakCareer is a term defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as an individual's "course or progress through life (or a distinct portion of life)". It usually is considered to pertain to remunerative work (and sometimes also formal education). A career is mostly seen as a course of successive ...
Views: 3792 - Definition: Career Coaching - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2008 from Douglas PakGet on the Right Career Path With a Career Coach By Ralph King Are you planning to make a career change? If so, you might want to consider working with a career coach. A career coach can help you create a plan for achieving your career goals while also providing you with the support and ...
Views: 12671 - Definition: Channeling - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2008 from Douglas PakThe term "mediumship" denotes the ability of a person (the medium) to apparently experience contact with spirits of the dead, spirits of immaterial entities, angels, or demons. The medium generally attempts to facilitate communication between non-mediumistic people and spirits who may have ...
Views: 2330 - Definition: Coach Training - by Submitted on Oct 30, 2008 from Douglas PakMotivate Others Through Life Coach Training By Mike Selvon There are always amazing opportunities to triumph over failure or a tragic event. Some people allow those events to break them and defeat their sense of purpose. Others rise to the challenge and live through the incident. It is what you ...
Views: 2286 - Definition: Corporate Training - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2008 from Douglas PakCorporate Teams Need Training Just Like Sports Teams By Jon R Taylor Have you ever watched your favorite football team practice before their games? You do not realize what great shape they are in until you watch some of the things they can do. For example, running up and down the bleachers and ...
Views: 4848 - Definition: Dating - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2008 from Douglas PakDating is any social activity performed as a pair or even a group with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as their partner in an intimate relationship or as a spouse. The word refers to the act of agreeing on a time and "date" when a pair can meet and engage in some social ...
Views: 2631 - Definition: Dieting and Weight Loss - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2009 from Douglas PakWeight loss, in the context of medicine or health or physical fitness, is a reduction of the total body weight, due to a mean loss of fluid, body fat or adipose tissue and/or lean mass, namely bone mineral deposits, muscle, tendon and other connective tissue. It can occur unintentionally due to ...
Views: 990 - Definition: Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) - by Submitted on Jun 06, 2009 from Douglas PakEFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques) is a universal healing aid that rebalances the body’s energy system with respect to unresolved emotional issues. Energy meridians that run through our body can be blocked or disrupted by unresolved emotional issues, thereby compromising our natural healing ...
Views: 3929 - Definition: Empowerment - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2008 from Douglas PakOne is empowered when one lives life from a position of responsibility. Knowing, with certainly, that they are the creator of all of their life experiences whether good or bad. An empowered person is Victim to no one and no thing. An empowered person is authentic, stands centered in the truth ...
Views: 5168 - Definition: Energy Medicine - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2008 from Douglas PakEnergy medicine is one of five domains of “complementary and alternative medicine” identified by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM) in the United States. The approaches vary widely in philosophy, approach, and origin. Many therapies are ...
Views: 3189 - Definition: Energy Psychology - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2009 from Douglas PakThe term energy has been widely adopted by writers and practitioners of various forms of spirituality and alternative medicine to refer to a variety of ideas, often (though not always) conceived as "fields" surrounding the earth or any living thing, supposed to be directly perceptible and ...
Views: 3790 - Definition: Faith - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2008 from Douglas PakFaith is a belief in the trustworthiness of an idea. Formal usage of the word "faith" is usually reserved for concepts of religion, as in theology, where it almost universally refers to a trusting belief in a transcendent reality, or else in a Supreme Being and said being's role in the order of ...
Views: 1103 - Definition: Fitness and Exercise - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2009 from Douglas PakPhysical exercise is any bodily activity that enhances or maintains physical fitness and overall health. It is performed for many different reasons. These include: strengthening muscles and the cardiovascular system, honing athletic skills, and weight loss or maintenance. Frequent and regular ...
Views: 1115 - Definition: Forgiveness - by Submitted on Aug 03, 2008 from Douglas PakForgiveness is the process of ceasing to feel resentment, indignation or anger against another person for a perceived offense, difference or mistake, or ceasing to demand punishment or restitution. This definition, however, is subject to much philosophical critique. Forgiveness may be considered ...
Views: 10296 - Definition: Grief and Bereavement - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2008 from Douglas PakGrief is a multi-faceted response to loss. Although conventionally focused on the emotional response to loss, it also has physical, cognitive, behavioral, social, and philosophical dimensions. Common to human experience is the death of a loved one, whether it be a friend, family, or other close ...
Views: 3956 - Definition: Habits - by Submitted on Mar 08, 2009 from Douglas PakHabits are routines of behavior that are repeated regularly, tend to occur subconsciously, without directly thinking consciously about them. Habitual behavior sometimes goes unnoticed in persons exhibiting them, because it is often unnecessary to engage in self-analysis when undertaking in ...
Views: 2627 - Definition: Happiness - by Submitted on Jan 08, 2009 from Douglas PakHappiness is a state of mind or feeling such as contentment, satisfaction, pleasure, or joy. A variety of philosophical, religious, psychological and biological approaches have been taken to defining happiness and identifying its sources. Philosophers and religious thinkers have often defined ...
Views: 1381 - Definition: Health Products and Services - by Submitted on Mar 24, 2009 from Douglas PakAchieving health and remaining healthy is an active process. Effective strategies for staying healthy and improving one's health include the following elements: Nutrition Personal health depends partially on the social structure of one's life. The maintenance of strong social relationships is ...
Views: 11620 - Definition: Hypnosis - by Submitted on Oct 12, 2008 from Douglas PakHypnosis is often thought to be a wakeful state of focused attention and heightened suggestibility, with diminished peripheral awareness. According to the American Psychological Association's Division 30, hypnosis may bring about "...changes in subjective experience, alterations in perception, ...
Views: 1159 - Definition: Inspiration - by Submitted on Jan 11, 2009 from Douglas PakFinding Inspiration Everywhere By Amy Twain The key in finding inspiration is to apply all your five sense and be present in all that you do. The American Heritage Dictionary defines inspiration as, "the stimulation of the mind or emotion to a high level of activity or feeling." It is something ...
Views: 1062 - Definition: Intervention - by Submitted on Sep 04, 2008 from Douglas PakAn intervention is an orchestrated attempt by one, or often many, people (usually family and friends) to get someone to seek professional help with an addiction or some kind of traumatic event or crisis. The term intervention is most often used when the traumatic event involves addiction to ...
Views: 11714 - Definition: Law of Attraction - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2008 from Douglas PakThe phrase Law of Attraction, although used widely by esoteric writers, has a variety of definitions. Turn-of-the-century references conceptualized the law of attraction as relating to physical structure and to how matter develops. A more modern consensus among New Thought thinkers is that the ...
Views: 832 - Definition: Legal Services - by Submitted on Mar 12, 2009 from Douglas PakMost liberal democracies consider that it is necessary to provide some level of legal aid to persons otherwise unable to afford legal representation. To fail to do so would deprive such persons of access to the court system. Alternately, they would be at a disadvantage in situations in which the ...
Views: 1714 - Definition: Life Coaching - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2008 from Douglas PakLife coaching is a practice with the aim of helping clients determine and achieve personal goals. Life coaches use multiple methods that will help clients with the process of setting and reaching goals. Coaching is not targeted at psychological illness, and coaches are not therapists nor ...
Views: 11304 - Definition: Life Lessons - by Submitted on Sep 21, 2008 from Douglas PakAdversities are a part of living, and we choose the way we react to each adversity in our lives. I would be the last to deny that adversities can be exceedingly difficult. Many times they will be senseless, unfair, painful, and beyond our control to prevent. However, they come into our lives for ...
Views: 8657 - Definition: Love - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2008 from Douglas PakOverview Love is any of a number of emotions and experiences related to a sense of strong affection. The word love can refer to a variety of different feelings, states, and attitudes, ranging from generic pleasure ("I loved that meal") to intense interpersonal attraction ("I love my ...
Views: 1370 - Definition: Marriage - by Submitted on Dec 18, 2008 from Douglas PakMarriage is a social, religious, spiritual, or legal union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock. Marriage is an institution in which ...
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