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Maintaining Your Peace Of Mind – Part 6 (Final)
In this blog series, Maintaining Your Peace Of Mind, we have been discussing ways to maintain your peace of mind in the face of life’s ebbs and flows. That challenges will come to you is inevitable; what you choose to do when they come is up to you. Solution 4: Gain the right perspective on your position! Ineffective actions come from inappropriate decisions. Regrettable actions come from wrong choices. One thing you can do is to develop … Read entire article »
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Maintaining Your Peace Of Mind – Part 5
Earlier this week, in Part 4, we discussed discussing actions you can take on behalf of yourself to regain and maintain your peace of mind. Today, let’s look at an internal adjustment that we all require to make in order for this to happen. Solution 3: Realize, understand and accept that not everyone will accept you as you are. People who badly need to improve themselves will often try to start with ‘improving’ you. They believe that … Read entire article »
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Maintaining Your Peace Of Mind – Part 4
Last week, in Part 3, we discussed an indoctrination technique for maintaining your cool in the face of life’s drama. Today, let’s look at actions you can take on behalf of yourself. Solution 2: Be alert to and kill the drama before it starts! You need to pay close attention to the people that create adverse drama and avoid them like the plague. Don’t imagine that you are immune! People who create drama are the constant complainers … Read entire article »
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Maintaining Your Peace Of Mind – Part 3
We ended Part 2 with the question: How can you begin to implement this principle of predetermined, flexible value on outcomes? I believe that a number of solutions exist. Solution 1: Consider disciplining your mind with a relevant, meaningful phrase of your choice whenever you think about the outcome you are banking on. When you say your phrase, it accomplishes a number of things: it reminds you of what you are doing, it indoctrinates your mind … Read entire article »
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Maintaining Your Peace Of Mind – Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog, you and I were faced with the question: What is the secret of those ‘lucky’ people who remain unfazed by life’s changes? How do they manage life’s stimuli to maintain low stress levels? Do they have outcomes in life that they want? Yes. Do they ascribe benefits to the outcomes they want? Yes. Are they emotionally vested in the outcomes they want? Yes. However, the one critical difference is that they are … Read entire article »
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Maintaining Your Peace Of Mind – Part 1
A source of major stress in our lives today is placing values on the outcomes we want. Our anxieties often stem from what we hope to get or achieve. When we continue to worry about whether we will get what we want or not, mental and physical stress sets in. Various meditation techniques, diverse types of affirmations, and religious rituals sometimes fail to alleviate this self-induced stress. Overeating, drinking alcohol and drugs can hold this type … Read entire article »
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