By: Susan Owen-Thursfield | 2011-03-29 | Self Improvement Are you stressed because your excuses are stopping you from being the person you want to be? When repeated often enough, self talk becomes real. Stop making excuses and you will stop being so stressed. Find out how. read more
By: Dr Jeff Bailey | 2010-04-03 | Stress Management When I am lecturing on the role of stress in peoples lives, I use an excellent animated PowerPoint slide that describes the cycle of negative self-talk. It would be helpful if you could see the slide but in its place I will try to describe it verbally. It goes like this. read more
By: Ian J Spencer | 2010-04-02 | Self Improvement Compare these weeds with negative thoughts that every person experiences from time to time. You are caught in the traffic and you would be thinking, "My boss would kill me today", or you missed your deadline and you think, "This will earn me the pink slip", or you forget your spouses birthday and think, "I will never hear the end of this" and so on. read more
By: Andrew Horton | 2012-03-20 | Advice Explore the conversations going on in your head all day, ensure that the things you are telling yourself are indeed supporting your vision and helping you to take the daily action you need to be taking. It is so easy to scuttle your future, if you constantly bombard your mind with conversations, which restrict, limit, criticize or constantly distract you with negativity. When you learn to start to think more positive thoughts, which nurture and support your efforts, you have found the most power read more
By: Prasanna Gunturi | 2010-04-01 | Self Improvement Negative self-talk consumes energy and time. Change your self-talk and change your life. read more
By: Ben Leichtling | 2010-04-03 | Stress Management During recessions, when times get hard, hardness tends to run rampant. Most people are justifiably afraid they'll lose their jobs and the lives they planned. Will they get laid off or downsized through no fault of their own? What will happen to their savings, insurance, college and retirement funds? Will they be able to keep their homes or even eat next month? How do people react in the face of their recession-stimulated fears and stress? What type of bullying, harassment and abuse will increase at work? How can we decrease negative self-talk that destroys self-esteem and self-confidence? read more
By: Laura Fenamore | 2010-04-01 | Weight Loss I have four FAVORITE sayings that could be interpreted all different ways. However, I want to use this article to have a great discussion on positivity, discernment and self love! read more
By: Trevor Johnson | 2011-06-15 | Self help Self talk is that nagging voice that you probably hear far too often. We talk to ourselves in ways that we'd never allow someone else to talk to us. Often our self talk is nagging and critical. And the trouble is that we often believe what we're telling ourselves. Fortunately, there are ways of dealing with this and affirmations for self talk are an excellent start. read more
By: Kate Sanner | 2010-04-01 | Self Improvement Self-talk is a necessary component of our maturation and in our learning and helps us to become self-reflective and self-regulating. But over time, many women can develop - and come to believe - negative self-talk. In this series of articles, I'll examine how negative self-talk develops, what are the different styles of negative self-talk and how you can overcome it. read more
By: Melinda Elliott | 2010-04-03 | Self Improvement "Look at those horrible thighs"..."What a pig I was last night"..."What a stupid mistake"..."I'll never find a job"... Can it really be you saying all those mean things to yourself? It's easier than you think to neutralize negative self talk. read more
By: Kate Sanner | 2010-04-01 | Self Esteem As I pointed out in the first article in this series, developing internal speech- or self-talk - is a necessary component in your maturation and helps you to become self-reflective and self-regulating. Unfortunately, as a result of many familial, societal and cultural factors, you can learn negative self-talk. Negative self-talk erodes your self-confidence and can keep you from being who you want to be and from doing and having the things you desire. read more
By: Lisa Wallace | 2010-04-01 | Self Improvement If we can transform our self talk by intentionally cheating ourselves to deal in positivity instead of negativity, it's possible to produce an attitude change. That's one reason why so many people are finding a new perspective on life by properly utilizing positive affirmations. read more
By: Jennifer Jianjun Wang | 2010-04-03 | Mental health In this article we introduce to you our '4-step' strategy to stop negative effects of worrying. It's one of our specially formulated Ease Strategies that works powerfully with the subconscious mind. read more
By: Nathaniel Wilson | 2010-03-29 | Goal Setting Are you talking yourself out of successfully reaching your goals? How do you feel when you set goals for yourself? Is it that you're telling yourself (Consciously or Unconsciously) that you are not worthy of obtaining that which you desire? read more
By: Renee Shupe | 2010-03-30 | Self Esteem Did you know that you talk to yourself all day long? (Yes, you're likely doing it right now. You can't deny it!) Also, I'm not talking about the all of the mental chatter about the various activities and chores you need to remember and manage throughout the day. Yes, it's also self talk but not the type I'm going to discuss, I'm speaking about the things you say to yourself on a regular basis and more specifically the tone and words used. read more