Identifying Your Strengths Is Key To Success by Roger Cooper

Written by Guest Author on March 12, · Leave a Comment

The phrase “confidence is everything” gets thrown about without a second thought, but it’s not really true – is it? Identifying your strengths is key to success in any endeavor. Sure, confidence is a key factor in success, but just because you are confident does not mean you are competent, and competency is far more important in the grander scheme of things. There is no use being confident in something you are incompetent at; overconfidence can be the key to failure. Don’t wildly overstep the boundaries of your ability, but be prepared to take a risk where necessary. Without taking the risks to demonstrate our ability we will not achieve our full potential, and acting to make the most of our skills is continually important in avoiding complacency and regressing.

Strengths and weaknesses

Recognise your strengths and weaknesses and work to them in order to fulfill your goals. Tailoring your work to what you are truly good at will allow you to thrive, whereas taking on work you are not comfortable with purely out of egomania or fear of being viewed negatively will inevitably end in disaster. It is never advisable to overload on unfamiliar work, although a balance must be met in order to continually assist development.

Dedicate some time to work on your weaknesses to ensure that they will not be problematic in the long term – and could eventually even move towards the strength column. Consider laying out a table of all your greatest strengths and areas you could clearly improve upon. By optimising your strengths and concentrating on continually improving your weakest areas, you are working towards achieving success in whatever goal you are heading for.

Continued Education

Realise that you do not know everything. By being open to new ideas and ways of thinking will allow you to keep progressing, even if you think you are already highly competent in a certain area. There is always room for improvement, so be prepared to take new ideas on board as-and-when they are presented. An open mind is imperative to embrace new ways of thinking, as inevitably other solutions will occasionally be required to solve certain problems.

Don’t be afraid to consult others who have more experience in the areas you are weakest in. Actively striving to improve by concentrating on building your skills and abilities will assist in your overall workload and decrease the stress which inevitably comes with a heavy workload. Many people make the mistake of thinking that leaving the education system that their education is over, when nothing could be farther from the truth.

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Roger Cooper is freelance writer who is always on the lookout for advanced personal development techniques. NLP courses in Birmingham are available for those who wish to open their mind to new options.

Best Way To Face Fears (Or Take Risks)? Ignore It! by Craig Audley

Written by Guest Author on February 17, · Leave a Comment

Face Fears-Take Risk Do you fear taking risks?

Do you take risks?

If you said, No to both of the questions above, then I will tell you that you are wrong. What is the best way to face fears?

As human beings, we fear a lot of things. We also take a lot of risks, daily. The only thing is that often times we are unaware of it. Think about it.

You walk across the city to reach your work. There are a lot of risks you are taking (One example is traffic itself. An accident is possible (especially, if it a crowded city). You are taking a risk). Likewise, we take lot of risks daily. How about now? I am writing this post, using my laptop sitting in my room – in the second floor. Lot of risks there. Radiation from laptop, maybe an earthquake or a tornado (you can never predict), I might fall from my chair (I am not sitting in a good position) are just some examples.

These examples could be simple – like staring at the screen for a long time might cause my eyes to hurt or complex like a tornado or something

These are risks we take. Everyday.

And we don’t really notice it.

You know, why?

We get used to it (And because we ignore the fact that we are taking a risk – or that we are afraid).

It is absolutely okay to fear something. Because, without fear there won’t be any bravery (Without patience, there is no impatience, without inconsistency there is no inconsistency, it goes on).

So, what can we do?

Best Way To Face Fears (Or Take Risks)?

Well, we could take this principle (of getting used too and ignorance) and make our “conscious” fears “unconscious” (I believe that you cannot make anything “non-fearful” – fear will still exist within your deep mind, but you ignore the fact that you fear it, thereby your conscious mind perceives that you don’t have a fear for it – in this case, it refers to your fear). I am not much of a psychologist (Although I did study psychology in my high school), but I strongly recommend that you try this method – it will work – as it has worked for me.
Note: By the way, we do use this method everyday – so it is proven that it works

Let’s face our fears, Alright?

Fear definition:

An unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat.
Notice that I highlighted the word unpleasant emotion. What we want to do is take this unpleasant emotion and basically “erase” it from our conscious mind – simply put, ignore the emotion

Step 1: Identify your fear

What is your fear, that you want to get rid of? Is it the fear that you will fail (with your blog, business or even with your life)?

Take the fear and convert it into the simplest form (it doesn’t have to be simplest possible form, but the simpler, the better, the more effective it is).

It is what they said in Inception (did you watch Inception? Go watch it, it is an awesome movie ): It is easier for place an idea when it is at its simplest form.

Step 2: Don’t Fear Failure

If you are fearful of failure in blogging, then take it into the simplest form. What do you fear most in blogging? Is it writing blog posts? If so, then try facing your fear by taking a challenge – write n number of posts within n number of days (it doesn’t have to be published, what matters most is that you face your fear).

The basic step differs with your objective (what do you fear? Take your fear, convert it into simplest form and face a “piece of it” – like what you fear the most about it).

Now, the third and most important step.

Step 3: Keep on doing it.

It sounds simple, but it is really not.

You just have to keep facing the fear (a piece of the simplest form of the fear).
Keep doing that.

Once you are “done” with one piece then move on to another. For instance: we talked about writing blog posts, then try commenting (the fear, as I mentioned above, is failure of your blog).

Keep doing it.

Our mind has an ability called sensory threshold – the response to a stimulus begins to fade when the stimulus is repeated. The best example is when you hear loud music in your car. After a while of hearing it, your mind may perceive it to be “less” loud compared to the original sensation of loudness.

Once you get used it to, your mind will start to ignore it.

Now, face your fears.

Go do it.

This guest post is by Craig Audley, a full time blogger. Craig blogs on a number of topics mainly in the health and wellness niche. If you would like to read more article similar to the one above you might like to visit http://www.escapepanicattacks.com

The 6 Keys To Sales Productivity (Selling Ice To Eskimos)

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on January 31, · Leave a Comment

For any business, productivity is the foundation of success and nothing is more important that the 6 keys to sales productivity to the bottom line, both short and long term. Making sales and improving the quality and quantity of sales production is one of the major focuses of every smart business. The long term success of any business can always be determined by the emphasis put on specific ways to increase sales productivity.

Let’s quickly define sales productivity. The strategies and actions that find the ‘Yes” person and the strategies and actions that lead the “Yes” person to say yes, i.e. sign the order or give you the money. Everyone wants salespeople who can sell ice to an Eskimo because it guarantees a company’s ability to stay in business.

And really after the first five keys are known the one that needs the most attention is the one that produces the most results. So we will look at the master key last so it can be first in your thinking.

The 6 Keys To Sales Productivity - Selling Ice To Eskimos

You know it’s funny what sticks in a child’s head. When I was a child I remember watching a movie about someone owning or working at a newspaper. I don’t know if it was Citizen Kane or a Jack Lemon comedy. All I remember is the Editor telling the new young cub reporter the way to write a good news story that gives all the necessary information so that people would want to read it is to answer the five W’s…

Who, What, When, Where and Why

What has been found from consulting with businesses on their productivity is that the answers to the five W’s is often assumed and because of that assumption productivity suffers. The reason for that, whether it is production productivity or sales productivity, is if an individual or the company has not answered the five W’s there is not enough clarity and the underlying principle for productivity is clarity.

Without clarity everything is hit or miss. The next step to take is usually in question. Time is wasted. The end results is some nebulous idea with no clear plan of action. Curiosity and flexibility and individual’s greatest assets are stunted and limited. You might be surprised at how many companies struggle needlessly when the problem can be solved easily.

With clarity there is a clear plan of action on exactly what steps to take, along with an approximate time frame and expected measurable results. And with clarity there is plenty of room to apply curiosity and flexibility as now there are some specifics to be curious and flexible with.

WHO

For sales productivity to go up it is important to know specifically who is your probable customer. your probable customer determines who your potential customer is. You might be surprise at the number of people (sales or marketing) who do not have a clear understanding of who their potential customer is or even looks like. If a sales manager or a salesperson believes that everyone is a potential customer your sales job will be way more difficult that it should be.

What many managers, owners and those responsible for sales, i.e. new customers… people that give you money is the four levels of customers are not aware of are the 4 levels of customers.

Client/customer

Probable client/customer

Potential client/customer

Possible client/customer

To be successful and improve and increase productivity it is imperative to know the differences between these 4 customer types. Otherwise you will waste time, energy and effort in areas and with people that will keep you busy but it will decrease your actual productivity.

WHAT

There are two ‘what’s’. What amount of time do you spend on each type of customer? The answer to that is in our definition of what productivity is above. Customers have already said yes. The probable customer is the most likely to say yes. Potential are less likely and possible clients are lest likely to say yes. So what must be done to get in front of probable clients?

(Side note: Customers, depending on your product or service can be probable repeat clients.)

The other what is… What specifically the customer wants from your product or service. There is much confusion around this area and most sales training programs attempt to address it by using words like ‘hot buttons’, features, advantage and benefits. This subject is a whole article or even a book or at least a couple of chapters and for right now let’s just say for clarity’s sake what is about having a very good understanding of all the benefits that your product or service provides.

The ‘what’ area is utilized a lot and in specific ways when we get to the master key that puts it all together.

When

Another area that must be addressed so that sales productivity gets better is when. If the sales person does not know when the best time to approach or contact the probable customer again time, energy and effort are wasted. When that happens attitudes suffer and the attitude runs up hill.

Enthusiasm, confidence and flexibility go down when productivity goes down and no where is that more evident than in the area of sales. When a salespersons confidence or enthusiasm gets low they have no more inspiration, which requires much more motivation.

And when sales production is down managers and owners attitude goes down and the motivation used is often fear and loss based which does not inspire and everyone from the company as a whole, to the owners, managers, salesperson all the way to probable customers have experiences that aren’t the most enjoyable. Then on top of that production problems and order fulfillment become a bigger issue and the downward spiral effect everyone.

Where

The area of where to go to find customers is naturally a problem when it is not clear who your probable and most probable customers are. Valuable time, energy and effort are wasted going to places where there are possible and potential customers but without the understanding of what are the characteristics of your probable customer there is no direction, no clarity on how to get in front of them or how to quickly go through potential customers to find the probable one.

Also because of the unclarity there is no ability to leveler those you do meet to get in front of the YES person you are looking for.

WHY

This area has a big, big influence on whether or not sales productivity goes up or goes down. If the company and the salesperson does not have a big enough ‘why great efficient sales productivity is wanted”, the why will turn negative and why will be the blame game…

Why I’ not making sales…
Why the company is so ____ (fill in with the last one you heard)…
Why am I here…
Why did I ever take this job…

So it is extremely valuable for everyone to get clear on the ‘why’ aspect. And here is how to do that…

Why do you want better sales production?

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Have owners, manager, employees, sales personnel write out a minimum of 25 why you want better sales.

These are the 5 keys to sales productivity. However, there is one more key to making it all work. And that is…

The Master Key To Sales Productivity

The easiest way to improve productivity in a company is to set up systems and follow the system. What does a system do? It give you the step by step map that when followed increases productivity. In other words it shows the Master Key…

HOW

How to find and get in front of the “WHO”, the right people, the YES people for your product or service.

How to determine what and how much time to spend with each type of customer and more importantly exactly what to say to get the YES people not only to say yes… How to get them loyal and committed to you and your company.

How to know when the best time to get in front of the most probable customers.

How to know where to find probable customers and exactly what to do when you find them.

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Dr. Vetter started Referral-Resources about 10 years ago after retiring from an international career as a Sales, Marketing and Productivity Trainer and Consultant. At Referral Resources he developed programs to increase productivity for local small and medium size businesses. In the area of sales there are two areas that he found companies and people need more clarity and a repeatable system…

How to find the right (the exact) person who can say YES to your product/service and how to get in front of them
How to get them to say yes in ways that make them loyal and committed customers.

Contact Dr. Vetter for a consultation or personally designed training for you or your company.

[Video] The Psychology Of Buying

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on November 20, · 1 Comment

The Psychology of Buying is often overlooked, even though everything, whether we know it or not, is about buying and selling. Life is a game, a sales game. It goes on everywhere, it just isn’t recognized as anyone selling something and someone buying something. Buying and selling just doesn’t happen in business. It happens in relationships, friendships marriages, school, between parents and children and anywhere there is two people involved.

The Psychology of Buying

It actually starts from the very first words out of your mouth in any interaction. I recently made a video discussing the difference between the psychology of buying and the psychology of selling and the confusion about marketing and sales. Clarity is the key from buying and selling to communications in any area of life.

If I were making the video about life in general vs the psychology of buying and the art of selling. I would have worded the opening paragraph a little different. The video opens with…

“Let me ask a question here… how valuable would it be to you to be able to know in your knower that you could get 1 to 3 referrals almost automatically out of every networking, seminar or social event you go to? How many would you go to each week and how good would that make you feel?”

If were talking about the game of life I probably would have used this opening…

“Let me ask a question here… how valuable would it be to you to be able to know in your knower that you could help people see and understand your point of view almost automatically every time you had a conversation? How many would you have each week and how good would that make you feel?”

That is the difference between the psychology of buying which focuses on finding out how other people make their buying decisions and offers your point of view from their side vs trying to sell them (manipulate) to agree with you. It is sort of an “Art of War” type concept… “Agree to get Agreement”.

Here… take a look at the video and everywhere you hear the word selling or buying think actual effective communication.

Please leave your comments and thoughts about the psychology of buying below and please like and share this with lots of folks and let’s see how effective our communication is…

Sports Psychology Mental Training For Athletes

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on September 25, · Leave a Comment

Is Sports Psychology mental training for athletes the missing key to ultimate sports performance? What makes the difference from an athlete to a champion athlete? Many are finding out it is the mind training the athlete gets that makes all the difference in a poor athlete, a good athlete and a great athlete.

The Akron Legal News reported this in an editorial.

Sports Psychology Mental Training For Athletes

Athletes famously undergo uncountable hours of rigorous training to get to the top of their sport, as the recent London Olympics continually reminded us.

But there is another side to athletic training, which may be the difference between success and something less than success on the playing field: the mental attitude of the athlete.

Sports psychology is a very small and relatively new area of psychotherapy, but two of the leading lights in this field practice in northeast Ohio: Dr. Jack Lesyk, who is the current president of the Association for Applied Sport Psychology and founder of the Ohio Center for Sport Psychology in Beachwood, and Dr. Charles Maher, who teaches at Princeton and is the in-house psychologist for the Cleveland Indians (he also works with the Cavaliers).

Maher is the author of The Complete Mental Game of Baseball: Taking Charge of the Process, On and Off the Field, which he published in July, 2011.

Lesyk works primarily with amateur athletes, from the age of 13 (or younger) through high school and college, and primarily with high school-age athletes. Maher works primarily with professional athletes, especially throughout the entire Indians minor and major league systems.

But they both use the same basic methods, and call their work with these athletes much more “mind training” than formal “therapy.”

How much does the athlete’s mental side affect his or her performance on the field? The answer may be surprising.

“When I ask young athletes how much their mental attitude affects their play on a percentage basis,” said Lesyk, “they usually say ‘in the 90’s.’ That figure is not accurate, and the real process is much more subtle than that.”

Lesyk, who became interested in the psychology of sports when he began training as a marathon runner in the 1980s, said that the real effect of an athlete’s psychology is as a part of the balance that an athlete needs to perform at a high level. Therefore, the answer to that question will be different for each athlete.

Click here to read more about Sports Psychology Mental Training For Athletes

As an individual with a PhD in Energy and Sports Psychology I feel at present it is the closes help we can provide in ultimate sports performance.

If you know of anyone who would like to improve performance at sports or any other area have them contact us.

NLP Training – The Big Bang in Berlin

Written by Guest Author on September 11, · 2 Comments

NLP Training - The Big Bang in Berlin As a Master Practitioner of NLP here is my review of a recent NLP training in Germany. Since I started studying the patterns of NLP I have had a particular respect for the workshops of Chris Mulzer, one of the greatest thinkers of our lifetime. So, I decided to take the next step in my NLP training, the Master Practitioner, under him,too. In retrospect, I must say that my expectations were not just met, but exceeded. It has catapulted me into a tremendous learning curve and led to an endless wealth offascinating personal experiences.

For those who simply have an interest in NLP, this workshop review will be of great value to you. For the super hard-core fan, I go a little in-depth into the territory. So, to all, please feel free to dip your toes in the water.

NLP Training- The Big Bang in Berlin

Some of the topics covered at the beginning of the Master Practitioner Training included the following: The four pillars of NLP (know your outcome, take action, sensory acuity, flexibility), The NLP communication model (with its all-purpose Meta model violation question – whattya mean exactly?), how we unconsciously filter by generalising, distorting, deleting information, NLP outcomes (how to set goals, NLP-style), cause and effect (results vs. reasons), the presuppositions, (learning) state management (imaging yourself walking down the street in peripheral vision– on a presupposition you’ll feel like Morpheus walking through the Matrix), etc.

There were sidelights on different hypnosis techniques and trance induction, swish patterning, sub-modalities (just think of the power of eyeaccessing, sorry, processing cues), the law of attraction and philosophical digressions into the depths of the universe (with a warm hello to Abraham). Next, we looked at (auditory) rapport, representational systems, perceptual positioning (catchword anchoring), reframing, and the currently predominant BS, values, desires and dreams… to viva la personal development revolution.

…Bridging…

At this point, Chris asked us to teach him to do what we are doing, including the implicit intuitions, unconscious competence so that he can model it, too. Then he will tell us what we are doing (by together working out the explicit description of patterns and processes we used) or in his words, “If someone’s got a skill that you want to master, you ‘model’ that skill so you can learn to do, study it, break it down, and work out the thinking behind it”.These words are the essence of the modelling process: to become able to create innumerable strategies, techniques and procedures in practically every area of human competence.

In fact, NLP began when Richard Bandler and John Grinder tried to assimilate the knowledge of great therapists. Working with films and tape recordings, they dissected the work first of Virginia Satir, then of Fritz Perls, up through Gregory Bateson, and finally of Milton H. Erickson, hoping to understand the techniques that caused seemingly magical changes in their clients. In “The Structure of Magic”, they attempted to codify and describe their analysis. They also sought to map creative processes of other disciplines: If any human being can do anything, so can you. In fact, the objective of the NLP modelling process is to make an instrumental map that allows us to apply strategies we’ve modelled in some useful way, e.g.,to understand something better by developing more meta-cognition about the processes that underlie it in order to be able it to teach it, repeat or refine any strategy, achieve a specific result, or extract and formalise a process in order to apply it to a different content or context.

One pivotal part of the modelling process is to identify relevant features and patterns relating to the TOTEs of the person being modelled, the main purpose being to help people to do what they know and to know what they’re doing.By setting the focus on “what” a person does, “how” they do it and “why” they do it through directly observing and asking quality questions, the above-mentioned NLP training techniques, skills and presuppositions enable success in modelling. Then it’s quite simple to discover the difference that makes the difference and put the results into step-by-step strategies that may be used to transfer the skill to other people – and content areas, too. Once I understood modelling, I realized how much NLP training added to my NLP skills and to becoming a virtuous NLP Master Practitioner.

…Digression…?

Let’s take language (including tone, pace, body posture, etc.), e.g., as an expression of our inner world, which – like other systems of behaviour – is context dependent. What are you saying each day to others that is incongruent with your very intention? People unconsciously or consciously pick up from your verbal and non-verbal outputs; we all have internal references for language from the back catalogue of experiences throughout our lives. The 13 language patterns present in the Meta model is great for detecting such syntactic structures in everyday language. As a communicator, it’s of great importance to ensure your verbal and non-verbal are congruent with each other. Virginia Satir, one of the people who Bandler and Grinder modelled, already observed that what we call “state” underpins congruency in NLP. As a Practitioner, it’s about being congruent in one’s self first, before passing that congruency onto others. You don’t have to be NLP to be able to do this naturally every day, but perhaps you should make sure you are not sending out conflicting messages to people you communicate with. In other words, the ecology of the change is in the unconscious, which is the enormous resource bank from which you generate new choices.

…Loop closed…

As a meta-tool, NLP training is the starting ground, but not the end.It’s a great set of tools to carry around on your journey, but it’s not the journey itself, if that makes sense. It’s an attitude, a methodology that leaves behind a trail of techniques. Once you recognize the importance of self-discipline, the consistency in spinning the NLP modelling, it then becomes a springboard for even bigger and better things. You can identify which core values and views you want to project and teach.

Through this training, I got connected to my global mission, and now I have a long list of projects to undertake that go further than what I’m working on at the moment. I feel like the journey is worth travelling just as much as the end result is worth achieving…and I’m consistently doing something towards it every day.

…Chunk-up…

NLP isn’t about techniques, the beliefs, the models, the language patterns that are clustered around its core. NLP is a wonderful set of meta-tools (the methodology) by which to heartily explore the world with a sense of gusto and curiosity. It’s an attitude, and the tools will help you create methods, models and techniques to better navigate the world around you. Once I got to know the underlying principles, I was able to understand why certain NLP techniques and models are formed the way they are, and finally got a better grasp of them.

Through this NLP Master Practitioner workshop, I also found other beliefs, models and techniques that supplemented my NLP skills tremendously. As far as I’m concerned, there is more than one reason to call Chris’ workshops the “gold standard in NLP”, at least on German-speaking soil. You can join the next workshop “BrainPower” (or later the NLP Master/Practitioner) for what is sure to be an NLP extravaganza and learn directly from Chris. NLP belongs to him, maybe not in the literal sense, but because he is known in NLP for his individual and creative contributions to the field. Find out for yourself the difference that makes the difference. The quality of MY last training with him was outstanding, the depth of human understanding was awe-inspiring, and to meet and learn from Chris was utterly mesmerising.

This review was written by Stefanie Pagel, stefanie.pagel@hotmail.de

Worry Yourself To Death May Be More Accurate Than You Thought

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on August 20, · Leave a Comment

Worry yourself to death may be more accurate than you thought. I remember my grandmother telling my Grandpa, “I worry myself half to death when you are out of town on business.” That must have been hard on her because my Grandpa was the number one salesman for the whole southern half of the United States for a big insurance company.

According to a recent report in the Huffington Post…

Worry Yourself To Death May Be More Accurate Than You Thought

Doctors have known for years that depression and anxiety can increase a person’s risk of dying at an early age –especially if the symptoms are serious or stem from a devastating life event, such as the loss of a loved one. But what about the run-of-the-mill sadness and worry so many of us carry around?

These everyday problems may take a toll as well. According to a new study published today in the British Medical Journal, even mild symptoms of depression and anxiety that would generally escape a doctor’s attention are associated with a higher risk of premature death.

Researchers in the U.K. pooled data from 10 previous studies involving more than 68,000 British adults ages 35 and up. All of the study participants answered a list of questions about so-called psychological distress in their day-to-day life, such as whether they felt unhappy, were sleeping poorly due to stress, or had feelings of worthlessness or low self-esteem.

People who reported the most psychological distress were two-thirds more likely than happy people to die during the various studies, which lasted for an average of about 8 years. But even those with the lowest levels of distress had a 16 percent higher risk of dying compared to distress-free people.

Click here to read more about worry and early death

I never thought about it before but that half death thing must have worked for my Grandmother. My Grandpa died when I was three and my Grandmother was around until way in my late twenty, early thirties. There must be something to that half death worry trick. Imagine if you didn’t worry at all… Remember that ole song “Don’t Worry Be Happy.” Not a bad piece of advice if you ask me.

If you prefer being happy to worrying use the social sharing buttons below.

[VIDEO] Can Yoga Help With Depression?

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on August 17, · 1 Comment

The statistics on depression can be depressing. The other day a friend asked can yoga help with depression? My response was and is that yoga is designed to align the spirit, soul, mind and body or in a more understandable way for me align ALL the energy.

This is a recent YouTube video that addresses this subject…

Can Yoga Help With Depression?

Whether or not you practice yoga from an energy point of view depression is where energy is stuck or blocked or constricted and that is all that is happening from a mental point of view there can be numerous different causes…

the way life is going,
how someone else is treating you,
happened in your past
etc

From a mental emotional or psychological frame you may never know what is the root cause of depression and that is why most medical doctors attempt to treat it with pharmaceutical drugs which in most cases do not work.

On the other hand something like yoga can help with depression because it helps get the energy unstuck, unblocked and unrestricted.

So share this by using the social sharing buttons on this page if you like yoga or you don’t link depression. And have a great day.

Magic Mike Star Admits To Having Clinical Anxiety

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on August 7, · Leave a Comment

Olivia Munn

All the women I know are excited about a new movie just coming out and one Magic Mike star admits to having clinical anxiety. Olivia Munn has admitted to having clinical anxiety and trichotillomania, a disorder that causes her to pull out her eyelashes. The article blames the problems on her stepfather and the emotional abuse she received from him.

The Christian Post reports…

Magic Mike Star Admits To Having Clinical Anxiety

Olivia Munn has had a successful career in the entertainment industry, but that doesn’t prevent her from having anxiety. The 32-year-old actress recently revealed that she suffers from clinical anxiety and trichotillomania, a disorder that causes her to pull out her eyelashes.

“I don’t bite my nails, but I rip out my eyelashes,” Munn told New York Daily News. “It doesn’t hurt, but it’s really annoying. Every time I run out of the house, I have to stop and pick up a whole set of fake eyelashes.”

Munn has also opened up about her abusive stepfather, whom she refers to only as “the Devil.” He was verbally abusive and critical of the youngster’s every move.

“He would always say, ‘you’re not smart enough, pretty enough. You have no talent,’ and it would knock me down, but it wouldn’t keep me down,” she told Ocean Drive magazine.

His words helped fuel her passion for acting but also could have contributed to Munn’s psychological conditions, especially given that she was responsible for helping keep her siblings distracted during his tirades.

Click here to read more about Olivia Munn’s clinical anxiety and trichotillomania.

The last paragraph makes me wonder, apparently for Olivia Munn she used her father’s verbal abuse for something positive ‘fuel for acting’ and now she is a star. And at the same time she attributes her clinical anxiety and pulling out her eyelashes to the thing that made her a success.

I personally know that anxiety (clinical or otherwise) and behavior change are pretty easy to change so Olivia Munn’s problems and her success come from the same place and the problems are easy to change. And since that is the case I think you should use the social sharing buttons below to let everyone you know there is hope.

Psychological Abuse Is Beating Kids Up

Written by Dr. Houston Vetter - DocResults: Holistic Health Editor on August 6, · Leave a Comment

Psychological abuse is beating kids up maybe more than physical abuse according to some experts. Some times it amazes me and the thought …duh… comes to mind because it makes natural sense that since physical abuse is the tail end of abuse that before that is mental, emotional and psychological abuse.

It’s like water coming out of the faucet before it got to the faucet it had to flow from somewhere else.

CBS News reported…

Psychological Abuse Is Beating Kids Up

A clinical report from child abuse experts, published July 30 in Pediatrics, says that psychological abuse can be as damaging to a young child’s physical, mental and emotional health as some forms of physical abuse. What’s more, such abuse is often under-reported and hard to detect since there are no visible abrasions or bruises, the researchers said, making it potentially the most prevalent form of child abuse and neglect.

While psychological abuse was recognized over 25 years ago, the researchers said few studies have looked at the rates of psychological abuse. Previous studies suggest about 8 to 9 percent of women and 4 percent of men in the U.S. and Britain said they suffered from severe psychological abuse in childhood.

According to the report’s authors, psychological abuse may include acts like belittling, denigrating, terrorizing, exploiting, being emotionally unresponsive or corrupting a child to the point his or her well-being is at risk. It can also include withholding love, having unrealistic expectations or forcing the child to participate in dangerous situations. Examples may include a mother leaving her infant alone in a crib all day or a father involving his teenager in his drug habit. While a parent raising their voice for the eighth time to get a child to put on their shoes wouldn’t be abuse, yelling at the child and telling them that they are a terrible person daily would be.

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What is needed for both the psychologically abused as well as the abuser are tools they can use to remove the charge off of emotions. These tools are self applicable and inexpensive to free.