Reflection and Self Discovery

Getting To Know You
by Paul Mauchline
Many relationships fail today because we do not ask the right questions in the beginning, and we do not listen to the answers. Get to know yourself and your partner... By Paul Mauchline

What Are You Passionate About?

Hopefully this issue will help you to jump-start your new season resolve to pursue your goals and dreams. As you settle into your fall routines; try to make time to identify your passions and grow them into a life that has true meaning, purpose

Priorities : Family, Self, Work, Spouse
by Paul Mauchline
I have a question I would like you to ask yourself today. Answer the question honestly, without giving it much thought right now. Just give your immediate response, keeping in mind that there might be components to the question you currently do not have i

Changing the way you look at Yourself

Day by day, the majority of us have a painful war with ourselves. It is a constant fight that includes constant criticism, pressure, anger, sadness and endless cruel comparisons. It is an everyday struggle that gets in the way and keeps you from seeing yo

Maintaining Your Individuality in Love
by Paul Mauchline
Mature love is a partnership in which both individuals have room to be themselves even while being together. Do not give up your own dreams and goals for the sake of a relationship. Mature love requires giving your love with no strings attached

Introduction
Drama Games: Techniques for Self-Development
by Tian Dayton, Ph.D.
Since the cultural revolution and growth potential movement of the '60s and 7()s, games have increasingly come into use in group settings. They are a natural way of bonding a group and creating trust.

I am not feeling good about myself…
by Ellen Kreidman, Ph.D
I feel I am at rock bottom. But I want my power back and yet at the moment I feel so helpless - quite antithetical to the way I used to be. What do you suggest to someone who has tried and failed and tried and failed and has only an itty bitty light

What am I doing with my life as an individual?
by Joseph Ghabi
Really can someone tell me: Where are we going as a human race? What do you think? Take a moment out of your busy day and try to reflect on that very small question that we always try to avoid. What am I doing with my life as an individual?

Emotional Self-Hostage: How to set yourself Free

The bad habit of emotionally holding ourselves hostage is unfortunately quite common. Why do people trap themselves into feeling certain feelings and continue to do things they know are bad for them and make them feel low about themselves?

We Are The Goddess: Sex, Creation & the Universal Mind

When we really open our hearts and souls and look inside we eventually start to realize our connection with all of creation because we are an integral part of that creation process. I have heard far too many people including myself say but I'm not.

How's Your Self-Awareness?

This issue was designed to help you to develop greater self-awareness. This critical knowledge will tell you who you really are and help you to accept and love your true self. Without this, you cannot set the goals that will bring about the life changes

Feeling Like You Belong
by Tony Schirtzinger; ACSW, CICSW
We all want to have the sense that we belong among people we know. You belong where YOU say you belong! The decision about whether you belong with others is your decision, not theirs. In the adult world, we are seldom kicked out or excluded from any

Plans to Relax, Relieve Stress, and Re-Energize
The Weekend Healer
by Jane Alexander
essential home programmes to refresh body, mind and spirit (Gaia). The Weekend Healer offers seventeen weekend programmes to indulge in at home. Each programme will help you get the most out of the weekend with advice on making time for yourself and ways

Creating Your Own Healing Tools

I believe that we all possess the inner resources needed to make changes in our lives. When we get in touch with our Wise Mind, the part of us that knows, we can be self-healers, Masters of our lives. Mastery means that we are no longer victims; we are

Embracing Our Dark Side
Do I Have To Give Up ME to be Loved by GOD?
by Margaret Paul, Ph.D.
Our wounded self is our dark or shadow side, not because it is bad but because it is cut off from the light of God. It lives in the darkness of fear and the heaviness of false beliefs instead of in the light of love and truth. Moving toward enlighte

Re-Discovering Yourself
by Alina Ruigrok
Have you reached a point in your life where you now look at yourself, yet do not recognize who you are? Do you feel like you have lost yourself, not looking the way you used to, or not acting and doing the things the way you used to do?

You Can't Sing If You're Dead
by Jan Tincher
I am dedicated to showing people how to live their lives successfully. However, I felt that death should be dealt with, too. We have an opportunity to make one last contribution. Let's make sure we make it our best. Are you going to die . . . soon?

Painting Your Inner Self
The Weekend Healer
by Jane Alexander
Painting, drawing and sculpting are all ideal partners in the retreat process. Don't come with any expectations and let go the concept that you have to paint properly or draw well. Art can free the unconscious mind quite dramatically and many people have

Transformation Through Action
The Transformation Handbook
by Jan Maizler, MSW, LCSW
The core of transformation by action is the profound self-challenge that comes with recognizing our fears, realizing the costs of having avoided those fears, eliminating our fears against them, facing them, and conquering them. Our reflexive reaction

Relax, Or You're Going To End Up Like All My Dead Friends

Relax, and learn to laugh at yourself, or all the old people you know will laugh at you. They'll say, Look at yourself. You're worrying about everything, and nothing is going right. When are you ever going to learn? You gotta relax, or you're going