Posts Tagged ‘energy’

Increasing, Maintaining, and Protecting Your Emotional Energy So You Can Lower Your Stress Level

Posted on May 4th, 2012, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Doc Childre of HeartMath® said: Managing our emotions increases intuition and clarity. It helps us self-regulate our brain chemicals and internal hormones. It gives us natural highs, the real fountain of youth we’ve been searching for. It enables us to drink from elixirs lock[ed within our cells, just waiting for us to discover them.  How [...]

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Staying Positive Even When You Feel Stressed and Worried – How Much Influence Can You Have?

Posted on April 16th, 2012, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Can you change some of the events that are currently stressing you out?  Are there others over which you really have no control or even any influence?   Hmmm…it might be time to consider what belongs in the various categories for you. To help you visualize the idea we’re talking about in this article, just draw a [...]

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Staying Positive – Do You Radiate Positive Energy? Assess Yourself on a Radiance Scale

Posted on April 13th, 2012, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Do you radiate positive energy?  Does it have an impact on others?  Are you unsure about what qualities you may want to be radiating out to others? Winston Churchill said: “I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.” There are people you know (and I know) who radiate everything [...]

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Decrease Clutter and Decrease Stress – Clean the Space As Soon As You Take Everything Out

Posted on March 16th, 2012, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Do you think any dust has accumulated under piles of clutter?  Is it possible that there is dirt somewhere in the midst of piles of stuff that need to given away.  Would you find any cobwebs around those places that haven’t been sorted lately? Let’s just agree that the answer is ‘Yes.’ A simple way [...]

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Focus on the Present – How to Get and Stay Mentally Focused on Now

Posted on January 22nd, 2012, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

How can you stay in the present (mentally) – or get to the present? Here are 5 strategies: Breathe. The idea is that you breathe in. Then you breathe out. This helps you to get centered – and somewhere I read that the space between breathing in and breathing out – that’s the present. So [...]

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Eat Low Fat and Increase Overall Productivity – Easy Snacking

Posted on January 10th, 2012, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

What if you want to eat and snack in a healthy manner? Does that mean no more good stuff? And why should you care about this? Snacking at work can be one of the biggest productivity downfalls for three reasons: We DON’T eat at all – and then because we’re starving, we eat half the [...]

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Procrastinating? Ask For Some Help Or Assistance

Posted on December 27th, 2011, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Are you an “I-can-do-it-all-myself” person? Do you have some tasks, responsibilities, or projects that you have been procrastinating? I will assume that since you are still reading that the answer is yes to both. If you have a mental list of items that you are procrastinating, I first recommend that you get them out of [...]

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Are You Missing the Present Because You’re Stressing About the Future Or Worried the Past?

Posted on December 24th, 2011, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Eric Hoffer said, “A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.” When you are deciding where to ‘live’ – in the past, in the future, in the present (or some other cosmic option you might know about) living in [...]

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Staying Positive in a Freaked-Out World – Are You in Control?

Posted on December 9th, 2011, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

Have you ever tried to control other people?  How does that work out?  Are any of the folks around you a bit negative?  Can you change that?  Although we can’t CONTROL others, we can impinge on, have an impact on, and influence them. Knowing what is possible and what is reasonable is the crux of [...]

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Problems in Your Business? Remember, You Can’t Steer a Parked Car – Get Some Forward Motion

Posted on November 6th, 2011, by Meggin McIntosh, Ph.D.

We are going to jump right in. Move. Locomote. Propel yourself. Act. Vary. Go forward. Go somewhere. But move. “You can’t steer a parked car.” I tried to find whether this was a quote so I could acknowledge somebody, but I found it in about 10,000 places. This must be one of those statements that [...]

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