Treasures in Your Mind

I chose this photo of an old end-of-life tree stump because it has been given
new life through passers-by embedding it with coins and providing it with a new interest and purpose.
If I remember correctly this stump was found in Tarn Hows,
The Lake District National Park, Coniston, Cumbria. UK, M'reen

Treasures in Your Mind  

By Roger A. Johnson, C.Ht., Ph.D., B.C.E.T.S. 

Do you have unharvested treasures in your mind simply waiting to be discovered?

When you make and realize your personal goals they will enrich your life greatly.

Not only is the reward of the goal itself of value to you,

but the process of achieving it enables you to grow and become a better,

more effective person.

Most people have goals.

Unfortunately, many have not learned effective methods of achieving them. 

Many others actually find that they repeatedly set themselves up to fail in achieving 

their goals. Consciously, they really want the goal, but for some very frustrating reason

their behavior is not what is necessary to make their goal become reality.

They even don’t finish their therapy sessions – at this time.

Effective thinking is absolutely necessary to achieve your goals.

Having a goal without effective thought processes and a real plan is like taking a vacation

with no map and no clear idea of how to get to your destination.

Let’s say you decided to spend your vacation on a nice driving trip to Chicago.

You have no map and only a vague idea that Chicago is sort of east and a bit north of you. Without having a route clearly defined, you could spend your entire vacation

driving aimlessly on routes that perhaps seem to go in your general direction, but then veer off in a different direction. Without a clear plan your might never reach your destination.

Goals that do not have a clear plan to achieve them are only dreams.

Now, we certainly do need dreams and dreamers.

Without dreamers and their dreams humans would never have achieved civilization. 

Without dreamers I believe we might very well have destroyed our species long ago. 

Dreams have magic to inspire us. But if they remain only dreams, they remain insubstantial and fade just like the dreams you had last night faded in the light of today’s reality.

To truly have power and become goals that can become part of our reality,

our dreams must be clearly defined and have a clearly delineated route to their realization.
With these things in place your dream has become a goal that has a chance 

to change the entire world, or at least your personal world. Your goal still has a way to go

before it becomes reality. Many people have reached this point,

yet never realized their goals. To live your goal in life you must make it real in your mind.

You must live it, dream it, get excited about it, talk about it, think about it

and make it the focus of your life. You must make it a done deal in your subconscious mind.

If it is not important enough to you to get excited about, save your energy and quit 

playing games with yourself. Put that energy you are about to waste 

into something you really want. Your goal must first LIVE in your mind.

If it is only something you would like to have, but don’t really get emotionally involved in, 

it is only a dream that will, in time, fade to nothingness.

No, it’s more than emotionally involved, it’s real.

Making your goal real in your mind can be done by imagining the achieved goal, all of the details of the end result and the physical and emotional rewards of this achievement. Visualize the goal, dream about it, use hypnosis if you are experienced in using it.

You will have the opportunity to be.

Give this goal your mental energy that will focus the power of your subconscious mind

and make it become reality. I mentioned earlier that there was more treasure than the goal itself. One of the primary functions of the subconscious mind is to achieve your goals. 

When we have goals, and overcome the obstacles and difficulties that must be dealt with

to achieve them, we are at our very best as human beings. We are empowered and spiritually energized. We are here to accomplish things. It feels good when we do. 

Achieving goals is the very life-blood of our spirit and soul. Achieving goals is what we do.

I can guarantee you that the day you awaken with absolutely no goals in life

you will become deeply depressed. There are other reasons for depression,

but this is the most common.  To be a happy, mentally and physically healthy human,

you must have and achieve goals. Without them you feel like you have no reason to exist. 

This is just a brief overview of goals, their achievement and their importance to each of us. These simple ideas will help you make your goals become reality.

Never start a day without something to accomplish. 

It will energize you, body, mind and spirit.

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9 Psychological symptoms of stress

"This is an informative article and while your situation may not be exactly as described you can change the situation to your life

experiences and so see if it applied to you. Should you recognise a form of stress you are now in a position to do something 

about it. I read that a company increased the lighting in a work place and productivity increased before levelling off. 

They then decreased the lighting saying that it was for the employee’s benefit, again production increased before levelling off.

The reason productivity increased was because the employees felt that someone had their interests at heart.

If there is no one around to give you a pat on the back it is a good idea to pat someone else’s back. I read this as ‘shooting prayers’ 

and I use it as ‘giving gifts’. Each day, give yourself as many gifts as you can, a flower in someone’s garden an item in a shop window, a beautiful cloud form; so positively look for something that pleases you and when you find it imagine holding it in your hand and bring your hand to your heart and say ‘thank-you.’ Now, give a gift; as someone walks by think, ‘enjoy your shopping’, ‘feel a little easier’, etc. it really works. One client was ‘giving gifts’ in a crowded pub and as the barmaid was harassed she thought to her, ‘have an easier time’ the barmaid turned and gave her a beaming smile before returning to her task. 

This is energy work and it’s free as it only takes a little thought on your part. I appreciate that that can be difficult in some situations 

so really make an effort to find something pleasing, it doesn’t matter how small, just try that little bit." M’reen

By Carthage Buckley June 10, 2013

9 Psychological symptoms of stress

Suffering the psychological symptoms of stress

The symptoms of stress can be divided into many categories including behavioural, psychological, emotional and physical.

In this post I want to focus on the psychological symptoms of stress. Stress is a multi-modal problem, and your psychological processes can impact upon your emotions, behaviour and physical well-being. There many potential psychological symptoms of stress. This post shall focus on some of the most common.

9 Psychological symptoms of stress

1. Boredom

Repetitive work such as assembly work or many forms of administration can be an immense source of boredom.

The lack of variety fails to stimulate the mind and boredom and fatigue can set in.

This may result in a loss of concentration, increased accidents and underperformance.

Where there is insufficient work or the work is not challenging enough, boredom can also be a common problem.

 2. Tension

A little tension can be helpful. It can increase arousal and alertness leading to improved performance.

However, constant tension is one of the more common psychological symptoms of stress.

It often arises as a result of difficult relationships e.g. personality clashes. Excessive competition can also result in tension.

 3. Anxiety

Anxiety occurs when one feels incapable of coping with potential problems. These problems may or may not arise but they feel real to the anxious person. A little anxiety is perfectly natural when we are facing a new challenge or an important event.  Most people can cope with these feelings through mental and/or physical preparation. The anxious person, however, is overcome

by what could go wrong. They find it hard to think about anything else and the potential problems tend to grown in their mind.

 4. Depression

Depression is a serious illness. The depressed individual experiences prolonged feelings of helplessness and hopelessness. They are unhappy with their life but feel that they are incapable of improving things.

Confidence and estimation of self-worth are very low, and self-judgements can be incredibly harsh.

It is common to feel unhappy from time to time, and many people incorrectly label this as depression. These people tend to move past their feelings of unhappiness relatively quickly. There used to be a stigma attached to depression but thankfully times have moved on and people are generally supportive and caring when someone they know/love experiences depression. Depression is a prolonged, serious illness which requires professional help. Anyone who feels they might be experiencing depression should consult their GP.

 5. Insecurity

Insecurity can be a result of many different psychological symptoms of stress. A reduced sense of self-worth may mean that the individual cannot see what value they offer. They may feel that they are underperforming and it is only a matter of time before they are found out. Unhelpful comparisons and harsh self-judgements may lead them to feel inferior to others. People suffering stress will often feel insecure in a number of areas of their life including job insecurity and relationship insecurity.

 6. Meaninglessness

Many modern jobs are designed in a manner which requires a number of employees to work on small aspects of the job e.g. car assembly, certain forms of administration. In these jobs, it is usually more effective and efficient to work this way.

One negative aspect of working this way is that the individuals who perform the different functions do not get to see the whole project. As a result, they may fail to see the importance of the job they are performing in achieving the goals and objectives of the company.

 7. Powerlessness

Many jobs have strict working conditions. Many more are very rigid in the way they must be performed e.g. assembly line work. It is common in these types of jobs that employees feel like they have no say or control over their job i.e. they are powerless to change anything.

 8. Disengagement

Where an individual is not inspired or motivated by their work, they are disengaged.

Their heart and soul is not in the work, and they see the job solely as means to gain income.

 9. Isolation

Isolation occurs where the individual has little contact with management or colleagues. This may be due to remote working conditions or, it may be that they are a one-man operation and thus have no colleagues. People in this situation may have nobody, or feel as if they have nobody, to share the burdens, the workload, the goals, the good times and the bad etc.

Psychological symptoms of stress can be hard to identify. Unless, they tell us what they are experiencing, we do not have access to the inner workings of someone else’s mind. There may be others reasons why some of these symptoms arise but where one or more are observed, particularly over a prolonged period, further exploration is a necessity.

http://coachingpositiveperformance.com/9-psychological-symptoms-of-stress/

Perhaps you’d like to checkout my sister blog www.innermindreading.blogspot.com

and find easy, fast and efficient ways of working with the issues or little unpleasantness’s in your life.

I am now featuring aspects of my upcoming internet programme to teach Inner Mind Reading.