5 Steps For Relaxing and Deep Meditation

Most people have probably heard about the benefits of meditation. Some people may have even tried it out, but experienced a certain dissatisfaction or sense that the meditation is not as deep or meaningful as advertised. This article provides a few tips to help improve meditation and achieve the gravity and satisfaction people look for….

Smart Goal Setting

Many people have written about the importance of setting goals in life. Some people may wonder how this applies to them if they don’t have any goals and are more or less content with their lives. It’s true that many people may be in a good place and not want for much more than having…

Turn Your Broken Dream into a New Beginning

Sheridan Voysey’s Christmas 2010 was the end of a dream. For a decade, he and his wife had been trying to conceive a child using special diets, fertility supplements, IVF treatment, prayer, and chiropractic sessions. After ten years, they had received news that his wife was pregnant. On Christmas Eve, they received the news that…

4 Reasons Doing Nothing is Productive

Many people in the world today fill their lives with “doing.” The sentiment is that if you aren’t doing five things, you’re not doing enough and therefore you are not good enough. The more things we can do, then, the better we are. While we’re so busy doing all these things, however, our relationships are…

Ways of Living an Authentic Life

The idea of living an authentic life is one that is used fairly frequently. However, what does it mean to live authentically? It means to harmonize our actions and words to our inner beliefs and values. What this means is that to live authentically is to live true to our actual self and not to…

5 Things to Do When You Feel Insecure

Most people have experienced moments of intense insecurity. This comes from viewing ourselves from an imaginary outside perspective and judging ourselves according to that view. These unsettling experiences of insecurity are unfortunately a part of life and so our goal to maintain ourselves is not to struggle to conquer the feelings, but learning how to…

Self-Confidence May Protect Men from Stress

People respond to stress in a variety of different ways, and men are no different. Some of the factors that influence a person’s response to stress are biological, physical, and psychological conditions. Testosterone is an example of a biological factor that can affect a man’s stress response. Men tend to exhibit specific traits depending on…

Why We ‘Self-Medicate’ Our Own Depression or Anxiety

How do we know when a couple of nightly drinks make the dark turn towards alcohol dependency? When liquor routinely becomes the solution for stress, anxiety, or conflict, it’s time to take a serious look at the issue. Mental health problems are often self-medicated with a drink or trip to the bar. If you notice…

7 Steps to Prevent Getting Stuck in an Emotion

Are you stuck in the pain of a break up? Do you perpetually grieve the loss of a loved one? How can you break through a tough emotion that won’t loosen its grip on your heart? Internally learning to accept the situation and practice patience with yourself will help you to heal. Be sure to…