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Are You Ready For A Better Life?

Are You Ready For A Better Life?

When you have a difficult situation arise in your life, does it cause anxiety, fear or depression? That’s a normal reaction, but not one that allows you the creativity and resources you need to find a solution. But there is a solution that will help you deal with difficult situations and feel empowered.

Linda-Ann Stewart, life coach, hypnotherapist and speaker, is presenting a free teleclass to help deal with life’s challenges with a better attitude, which opens the door for greater opportunities of success.  The teleclass will address how you filter new situations through old experiences, which shuts down the possibility of discovering better outcomes. You’ll learn how your thinking can lead you to success or defeat you before you’ve begun.

“I’ll share one simple technique that could transform your life,” Ms. Stewart says. It’s one I’ve used for decades, and have shared with many people.” It’ll shift your attention from the worst case scenario to a more positive possibility. And she’ll explain why it works.

This teleclass will give you insights about transforming your attitude to be more constructive, giving your creative mind more energy to uncover hidden benefits from the challenge you’re facing.

Join Ms. Stewart for the one-hour teleclass, “Create Something Good Out Of Life’s Challenges” on Thursday, February 24, 2011 at 5:30 PST. Space is limited. To learn more and to register, visit Linda-AnnStewart.com/creategoodteleclass.html.

Use Gratitude Lists To Increase Your Optimism

Use Gratitude Lists To Increase Your Optimism

Remember how you were always told to count your blessings? It was to get you to focus on what positive things were in your life, rather that dwell on the negative.

Listing three or more things that you’re grateful for each day is one of the best ways to begin to become more positive and optimistic. It doesn’t make the difficulties go away, but by focusing your attention on better things, you feel better and are able to deal with challenges easier.

Studies are now finding that using this simple technique for just three weeks actually still affects a person positively six months later. The mind has been trained to look for good in the world. Not only does this increase happiness, but it also can help those with depression.

When things look darkest, look for some good in your life. Use it in your personal and professional life. Practice it when you feel down, stressed or pressured. You’ll be training your brain to work at more positive outcomes.

The original source for this article was Want to Boost Your Office Optimism? Try the Tetris Effect at Psychology Today.

Exercise Is Effective To Combat Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

Exercise Is Effective To Combat Depression, Anxiety, and Stress

Many years ago, I was depressed from a relationship breakup. I knew that exercise would help my mood, so I forced myself to go for a walk. After 30 minutes, on the last quarter-mile to my house, I checked in on my mood and found it had improved by 80%.

In the years since, many studies have validated my experience. Exercise is considered almost magic in what it can do for depression and anxiety disorders. I know it felt like magic for me.

Yet another study has come out verifying how amazing exercise can be for these mental conditions. Exercise reduces depression, anxiety, and stress, increased energy, and re-establishes positive behaviors.

Until my walk, I hadn’t been able to plan or work on a project that needed my attention. Afterwards, I had the energy and ability to focus on what I needed to do.

Drugs and medications take weeks, if not months, to start working and give people a light at the end of the tunnel. Exercise is effective within 25 minutes. Imagine taking a pill, and a half-hour later feeling significantly better.

Yes, it’s hard to drag yourself out to do it, but keep the end result in mind. In a half-hour, you could feel better if you exercise, or you could feel the same as you do now because you sat on the couch. Which do you prefer?

To read more about this current study, visit  Sports Are 80 Percent Mental: Is Exercise The Cure For Depression?

Make 2011 The Best Year Ever

Make 2011 The Best Year Ever

Are you ready to break through your old programming and start making your goals a reality?

Are you?
·    Stuck, stalled or immobilized in your life or career
·    Sabotaging yourself to fail
·    Resisting moving forward towards your desired goals
·    Procrastinating
·    Struggling

You may be so entrenched in your problem that you can’t see any way out. You may even be using the Law of Attraction in a way that’s bringing the things you don’t want.

Linda-Ann Stewart, hypnotherapist, life coach and speaker is offering “Break the Dam Holding Back the Flow of Universal Good” Coaching Group Program, beginning Tuesday, February 8, 2011 to help you make breakthroughs and achieve your goals. Some people call this type of program a Mastermind group. Only 7 spots are available.

Each week for 12 weeks, we’ll meet by teleconference and begin chipping away at your internal barriers. In the 90-minute call, each person will have 10 minutes of personal “laser” coaching.

You’ll start identifying and eliminating the old ideas and programming that have kept you stuck, so you can break free. You’ll also learn how to use the Law of Attraction in a positive way, to draw your desires to you and make them a part of your life.

“I know what it’s like to have internal obstacles,” Ms. Stewart says. “I’ve overcome my own blocks, and helped clients deal with their barriers for over twenty years. I want to share what I’ve learned and help others move forward.”

This program is designed for those who are committed to their own well being and creating change in their life. Linda-Ann will also share affirmations, assignments, techniques and strategies that will help you move forward.

Why should you wait another minute to have the life you want? Space is limited to a very few people. For more information, visit or register at Break the Dam Holding Back the Flow of Universal Good Coaching Group Program.

Writing about worries eases anxiety and improves test performance

Writing about worries eases anxiety and improves test performance

ScienceDaily (2011-01-13) — Students can combat test anxiety and improve performance by writing about their worries immediately before the exam begins, according to a new study. Researchers found that students who were prone to test anxiety improved their high-stakes test scores by nearly one grade point after they were given 10 minutes to write about what was causing them fear.

Apparently, unloading their anxieties before the test freed up mental energy needed to recall and perform better. Worry, stress or pressure ties up working memory, like too many programs on a computer ties up RAM. This can cause the mind to freeze up, just as a computer can freeze when too much is required of it.

Studies have found that expressive writing, journaling or freewriting, can help cleanse the working memory and help people process information better. So, write about your worries a few minutes before a test, a meeting with your boss, or beginning a project. If it works in one area, it works in others, as well.

For the full article, visit Writing about worries eases anxiety.

Brief meditative exercise helps cognition

Brief meditative exercise helps cognition

This study found that meditation can improve concentration and learning. And the mind can show these changes after only 4 days of meditation.

ScienceDaily (2010-04-19) — Psychologists studying the effects of a meditation technique known as “mindfulness” found that meditation-trained participants showed a significant improvement in their critical cognitive skills — and performed significantly better in cognitive tests than a control group — after only four days of training for only 20 minutes each day. The results resembled previously studied cognitive improvements connected to far more extensive training in meditation.

Read more about this study at Science Daily.


Make 2011 The Year Your Dreams Come True

Make 2011 The Year Your Dreams Come True

It’s the New Year, time for change and resolutions. The slate is clean and new intentions are ready to be written to improve your life.

* Have you had problems moving forward?
* When you try to make a change, do you hit a brick wall?
* Do you know why you can’t make the changes you want?

Linda-Ann Stewart, hypnotherapist, life coach and speaker is presenting a free teleclass to get you back on track to your goals. The teleclass will address reasons why you may have trouble breaking through and achieving your dreams. Drawing on her decades of experience, Ms. Stewart will cover some of those self-sabotaging beliefs that are holding you back and strategies to overcome them.

You’ll learn techniques to help you overcome your internal obstacles and achieve your goals. In this teleclass, you’ll discover how to use affirmations to make positive changes in your life.

“I appreciate the power of affirmations,” Ms. Stewart says. “They’ve been instrumental in allowing me to accomplish goals I would never have achieved otherwise.” You’ll also discover a secret and tools to successfully empower the Law of Attraction for you.

Join Ms. Stewart on Tuesday, January 11, 2011 at 5:30pm PST (that’s 6:30pm MST, 7:30pm CST, 8:30pm EST) for the one-hour teleclass, “Break Through To Your Dreams.” Space is limited. To learn more and to register, visit Break Through Teleclass.

A Positive Mindset Linked To Longer Cell Life

A Positive Mindset Linked To Longer Cell Life

For years, we’ve known that stress ages people and may even shorten life. Now there’s a study of how to combat and reverse those effects. A study has found that meditation and a positive mindset are linked to longer cell life. This means that you’ll look, feel and actually be younger than your years.

When you take time to deep breathe, relax, or meditate, it activates an enzyme in your body that actually lengthens and improves a part of your DNA. Anything that leads to a positive mindset causes the production of the enzyme. That includes being able to reframe your response to a possible upsetting situation into a more constructive belief about it.

So here we have another benefit for looking at life from an optimistic, positive frame of mind. Not only does it help you to be more successful, be happier, it also can allow you to stay younger. I’d say that would be a good reason to cultivate looking at life through a positive lens.

The source for this article can be found at Meditation linked to longer cell life.

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People Don’t Like Givers

People Don’t Like Givers

In some recent studies, researchers have found the people don’t like to work with others who are selfish. No surprise. But they also don’t like to work with people who are unselfish.

The control group, normal people, judge givers through their own filters and believe the altruistic ones have an ulterior motive. That somehow, the givers are doing so for some gain. Or that they broke the rules of everyone claiming the same reward, even if giving it up benefited the group.

The biggest complaint, however, were the unselfish people made them look bad. Their reputation somehow suffered because of the selflessness.

So it wasn’t so much about the unselfish ones, but was about how it affected the control group. They saw themselves as lacking in generosity, recognized how it made them look, and took it out on the people who were giving. Instead of using it as a model, they rejected the person who could make a true difference.

It’s a lesson that many creative, generous, compassionate people have learned all too well. We have to conform and hide our gifts or people will condemn and spurn us.

So we crater to survive, conform to what the average person does and avoid rocking the boat. Unfortunately, this means we won’t live up to our potential. It just bolsters the attitudes of the average person. We give them our power, and it means that the status quo thrives.

It’s interesting that in a society that teaches unselfishness, that very virtue is reviled. Our society may value it in theory, but in reality, it’s considered a vice. As children, we receive conflicting information about this issue. Is it any wonder that our culture is screwed up?

If we want to change our society, culture, or business, we can’t just cave into the people who are more invested in their egos than they are in progress or prosperity. “All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.”

It takes courage to stand up to them and realize that their discomfort and accusations simply arise out of their own inadequacies. To fulfill our potential, we have to let our light shine and be authentic.

As more and more people have done this, it’s become more accepted and appreciated. The idea of practicing random acts of kindness has swelled in recent years. So, although the average person may shun the generous one, kindness has become popular.

To read about the studies, visit WSU Study Finds People Really Don’t Like Working with Unselfish Colleagues and Too good to live: People hate generosity as much as they hate mean-spiritedness.

And check out Random Acts of Kindness to see how it’s gained in popularity.

Copyright 2010 Linda Ann Stewart
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New study finds positive connection between yoga and mood

New study finds positive connection between yoga and mood

ScienceDaily (2010-08-23) — Researchers have found that yoga may be superior to other forms of exercise, including walking, in its positive effect on mood and anxiety. The findings are the first to demonstrate an association between yoga postures, increased GABA levels and decreased anxiety. Low GABA levels are associated with depression and other widespread anxiety disorders.

Read full story at Yoga Study.