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GC-RimTrail-sm-0923A Practical Guide To Reframing Your Thoughts And Making Yourself Happier
We’re always worrying, thinking of negative scenarios, but most of those disasters never occur. But they affect us and keep us disturbed, and reduce our enjoyment of life. Learn some techniques to stop that destructive cycle and put yourself in a healthier, happier frame of mind.

Why Introverts Are Introverts? Because Their Brains Are Different
If you prefer quiet over loud, a single companion over a group, or to stay home reading rather than go to a party, you’re probably an introvert. Research has discovered a major difference in the brains of introverts and extroverts that make them the way they are. Learn about these brain changes so you can understand why you’re the way you are.

A Harvard Psychologist Says This Should Be The First Thing You Do Every Morning
Instead of heading towards the coffee pot first thing in the morning, Amy Cuddy, a Harvard researcher, suggests you stretch. And not just any stretching. She says you should stretch in a specific way that helps build your confidence. This article also includes a her TEDTalk on how body language shapes who you are.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

Book Review – Forgiving the Unforgivable

Book Review – Forgiving the Unforgivable

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Overcoming the Bitter Legacy of Intimate Wounds by Beverly Flanigan, M.S.S.W.

If you’ve ever been hurt by someone close to you, past or present, and need some help in dealing with it and getting to forgiveness, this book is for you. Not only does the author walk you through the journey of recognizing and acknowledging the injury, assigning responsibility, and describing the steps a person goes through along the way, but she also includes many exercises and tools to handle all of these phases.

When we’re wounded by someone close to us in a way that betrays the foundation of the relationship, then we feel like our world has been turned upside down. It forces us to re-evaluate our beliefs, and who we are. Our sense of stability and safety has been violated. To be able to heal from this, we have to examine the injury and its consequences.

As spiritual people, many of us believe that we have to take responsibility for everything that happens to us. That’s true to a certain extent. But we can’t control another person’s feelings and actions. So we need to assign responsibility to who actually, consciously and with intent, harmed us. Forgiveness doesn’t mean pardoning the other person. It’s letting go of the anger, empowering ourselves to move on, and recognizing that the wound has changed who we are. We set them free and ourselves free.

Forgiveness is a process of healing, not an eraser of hurt. This comprehensive book explains how to move through that process successfully and grow from it.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Flagstaff ArboretumDoctors Say Your Word Choice Can Hugely Change Your Brain
Doctors at Thomas Jefferson University explained that the choice of our words could actually change your brain. Whether you use positive or negative words regulates hormones, impacts your decisions, and how you view yourself by the way they affect the brain. However, you can train yourself to choose words that will change your brain in a positive way.

Forgiveness is key to maintaining your mental health, according to this new study
If you’re someone who holds grudges, that hurts your mental and physical health. At the very least, you’re experiencing more stress than you normally would. However, if you can forgive, that eliminates the stress.

This Is How Your Body Really Processes Grief
At some point, everyone experiences grief. Unfortunately, until you do, you really can’t understand how deep it is. Well meaning friends may tell you to get over it and just move on, because they’ve never experienced it. This article goes into details about what happens mentally and physically when you lose someone close to you.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Grand Canyon-Lipan PointSo Apparently There Are 4 Kinds of Introversion
Introversion has been getting a lot of attention of late. Before that, if it was thought of at all, it was considered to be a personality defect. But it’s now in the public’s consciousness. And psychologists are realizing that their definition of introversion isn’t the same as the public’s. This researcher has identified 4 kinds, and describes them.

Doctors Tell Us How Hiking Can Change Our Brains
Getting out in nature is good for the mind, body and soul. It improves mood, boosts brainpower, creativity, improves children with ADHD, and more. This article examines several ways that hiking is good for your mental and physical health.

Reprogram subconscious mind with hypnosis
Hypnosis is a wonderful way to make changes in your life. This article explains how it does that, by reprogramming the subconscious mind. But it also describes the difference between hypnosis and meditation and the benefits of each.

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Grand Canyon Sunset - East of Yaki PointPsychologists Reveal One Of The Best Ways To Boost Your Mood
Research has found that altruism or being kind can improve your mood better than doing things for yourself. There are other benefits to these acts, as well. Read the article for a deeper understanding of how focusing beyond yourself is better for you mentally and physically.

10 Surprising Facts About Rejection
Research finds that rejection affects more than just your feelings. It also impacts your reason, intelligence, brain and more. This article has some interesting facts about how rejection and how it can be eased.

Frequent Complaining Can Badly Affect Your Brain, Here’s Why
Are you stuck in a cycle of negativity? If so, you’ve trained your brain to keep you there. But there is a way you can get out of it. This article goes into how and why you get stuck, and what to do to change it.

Meditation to Take Charge of Your Stress

Meditation to Take Charge of Your Stress

Stress is constant in our modern world. When we don’t do anything to release or reduce it, it builds up to affect our physical and mental health. One of the best things you can do for yourself is to take charge and find ways reduce stress. This meditation will lead you through one of the fastest and easiest ways to do that. If you practice this several times a day, you’ll lower your stress level and improve your health.



~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Watson Lake and Granite Dells, Prescott, AZ11 Ways to Improve Your Relationship With Yourself
Your relationship with yourself is the most important one in your world, because it’s the one consistent one you have. The rest of your world and experience is perceived through and is a reflection of that single relationship. To have a better life, improve your primary relationship. Here are 11 ways to do it.

Different Views of Forgiveness
People who are able to forgive their offenders have less anxiety and depression and more positive emotions. However, forgiveness doesn’t mean that you absolve the offender of their responsibility or forget the offense. Forgiveness is for your health and wellbeing. It frees you from the past.

If You Want To Focus More, Never Try Harder, Science Says
Often when you try to focus on a task or avoid temptation you try to use your willpower. However, a study has shown that the harder you try the more you end up exhausted. But willpower is like a muscle, it can be exercised and become stronger. This article gives a tip on how to strengthen your willpower so that you can accomplish your goals.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

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Kendrick Mountain from Snowbowl10 Things You Need To Stop Doing If You Want To Be Successful
What does success mean to you? No matter what that is, there are going to be bumps in the road. But you have the ability to overcome them, no matter what they are. Here are a few of the most common blocks and how to handle them.

How to Plan Your Week for Maximum Impact
How can you keep your attention on the important things and avoid distractions? This article describes a handy way of doing that. It’s a technique that can keep you focused, increase your focus and decrease your stress.

30 Red Flags of Manipulative People
When you’re dealing with a toxic person, whether you’re aware of it or not, you have to recognize their behaviors. But you also have to monitor your reactions, because they’ll give you warning before you’ll consciously notice the manipulative actions of the other person. This article is geared to romantic relationships, but it also can describe acquantances and friends.

Book Review – “Creating Money: Attracting Abundance”

Book Review – “Creating Money: Attracting Abundance”

Creating Money: Attracting Abundance
by Sanaya Roman and Duane Packer

If you are wanting more abundance, success or to find your life’s work, this book will help you. Abundance, peace and joy is your natural state. By discovering any resistance within yourself, focusing on changing your beliefs, and using the exercises and affirmations in this book, you’ll begin to expand into the abundance that is inherently yours.

Almost every page has an affirmation that reinforces the subject of that section. Just about every chapter has a meditation or exercise that helps in self-discovery, drawing to you what you want, or expanding your concepts.

Beginning with the most basic concept that you are your abundance, it takes you through releasing any blocks to it, addresses the issue of trust and belief in yourself.

It’s one of the most comprehensive books on abundance that I’ve read. You learn that you can create anything that you want to. If you want more abundance in your life, then I highly recommend that you get this book for your personal library.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart

Book Review – Enlightenment for Beginners: Discovering the Dance of the Divine

Book Review – Enlightenment for Beginners: Discovering the Dance of the Divine

Enlightenment for Beginners: Discovering the Dance of the Divine
by Chuck Hillig

This book was originally titled “What Are You Doing In My Universe.” A client mentioned how much he liked this book, and how it was a great primer for anyone seeking enlightenment. I remembered that I’d gotten it years ago, and brought it out to re-read. It takes less than thirty minutes to complete this book, but it’s time well-spent.

The author explains the reason for the game we play with ourselves, why we’ve chosen to forget our true nature. To keep ourselves entertained, we’ve accepted the illusion of separation between the Universe and the individual.

Rather than just philosophically explaining our delusion, this book makes great use of pictures and dots to humorously make the point. By illustrating the basic concept of Oneness, the author makes it clearer than a book of a thousand pages could possibly do.

For all ages, from eight on up, it would be a cute gift for someone learning about spirituality. And it’s a great reminder for everyone of our true nature.

~ Linda-Ann Stewart