Addictive Behaviors
Going to the doctor? Consult your Self first!
Next time you consult a doctor and go home with your medication or treatment plan make sure you check in with your Self. Find out if you are truly living to manifest your very own Self or if all you have been doing is being the slave of other people’s rules (parents/caregivers included). It might…
Read MoreMethod Terminology: Feel-Good-About-Self
Allow me to introduce myself. I am the illustration of the term “Feel-good-about-Self.” I am one of the 40 new concepts that are launched in the upcoming book by Antoinetta Vogels: A healthy Sense Of Self – How to be true to yourself and make your world a better place! I represent a feeling that…
Read MoreWow PoW (= Pearl of Wisdom to wow about))
How unfair it is sometimes: as a toddler and child we are looking in the mirror our parents hold up for us. We like to see the reflection of this cherished and adored little boy or girl in it and we go out of our way to realize that image. Especially when we depend on…
Read MoreCan Feeling-Good-About-Yourself be an addiction?
Stopping your work somewhere halfway is hard. More difficult even is quitting when you’re almost done. Even when you can be pretty sure that there will be another day tomorrow it sometimes feels you have to rip yourself from your desk and shoot yourself out of the office and into the car. Once that is…
Read MoreThought of the Day, June 21th, 2012
Survival in a lion cub is an instinct that he blindly follows using all his power and flexibility to not end up as a prey to other predators in the food chain we are all part of. What makes us human beings believe that we can do with less? Imagine you would put all that jungle power behind…
Read MoreThe Magic Formula for healing various kinds of ailments and dysfunction
Do you remember how it used to be in the olden days? Walking from one doctor’s office to the next to find a cure for your condition – going through the routines of describing your medical history to yet the next counselor – trying yet another medication … For a brief moment you think that…
Read MoreTrust your body; it lets you know when you’ve forgotten to be Yourself.
Have you ever felt cheated by your own body? Ever feel like you want to yell at your body but know that you better stay good friends with it, so you don’t. This morning I felt this way, and I felt so cheated. After 25 years of struggling with insomnia I finally slept well but…
Read MoreBuilding Champions
(This blog was written on the 15th of December 2011 in response to an article in USAToday, ‘Building Champions’. The paper was of that day.) I can’t emphasize enough the importance of having a Healthy Sense of Self in reaching the top level in athletics. Practice (and training) makes perfect; but over-training leads to compulsion, which in the…
Read MoreIs Alcoholism a hereditary disease or a personal, avoidable problem?
As I am working my way through the one and only booklet that seems to be a guideline for gathering knowledge on what the facts are about alcoholism and which dates from 1981, Under the Influence*, I can’t still help to feel the need to publish my personal opinion. When I first started to look…
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