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Encouragement

2 Positive Steps to Dissolve Cold Pent Up Feelings And Warm Your Heart

[success]If you’re carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present. ~ Les Brown[/success] The most incredible discovery I made about life is that it can be altered by a change in attitude. What you know is important, but what you feel about what you know is even more important because those feelings make up your attitude. So if it’s a change in life you desire, then it’s to feelings that you must turn. Our Encourager for the month of February, shares noteworthy steps to manage the feelings that prevent you from designing a better quality of life. A big warm welcome to the positive and insightful Zeenat Merchant Syal. A warm loving heart is a gift beyond all else. I lived my formative years, right till my twenties, in a desert (Muscat). I was never a fan of the…

Change

How To Turn Stress On Its Head

By Sandra Pawula

It’s that time again. Time for the Encourager of the month, where you get to meet and greet brilliant beings who shine their light for the rest of us to enjoy. Today’s guest author is the lovely Sandra Pawula author and founder of Always Well Within. Thanks Elle, it’s great to be here. Ever feel like you’re chained to a stress treadmill and there’s no way off? I understand. I’ve been there! I’ve led a high stress life so I know stress can feel insurmountable. And, ironically, there’s a seed of truth in this feeling because the chronic activation of the stress response can actually decrease your ability to cope with taxing experiences and gradually impair the biochemical feedback loop that turns off the stress cycle. Even so, I want you to know it’s not hopeless at all because science has demonstrated you can change your brain. You can learn…

Encouragement

Why Self Care Isn’t Selfish

By Elle Sommer

[success]Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I will not forget you. ~ William Arthur Ward[/success] There isn’t one of us who doesn’t sometimes need a kind word, just a little word to lift us up when we’re down, or a smile or two to brighten our day, and help us through. We need a word of encouragement to remind us that a bad day doesn’t make for a bad week, or a bad month, it’s just a bad day and tomorrow it’ll be gone and we can start afresh. So here’s our Encourager of the month to do just that. To remind us that at any point in this game of life we can redefine our lives. We might be stuck in the mud, but we can still look…

Happiness

The Fabulous Fix Of Friendship

By Elle Sommer

Today my friend Fran Sorin of FranSorin.com is our Encourager for the month of July. Our true friends are those who manage to inspire us to be what we know we can be, which makes Fran an inspirer as well as an encourager and I’m grateful for her presence here today. [success]Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. ~ Albert Camus[/success] Friendships are gifts. We live in a daily gift exchange, between us and life between us and others and sharing the gift of friendship is one of the creative acts we perform, one of the blessings of the universe. Our willingness to share our love, our joy, our ups, our downs with others is a means to living and expressing life fully. Friendships through circumstances Throughout your lifetime, you develop…