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Motivational thoughts for the New Year--Stress Management for the new decade. Every year seems to end with the same disappointment with hope for the next year. It seems that the disappointments for the past year are proportional to the uncertainties of the past year. And those uncertainties are generally proportional to the financial and personal losses suffered during the previous year. Yet, if we can live in the moment, the financial and personal losses don't impact our attitudes. It's like the study psychologists did with two ten year old boys. One boy came from a well-to-do background and the other ten year old was from a poverty background. The boy from a background of poverty was put in a room of broken toys and the one from a well-to-do family was put in a room of the newest of toys. The boys were left alone for thirty minutes after which they found one boy very disappointed. He was from the well-to-do family. They asked him why he was disappointed, and he replied, "I already have all these toys, I thought you'd have something new and neat." However, they were surprised to find the boy from the background of poverty very excited. When asked why he was so excited he replied, "With all this crap around here, there has to be something good someplace and I'm going to find it." This is truly a model for any stress management training exercise. Add this to stress management techniques such as exercise, deep breathing, muscle awareness, and so on. I like to remember that story and often wish I could be more effective myself in adopting that attitude on a day-to-day basis. Indeed it is truly a challenge and if we each could remember that story day-to-day we'd be much healthier and happier. Unfortunately many think it's impracticable to think that way, but if your really think about it, you'll find it's one's limiting beliefs creating that attitude. Every year starts off with promise and hope only to be lost several months later because we lack motivational thoughts. Only by creating a shift in attitude can we, in the middle of disappointment or "crap," be excited about finding something great. There are two basic things that keep us from doing this from a stress management training basis: 1. Our self limiting beliefs such as not deserving or our inability to do something. 2. Lack of using affirmations or tools to develop prosperity consciousness. It's not to say that when you are in prosperity that disappointments won't happen, it's that we capitalize on disappointment instead of being drowned by them. What about the stress of dealing with uncertainty? Answer: Use your affirmations to embrace and acknowledge uncertainty and move through it. The end result is that instead of being glad to get rid of last year, you'll be happy and pleased with last year. Sure you look forward to the new year--but it's with the same excitement that you looked forward to in each of the last 52 weeks. To empower your motivational thoughts there are two tapes/cd for self help programs--Prosperity and Affirmations that will make a significant difference in your every day-to-day life. Of course famous resolutions for the new year are to lose weight and stop smoking or some other hurtful habit. Instead of doing it with the hope of something like medications or shakes/gum doing it for you, look to affirmations--not that you won't also use the shakes or gum. The best New Years' resolution you can employ is affirmations--motivational thoughts--every day--they vibrate with source to provide health and prosperity and reprogram your intelligence--the best sort of stress management training so each new year brings you the best of the year possible. Resource box: Richard Kuhns B.S.Ch.E., NGH certified is a well known expert in the field of stress management and personal change with his best selling stress management and hypnosis cds at http://www.PanicBusters.com and http://www.DStressDoc.com He aims to raise awareness as to how using motivational thoughts promotes health. To learn more more please visit http://www.dstressdoc.com/Affirmations.htm
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