Spirituality and Self Help

This is a guest post by B. Lynn Goodwin. Lynn is a freelance writer, editor, teacher, former caregiver, and the author of You Want Me To Do WHAT? – Journaling for Caregivers (Tate Publishing), which can be purchased at Amazon, through Writer Advice, or from your local bookstore. She is published in numerous anthologies, magazines, [...]

Usually the children who are good at something and talented are lauded and feted by society; there’s no room for the also-rans and the jack-of-all-trades in a world where you have to excel academically, have a flair for the arts, sing like a bird, dance like a peacock, play like a jock, and so on and so forth, to be able to say that you’re a success. This is exactly why we grow up fearing failure.

Out of all the dictionary definitions to the word Religion my favorite is “a particular system of faith and worship.” That is what religion really is it’s a system of rules and “ways” to reach god or some higher force. Whenever someone is saying something to me I always try to think why is he [...]

In my previous post about this subject I wrote about self acceptance and loving yourself. In this post I want to elaborate and tell you an interesting allegory I recently read. One man was so troubled by the look of his shadow and felt so detested by his footprints and steps, that he decided to get [...]

This post is concentrated with lots of Techniques try to use each of them in different scary situations. One of the most effective techniques is to ask what is the worse that can happen? Say you have a job interview that you dread. You can ask yourself what’s the worse thing that can happen if I [...]

In my previous post I wrote about anxiety. In this post I want to elaborate and specify specific techniques to overcome anxiety. First of all there are basically two ways to treat anxiety: 1) with medicine. 2) other techniques. If you choose medication even if it helps in the short run, in the long run it harms your body. [...]

There is only one emotion. All other emotions are variations and distortions of this emotion. Just like all the colors blend to create the white color, love consists of all other emotions. Even fear which is the opposite of love in it’s highest expression is a form of love. For instance when a mother is concerned [...]