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- Immunity to Change - Why Is Personal Change So Difficult? - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowThe inherent assumption in most training and work-related attempts at encouraging personal change is that it is skills based, in other words people can be taught to change. They can be taught, but generally they won't change. They can't change and according to Professor Robert Kegan this is ...
Views: 1413 - Self Motivation - 10 Key Steps When Faced With Impossible Choices - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowYour employers are taking advantage of you, you are about to be made redundant, you are in debt and your finances are a mess, your wife/husband/partner and you keep arguing, you are under so much pressure - you need to "do" something, anything, right now. I have been there - believe me - more ...
Views: 944 - Self Motivation In Times Of Imposed Change - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowThere are two levels of self-motivation: firstly there is the day to day, "task level motivation" of achieving routine activities, and then there is the "big picture level motivation" that is required to get you through situations of significant imposed change that have large and perhaps ...
Views: 691 - Meditation Programme - My 8 Year's Meditation Experience With Binaural Beat Technology - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowHaving used a binaural beat meditation product for over 8 years now I can safely say that whilst in most respects I remain the same flawed human being I was before, at least I now know that I am! So am I any different now? I find that traditional meditation is now much easier to do than ...
Views: 704 - Managing Personal Change - Why We Can Be Taught Yet We Still Won't Change - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowThe whole subject of managing personal change has largely been the provenance of the worlds of personal development and self improvement. From a change management perspective, and in my own view Professors Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey in their latest book: "Immunity to Change - How To ...
Views: 708 - Managing Personal Change - How To Not Mistake The Map For The Territory - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowA key factor in managing personal change is the extent to which the individual has the capacity to recognise that they are not their thoughts - to not mistake the map for the territory - and to have an expanded sense of personal identity that is beyond their own and others perspectives, and that ...
Views: 831 - Self Talk - How I Dealt With The Ghost In My Machine - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowIt comes as a frightening realisation when we first come to terms with the fact that, contrary to what we like to think, we are not really free agents. In western culture especially, the celebration of individualism - a belief that is deeply embedded in our culture - deludes us into believing ...
Views: 703 - Meditation Programme - Why Meditation Is So Hard And Take So Long - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowSome years ago I saw an advert for a meditation product that promised me that I could meditate like a Zen master and without 25 years of practise several hours a day. I was sceptical, but interested, and did some research. Here is a summary of what I found: The benefits of meditation ...
Views: 773 - Stress Management Techniques For Tough Times - This Too Will Pass - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowI want to introduce you to one of the very simplest yet most effective stress management techniques for tough times that I discovered some years ago, but first I want to tell you a story. There is a story about a king who sought wisdom. He searched all over his kingdom for wisdom and did not ...
Views: 780 - Stress Management Techniques - My Experience of Mindfulness in Very Tough Times - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowA while ago my fortunes changed and I was not working and experiencing a very hard time financially with all the obvious pressures associated with that. I became exhausted and completely run down. I found it hard to control my thoughts. I would often wake up in the early hours of the morning ...
Views: 563 - Body N Mind Connection - Key to Surviving Tough Times - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowThere is a very powerful connection between "body n mind". Our minds are the repositories of all of our pre-programmed reactions and response patterns. Our bodies are the vehicles through which our emotional reactions arise and are expressed. Emotion is your body's reaction to your ...
Views: 637 - Tools of the Mind - How I Dealt With Extreme Stress - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowWe all have many different selves or voices, which psychologists sometimes refer to as sub-personalities. These different selves are largely out of sight and unconscious. They are frequently in conflict with each other, and are the source of all our resistance to any form of personal ...
Views: 551 - Tools of the Mind - Learning to Work With Your Many Selves - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowEach one of us has within us many different voices, or selves or what are sometimes referred to as sub-personalities. What we are talking about here are the many different aspects of our "self" that go to make up the whole thing that we conventionally refer to as "me." From now on, I am ...
Views: 550 - How to Change Your Life Now! - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowAre you in a mess and having a really tough time right now? Here's some immediate advice on how to change your life now. Can I ask that you don't immediately resist or try to evaluate what I'm about to say initially, just for a few moments, but just take it at face-value for now. (1) ...
Views: 541 - How to Make Decisions by the Night Vision of Your Intuition - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowWhat do you do when experiencing testing times, when there is a conflict between your intuition and your conscious mind and especially when this is because of adverse external circumstances? After 6 months of deepening anxiety over this issue, in the depths of personal adverse external ...
Views: 518 - Relax and Trust in Your Higher Self - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowDo you want to have a big story to tell? When things are tough and you are starting to think that no one else gets this much hassle, when you have difficulty sleeping 'cos your mind keeps going over things looking for an answer, when you know the answer's there...but no matter how hard you try ...
Views: 1134 - Self Improvement And Motivation - Who Do You Think You Are? - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowThe need for self improvement and motivation is often one of the big starting points in the whole business of "how to change your life". But, before we go any further with the subject of self improvement and motivation, let's pause and reflect for a moment. What is really implied ...
Views: 530 - Self Motivation Tips - The 3 Key Reasons Why You Consistently Fail To Motivate Yourself - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowLet me ask you a very direct and blunt question. Why do you need help on how to motivate yourself - why can't you just decide to do something and then just do it? What's stopping you? The internet is saturated with "self-help" materials on "how to motivate yourself". There are endless advice, ...
Views: 1223 - Tools of the Mind - How I Instantly Stopped Smoking - by Submitted on Aug 26, 2011 from Stephen WarrilowA few years ago I wanted (and needed to give up smoking). I decided to try out a process that involves working with the selves. But first let me explain. We generally think and speak in terms of "my self" but strictly speaking what we regard as our "self" is a very complex amalgam of many ...
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