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The following is a list of all entries from the optimism category.
Miscommunication Leads to Complications
Filed in healthy communication, The Golden Rule, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Communication model, healthy communication skills, communication, healthy relationships, spiritual health, mental health, Building trust, Verbal Communication, communication process, The Platinum Rule, drug addiction, behavioral addiction, Lauryn Hill, trust, Recovery, process of communication, Gordon Graham, self-image psychology, addiction, develping healthy relationships, lower stress, wisdom, personal development, optimism, Change Managment, drugs, joy, truth, health, peace, love, empathy, tolerance, Personal Peace, healthy behaviors, healthy attitudes, simplifying change, World Peace, Anger Management, compassion, actions, Anger Managment, Stress Managment, Uncategorized April 23, 2008, 8:08 pm
Lauryn Hill, on her 1998 CD The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, sang that “miscommunication leads to complications“. Relating to personal and world Peace, truer words were never spoken, sung or rapped. There’s a process that verbal communication goes through, and when you consider what happens in that process, it’s a wonder that we communicate at […]
When Your Feet Hurt, Everything Hurts
Filed in either/or mentality, universal life force, develping healthy relationships, autoimmune system, lower blood pressure, healthy attitudes, simplifying change, lower stress, healthy relationships, Ernie Larson, healthy communication skills, healthy communication, The Golden Rule, communication, Building trust, spiritual health, mental health, physical health, healthy behaviors, Low self esteem, personal development, self esteem, optimism, wisdom, meditation, health, peace, love, Change Managment, Reticular activating system, Personal Peace, Proactive, Proactive Stress Management, World Peace, Anger Management, Anger Managment, Stress Managment, Uncategorized March 24, 2008, 12:03 pmSince August of 2007, we have produced nine pod casts. The unifying theme in these pod casts is that world peace can become a reality when enough people find peace within their own heart. To that end, these pod casts have addressed subjects as raising our low self esteem, adopting healthier behaviors and attitudes, and […]
A Recipe for Personal Peace
Filed in Anger Management, World Peace, Cracked, Dr. Drew, Dr. Drew Pinsky, Personal Peace, Personal Responsibility, Jesus Christ, Les Brown, Proactive Stress Management, Proactive, feelings, tolerance, meditation, joy, love, peace, wisdom, personal development, patience, Reticular activating system, Change Managment, optimism, Uncategorized January 29, 2008, 11:02 pmFor 7 ½ years I taught drug- and behaviorally-addicted parolees in California life skills. It was a 120-hour course that consisted of four components: one was the disease concept of addiction; there was recovery, or behavior modification; there was building healthy relationships with healthy people; and stress and anger management. That’s the component that I […]
Putting a Man on the Moon
Filed in Eleanor Roosevelt, thoughts, feelings, Victor Frankl, Radical Responsibility, interdependence, Karma, actions, Martin Luther King Jr., man on the moon, Yinyang, NASA, President Kennedy, JFK, John F Kennedy, Neuropeptides, compassion, joy, meditation, activism, love, peace, health, spirituality, civil rights, personal development, racism, positive thinking, interdependance, optimism, self esteem, alan watts, buddhism December 26, 2007, 7:56 pmIn an earlier pod cast entitled “Low Self-Esteem is the Root of All Evil” I suggested that for thousands of years the self-confidence of the people has been systematically undermined by the various governments, churches, corporations and power brokers of their time. The simple logic behind this observation is that the more disempowered we feel […]
Jewels in the Rubbish
Filed in terrorism, empathy, The Art of Happiness, Pronoia, World Trade Center, 9-11, Reticular activating system, A People's History of the United States, sociopathic behavior, Rob Brezsny, Timothy Leary, Vietnam, Vietnam war, Buckminster Fuller, compassion, William Blake, corporate media, patience, tolerance, positive thinking, media, spirituality, peace, activism, history, politics, buddhism, science, health, civil rights, wisdom, howard zinn, buckmister fuller, racism, optimism, alan watts, personal development, dalai lama, self esteem, truth November 27, 2007, 5:26 pmA good friend of mine once told me that nothing is entirely good or bad. I think that’s what the little dots in the yin and the yang symbol represent – that everything has the potential for its opposite within it. The Buddhists have a saying, “When you find a jewel in the rubbish, treasure […]
You Can Change Without Growing, But… (pt. 2)
Filed in interdependance, optimism, Gandhi, intention, Change Managment, positive thinking, self esteem, dalai lama, buddhism, truth, peace, love, personal development, joy, Uncategorized October 31, 2007, 4:01 pm
You Can Change Without Growing, BUT...(pt. 2) [6:40m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1)
3Ts for Change: DownloadHi, I’m Jim.
I’m Dave.
Jim: We are the co-producers of the podcasts here at OptimismIsASkill.com. We’re having a really good time doing this, and we’re hoping that you find the information enlightening and enjoyable. For the past four podcasts, you’ve been hearing my voice exclusively, and I thought it would be a good idea for you […]
You Can Change Without Growing, But…
Filed in self esteem, shamanism, secret, conservation, wisdom, personal development, optimism, propoganda, intention, positive thinking, media, Gandhi, howard zinn, ancient, pop culture, politics, history, science, buddhism, truth, religion, spirituality, peace, love, joy, zen, preservation, quantum, technology October 6, 2007, 5:38 pmHave you ever had the experience of seeing something that you when you saw it you immediately recognized it as profound, but you didn’t quite get it? It happens to me a lot.
Several years ago I was sitting in traffic, stopped at a red light, and the car in front of me had a bumper […]
Low Self Esteem is the Root of All Evil (part 2)
Filed in racism, masuru emoto, propoganda, optimism, dr emoto, intention, positive thinking, sports psychology, messages from water, self esteem, visualization, spirituality, health, science, buddhism, peace, love, secret, personal development, joy, religion September 16, 2007, 1:21 pm Low Self Esteem is the Root of All Evil (pt2) [9:16m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (81)
Mapping Success: Download (76)One of the best examples of how thoughts and intentions impact matter is Dr. Emoto’s work, “Messages from Water”. Great book, beautiful pictures. Dr. Emoto has come up with a way to freeze water crystals. And simply by thinking or projecting your intentions at these water crystals, they change. When you are thinking positive, healthy […]
Low Self Esteem is the Root of All Evil (part 1)
Filed in visualization, personal development, self esteem, optimism, racism, Gandhi, wisdom, love, buddhism, religion, health, politics, peace, history, truth September 1, 2007, 8:17 amA couple of years ago, I was playing basketball and I dislocated a knuckle and broke a finger on one hand. I was going through physical therapy to heal from the injury, and I was sitting in the lobby of the physical therapist’s office feeling sorry for myself and across the room there was a […]
Optimism is a Skill
Filed in optimism, propoganda, bob marley, alan watts, self esteem, terence mckenna, secret, visualization, noam chomsky, howard zinn, racism, media, Buckminster Fuller, Gandhi, michael benner, what the bleep do we know, interdependance, buckmister fuller, dalai lama, personal development, politics, history, spirituality, health, science, truth, religion, buddhism, peace, quantum, pop culture, ancient, wisdom, activism, joy, love, john lennon, technology August 13, 2007, 12:33 amI’m optimistic about the future of mankind. I see humanity on the verge of an evolutionary leap in awareness where we recognize our inherent connectedness. The connectedness that we all share. I look around and I see three of the dominant ideologies of our time - science, religion and technology - all coming together at […]
