Inner power

MANY of us communicate with ourselves consciously or unknowingly in our daily lives when we are confronted with all kinds of issues, positive or negative.

Some regard this intuitive contact as a conversation with our inner voice or strength, which guides us in our decision making, particularly when we have nowhere else to turn to.

All of us have this self-talk gift and invoking it is vital to able to constantly be in touch with this talent for our well-being and others.

But one needs to examine these signals because they are often known to be negative.

I write this week�s column following a request from a reader in Penang on how she can tap her inner strength for happiness, prosperity and peace of mind.

The power of the inner energy, which is within every individual, is that it can stimulate our consciousness and also show an individual what is right and what is wrong.


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How to be happy: Be more active to feel better about ageing

They will also be more relevant in terms of spending power, which means that advertisers are going to have to start identifying positive aspects of this ever-growing group. This will be a good thing as currently we know that older age is largely associated with negative attributes, which presents an unbalanced view.

Step 2: Research shows that most adults over 65 are very healthy, and physical deterioration can be ameliorated quite dramatically with a healthy diet and physical exercise. Research also confirms that cognitive functioning does not decline as rapidly as first thought and that older brains are still capable of forming new neuronal networks, so one way to stay youthful is to keep learning. An active sex life is also important for maintaining youthfulness.

Step 3: The things we can do to age healthily are to stop smoking by the age of 45, drink alcohol moderately, maintain a healthy weight and healthy relationships, exercise, have a mature outlook on life and keep learning.


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Problems With Do-Gooder Self-Improvement Types Making Society Weak

There are so many self-improvement types and psychologists working on helping people get through their problems and their concern in life. Many of these psychologists and self-improvement consultants write articles and the give advice, and a large number of of them a mean well. Unfortunately a lot of what I see it is there are various problems with these types of do-gooder self-improvement types as properties are making society weak.

If someone has psychological issues or tremendous stress in their livlihood then properties fancy to direction that energy and those matters and do something around it. However, going throughout old childhood memories and trying to psychoanalyze every single event in someones life is purely silly. People need to take responsibility for their actions and situation with their hardships and prevent complaining and making excuses.

Too many do-gooder self-improvement sorts allow folks excuse themselves out of things to try to make them feel comfortable even when properties failed to perform a duty or made favorably on a responsibility. There is no excuse for failure, no excuse for piss poor performance in any of lives many endeavors.

It would seem to me that self-improvement sorts really want to help the people who properties are consulting with then they would notify them to be more responsible for the actions, honor their commitments and stop acting fancy this kind of a crybaby. But if properties did this I suppose the people would be cured and not need them anymore?

I don't like self-improvement psychologists when of the bad advice they give to people who are already weak when too often right now advice causes them weaker. But then again, I do like weakness nevertheless and I think weak people are of no value as they do not try, they make excuses and everything is always suddenly someone elses fault. Who needs them, they don't do anything. Now then, how can we service the self-help experts? Consider presently in 2006.

'Lady Idina Sackville was nicknamed "The Bolter" because of the

I have been reading The Secret, a book which has sold a zillion copies and which purports to tell me how I can make myself have absolutely anything I want.

At first, I was extremely excited and highly motivated by this possibility. And I have been eagerly and religiously affirming and visualising and intending my perfect life. The only problem is, whenever I sit down to do my visualising, I change my mind about what I want to manifest. Some days, I have a huge house in Sandymount, and one in Hampstead and one in New York, overlooking the park, but then, some days I decide I want to live a simple, eco-friendly life in a log cabin in California with a bunch of hippies. To the outside observer, these problems are only the normal problems that any multi-billionaire in my position would be faced with.


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The Art of Acceptance

The concluding goal for any endeavor in self improvement is to gain a clearer understanding of your own potential. Through the insights gained with self assessment a picture begins to form which suggests the things of that potential. Who you will become begins to take shape in your mind, but among such new found insight, obstacles become apparent, behaviours and actions which have not served to help you on your way to improvement.

When you begin a process of self assessment and self analysis it can be difficult to confront certain aspects of our personalities. The measure of battling through ingrained thought processes, learned behaviours, and counter productive reactions to situation can seem overwhelming. It is important to come to terms providing the elements of our personality that are unhealthy and obstructive to the development of our real selves. These counter productive elements if not be considered as faults or negative traits, properties are how they are, and most notably they are obstructions to a deeper understanding of our real natures.

The nurturing and growth of the real self is a process and should viewed as such. As we become a multitude of self up to date we can boost to become more accepting of the non intuitive components of our behaviours and thoughts. With awareness comes responsibility, responsibility to deal with the challenges posed by the improvement of the inner self.

The acceptance of non-productive aspects of personality should be applied to others as well. We are all fallible and have setbacks, perfection is not an attainable goal, understanding and improvement are goals. Treat others to the same level of acceptance as you allow for yourself. Know that not anyone shares your commitment to a deeper spiritual bargain and not everyone is on the path towards discovery.

Docs keep the faith

Well, doctors do believe in God and some don't mind infusing a dose of spirituality into their sessions at the clinic. Like Dr Vinod Kumar Nigam, a general and laparoscopic surgeon, who is writing a book 40 Minutes With God, where he talks about the time he spends praying for his patients while on the treadmill.

Currently at the Apollo Hospital, Gurgaon, he encountered the power of prayer early in his career of over 30 years. “There was a patient who was diagnosed with a cancerous tumour. When she found out, she simply asked me for a photograph of the malignant organ and assured me that she would knock down the tumour and she did, simply through prayer and the power of positive thinking. She went on to live for years, defying the prognosis of a couple of months."

Adds Dr Nigam, “We all know about the feel good hormones like serotonin and pheromones that are secreted in the body when we exercise or experience happiness and positive emotions.


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Religion: Thinking vs. feeling

Not thinking. Thinking, even atheistic thinking, can lead to belief, because thinking is the province of logos, the Word. And so, this caught my eye. A few weeks ago, we blogged on the Templeton Foundation's posing of the question, "Does science make belief in God obsolete?" This article from The American examines the answer of one physicist and Christian who answered the question with "Absolutely not!" But I'm not sure the rest of his answer is satisfying. His name is William D. Phillips, a professor at the University of Maryland and a Nobel Laureate in physics.

Phillips, himself a scientist and a practicing Christian who talks openly about his faith, wrote in his essay that "a scientist can believe in God because such belief is not a scientific matter." […] Phillips said that examining belief in God from a scientific vantage point was the wrong approach, since one cannot measure God scientifically.


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