Category: Personal Development
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Choose 2 Dream Now
Dream or Wisdom?Inspiration for the Soul If you can dream it, you can do it. ~ Walt Disney A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work. ~ Colin Powell To Act, or to Dream? I have always been fascinated by dreams. The enantiodromia that plays out in the mind’s…
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Everything Changes: Breakthrough Steps 4 Transformation
An Article by Karen Weeks We all know that everything changes. When your life is in the middle of a major transformation, what better time to start making room for better personal habits? Getting into a new routine could be just what you need to get things on the right track. Here, Dr. Thomas Maples…
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Harness Your Inner Flame: An Affirmation 4 Personal Potential
An Affirmation 4 Passion Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin A Guided Meditation and Affirmation 4 Inner Potential Development Hello.…
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A Guiding Light Meditation: Personal Growth 4 the Soul
Finding Your Inner Wellbeing Transcript Hello. I am Dr. Maples and welcome to our guided meditation and affirmation that Honors the Inner Voice. I am grateful that you joined me here today, and I hope this brief exploration of your inner voice can help bring the light of healing to your body, mind, and spirit.…
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A Glorious Secret: Belief 4 Inner Growth
Inspirational VLOG Words of Wisdom Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact. ~ William James Belief and Inner Wisdom Practicing psychology, I often surround myself with a continual drive to explore the tenets of personal development. However, I have often noticed that the road forks, especially when ideals…
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Personal Development: 2 Choose Adventure Now
Inspirational Words of Wisdom The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. Joseph Campbell A Philosophy for Personal Development Even in my youngest years, I craved adventure and the wonder of the lessons it provides. As a psychotherapist, I understand just how much potential…
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The Bandaged Place of Light
Find Your Sacred Space Words of Inspiration “Don’t turn away. Keep your gaze on the bandaged place. That’s where the light enters you.” ~Rumi Mindfulness is more than a strategy to calm down and relax. Practicing mindfulness helps create a rhythm; it balances body, mind, and spiritual well-being. But frequently, we need to pay more…
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Siddhartha: A Depth Psychology 4 Finding Light in the Shadow
Siddhartha and The Sacred Journey “In the shade of the house, in the sunshine of the riverbank near the boats, in the shade of the Sal-wood forest, in the shade of the fig tree is where Siddhartha grew up, the handsome son of the Brahman, the young falcon, together with his friend Govinda, son of…
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Teaching the Next Generation: Lessons 4 Successful Parenting
Teaching Respect and Positive Parenting A child who is allowed to be disrespectful to his parents will not have true respect for anyone. Billy Graham I often hear the word respect thrown around as if one is entitled to something. The sad fact is that 99.9% of the time I hear this term used, it…
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Practical Psychology: How 2 Deal with the Negative Skew of News and Social Media
A Sacred Journey Podcast Faith and Practical Psychology With so much media buying for our attention, how can we develop that desperately needed inner sense of peace? This is especially true as it relates to the negative bias most sources of information used to play upon the strengths of the autonomic nervous system that will…
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Shadow Work 4 a Psychology of Wellbeing
Keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you. — Walt Whitman A Psychology of Self-Development Engage the Shadow Within Shadow work is a well-known psychological construct in the field of analytical psychology. Yet, in the modern era of diagnosis and fast-track treatments to soothe humanity’s ever-decreasing attention span, we…
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A Truth 4 Joy
Quotes of Inspiration Find a place inside where there’s joy, and the joy will burn out the pain. Joseph Campbell The Psychology of Joy Ever wonder why the emotion of joy is so hard to grasp? For decades, I have heard a very similar storyline. Regardless of race, age, gender, or other demarcation levels, one…
