How to Create Positive Affirmations for Negative Thoughts

How to Create Positive Affirmations for Negative Thoughts

Is your mind overwhelmed by negativity? Do you often find yourself slipping into the vicious cycle of negative thinking? According to self-development coach Roxie Nafousi, one of the best remedies for negative thinking is affirmations—statements that encourage positive beliefs. When negative thoughts invade your mind, reciting positive affirmations in your mind can help override them and restore a positive outlook. Here’s how to create affirmations for negative thoughts.

How to Connect With Your Higher Self: 4 Transformative Tips

How to Connect With Your Higher Self: 4 Transformative Tips

What is your higher self’s purpose? How do you connect with your higher self? According to Be Your Future Self Now by Benjamin Hardy, your higher self is the version of you that is living to your fullest potential. Even though reaching your higher self is challenging, Hardy provides four recommendations that will help you on your self-improvement journey. Learn how to connect with your higher self with these four recommendations.

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön: Overview

When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön: Overview

Are you stuck in a state of uncertainty and suffering? What’s When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön about? In When Things Fall Apart, Pema Chödrön provides guidance on how to find courage and compassion amid pain, loss, and uncertainty. She shows us how to cultivate self-awareness and acceptance and face life’s challenges with grace and resilience. Read below for an overview of Pema Chödrön’s self-improvement book When Things Fall Apart.

You Create Your Own Destiny: How to Believe In Yourself

You Create Your Own Destiny: How to Believe In Yourself

Are you in charge of your fate? How do you create your own destiny? Be Your Future Self Now by Benjamin Hardy walks you through the many steps of connecting with your higher self to become the best person you can be. His last step is to believe that you create your own destiny, which is imperative in trusting yourself and your gut. Discover how believing you’re in charge of your future can do wonders for your self-esteem.

How to Develop Self-Love: Tips From a Self-Development Coach

How to Use The Magic of Love to Get What You Desire

What does it mean to love yourself? How do you cultivate self-love? To love yourself is to believe that you’re worthy and capable of achieving anything you want in life. When you truly love yourself, you act in your best interests, no matter how hard it is, and in return, the Universe gives you what you want. Here’s what it means to love yourself, and some tips on how to develop self-love.

The Benefits of Connecting With Your Higher Self

The Benefits of Connecting With Your Higher Self

What are the benefits of connecting with your higher self? What is the most crucial element for success? Your higher self is the person you aspire to be. According to Benjamin Hardy’s book Be Your Future Self Now, when you stay in touch with your higher self you become a more productive person with ambition and drive. Keep reading to learn more about the benefits of connecting with your higher self.

Cultivating Spirituality: Why It Matters & How to Do It

Cultivating Spirituality: Why It Matters & How to Do It

Do you consider yourself a spiritual person? How does practicing spirituality improve one’s health and well-being? People who practice some form of spirituality are happier, healthier, and more resilient. That said, you don’t have to be religious to be spiritual. According to Lissa Rankin, the author of Mind Over Medicine, spirituality is simply finding and honoring what’s sacred for you. Here are some tips for cultivating spirituality.

What Is Self-Transcendence? Maslow & Kaufman Explain

What Is Self-Transcendence? Maslow & Kaufman Explain

What is self-transcendence? What are the key characteristics? What are transcendent experiences? According to Abraham Maslow, some people can transcend self-actualization. In Scott Barry Kaufman’s book Transcend, he explains how people can reach this state of self-transcendence by losing themselves to a bigger cause and being motivated by values that go beyond the self. Read on to learn about what self-transcendence is and how to reach it, according to Maslow and Kaufman.

Is the Western Concept of Self Just an Illusion?

Is the Western Concept of Self Just an Illusion?

What’s the Western concept of self? Was Plato right about the soul? Are some of us just fooling ourselves about our true nature as humans? Many people in the West internalize the idea that each of us is an individual—an entity separate from others and our surroundings. This basic understanding of identity is so foundational to Western society that most people never question it. But, British philosopher Alan Watts questions it in The Book. Keep reading to learn why Watts thinks the idea is misguided and what he believes our true nature is instead.

Is Everything Relative? Relationalism & Our True Identity

Is Everything Relative? Relationalism & Our True Identity

Is everything relative? If so, what does that mean for our identity as humans? Philosopher Alan Watts believes that each of us is the Cosmic Being. What we think of as “I” is just one expression of the Cosmic Being in a particular time and place. Our real identity is the entire collection of beings and their environments and their relationships with one another. Continue reading for an intriguing discussion of relationalism as Watts sees it.