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Break Through Self-Doubt and Fear

29 April, 2008 in emotions, links, stress, wellbeing | Tags: achievement, actions, affirmations, books, doubt, fear, goals, issues, links, negativity, personal improvement, processes, releasing the past, self-doubt, solutions, support groups, support system, techniques | 2 comments

If your self-doubts and fears stop you from getting things done, here are some techniques and processes that can help you break through them.

Make a list of your fears. Only by admitting that they exist can you seek solutions.
Write down how these fears affect your life.
Become aware of the voices in your head and write down those negative messages.
Start building a support system of friends and eliminate people from your life who foster feelings of negativity.
Join a support group of people who have similar issues.
Change each negative message to one that is affirming and constructive.
Read books that help you feel better about yourself.
Be aware of your past, and be willing to let go of it.
List your goals and the actions you need to achieve them.
Take one of those actions every day. Each time you do something that brings you closer to achieving your goals you will feel better about yourself.

From “Break Through Self-Doubt and Fear” by Simmer Lieberman

Mind Over Cancer

13 April, 2008 in emotions, health, stress, wellbeing | Tags: affirmation, anger, anti-stress, anxiety, belief, bitterness, body, canada, cancer, cellular biology, challenges, charities, clinical studies, control, counselling, decision-making, discovery, disease, DNA, emotional health, emotional support, emotions, environmental conditions, fear, feelings, genes, guided visualisation, healing, health, health coach, illness, immune response, immune system, immunity, learning, medicine, meditation, mind, mind-body medicine, mind-body-spirit, mindset, nervous system, non-judgemental, oncology, patients, peer-support, positivity, Psychoneuroimmunology, reading, recovery, relaxation, research, responsibility, self-awareness, self-care, self-criticism, state of mind, strategies, stress, support groups, survival, techniques, terminal illness, thoughts, well-being, wholistic | Leave a comment

by Michelle Hancock

Not a day goes by that the word “cancer” doesn’t scare thousands of Canadians. Like a dreaded scourge, it hovers over us, presumably just waiting to claim its next victim.

But according to scientists in the growing field of mind/body medicine, the disease is not as much an external force as you might believe. Fear and anxiety–our thoughts and feelings–can impact our health just as much as a long list of cancer risk factors. “Psychoneuroimmunology”’ is the scientific term to describe the study of the mind/body connection. Carl Simonton, MD, is an oncologist who pioneered research in this discipline as early as the 1970s. His book, Getting Well Again (Bantam, 1978), shows how “an individual’s reaction to stress and other emotional factors can contribute to the onset and progress of cancer [while] positive expectations, self-awareness and self-care can ontribute to survival.”

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