Behavior Modification
Having The Life You Want

The following articles present ways you can alter your behavior to attain the results you desire in your life. Some of the articles deal with attitudes, others with patterns, and learned behavior. Scroll down for an introduction to our featured articles, or click directly to one of the articles from the list on the right.

Overcoming Programming
by Ken Keyes, Jr.
When we first begin our journey and really see the job of reprogramming that awaits us, our ego will experience a threat because of a necessity to change certain lifetime habits that keep us on lower consciousness levels.

Active Imagination--The Oracle Within
by Robin Robertson.

Carl Jung developed a technique he called active imagination that allows anyone to consult an oracle within themselves. When we learn active imagination we are able to take some degree of control over our own growth process.

Living in the Moment
by Jacob Liberman with Erik Liberman.

Being spiritual and taking care of our everyday affairs are exactly the same thing. There is no difference. With clarity we become ordinary -- simply taking care of whatever comes before us. In this process, we develop trust that whatever shows up in our lives, we will meet it.
Learning to Process Emotions
by Gary Reiss, LCSW.

One of the biggest problems that people bring to therapy is not knowing what to do with a wide range of feelings, including sadness, anger, ecstasy, fear, and depression. Many visits to medical doctors are attempts to deal with feelings unable to be expressed or released. Learning how to work with our feelings is a basic area of growth.
Anger: A Path to Awareness
by Erza Bayda.

If we could see our angry emotional reactions clearly, it would become obvious that they deplete us and narrow our life. Yet, in spite of the fact that we hurt ourselves and others with our anger, we hold on to this restricting emotion with a puzzling tenacity.
Law of Least Effort
by Deepak Chopra.
Least effort is expended when your actions are motivated by love. When you seek power and control over other people, you waste energy. But when your actions are motivated by love,  your energy multiplies and accumulates.

Listen to Your Heart
by Joan Borysenko, Ph.D.

When I was little, my mother used to ask me if I would jump out the window because my friends were. The question made me mad, but she was trying to teach me an important lesson. Learn to think for yourself and listen to your heart, or you're likely to get into trouble.

Why Do I Feel So Tired?
by Debra Waterhouse, MPH, RD.

Chances are, this question has crossed your mind more than once today. But having neither the energy to figure out why, nor the time to let yourself be tired, you grabbed another cup of coffee and forced yourself to move on to number 14 of 32 on today's to-do list.
Got Wisdom?
by Soren Gordhamer.

There is a difference between wisdom and knowledge. One could say that wisdom is knowledge that has been brought into one's heart and experienced as true. Until this information has been tested in our own experience, wisdom is not possible.
Are Miracles Real?
by Paul Pearsall, Ph.D.

Medical tests confirmed that I had been rescued against all odds from a virulent Stage IV cancer. I tried to tell my doctors that miracles are real. I wanted them to embrace the words of David Ben-Gurion that "in order to be realist you must believe in miracles".
Attachment & the Shadow Self
by Alan Seale.

Western society is built on concepts of success and failure which have to do with ego. The soul only knows truth, honesty, and integrity.
The Zen of Listening
by Rebecca Z. Shafir, M.A. CCC.

One of the reasons we listen poorly is because our internal noise levels are so turbulent they mask most of what others are saying. Only bits and pieces of their message survive.
Being Masterfully Human
by Aluna Joy Yaxk'in.

Who told you would never get sick, have a lover leave you, have a loved one die, have a car accident, or make a bad choice, huh? Who ever said that walking the spiritual path would be a piece of cake, easy as pie?

Personality Makes You Sick?
by Carol Ritberger, Ph.D.

Hippocrates, the father of Western medicine, proposed that there were four distinct personality types that determine vulnerability to mental dysfunction and susceptibility to illness.

 

Love Yourself
by Sylvia Browne.
It becomes terribly hard to try to figure out what's right. You're inundated by moralistic behavior, commandments, church rules, and law. Behavioral modification is probably the most simplistic.

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