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Five Aids for Great Sleep
Sleep is the greatest healer of mind, body and spirit. Human and animal bodies must have a restorative time when consciousness is suspended, but our nervous and endocrine systems are very active. Your brain activity reduces in the areas controlling decisions, emotion, and social activity, while it increases in the areas which control memory, learning…
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16 Ways to Describe Your Personality
In the conclusion of our study on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), I will summarize what you’ve learned about the various pairings described by the MBTI by explaining the 4-letter coding the Indicator uses to describe our unique personality traits. As you have seen, various personality traits are encoded by using letters: (Extraversion (E)…
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How Does Your World See You?
In this fourth in the series on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), I will cover what the MBTI describes as your “outer life,” or how you prefer to interact with the world around you, your demeanor. The MBTI says, “Some people interact with the outside world when they are taking in information. Whether they…
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Do You Make Snap Decisions?
I hope you have been enjoying this series of posts on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). Think about how you make decisions. Is it easy for you? Do you make snap judgments or take time to consider the possibilities? In today’s post we will talk about the decision-making pair of Thinking vs. Feeling. When…
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How Do You Process Information?
In this series of posts I have focused on the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and its relevance to our personal and professional lives. In this blog post I will delve into the second pairing – the preferred information-processing spectrum of Sensing vs. Intuiting. The Sensor generally believes information he or she receives from the…
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Are You Introverted or Extroverted?
In the last post, Idescribed the basic tenet of The Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and its relevance to our personal and professional lives. In this post I will delve into the first pairing – Extroversion vs. Introversion. First, it is important to note that these are not absolute scales. All of us differ on…
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What is Your Personality Type?
Most people know that Carl Jung is credited with being the “father” of modern psychology. He described human nature as falling within groupings of traits that describe how we interact with the world and each other, our different ways of being. There are four basic scales, and within each we show a preference for one…
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You Are Enough
Many of us believe that we must earn our status, self-worth, or value to others. Whether your false belief is that you are not smart enough, or rich enough, or attractive enough, the key word “enough” is a judgment. Being “enough” of anything is a standard created by others to which we try to measure…
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Is There Value in Making Mistakes?
In much of the Western world, we are taught that mistakes are to be avoided at all costs, for fear of reprisal and punishment. Yet learning to fear your mistakes leads to repressed creativity and innovation. We may believe that an error will be perceived as a sign of weakness, stupidity or incompetence and so…
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The Value of Being Kind
We recently wrote about what it means to be kind to oneself and to others. Let’s go further now and discuss what constitutes kindness. Kindness starts within. When you are kind to yourself you plant the seed that allows you to be kind to others. Become aware of your self-talk. Do you become impatient with…
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How Do You Nourish Your Soul?
What is that something that brings you the most joy? Is it a solitary activity, like quiet walks in nature or painting? Or are other people needed to participate, as in dancing or playing games? Is it still and quiet, or active? Is it a form of creative self-expression, like art or gardening? What aspect…
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What is Kindness?
The modern dictionary defines “kindness” as being good, benevolent, humane, and gentle. Now consider the Buddhist definition: loving benevolence. Let’s delve deeper; what is benevolence? Goodwill, charity, a desire to do good. Now that we have a context, it is easy to see that kindness is not simply an act or a behavior, but instead…