Health Connections - How To Improve Your Emotional Health

If there were a way to elevate your ability to stretch beyond your own self-imposed constraints (and even the opinion of others), you'd want to know how, right?

When you feel strong and secure to explore your beliefs, you often discover the ability to challenge the old beliefs that no longer serve you. You can boost your confidence level, and it starts by first becoming aware of the emotional limits you might be accepting. Then, you can begin going beyond those limits in your physical goals, in your personal relationships, and in your spiritual path.

You can help yourself:

• Raise awareness of your own self-talk (both positive and negative)
• Leverage self-talk to learn and grow
• Lift your confidence level for a more positive self-image
• Laugh more at yourself
• Take full responsibility for choices in life, without blaming, justifying or rationalizing your actions
• Inspire others with your life

5 Suggestions for Taking Action:

1. The first step is awareness. Once you recognize negative thoughts, say (either aloud or to yourself), "Cancel." Then replace it with a positive thought and gratitude. For example, if you get up in the morning and tell yourself, "I don't want to go to work - I hate this job." Immediately, say, "Cancel. I am so fortunate to have a job in this economy, and until I find a more suitable job, I am going to be grateful for the one I have and do my best."
2. Pay attention to what you say to yourself and others. Recognize when you are having negative thoughts or expressing negative thoughts. What you think about expands. If you come into work everyday and talk about how tired you are, that is what will expand, and you'll be tired all day. If you complain about your boss with your co-workers, that is what will expand, and you will see more things to complain about.
3. Take 100% responsibility for everything in your life - your job, your level of income, your family life, your physical appearance, your good health as well as your sickness. The list is endless. Everything that you experience in your life is because you brought it there. What you think about expands. If you are always saying, "I have no money, I can't afford that, I don't get paid enough," then you are responsible for what you have or do not have. So,when you find yourself complaining or feeling low about anything, say, "I am responsible for this, and I can change it if I want to."
4. Don't take yourself so seriously. We all make mistakes, and we all do stupid things now and then. Learn from your mistakes. If you learn to take things in stride and laugh at your mistakes, you'll be much happier and the stress will start to disappear.
5. Honor your commitments. You will inspire others to do the same.

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Upcoming PC Games of 2009 & End of 2008

What to look forward to in 2009/ end of 08

There are a lot of games that will be coming out in 2009/end of 08 for PC gamers to look forward to. As this year's E3 companies such as Activision-Blizzard revealed their latest offerings for the PC gamer and while it may not be the bonanza it was in years passed there is still much to gossip about.

Here are some of the top games being released in 2009/ end of 08:

Rise of the Argonauts - Focusing on Greek myths, this offering from Liquid Entertainment promises to bring in characters and creatures from the most popular Greek myths and presents them in a format that allows for fast-paced combat and rich storytelling.

Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 - This time around, the conflict escalates as the Empire of the Rising Sun enters the fray. With an entirely new faction, the game promises to be even more exciting and satisfying than any Red Alert title to date.

Crysis Warhead - Don the nanosuit of Sergeant Sykes, aka "Psycho," and experience a storyline parallel to the events of the original game.

Left 4 Dead - Using the Counter-Strike Source Engine, Left 4 Dead has a group of four unlikely heroes band together to battle hordes of infected.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R: Clear Sky - Clear Sky is the prequel to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl and takes place a year earlier, when the unstable Zone is causing anomalous activity galore.

Alpha Protocol - Sega and Obsidian are reteaming for this role-playing game that eschews sci-fi and fantasy for a Bourne Identity-like world of high-tech espionage.

Spore - Spore is a simulation game created by Will Wright that allows players to control various life forms from the cellular to the galactic level.

Far Cry 2 - The sequel to the much-acclaimed island shooter aims to make a big splash in 2008.

Empire: Total War 3 - The Total War series takes to the seas with 3D naval combat in this 18th century strategy game.

Fallout 3 - After being cancelled at Interplay, this sequel to the cult post apocalyptic role-playing game was resurrected by Bethesda, where it is currently in development.

For me left for dead appears to be very promising as it has my all favourite mode of all time - COOP! The thought of battling it out with hundreds of monsters with friends is a very promising prospect. Coupled with the fact that it is being produced with the source engine makes this the highlight of E3 for me.

Crysis warhead will also have high expectations considering how much of a success its predecessor was. It will be interesting to see how Far Cry 2 compares to this title in terms of graphics and game play considering Crysis was supposed to be a sequel to far cry in the first place.

I will also be looking forward to Empire: Total War 3 as I always find this genre of PC game very enjoyable as well as the extra challenge that will come with 3D naval combat.

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Why Industry Blogging Networks Exhibit Chaos During Extreme Growth Periods

Not long ago a CEO of a major Industry Blog Network had noted that the good natured, community feel was dwindling and this was understood to be a natural evolution but the changes were of concern. Indeed, this CEO is right to be of concern, but why does this happen in such large groups, as it is common in any large group of humans off or online.

Henry Kissinger in one of his famous 1960 essays, discussed the problems with the United Nations as more and more Nation-States join in, the differences of opinions and cultures so very that chaos ensues, he indicated that slower growth should be desired because it allowed for time to bring cohesion.

The reason I note this is that I see similarities to these examples and those at ActiveRain, a popular real estate industry blog. For instance at ActiveRain there are number of different real estate fields represented, not just real estate agents and brokers. Here is a quick list in case you forgot, these are the profile categories:

• Loan Officers,
• Mortgage Companies,
• Appraisers,
• Inspectors,
• Title Companies,
• Escrow Companies,
• Builder Contractors,
• Real Estate Trainers,
• Real Estate Auctioneers,
• Virtual Assistants,
• Account Executives,
• Mortgage processors,
• Insurance Brokers,
• Home Stagers,
• Real Estate Attorneys,
• Notaries,
• Commercial Real Estate Folks,
• Environmental Services,
• Commercial Lenders,
• Business Brokers,
• Property Management People,
• Real Estate Sales People - that are not agents,
• Architectural Planners,
• Financial Planners
• Real Estate "Others"

Now then, within all these groups there will be a wild different of the real estate industry. In fact, I have noticed a huge difference from those of us involved in commercial real estate and those involved in purely residential. Then the differences between mortgage brokers and real estate agents is often diverse, especially since the blame game started over the subprime fallout. Inspectors, architects, financial planners, real estate attorneys, virtual assistance, coaches, etc. well all I can say is wow, what a huge and challenging, even outright exciting experiment.

At Active Rain, they call it a community, yet also allow folks to sub-divide, and self-segregate. Basically, it looks a lot like Los Angeles, and it works, "Amazing" and that is a credit to its leadership and the quality of folks at ActiveRain Corp.

Now then, there seems to be a need to increase the rules and regulations of blogging on this site and set up a more PC direction. This is interesting in that a new popular group here has just been set up called; "The Silent Majority" and there are several groups that are not so PC, such as the "comedy club" at times.

Too, we must realize that with Sitcoms, Political Attack Ads, Presidential Debates, Talking Point TV News, Jerry Springer, Soaps, Radio Talk Shows and Reality TV shows and re-runs that folks are bombarded by negative human nature. It is the sound and fury that gives them purpose - So, with all this brain washing is it really any doubt some folks bring all that here? Its what humans do, they are indeed a fascinating behavioral case study and this site is too.

All-in-all it is a pretty mellow community considering the wildness of the real estate market currently. I am indeed, impressed and have even invited others to join, something I would never have done in any other social network, but one feels more at home here at ActiveRain for some reason, why do you suppose that is?

"Lance Winslow" - Online Think Tank forum board. If you have innovative thoughts and unique perspectives, come think with Lance; http://www.WorldThinkTank.net/ Lance is a guest writer for Our Spokane Magazine in Spokane, Washington