What is self awareness? For starters it involves knowing your self. A person with self awareness knows about their own personality. They know their strengths and weaknesses. They know how they react under stress and…
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Developing Gratitude
One of the free exercises in my Self Mastery Introductory Course is about gratitude. You will find gratitude is a common element of happiness. All the experts recommend various ways to practice it. When people…
Core Beliefs About Your Body
How do beliefs about food and our body affect our emotions? I’ll use one woman’s story about her relationship with her body to illustrate the affect beliefs in the mind can have. Shelly wanted to…
Programs to Develop Personal Power
There are many programs and organizations that describe what they do as empowering people. Empowerment of people might even be in their mission statement. This is common language among personal development and personal growth organizations….
The Word “God” in Prayer
Dear Gary, After reading the articles on your website (very inspiring by the way). I was wondering how you would describe the concept of “God”. I find myself struggling with the meaning and the word…
Respect in Relationships
Gary, My lover consistently takes actions I feel are disrespectful and my reaction is that my desire to do loving things for her (sweet talk, flowers, even regular conversation) decreases dramatically. Q1 How do you…
The Truth Doesn’t Hurt
The truth hurts…but is that what is actually causing the pain? It is sometimes said that the truth hurts. The truth hurts is not what is actually hurting in my experience. Often there is a…
Impeccability and Gossip
Ask Gary Gary, A friend of mine, Alice, broke up with her boyfriend. When I talked to another friend on the phone (she also knows Alice) I told her that Alice and her boyfriend broke…
The Law of Attraction Is Not Enough
Outside Factors that can affect the Law of Attraction Here is another case of specialized knowledge that affects the law of attraction. It has to do with outside factors that affect your ability to attract…
Law of Attraction and Limitations
With all this discussion of the Law of Attraction there is sure to be some confusion and misunderstanding. The Law of Attraction simply states that you create your own reality. It means that you…
Struggling with the Exercises
Dear Gary, I recently came upon your site while doing a Google search for overcoming jealousy. It has been thus far a good tool for me. I see the material as excellent – as close…
The Abstract Concept of Time
The Concept Of Time The concept of time begins with awareness and consciousness Become aware of consciousness or get lost in conceptual ideas of time and events. From the perspective of consciousness, maybe time doesn’t…
Character and Integrity
The opportunities to realize and grow our character is when we face challenging moments in life. This becomes challenging because our mind is conditioned to turn away in these of uncomfortable emotions. The mind will…
The Voices in My Head
What are the voices in my head? How do they have a life of their own? Where did the voices in my head come from and why is it so hard to make it be…
Create Happiness in One Step
Want to learn how to live in happiness? You can create happiness in one step. There is one step to creating happiness. It is to express love. When you express the emotion of love you…
Self Awareness
As you develop self awareness you are able to make changes in the thoughts and interpretations you make in your mind. Changing the interpretations in your mind allows you to change your emotions. Self awareness is one of the attributes of Emotional Intelligence and an important factor in achieving success.