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1. Activity Day

By John Tarr Activity day can mean many different things to many different people. In some places, such as the UK, it can mean joining in various team-building games. These activity days can be held for a variety of different purposes. One of the biggest purposes of activity days is to provide an incentive for employee and/or corporate groups. These event-filled days could also be a perfect motiva... read more

2. Chopping Wood and Carrying Water

By Roy E. Klienwachter Humanity takes itself much too seriously and every experience does not have to be a life and death situation. Before the industrial revolution came along, humanity was involved with living. Half the world's population produced all the food that would supply the other half. Rural residents produced their own food and in doing so they maintained their connection with the earth. ... read more

3. Addiction Recovery Tools

By Dee Cohen A very important factor for addiction recovery is being able to have tools for dealing with difficult situations, rather than going into an escape route such as taking drugs. Initially it is hard to use new tools rather than old habits but as time goes on, the old habits appear to offer no solution and the new tools give one a sense of accomplishment and enrichment. It is similar to th... read more

4. Noise Induced Hearing Loss And Tinnitus

By Paul Tobey On a scale of one to ten, how would you rate your tinnitus? If you rated it higher than a five, then it’s most likely that the constant ringing in the ears is interfering with your happiness, your life, and your well being. Occurrences of tinnitus are on the rise and noise induced tinnitus seems to be the one making the most headlines, due to the expressed concern over iPods... read more

5. A Tinnitus Handbook A Self Help Guide

By Paul Tobey Do you need a self help recovery plan that will help your tinnitus to heal? As a tinnitus sufferer, I have authored a self help guide to recovery based on my own recovery. You will not find scientific evidence behind my findings because I am not a doctor and do not hold any kind of medical or scientific degree. My findings are based on my own experience after seven years of managing ... read more

6. Tinnitus - The Marriage Killer

By Paul Tobey If you have tinnitus (ringing ears), like I do, my experience tells me that you likely have a great deal of difficulty with relationships. Why? Because not only does the tinnitus drive you crazy, it can also make feel very much alone. You feel isolated because it often feels like no one can understand your suffering. The doctors don’t really seem to understand. Your friends and c... read more

7. Sleeping With Tinnitus

By Paul Tobey One of the biggest challenges that I hear from Tinnitus (constant ringing in the ears) patients is their inability to get a good night's sleep. I used to have this problem as well, so I am very familiar with how frustrating that is. Imagine what it might be like to sleep on a busy airport runway with jets taking off all around you. That's what it's like for me. For many people who su... read more

8. Breaking the Tinnitus Habit - A How To Guide

By Paul Tobey In regards to breaking the tinnitus habit, I recently received an email from a reader who writes… “I try to keep myself busy and do things that i enjoy but it seems that my mind is always locked onto the sound. Are there any tips you can give me that helps break this habit? I’m at the point where I’m truely trying to accept my tinnitus and sometimes I can and other times I can’... read more

9. Book Review of "Welcome to Your Crisis" by Laura Day

By R. Bremner Welcome to Your Crisis: How to Use the Power of Crisis to Create the Life You Want is a guide to healing and moving on from the traumas and crises in your life. Composed of different healing exercises to allow you to work through these tragedies, it is coupled with personal stories for readers to identify with. Laura Day is an Intuitive Healer and, as s... read more

10. The Crisis of Stress

By Len McNally For the past 200 years our world has been facing a "crisis of modernity". A crisis of stress. The need for stress management and stress reduction. The Industrial Age with the advent of steam power, the printing press and mass transportation (via land) created what at that time was seen as a state of severe stress. Information Age followed with newspapers, radio and then telev... read more

11. Don't Let Your Fears Keep You Poor

By Chris Le Roy What is the first impression we have upon hearing the word “fear?” Most likely, we think of it as a word that describes a feeling we all do not like to experience. And rightly it is, for even the dictionary describes it mostly as a word filled with negative emotions. In this chapter, we shall make an in-depth analysis of what fear is really all about when it comes to creating wealth; it... read more

12. Top Ten Ways of Increasing Your Emotional Intelligence Now

By Johanna Vanderpol Copyright 2006 Johanna Vanderpol 1. ?Get it? that all your emotions are OK. We are designed to have emotions. They have a purpose. They are our internal guidance system. We have ignored them. We are taught by our culture and our family to ignore them. Science is now showing us the value of emotion. People who use emotion and reason together are more successful and happier than those wh... read more

13. Alcohol treatment

By Tee Towtal The following article presents the very latest information on alcohol treatment. If you have a particular interest in alcohol treatment, then this informative article is required reading. Alcoholism is not a problem that is exclusive to adults. Many teenagers find themselves addicted to alcohol even though the legal drinking age is twenty-one. The pressure to fit in with others and the ... read more

14. The 12 Step Program Guide Provides Honest Help

By NOT available to public Alcoholics Anonymous is an organization well-known for helping people with addiction problems. The 12 step program is the operational basis for the organizations program. Countless people attribute their success to the program. Many individuals have incorporated the 12 step program into their lives for all kinds of addictions besides alcoholism and drug problems. Anyone who wants to take control... read more

15. Business and Life Success Secrets of a Remarkable Woman

By Kenny Anderson Business and Life Success Secrets of a Remarkable Woman Copyright © Kenny Anderson http://www.TigerTradeLLC.com I have wanted to write this article for some time. It is about whom some have called a remarkable woman. As a matter of fact, she was recently featured in a book by the same name, “Remarkable Woman” by Insight Publishing... read more

16. Getting Help From the Alcoholic Anonymous Group

By Ivar Rudi There are many reasons and many different kinds of people that join the alcoholic anonymous groups in their area. There are some that only go to meeting because they were told to and there are many that go to all the meeting because they want to. No matter what the reason on why you are going to the alcoholic anonymous meeting in your area, you are going to end up with something good out of it... read more

17. The Alcoholic Anonymous Groups

By Ivar Rudi The alcoholic anonymous groups are out there to help people that realize that they have a problem with the drinking that they are doing. If you find that you are in need of a little help with the drinking you are going to want to say to yourself that you need help and then contact one of the alcoholic anonymous groups in your area. If you try to go to a alcoholic anonymous group with out facin... read more

18. Rich Dad Poor Dad

By Shawn Bremner A lot of people have read Robert Kiyosaki's books (and he has a lot of them), but this is the one that started them all. I think what endears people to Rich Dad Poor Dad is the story. It seems to me that whenever a non-fiction book teaches with stories, it does very well. So, if you're going to write a non-fiction book, weave your info into a story. Rich Dad Poor Dad is the story ... read more

19. "Five More Ways To Escape Uncomfortable Feelings of Low Self-Esteem and Poor Self-Confidence"

By Dr Joe Rubino Copyright 2006 Dr Joe Rubino Many people live their entire lives without getting to the source of what originally caused their feelings of low self-esteem. Because they are unaware of how they can heal their painful past and reframe the circumstances that originally resulted in interpretations of being unworthy, unlovable, or deficient in some way, most people instead often resort to findin... read more

20. Ending Poverty Consciousness

By Jeanie Marshall Copyright 2006 Marshall House Definition number 1 of "poverty" in the American Heritage Dictionary is: "The state of being poor; lack of the means of providing material needs or comforts." It is further defined as "deficiency in amount; scantiness; unproductiveness; infertility." By "poverty consciousness" I mean the set of attitudes and beliefs and feelings and values associated with ... read more

21. Re-Visioning

By Carroll J. Wright, Ph.D. Radical Consciousness is the means by which we can re-invent the past and dream the future into a new reality. Radical Consciousness is not stuck in any concepts from the past or future. What happened in the past is an appearance only. You can re-live the story, and bring about a new ending. You wrote the script the first time; you can re- write it. There are as many his... read more

22. Feeding The Monster

By Stan Lewis Copyright 2006 Stan Lewis Most of us are familiar with the Ten Commandments. Most of us heard them as children, with some taking many, few, or none of the commandments to heart. Now some of these commandments strike us as serious things that should never be violated. The one that rises to the top of most of our minds is the commandment, "...thou shall not kill..." This is a very serious ... read more

23. The fundamental need to create links to communicate at your best.

By Emmanuel Segui Copyright 2006 Emmanuel Segui Others call it getting rapport. I call it creating links. Let's face it! Communicating is tough. Have you ever asked yourself how you can get others to understand yourself easily? You thought: "This is so important, I don't want them to misunderstand my meanings!" Have you ever said to yourself: "He doesn't understand a word of what I'm saying ... read more

24. Used Car Donations

By Dave Markel Copyright 2006 Dave Markel Concept of used car donation is noble idea and it is popular too. In daily life you see a number of vehicles with banners of certain organizations providing services to needy people. In this you see ambulances with thanksgiving lines to the donor who may be an individual or a charity group. You also see some vehicles providing assistance to victims of natural cal... read more