Power of Your Mind

Tips to Help Overcome Fear, Stress, and Anxiety

Posted by on Aug 11, 2012 in Power of Your Mind | 1 comment

Power of the Mind Series: Tips to help overcome Fear, Stress and Anxiety. Are you having a hard time ttrying o get over something?  Do you want to deal with a situation in a more pleasing way?  Are you hopeful or fearful of the future?  Are you experiencing tension, stress or anxiety around certain things? Are you easily “angered” or frustrated lately? Many of my clients are experiencing these symptoms, so I figured I’d share some methods of dealing with them. It is interesting that when a person has a certain pattern of thinking or is focusing on something they do NOT want to happen. ...

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The Power of Your Mind: Excitment for Life!

Posted by on Mar 25, 2012 in Counselling Blog, counselling Victoria BC, Power of Your Mind | 0 comments

The Power of Your Mind: Excitement for Life! by Gregg Turner The Power of Your Mind Series Today: Are you Excited about Life? I recently had a client that was concerned about “low excitement levels” that were being experienced in life. As I explored this and did some post session review, it became clear this is a situation that impacts many people. Now, I am NOT talking about “over the moon” jumping up and down excitement. And if that is the way it is for you, Great! Many people seem to lose some of the “zest” for “excitement” as they get older.   Some of this is something one can tend...

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The Power of Your Mind: Your future is NOW!

Posted by on Dec 27, 2011 in Counselling Blog, counsellors victoria bc, Power of Your Mind | 0 comments

The Power of Your Mind Series  Today: Your future is now! You might as well make it Good! As the New Year approaches many people think about the future and about plans to make changes. Every year right after New Year’s I notice that my fitness center is really busy and in about 2 weeks it goes back to normal volume. With the regulars and a few new folks staying with it. It makes me wonder why people do that! Why do people sabotage themselves? Why do people wait until the new year for a new start? Maybe this would be a good article for the June or July! How do you decide what you want? Some...

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The Power of Your Mind: The Power of Thankfulness

Posted by on Oct 10, 2011 in Counselling Blog, counsellors victoria bc, Power of Your Mind | 0 comments

The Power of Your Mind Series Today: Thanks and Forgiving!   For people in Canada, this is our Thanksgiving.  So Happy Thanksgiving to All! When you think about it, every day is a good day to offer thanks, gratitude, and appreciation.  Why not?  Every time we express our thanks we are contributing to a positive energy flow in our body and also for those around us. From a physical perspective, thanks creates more calmness in our muscles and with less stress/tension and more relaxation we automatically provide better circulation in our bodies.  With better circulation we have improved...

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The Power of Your Mind: Beyond Right or Wrong

Posted by on Sep 27, 2011 in Counselling Blog, counsellors victoria bc, Power of Your Mind | 1 comment

The Power of Your Mind Series Today: Beyond Right or Wrong!   I recently came across a quote that gave me a powerful idea!  I modified it to this: “Beyond the place of Right Doing or Wrong Doing, there is a beautiful field that is full of opportunities, fun, joy, ideas, potential, life and well being…” This is a powerful concept when you apply it to your life! I’m going to ask you to take a moment to really embrace this idea. Now, take 3 nice deep breaths to relax and then take a moment to just contemplate the concept right now, after each slow and rhythmic breath.  Now, what does it...

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The Power of Hope

Posted by on Sep 19, 2011 in Counselling Blog, Power of Your Mind | 0 comments

The Power of Your Mind Series Today: The Power of Being Hopeful Hope is defined in the dictionary as:  1. The feeling that, what is wanted can be had or that events will turn out for the best. (The opposite would be to give up hope!  Of course that does not work out very well for us.) As a verb it is something (or a feeling) to look forward to, with desire and reasonable confidence.   Or something to believe, desire, or trust. When we look at it in this light, being full of Hope, is a good thing!  Especially when you consider the opposite! Hope can help us to keep moving forward.  To keep on...

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