Posted by admin on October 31st, 2008 — Posted in Insurance Portal
Public liability insurance is important because all firms are at danger to some extent. Even though nothing unpleasant has ever occurred to your corporations assets doesn’t promise that it won’t one day in the not too distant future. If somebody is wounded, or their worldly goods missing, it’s your legal responsibility to appropriately compensate them. The expense can be dreadfully pricey, depending on the nature of the case.
However, you do have a chance to defend yourself for this occurrence. Getting public liability indemnity lets you to breathe a great deal easier. Even if a client claim is pricey, the insurance corporation will be available to provide you with a security net. It is their duty to make sure you are secure from claims and legal costs brought against you. This leaves you free to concentrate on actually doing business, rather than thinking about what could well happen. Following are a number illustrations of times when public liability indemnity have come in handy.
Proprietors of plumbing businesses as a rule get the job done quick and right. However, on occasion something may perhaps go terribly wrong. For instance, should you unintentionally smash up a customer’s gas pipes whilst on the job, destroying property like that of laptops and carpeting, public liability cover will be there to pay the expense.
An additional instance is that of a promotions agency. If a client were to crack an ankle in your office, even if it’s not your fault, you would be held legally accountable. Although, with public liability insurance you wouldn’t have to resolve the claim yourself. Find the best Professional Indemnity Insurance quotes and keep business costs low.
In a similar case, injury caused to a bystander by an employee on a building site is the duty of the organisation’s manager. This type of claim can happen to be exceptionally expensive in fact, unless you obtain the suitable insurance.
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Posted by admin on October 30th, 2008 — Posted in Psychologists Den
Angelo C, was a good man that never did any harm. He died
yesterday in the shower over a severe asthma attack. The
entire school cried and prayed for their old friend Angelo.
They joined in a moment of silence at 2:55 pm to let Angelo
know that we care.
He was a good kid that always made
people laugh. He never went a day without giving that
shining smile of his.
The halls are quite, and the only thing
you can hear is God’s breath joining us when we cry and
pray. I know that Angelo would not want us to cry for him but
nobody could help but be in histerics for their dear friend.
We love him and we hope he is looking over us. He needs to
know that we care and that we love him. We all have made
posters and drawings that we hung around the school. We
miss him and we will never forget the smile he brought on
our faces. Hopefully Angelo will listen and know that we
care.
The entire school misses his ocean blue eyes and his
sense of humor. His friends have decorated his locker with
their signitures and drawings. We love him more than any
thing in the entire world.
His friend Regis was histerical
crying at lunch, and wants to let Angelo know that he loves
and misses him.
***We love You***
I knew and miss Angelo. I knew all his friends, and I hope he never forgets us.I love and miss him. I was crying when I heard the terrible news.
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Posted by admin on October 29th, 2008 — Posted in Psychologists Den
Most of you are aware that doubling your memory, going from fair
to great, is easy when you learn the association-mental imagery strategy.
All it takes is producing a picture in your minds eye that reminds you of something that looks, sounds or feels like something you already have in your long-term memory.
If you want to remember a great lady named Sister Rose Thering, who had her obituary in the N.Y. Times on May 8, 2006, you mentally visualize a long-stem rose, pushed through a wedding ring (Thering), being held by a nun.
Another baby-step example is recalling a form of moth called a Sphinx Caterpillar.
Create an association that is weird, exaggerated or ridiculous because the brain more easily remembers the unusual, not the mundane.
I see a five-foot tall pussy-kat sleeping on a pillow (Kat-pillow = caterpillar), with the face of a pharaoh (Egyptian King), and the body of a lion, which recalls the Sphinx of Giza. It is associated with strength and wisdom. That is my link to recall
the Sphinx Caterpillar.
Too Easy
Q. But what about abstract, philosophical, theoretical or indefinite words?
Our examples were concrete, factual and objective; it is easy to imagine and visualize words or phrases like Sister Rose Thering and Sphinx Caterpillar, you say.
How about these?
1. Love 2. Disease 3. Lightness 4. Durability 5. Justice 6. Anxiety 7. Panic 8. Schizophrenic 9. Humor 10. Optimism
The principle is the same - what concrete word can you associate with each of these ten that makes a picture in your minds eye?
Let’s not over-think the examples - how about a heart-shaped box of chocolates you see on St. Valentine’s Day for the abstract word - love?
I like the Red Cross icon to remind me of - disease.
For Lightness - try a Feather. Durability applies to the - Sphinx, which may be two-millennium years old. For Justice, try the statute of the woman blindfolded holding a scale.
For Anxiety - imagine a man jumping off the Empire State Building
passing the thirtieth floor - thinking, “So far - so good!” - then comes the anxiety.
Now you dream up the last four terms.
Peg System for Order
What if you saw in your minds eye the Heart chewing on a Bun.
The Bun is linked to a Heart. One is Heart.
Two is a Ton - see a Ton of Red Cross vehicles - which reminds us of Disease. Two is Disease.
Three is a Tree, and we see Feathers, not leaves, hanging from the branches of the Tree. Tree is associated with Lightness. What if you mentally construct 30 watt light-bulbs hanging from the tree. Three is Lightness.
Four is a Door - and you walk through the door and are within the Sphinx, which we know has Durability because of its antiquity. Four is Durability.
Five is a Hive - and the association is to the word Justice; see tiny Judges flying around the Hive instead of bees. Five is Justice.
Six is a Stick or Sticks - and we link to Anxiety to the man who jumped off the Empire State Building. See the X in Anxiety constructed of two-sticks. Six is Anxiety.
Do the last four.
Affirmations For Goals
You may swear on a stack of Bibles that you do not believe in Flying Saucers.
You think UFOers are all twisted because in over fifty years there has not been proof or evidence that would convince a five-year old.
If you create a two-minute Target Affirmation, type it daily, and read it out loud over a period of fourteen days - you have involved your subconscious mind through your three most powerful senses. You type - that is the sense of Touch; reading it aloud alerts your auditory sense, and looking at the page involves your visual sense.
If you spend two-minutes daily on your Target Affirmation, it becomes real and truthful for your non-conscious mind (right-hemisphere). Your right-brain does not judge the truthfulness of information, it just searches for ways to complete your goal, as stated in your Affirmation.
Your right-brain is not interested that your left-brain (your conscious mind), hates and does not believe in Flying-Saucers. It is motivated to produce what you want in your Affirmation.
It believes because it recognizes your voice,
and to your right-brain, your words are Law and you are King of your brain.
What It Takes
Thousand will read this article and never realize the profound truth within.
Whatever you put in the form of a Target Affirmation - the goal, objective or desire is up to you - will be worked on by your right-brain 24/7. We cannot guarantee your success; we can state based on almost universal experience that you will discover personal talents and gifts that will amaze you.
Two Elements
There are two elements in realizing your affirmation: one is emotionalizing what you have a burning desire to accomplish, two is acting, thinking, believing mentally that you have already achieved your goal.
About emotion: we can more easily accept that when we add feeling to what we desire, it activates both halves of our brain.
The second element, believing-in-advance - the Law of As-If - that we have earned our goal before it becomes a reality on this physical plane - is where 95% of us are defeated.
The secret of invoking the Law of As-If comes through reciting our Affirmations and daily Meditation. The purpose is to get our right-brain to offer us intuitions about how to win our goals.
Can you believe-in-advance that you already own your burning-desire, the object of your dreams? That is what it takes to Ace the exam, the job interview, obtaining your significant-other, and to gain prominence as an entrepreneur or win that fast-track promotion.
Secret Revealed
The secret-of-secrets is mentally visualizing your end-result on the movie-screen of your mind.
Can you create a mind-picture of your Test-Paper returned by your
instructor with an A+ at the top?
How about mentally seeing yourself seating at the head of the Board of Directors of your company? What about living in your own castle furnished like the White House?
The Law of As-If is the final touch to actualizing the goal you desire.
It takes two-minutes daily of this visualizing for twenty-one days to create a working reality for your right-brain.
Will you use your volition to win your goals?
Experience
Graduates who have used Target Affirmations have communicated its usefulness.
Would you believe winning the Lotto for huge sums of money? How about being admitted to and graduating from a school they never believed would accept them?
Some folks talk of successful personal relationships, career success, and changes in life-style - which they attribute to Target Affirmations and old-fashioned hard work.
Would it have happened by hard work alone?
Do your own experiment and decide.
We recommend typing and reciting in-a-loop, one-dozen stanzas of
“Every day in every way I am getting closer to my goal, and better and better.”
Can you find two-minutes daily to win your burning desire?
The second half of your Target Affirmation is mentally-visualizing and flashing - the successful outcome you desire.
If you trust-in the unfolding of your Target Affirmation - belief in the goal comes before the reality - you will be attracted to the right-people, ideas and money to create your new reality.
More later.
See ya,
copyright © 2006
Author of Speedlearning For Professionals, published by Barron’s
Educational, partner of Evelyn Wood, creator of speed reading,
graduating 2 million, including the White House staffs of four
U.S. Presidents.
http://www.speedlearning.org
hbw@speedlearning.org
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Posted by admin on October 28th, 2008 — Posted in Psychologists Den
The ultimate power of positive thinking is a cherished dream for many people around the world. Positive thinking means that you are allowing only those good thoughts into your mind, and such thoughts may include words, images and perceptions, which are suitable for personal growth and prosperity. Positive thinking also allows you to think everything good about life and its results. If you have a positive thinking mind, you’ll always anticipate happy life, peace, laughter, good health and financial success. It also means that you can unleash your mind to find whatever you want for your life. Positive thinking is so powerful!
Positive thinking is always beneficial to us; when our attitude and behavior is positive, we allow only pleasant feelings and constructive images to work in our mind, and also visualize in our inner eye, what we really want from our life and how it should happen. Such an attitude brings only good things like an enhanced inner energy level, catchy manners, twinkling eyes and success. A person with positive thought will walk and talk in an upright manner without any hesitation. The ultimate body language shows a tremendous capacity to achieve all things, which are considered impossible in the normal course of life.
Positive thoughts and positive people can not be avoided in manner, as in real life, they are highly contagious and infectious. Positive thinking people are just like magnets, capable enough to attract other people to follow them and act like them. This is often so true when you stay with highly positive people for a month or two, and study their impeccable positive behavior. This is known to occur almost unknowingly in our subconscious mind, almost on a continuous mode.
To create a turnaround to guide our mind towards positive thinking, we need makeshift work to change the way we think and act. Your old habits may never die and it is often very tough to get rid of your past baggage. Changing your old habits is also painful as you need to come out of your negative past and change the previous rules. Visualization may help you develop positive thinking process, and always visualize only beneficial situations. Talk positive and develop positive manners. Another improvised method to develop positive thinking is the recitation of positive affirmations and self talk. This method can be used in conjunction with the visualization process, just to supplement the overall result.
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Posted by admin on October 27th, 2008 — Posted in World Of Search Engine Optimization
You should be. If you have never heard of Google PageRank and
you have established a website, it is high time you learned
about Google PageRank and what it means to you and the success
of your website. Having an excellent Google PageRank can either
make or break a website in terms of overall success. Let’s take
a look at what Google PageRank is and why it is so important to
every website owner.
First, a word about the Google Search engine: Google is one of
the most popular search engines on the Internet. Not only is
Google’s search engine the absolute largest of its kind, the
company focuses on making web information easy to access and
even easier to find. Google has designed a unique system and the
search engine has yet to be surpassed in terms of the
information it provides. Google has grown immensely since its
early beginning in 1996 and it will continue to be a predominant
force on the Internet. Furthermore, because Google offers easy
access to immediate information, they own one of the top
Internet search engines in the world. Thus, it would serve a
webmaster well to become familiar with the Google PageRank
process-the Google PageRank is an algorithm that is based on
inbound links and other factors and will ultimately determine
the location of listing of your website in the Google Search
Engine.
What precisely is Google PageRank?
Google PageRank is a process the search engine’s uses as a way
of selecting sites to answer specific queries. Basically, when
an Internet user submits a query, the Google search engine will
attempt to match websites to the query that has been posed. Yet,
there is a bit more to this simple science than the act of
submitting a query suggests. Rather, behind the scenes, Google
uses specific algorithms to determine if a site specifically
address a web user’s needs by analyzing the content of a site by
keyword and by the number of inbound links associated with the
site-every inbound link is viewed as a vote and the more votes
one has, in conjunction with the more keywords one has, the
higher their Google PageRank is.
Why is Your Google PageRank Significant?
What does it mean to you when your Google PageRank is increased?
Does it really matter what your Google PageRank is at all? You
bet it does-the higher your Google PageRank is the higher on a
search engine’s listing your website will appear. Thus, if you
are looking for top billing, especially in a search engine as
popular as the one Google offers, you will definitely want to
maximize your efforts of getting your website visible and
improving your PageRank is the best way to accomplish such a
task. Moreover, the higher you appear on the search engine
listing offered by Google, or many other search engines, the
easier your website is to find. Essentially this equates to more
web traffic for your website and if you are running an online
business, more web traffic ultimately means more profit for
you.
Making Google PageRank Improvements
If you are looking to improve your Google PageRank you can do so
by starting a link campaign. A link campaign can help you
increase more inbound links to your website and in turn, more
inbound links will increase your Google PageRank. How do you
start a link campaign? Well, you can go the hard route by
scouring the Internet to find websites similar to your own. Or,
you can make your link campaign a far easier process by using
the services afforded to you by PageRank Browser and locate all
of the best, themed websites on the Internet with relative
ease.
Of course, there are few things you must bear in mind when you
begin your link campaign. Google actually rates various links
and holds some links higher than others. In other words, if you
link to 100 less than popular sites you may increase your Google
PageRank. Conversely, if you link to 50 extremely popular sites
and you get inbound links in return, you may significantly
increase your Google PageRank because the most popular sites on
the Internet are linking directly too you. Thus, when you begin
your link campaign, keep this popularity issue in the back of
your mind. Further, know that in using PageRank Browser, you
will be able to locate the popular sites with ease, and thereby
significantly increase your Google PageRank.
About Inbound Links
Quite frankly, some links that you will establish will be better
than others. You goal will be to establish the best links
possible by examining the quality of inbound links. Various
webmaster tools can help you determine the quality of the
reciprocal links you establish. You will want to work hard at
establishing direct inbound links to your site-direct links from
already popular websites. You will also need to establish links
to websites that are similar to yours-remember the search engine
algorithm used by Google to determine your page rank is based on
relevance. You will also find that the location of inbound links
is of significant importance. For example, when you establish
inbound links, those links that are buried deep within a website
will have less influence on the ranking of your website in
Google’s search engine.
What is clear is that your Google PageRank is of significant
importance. Thus, every effort should be used to improve your
Google PageRank-with the use of webmaster tools and the use of
sites like PageRank Browser you should have little difficulty
getting your PageRank right where it should be. Therefore, you
will not only improve your PageRank you will improve the web
traffic you receive by leaps and bounds. Moreover, your improved
PageRank will make you a force on the Internet to be reckoned
with-you will have a highly recognizable website for all your
efforts and you will ultimately improve your online business’
bottom line.
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Posted by admin on October 25th, 2008 — Posted in Psychologists Den
“The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn’t need its brain any more so it eats it! It’s rather like getting tenure.” ~David Dennett, “Consciousness Explained”
And true to form, I have a client who’s a tenured college professor, head of the department, who is “going out of his mind.” He came to me for coaching because he’s deeply dissatisfied with his life, and wants to change careers.
Without violating confidentiality, I can say this client is desperate for new experiences, for meaning and purpose, and for something new in his life. He is “hamstrung” by a high salary and a less-than-30-hour week with long vacations, but is beginning to see the “price” is not worth it.
Though this gentleman happens to actually be a tenured professor, he is representative of many clients I have who are 50 or older.
As more Baby Boomers “come of age,” the studies about aging continue to pump in lots of new information to counteract former stereotypes. Science is discovering that “old” rats given new toys and new playmates start growing new brain cells, and better brain cells. Imagine!
And, poignantly, this is what the professor laments the most - the fact that he isn’t encouraged, or allowed, to innovate within the department; and that there’s no camaraderie.
Let’s take a look at some myths about aging and the brain, to encourage you to keep learning, and to keep acquiring new toys, and new playmates. And, oh yes, get toys that give you a good workout, both physically and mentally. That’s one of the keys to resilience as you age!
MYTH No. 1: Once you’re born, all you can look forward to is a long and steady loss of brain cells (aka neurons).
REALITY: “Stem” cells in the human brain can create new neurons indefinitely, and relatively idle neurons will extend their branches to carry signals to and from other neurons indefinitely, under the proper circumstances.
MYTH No. 2: We can’t get smarter as we age.
REALITY: Mice (are we like mice … you be the judge) in an enriched environment, with interesting toys and playmates, showed an increase in 4000 new neurons in the hippocampus (crucial to memory and learning) compared to 2400 in the control group with no toys or playmates. And older mice’s brains also got bigger and better! And quickly! (Diamond and Rosenzweig, Elizabeth Gould, Princeton)
MYTH No. 3: Creativity diminishes with age.
REALITY: According to Ralph Warner, author of “Get a Life: You Don’t Need a million to Retire Well,” “older artists often do well, commonly experiencing a sustained burst of exciting creativity after 65.”
MYTH No. 4: There isn’t much you can do to avoid Alzheimer’s.
REALITY: According to David Snowden, Ph.D., “Aging with Grace,” hardworking brains (the ones that get used in learning new things all during life) do well because their stimulated cells branch frequently, resulting in millions of new connections (synapses) so the brain actually becomes larger and…evidence continues to accumulate that a larger brain can cope with the effects of brain diseases, like Alzheimer’s and strokes. Theoretically because a larger brain has more active tissue, and therefore a greater number of ways to work around diseased or damaged areas.
MYTH No. 5: What you’ve got, is all you’ll ever get.
REALITY: According to Paul Tallal, Rutgers University neuroscientist, “You create your brain from the input you get.” By this, she means intellectual stimulation strengths the brain because in the normal course of living, our brains constantly reorganize themselves, which is called “neuroplasticity.” And neuroplasticity speeds up with the amount and complexity of the new information our brains receive.
MYTH No. 6: As you age, it’s too hard to learn new things, so stick with what you already know.
REALITY: According to Arnold Scheibel, head of UCLA’s Brain Research Institute, the brain’s axons and dendrites (which send and receive messages) grow fastest with new material. “The important thing is to be actively involved in areas unfamiliar to you,” say Golden and Tsiaras, in “Building a Better Brain.” “Anything that is intellectually challenging can probably serve as a kind of stimulus for dendritic growth, which means it adds to the computational reserves in your brain.” Sounds to me like building new hard drive, yes?
MYTH No. 7: Watching the Discovery Channel suffices for stimulation.
REALITY: Dr. Robert Friedland reports that adults over age 70 with brain-stimulating hobbies were two and a half times less likely to suffer from the effects of Alzheimer’s later in life than were those whose main leisure activity was watching TV.
MYTH No. 8: In order to stimulate and grow the brain, you must engage in formal schooling.
REALITY: According to Warner, traditional academic subjects aren’t the only answer. The key is to find something both new and challenging to you. “Thus a Latin professor,” writes Warner, “might do better to learn how to prune fruit trees, line her car’s brakes or even solve difficult jigsaw puzzles than to write a scholarly essay parsing Cicero’s rhetoric.”
MYTH No. 9: I can ignore it for a while and it will still be there when I get back.
REALITY: Not! According to neurologist Oliver Sacks, the brain uses a lot of energy and blood, something we can’t “afford” to no purpose. If neurons dedicated to perform a given skill are not being used, they’ll either atrophy or be co-opted to some other function.
Myth No. 10: Intellectual stimulation is enough.
REALITY: According to Marion Diamond, aerobic exercise, such as swimming and jogging, may be especially beneficial to brain function in aging people, because it tends to keep blood vessels in better shape. And according to the Salk Institute study, mice that exercised regularly on a running wheel grew twice as many new brain cells (again, in the hippocampus) as other mice.
So there you have it! Jog on out for those new toys and new playmates and get a better brain and a better life! And it’s never too late unless you don’t start now.
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Posted by admin on October 25th, 2008 — Posted in Psychologists Den
If you’re like most people, you probably said to yourself at least once during your childhood or teens: “I’m never going to behave like my mother (or father) when I grow up.” Such thoughts would enter your mind especially when your parent treated you in a harsh manner, embarrassed you, or ignored you.
And now you may find yourself behaving in the same bratty way toward others. How could this happen? Much to our chagrin, it’s quite common to have some of the same negative traits as our parents, despite our best intentions to avoid them.
Some people attribute these similarities to their heritage: “I’m Italian,” they’ll say, or “I’ve inherited my father’s German stubborn streak.” Others claim that all these behaviors are just learned — if you hang out with screamers, you’re going to be loud yourself. If your family doesn’t hug one another, you’re not going to be very affectionate either.
It’s true that environment does shape our personalities to some extent. Culture and family life certainly affect how we behave. Kids imitate what they see and respond to what they’re rewarded for. For example, parents who value education and praise good grades typically have children who are better students, regardless of IQ levels.
But environment doesn’t explain everything. Despite parents’ efforts to raise responsible, conscientious citizens, some children will not turn out that way. Similarly, it is not unusual to see well-adjusted individuals who come from a highly dysfunctional family.
Research on twins has shed light on the role of environment vs heredity in determining personality. Each set of twins raised together drink the same water, eat the same foods and watch the same TV shows. They go to the same schools, know the same peers and experience the same discipline style from their parents. In other words, all twins (who are raised together) share the same environment.
If environment is the key to personality then we would expect identical twins to be no more similar to one another than fraternal twins. But that’s not the case. Research has shown that identical twins (who have exactly the same genes) are more similar to one another on many personality dimensions than are fraternal twins (who share only 50% of the same genes.)
What’s more, identical twins who were adopted by different families are more similar in personality to one another than to the separate adoptive families in which they grew up!
This means that heredity has a big role in how you turn out. But it’s not simply a matter of “inheriting” your mother’s bad temper or your father’s drinking habit.
Experts believe that what you inherit are “temperaments.” Temperament is a predisposition to react in certain ways. It appears at birth or shortly thereafter, and tends to run in families. This explains, for example, why certain breeds of dogs are more aggressive than others.
It’s the same with people. Some babies are more active than others; some are more distractible; some are more easily startled.
These temperaments help determine not only the kinds of experiences that a growing child seeks out — for example, one who needs a lot of stimulation will take more risks — but also, how others respond. Thus, a child who is calm will tend to elicit different parental reactions than a child who is more excitable.
So how does all this figure into your parents’ inner brats and your own? It is quite likely that you have inherited temperaments from one or both of your biological parents. If your parent gets angry easily, you may too — but not because you inherited your parent’s anger. It is because you inherited a sensitivity to irritation, or a predisposition to react quickly to situations. These in turn make you prone to impulsive behavior such as angry outbursts.
Before you get ready to use this as an excuse for your next temper tantrum or drinking binge, keep in mind that you do have control over how you channel your inherited tendencies. For example, a person who needs a lot of stimulation and novelty might end up as a criminal who takes risks — or as an inventor, a CIA agent or a professional entertainer. Someone who is innately cautious might end up as an underachiever — or as a quality-control specialist, a researcher, or a brain surgeon.
Thus, even though temperaments are inherited, inner brat behaviors are NOT inevitable. The very traits that get us into trouble are the same ones that can be put to constructive use. With a little creativity you can nudge your inner brat in a more positive direction.
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Posted by admin on October 23rd, 2008 — Posted in Psychologists Den
Words Can Be Poison
The stigma of mental illness is real, painful, and damaging to the lives of people with mental illness. Stigma prevents them from getting the treatment and support they need to lead healthy, normal lives.
Stigma discourages people from getting help. At any given time, one in four adults and one in five children experience a mental health problem. Early and appropriate services can be the best way to prevent an illness from getting worse. Many people don’t seek such services because they don’t want to be labeled as “mentally ill” or “crazy.”
Stigma keeps people from getting good jobs and advancing in the workplace. Some employers are reluctant to hire people who have mental illnesses. Thanks to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), such discrimination is illegal. But it still happens!
Stigma leads to fear, mistrust, and violence. Even though the vast majority of people who have mental illnesses are no more violent than anyone else, the average television viewer sees three people with mental illnesses each week-and most of them are portrayed as violent. Such inaccurate portrayals lead people to fear those who have mental illnesses.
Stigma results in prejudice and discrimination. Many individuals try to prevent people who have mental illnesses from living in their neighborhoods.
Stigma results in inadequate insurance coverage. Many insurance plans do not cover mental health services to the same degree as other illnesses. When mental illnesses are covered, coverage may be limited, inappropriate, or inadequate.
Words Can Heal
Here are six steps you can follow to help end the stigma which surrounds mental illness:
Learn more. Many organizations sponsor nationwide programs about mental health and mental illness.
Insist on accountable media. Sometimes the media portray people who have mental illnesses inaccurately, and this makes stereotypes harder to change.
Obey the laws in the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities in all areas of public life, including housing, employment, and public transportation. Mental illnesses are considered a disability covered under the ADA.
Recognize and appreciate the contributions to society made by people who have mental illnesses. People who have mental illnesses are major contributors to American life-from the arts to the sciences, from medicine to entertainment to professional sports.
Treat people with the dignity and respect we all deserve. People who have mental illnesses may include your friends, your neighbors, and your family.
Think about the person-the contents behind the label. Avoid labeling people by their diagnosis. Instead of saying, “She’s a schizophrenic,” say, “She has a mental illness.” Never use the term “mentally ill.”
Programs to End Stigma
Many National and State groups have begun projects and campaigns to reverse stigma. These groups offer a range of programs and materials, from speakers bureaus to training programs for mental health professionals. To get involved, call them. And to learn more about mental health, call SAMHSA’s National Mental Health Information Center at 800-789-CMHS (2647).
SAMHSA’s National Mental Health Information Center P.O. Box 42557 Washington, DC 20015 800-789-CMHS (2647) World Wide Web: http://www.mentalhealth.samhsa.gov E-mail: info@mentalhealth.org/
The Anti-Stigma Project 1521 South Edgewood Street, Suite C Baltimore, MD 21227 Phone 410-646-0262, 800-704-0262, or Fax 410-646-0264
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Posted by admin on October 23rd, 2008 — Posted in Hall Of Health
Life Coaching is a type of therapy that has become increasingly used over the last ten years. The term success coaching first became famous in the United States where, together with NLP aka Neuro Linguistic Programming, it became part of a revived fabulous wave of extremely proactive therapy modalities. Find a Life Coach in London and make the change today.
In many ways both Success Coaching and NLP are an answer against certain variants of the Humanistic therapy movement, in particular Human-Centred Counselling. A criticism of the person-centred therapy approach is that it is extremely reactive and not remarkably proactive. Although all this works wonderful with some customers, with other clients long periods of impasse or low return for time and effort occur. Coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming are both humanistic therapy in stance, focusing on improving a clients well-being rather than looking into the depths of childhood, as in traditional psychoanalysis. Life coachings emphasis is, however, deliberately proactive and used to make you happy.
Success coaching is not about preaching to the coaching client what to do. This is a common misconception. Some performance coaches are quite successful in their business careers and then make the change to coaching, thinking that they will merely be required to divulge their pearls of phenomenal business wisdom with the customer. This is more like mentoring a person in a specific environment. Personal coaching is instead about life as a holistic view.
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Posted by admin on October 20th, 2008 — Posted in Psychologists Den
Chapter III. Evolution of the person
All into all and All is God: In light of stars and dust of road, In silent wood and dreaming flight, And knocks of heart in your inside.
There is one alive essence which still has not reached the perfection and in which all evolution is embodied. It is a person. In daily life, probably, each of us met such contradiction: the quivering attitude of the person to animals and the cruel attitude of the same person to another people. The matter is that he feels the perfection of animals and the imperfection (i.e. a present stage of development) of people. Distracting from the basic direction, we shall notice, the imperfection of the person is influencing on homeostasis of biosphere and it can result in irreversible process of infringement of biosphere unity with pitiable consequences for the person, the similar situation already was and will be described below. So who is a person? Whence has he appeared and when will be reached his perfection? There are some facts from joint research of anthropologists and geneticists: about 250 thousand years ago there was a first expansion of the reasonable person primogenitors from Africa to the Eurasian continent; the reasonable person with physiology corresponding to us has appeared about 150 thousand years ago in Africa; one woman is a primogenitor of mankind; sharp reduction of prepersons number (it was up to several thousand on one data, it was up to several hundreds on another’s ) was preceded before occurrence of the reasonable person; the (already) reasonable person began the next worldwide expansion about 50 thousand years ago. There are several hypotheses about the reasons of occurrence of the reasonable person, beginning from influence of radiation and finishing influence from space. We shall bring our hypothesis to the common list. Occurrence of the reasonable person was accompanied by infringement of biosphere homeostasis principles and of unity. Infringement of the first principle of “narrow specialisation” has taken place, when the premankind became omnivorous, premankind passed from consumption of vegetative food to animal. Infringement of the second principle of “adaptability and birth rate” has arisen at sharp growth of premankind adaptability and not reduction, more likely, increase of ability to high rate of birth. We shall describe the script of development of events of that epoch. Some millions years back our ancestors had a little difference from modern humanoid monkeys. They ate basically vegetative food, occupying a narrow niche; otherwise, they were one of parts in a chain of ecosystem. They were complete essences. They lived in harmony with themselves and with an external world though this harmony was not realised by them. They were perfect, more precisely the perfect part of the whole. To them, instead of to modern mankind, Marks’s definition “person is a public animal” is approached, by virtue of an animal perfection. The mentality and behaviour of the preperson too were as complete, fully corresponding with ecological niche and a part in the ecosystem with which he occupied. It would be well, if rudiments of the preperson intelligence which we notice at humanoid monkeys have not started to develop. Researches of monkeys have been carried out at first half of the XX century by German scientist Wolfgang Keller. Ability of humanoid monkeys to the solving of simple tasks has been named “insight”, that means inspiration. Insight allows the humanoid monkey to solve a task instantly or never to solve it. Besides, paying attention on the theory of oriented activity and the oriented reflex, open by Russian scientist I. Pavlov, we suppose that the mentality of animals adheres to the following complex of actions. Being based on the main instincts (reproduction and self-preservation), having the centres of pleasure, displeasure and the centre “That such?” (an oriented reflex), during a training, the mentality of the supreme animals is formed through formation of the associative structures necessary for all occasions. When the animal gets in a familiar situation, the mentality finds necessary associative structure and an animal starts to operate according to this structure, achieving reception of pleasure or avoidance of displeasure. In a unfamiliar situation there is a oriented reflex (”That such?”) which forces to create new associative structure from already available, fastening of new structure occurs at achievement by an animal of pleasure or at avoidance of displeasure. Therefore animals can quickly change the behaviour at sharp change of external conditions. As against them, insect’s life is completely dictated by instincts. An insect at change of external conditions will continue to carry out the started earlier of actions programme even if it will result in senseless result. Feature of the preperson is in creating of complex of associative uniting structures with the associative detailed structures. It promoted development of subject’s application and instruments manufacturing, that in turn was the cause of transition to animal food. Ability to detailed elaboration has discharged the preperson from fauna and has given the precondition to development of speech. The first associative structure responsible for detailed elaboration has arisen when a casually cracked stone found the useful application. In the further evolutionary development the mentality of the preperson was divided into two spheres. Associative generalising structures were included in the first sphere. Associative detailed structures were included in the second sphere. It allowed with the help of instruments and joint actions of prepeople with the minimal expenses of energy to direct the whole herds of animals in an abyss or in a bog. It was a first step to infringement of a homeostasis of an ecosystem, infringement of the principle of “narrow specialisation”. Ability to hunt on large animals became the cause of a prepeople breeding and moving on the big distances from places where animals were destroyed to places where there were an abundance of animals. For 200 thousand years before expansion of the reasonable person there was a first prepeople expansion. Anthropologists have found remnants of prepeople in Africa and on Eurasian continents. Anthropologists gave them the Neanderthal men name according to a place of the first finding. Neanderthal men are a deadlocking lateral branch of mankind development. That part of premankind which did not begin to participate in expansion and has remained in Africa according to geneticists researches is our direct primogenitor. This part of prepeople has kept the pantophagous as against returning to specialisation at hunting of Neanderthal men. The use of fire, the creating of dwelling in caves, the manufacturing of clothes from skins of animals became the second step for the homeostasis of ecosystem infringement. Constant rather comfortable conditions of existence of our primogenitors have reduced an interval between mating seasons, actually having made the continuously mating season. Similar process is presently observed in domestic animals. If for Neanderthal men while they were at expansion this increase of ability to reproduction was not acting to any way, for our primogenitors and for an ecosystem where they existed it has turned back great disaster. Unreasonable prepeople number increase was accompanied by destruction of all accessible sources of nutrition; expansion on other terrains was handicapped by Neanderthal men who have already occupied all terrains. The tendency to the expansion, warmed up by intrinsic tendency to a breeding, absence of the united-limiting principle similar to principles of an ecosystem homeostasis, and impossibility to be expansion has broken off a generality of. One way remained to our ancestors. Way was to eat similar prepeople, further it became norm, that has resulted in sharp reduction of prepeople number. All this meat grinder and unnatural selection developed ingenuity of prepersons; they have learnt to distinguish himself from others (for the first time appears an associative structure of self-identification). It was a process having given a push to development of individual and having sped up unnatural selection in struggle of all against all. It lasted until one family has realised himself (under pressure of a self-preservative instinct) as the united force capable to resist against existing chaos. This was fixed by genetical and physiological change. A potent associative generality structure arose in mentality and on its basis the system of behaviour rules and interdiction are assumed, first of all interdiction on murder of a family member. The further killing (continuation of unnatural selection process) has been directed to interdiction infringers (owners of high aspiration to a breeding and gluttonies) already from the part of a community. Interdiction braked and pushed down the aspiration to expansion into the unconscious. Associative structure linked with behaviour in a community and in a society was formed in “Super ego” (described by Z. Freud as the mental structure not realised by the person arising under influence of social rules and educational interdictions, shown in consciousness as conscience). The aspiration to the interdiction breaking (i.e. a part of structures inherent for an animal including a reproductive instinct and all associative structures linked to expansion) was pushed down under influence “Super ego” into the unconscious. “Unconscious” has been formed by the pushing (discovered by Z. Freud and named as “It”). On border between “Super ego” and “Unconscious” appeared “Me-consciousness” on the basis of associative frame of the self-identification generated during an epoch of struggle of all against all. So was born a reasonable person. Evolution has destroyed wholeness of animal mentality in the reasonable person. Animals do not have “Ego”, “Super ego” (conscience or moral) and complexes that pushed out into “Unconscious”. Evolution has allocated these three structures and has fixed their physiological and genetic changes. Now evolution of mentality of the person occurs due to development of these structures and mutual relation between structures without genetic changes. The description of mental processes of the person, his installations (introversion-extroversion) and preferable functions are well submitted in K. G. Jung’s works. Feature of a person world perception consists in following. The person simultaneously perceives general picture of world around a through associative structures of the right hemisphere (the sensing function of Jung) and distinguishes details through associative structures of the left hemisphere (the cogitating function by Jung). A person only details during his conscious process or builds logic chain which does not accept the contradiction (the cogitating function). “Unconscious” comes to the aid for overcoming contradictions. The inspiration (insight) or the intuition forms new associative structure in “Unconscious” and gives out a full done picture into the consciousness, removing contradictions. For example we can see Newton’s inspiration at discovering laws of Heavenly mechanics or we can see Mendeleyev’s sleep which has opened the Periodic table of chemical elements. The intuition of the person is advanced insight of the supreme animals (the intuitive function of Jung). Frequently the person perceives the situation entirely and determines the attitude to a situation by a principle” it is pleasant - it is not pleasant”. That is comparison (not realised) of a situation with structures “Super ego” (the feel function of Jung). Evolution has put (with the help of division of mentality on “Super ego”, “Unconscious” and “Me”) the contradiction not only inside the person, but also the contradiction between people due to different main mental function in the individual. Actually, because of it we speak with each other in different languages, but about it in the following chapter. So the person is an inconsistent essence. Its self-identification is limited to consciousness and frame of the body. And the large part of mental processes is not realised, this is processes in “Super ego” and “Unconscious” structures. We perceive phenomenon of “Unconscious” that achieve consciousness more often sharply negatively. Why it occurs? The alive matter law was embodied into “Super ego” of the person (the aspiration to chaos at the bottom level unites system at the top level). The law of a lifeless matter was embodied in “Unconscious” (the aspiration to association at the bottom level gives rise the variety of the top level). The consciousness reflects but not understands this contradiction and remains as a wanderer between heaven and earth.
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