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Popular Articles

Crazy-Makers: Dealing with Passive-Aggressive People

Why Are People Mean? Don't Take It Personally!

When You Have Been Betrayed

Struggling to Forgive: An Inability to Grieve

Happy Habits: 50 Suggestions

The Secret of Happiness: Let It Find You (But Make the Effort)

Excellence vs. Perfection

Depression is Not Sadness

20 Steps to Better Self-Esteem

7 Rules and 8 Methods for Responding to Passive-aggressive People

What to Do When Your Jealousy Threatens to Destroy Your Marriage

Happiness is An Attitude

Guide to How to Set Achieveable Goals

Catastrophe? Or Inconvenience?

Popular Audios

Panic Assistance

Motivational Audios

Mindfulness Training

Rational Thinking

Relaxation for Children

Loving Kindness Meditation

Self-Esteem Exercise

Lies You Were Told

Choosing Happiness

Audio Version of Article: Crazy-Makers: Passive-Aggressive People

Audio Version of Article: Why Are People Mean? Don't Take It Personally!

Audio Version of Article: Happiness Is An Attitude

All Audio Articles

Motivational Audios

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Hot Air Balloon Motivation

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Finding Your Path Decision-Making

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Risk and Planning for Success

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Thinking Your Way to a Healthy Weight

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Sport Motivation

If you use these audios, please support their development. Just $1 for each audio you use could greatly help with creating more audios!




Hot Air Balloon Motivation
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Although this audio uses imagery for relaxation and can be used just for the calming experience, the focus of the audio is encouragement and motivation. Once you achieve a state of relaxation, listening to the motivational statements can increase your self-confidence and belief in your ability to achieve your goals. This audio is meant to be listened to repeatedly to help increase your positive self-talk regarding achieving your goals.

This may be used while sitting or lying down in a quiet, comfortable place.  Just close your eyes and listen without trying to force yourself to relax.  If your mind wanders, gently bring yourself back to focus on the words.

This exercise is best the more fully relaxed you are.  If you are unable to relax completely, listen to the relaxation exercises such as the meadow or mountain cabin until you are more skilled with relaxation.

Do not use while operating a car! 

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Finding Your Path Decision-Making
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forest path This audio uses the imagery of choosing a path through the woods to guide through the process of decision-making. It confronts the common misconception that a perfect path exists and that only by choosing the "right" path success will be achieved. Instead, it focuses on the idea that all paths have valuable lessons to learn.

As you listen to this audio over time you can change the thinking that can prevent you from making decisions and being successful. Not choosing a path to pursue may be the most destructive choice of all.

Risk and Planning for Success
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This audio discusses obstacles to success. In particular, it addresses the fear of risk and how it limits the achievement of goals. It examines ways of thinking about risk that can interfere with success and points out the importance of planning to create a calculated risk that is more likely to lead to success.

It is best to listen to this audio repeatedly until it becomes a natural way of thinking for you. The way thinking can be changed is through repetition--the more you listen to it, the more it helps you to change your thinking. You can develop a different attitude about risk by recognizing how the fear of risk and/or failure prevents you from achieving what you want.

About 8 minutes.

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Thinking Your Way to a Healthy Weight
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This audio teaches you about how to think about your body and weight in a different way. Instead of thinking of weight loss in perfectionistic terms that lead to a cycle of dieting and failure, you can learn to think about caring for your body and setting manageable healthy goals.

The audio is meant to be listened to repeatedly so that the thinking style can become more automatic.

About 13 minutes.

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Also, read article: Thinking Your Way to a Healthy Weight.

Sport Motivation
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Audio sport motivation exercise focused on fear of failure and demand thinking by changing self-talk.  The purpose is to focus on pursuing excellence in the area of sports without the expectations that tend to interfere with success. (see article: Excellence vs. Perfection). The idea of this exercise is to listen to it frequently so as to increase the repetition of rational motivational self-talk.  The more you listen to it, the more you will start to use the thinking presented. Just close your eyes and listen without trying to force yourself to relax.  If your mind wanders, gently bring yourself back to focus on the words.

This exercise does not need complete relaxation in order to benefit.  You may find that you can listen to it while taking a walk or doing dishes or some other activity that doesn't require your complete focus.

Do not use while operating a vehicle or during other activities that require your full attention! 

Performance, Success and Goal Attainment
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