Archive for November, 2006
Forgiving Does Not Mean That You Will Forget
It is commonly assumed that your negative feelings are completely replaced by positive ones when you forgive someone. The problem with this expectation is that it’s so categorical, that it puts forgiveness out of reach and leaves you with no option but to not forgive at all. When you grant “genuine forgiveness”, you make room [...]
Non-Forgiveness Is a Sign of Poor Character
A growing body of research shows that chronic negative emotions such as bitterness, cynicism, mistrust, and hostility – all expressions of not forgiving – sap your energy and undermine your mental and physical well-being. A recent study found that subjects who were instructed to rehearse unforgiving responses to a violation experienced elevated blood pressure and [...]
The True Definition of Forgiveness
The true definition of forgiveness should center on the advantages of feeling peaceful. Finding peace does not need to be complicated. Remember, all grievances begin when something in a person’s life happens that they do not want to happen. From that initial unpleasantness they take things too personally, blame the offender for how they feel, [...]
Desires in How to Manage and Conquer Depression
Desire can lead a person to misery. When a person feels unfilled, it can result in yearning, or burning desires, which include cravings. When a person feels grieved it brings them intense experiences of sorrow, which prompts deep sadness. Often a loss, such as death of a friend or family member results in such feelings. [...]
Depression – How To Overcome the Feeling of Sadness
Sometimes when you feel blue or sad, you may not know what to do to recover from your state of mind. Sometimes when you think it is getting better, all of a sudden you may feel sad and blue again. Sometimes people may experience feel aches and pains, which cannot explain and when the doctor [...]
Manage Depression with Psychotherapy
At some time or other, we all have faced depression in our lives. Some of us have been fortunate to have faced only a mild form of depression while others have not been so fortunate and faced a more severe version of depression. For such people the treatment might lie in psychoanalysis. Psychotherapy in reference [...]
10 Tips For The New Mentor
It’s a well-known fact that when a high-ranking manager takes a younger employee under his or her wing, becomes that person’s mentor. The protégé not only has a head start for advancement, but will obtain more know-how about the work, the workings of the company, and the “tricks of the trade” than others. By structuring [...]
5 Steps to Helping Your Employees Achieve Their Goals
The role of the manager in developing employees is to help employees figure out exactly where they want to go, and then to give the support and organizational resources for employees to get there. But employee development is a two-way street. Employees must also contribute by identifying the areas where development will aid to make [...]