Secrets of Self-Empowerment

Secrets of Self Empowerment will help you to develop trust in your own judgement, identify your strengths, skills and abilities and achieve powerful self-confidence.
. . . → Read More: How ‘Secrets of Self-Empowerment’ can help you

Part 1: Embracing Change helps you assess your present position and introduces the idea of change as something to welcome.

Part 2: Healing the Past will show you how to manage your memories in a more useful way, especially if there are events in your past which you would like to have different feelings . . . → Read More: What You Can Expect To Learn

The questions we ask ourselves have a profound effect on the way we think.

If you ask yourself ‘Why do I always fail?’, your mind will search for reasons – without asking itself if this is a valid question (do you always fail?) and without considering the contrary evidence of your many successes. Ask . . . → Read More: Empowering Questions – And How To Use Them

The old tree had stood at the bottom of his grandfather’s garden since before the old man himself was born. It had provided shelter during countless hot summers and Sam had enjoyed kicking his way through its fallen autumn leaves ever since he could remember. Now it was rotten and becoming dangerous and had . . . → Read More: Part 1: Embracing Change

For our purposes, self-empowerment means:

feeling in control of key elements of your life

being able to make sound and effective decisions

being clear about your core values

being able to create and maintain worthwhile relationships

having most of your attention on the present

dealing confidently with challenges

A self-empowered person is likely . . . → Read More: The Elements of Self-Empowerment

You may like to explore your beliefs about yourself right now by completing the following exercise:

Head a piece of paper “Who Am I?’ and divide it into two columns with subheadings as shown below:

Who am I?

I am… . . . → Read More: 1.1 Who Are You?

We only do what we believe we can do.

While writing some of your ‘I want to be’s, you may have found yourself thinking, ‘This would certainly be a great belief to have, but do I really believe it?’.

You may like to consider the differences between things you believe now and things you . . . → Read More: 1.2 Beliefs

Everything we do, we do because we put a greater value on doing it than on not doing it.

We tend to put the highest value of all on feeling good, and the better something makes us feel, the more likely we are to do it. Sometimes the perceived value of feeling good . . . → Read More: 1.3 Values

Much of our daily life is devoted to habits.

It is important to pay attention to our thought patterns because they are the mental component of habits. Habits can be useful, but they are also potentially dangerous precisely because they happen out of our consciousness – that is, without us having to think about . . . → Read More: 1.4 Habits

Sam looked closely at the fresh, yellow-green hazel catkins, noticing how the slightest waft of air released a pale mist of pollen. He remembered as a small child going around the garden gently prodding each flower. He had learned that those flowers with finer and more plentiful pollen were fertilized by the wind, while . . . → Read More: Part 2: Healing the Past