Category Archives for "Self Help"
Tools and techniques for self help
Enneagram Type 4: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of Enneagram Type 4: Individualist, Romantic, Artist
As an Enneagram Type 4, you are authentic, creative, expressive and self-aware. You have the need to express yourself uniquely. Typically, you enjoy expressing your feelings through some creative works such as music, painting, and acting. What you desire are experiences that are rich and meaningful.
“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.” e. e. cummings
Enneagram Type 3: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of Enneagram Type 3: The Performer, Achiever, Motivator
If you are an Enneagram Type 3, you enjoy projecting the image of success. You place focus on goals, efficiency and checking off your to-do lists. Ambitious, you are driven by your desire for personal accomplishments. As a high functioning Type 3, you are confident, with the ability to harness your strengths and to motivate others to greater heights.
“The path to success is to take massive, determined action.” – Tony Robbins
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough. We must do.” Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Enneagram Type 2: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
Overview of Enneagram Type 2: The Helper, Partner, Nurturer
If you are an Enneagram Type 2, you are extremely helpful, considerate, compassionate, empathetic, generous and loving. You are like Mother Theresa. You feel guided by the mission to save the world.
For you, going out of the way to help others makes life meaningful. Your life feels enriched when you have friends, family, connection, sharing and support. You inspire the world to be of service to one another.
“Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier.” – Mother Theresa
Enneagram Type 1: Positive Affirmations for Path of Growth
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.” – Salvador Dali
I am on a Round-The-Enneagram tour, covering all 9 Enneagram Types in turn. Over the course of 9 weeks, I will be laying out positive affirmations aimed at serving the path of growth for each Enneagram Type. Please start off with a basic introduction to The Enneagram, as a guide for transformation, before reading on.
Overview of Enneagram Type 1: The Reformer, Perfectionist, Achiever
If you are a Type 1, you strongly emphasise key moral values such as responsibility, integrity, order, discipline and control. You place attention on what is right and what is wrong and will fight for justice. You have idealistic dreams, with the goal of improving the world.
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Enneagram Quiz: How Would You Cross the River?
You can take an Enneagram quiz to help you determine your personality type.
The Enneagram quiz that I’d like to share: How would you cross the river?
There are many online tests but this is a favourite Enneagram quiz of mine. Also, as an update, I’ve benefited so much from the learnings over the years that I have since become an Enneagram Executive Coach accredited with the International Enneagram Association. I now use the Enneagram to help guide others in their personal growth.
If you don’t already know, the Enneagram is an excellent profiling tool. It describes your personality attributes. You can be one of 9 personality types. According to the Enneagram quiz, your personality type influences how you would cross the river.
“The study of the Enneagram is the study of Everything that keeps us from Essence.” – Russ Hudson
(Photo taken while I was at the Trick Art Museum in Seoul, Korea)
Take the Enneagram Quiz: How Would You Cross the River?
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Tap Away Your Paralysis to Do Work that You Love
“Overthinking a situation can lead to a phenomenon called analysis paralysis which results in no decision being made.”
Find yourself emotionally and mentally paralyzed?
Don’t know which way to go?
Perhaps it is not that you lack options, but you could be contemplating more than one. You have got many wonderful what-if ideas. They have been in the playground of your mind. Each has called out to you until you don’t know which to choose.
Then again, it could all boil down to this: you can’t decide if you are willing to give up a job that you are not passionate about (but which pays you a comfortable salary) for something that you love but which is untested.
You have seen them all. There is plenty of advice of “do what you love” over the internet. You are drawn to the feel-good factor of the advice. A part of you is resonating with its tune. You can’t help wondering if there is something bigger and more than what your office job entails.
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10 Lessons About Your Emotional Mind from Inside-Out
“Do you ever look at someone and wonder, what is going on inside their head?” Joy, Inside-Out movie.
Picture: Disney/Pixar
Would you like to meet the voices inside your head that speak to you all day?
Well, find out the identity of these voices and how they drive your behavior by watching the Disney/Pixar movie Inside-Out.
On first glance, it would seem that Inside-Out – being an animated movie – is meant for kids. However, I found it to be great for adults too. I had watched it with my family over the weekend. The movie sheds clever and enlightening insights into the complexities of emotion; in a way that is also touching, fun and charming.
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Abundance Alchemy Program Review: Manifest with Ease
When you finally let go of your emotional attachment, you open the space for miracles to physically manifest!
Listen in as Kristin Astourian reviewed my Abundance Alchemy Program in the video below. She also shared her thoughts on the key to manifestation and how the Universe has responded by sending her a surprise money bonus 🙂
Kristin Astourian holds a professional job and is also a singer-cum-song writer based in Austin, Texas. Her dream is to creatively express her soul at the physical level. You can find her works at http://www.chumsmusic.com.
I feel blessed to have the opportunity to connect with talented and creative artistes such as her. She has been amazing to work with! I am extremely thrilled for Kristin and continue to root for her success!!!
To dreams coming true,
Abundance Alchemy Life Coach
P.S. Contact me if you need coaching assistance in making energy shifts for a success breakthrough.
Detach from Your Old Mental Photo Album
“We do not know the true value of our moments until they have undergone the test of memory.” – Georges Duhamel, The Heart’s Domain
Do you keep an archive of unhappy memories?
What is the type of pictures that you constantly replay in your mind?
Is the photo album in your mind filled with pictures of your arguments, insults and failures?
When I was moving my home last year, I had to unpack and pack away boxes of photo albums. Most of them belonged to my husband with photos taken when he was young. However, there were a few boxes that were mine. I soon found myself very occupied with looking through the albums.
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Why Be the Biggest Loser
Buddha was asked, “What have you gained from meditation?” He replied, “Nothing! However,” Buddha said, “let me tell you what I lost: Anger, Anxiety, Depression, Insecurity, Fear of Old age and Death.”
We are in a habit of acquiring things be it a new car, house or a prestigious title to add to our name. The more we acquire, the stronger our ego is. We may even be after a state of bliss when we think about what we can gain out of a meditation sitting. It’s the spiritual ego that gets swollen with false pride.
Our struggles often arise when we are not successful in getting what we want. We become angry, anxious, depressed, insecure and fearful as a result. We act out of our ego selves.
By having more as compared to someone else, our egos believe that we are one up over another. It does not count if everyone has the same material item. Ours have to be bigger, better and more powerful than what our friends, relatives or colleagues have. After all, if it is the same, what is the point on posting the pictures of these things on Facebook or Instagram? The more “likes” we get on social media, the more we feel good about ourselves. Never mind if we don’t even know half the strangers who clicked “like” to our posts online.
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