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The Self Empowerment Guidebook Page 2 of 52 Copyright Chris Cade SelfEmpowermentGuidebook.com Table of Contents The Importance of Empowering Yourself .8 Who Controls Your Self Confidence? .11 Without This, You Can Forget About Self Empowerment 14 The Swan Story: One Woman's Journey to Reclaiming Her Divine Beauty .18 Building Your Self Confidence 21 Happiness Begins With Forgiveness 25 3 Hairs: A Humorous Story About Always Having A Positive Attitude .27 Energy: The Current of the Universe — What We Think Is What We Create 29 Spiritual Empowerment: The Challenge of Modern Times 32 Spirituality: The Secret to Everlasting Success 34 Motivation: The Heart of Self Empowerment 37 Who Will You Be? 41 Empowering Yourself Using The Law of Attraction .45 Crash Course 7-Day Program to Self Empowerment 48 10 Spiritual and Self Empowerment Quotes .51 Resource Guide 54 The Self Empowerment Guidebook Page 3 of 52 Copyright Chris Cade SelfEmpowermentGuidebook.com Self Empowerment and Success Everything that happens to us happens with purpose, and sometimes, one thing leads to another. Instead of locking yourself up in a cage of fear and crying over past heartaches, embarrassment and failures, treat these situations as your teachers and they will become your tools in both self empowerment and success. Have you seen the movie Patch Adams? It’s one great film that will help you empower yourself. Hunter “Patch” Adams is a medical student who failed to make it through the board exams. After months of suffering in melancholy, depression and suicidal attempts – he decided to seek medical attention and voluntarily admitted himself in a psychiatric ward. His months of stay in the hospital led him to meet different kinds of people, and especially physically and mentally ill people such as catatonics, schizophrenics, and so on. Patch found ways of treating his own ailment and finally realized he had to Take to heart The Self-Empowerment Pledge Take to heart The SelfEmpowerment Pledge Bởi: Joe Tye “No empowerment is so effective as self-empowerment In this world, the optimists have it, not because they are always right, but because they are always positive Even when wrong, they are positive, and that is the way of achievement, correction, improvement, and success Educated, eyes-open optimism pays; pessimism can only offer the empty consolation of being right [because it creates a self-fulfilling prophecy of failure].” David Landes: “Culture Makes All the Difference” in Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress (edited by Samuel P Huntington and Lawrence E Harrison) You can download the slide show and all of the posters for The Self-Empowerment Pledge at the resources page of the Values Coach website One of the most overused and misused buzzwords in the English language is the word “empowerment.” The word implies that somebody other than you can give you power If someone else can give you power, they can also take it away – and loaned empowerment is not real power In truth, no one can empower you but you The only genuine empowerment is self-empowerment Once you empower yourself, though, nobody can take that power away Empowerment is a state of mind – not part of a job description, a set of delegated tasks, or the latest management program brought in by the boss The Self-Empowerment Pledge includes seven simple promises that will change your life, if you are willing to invest one minute a day for a year Read these seven promises, and then ask yourself these two questions: Question #1: If I were to take these promises to heart and act upon them, would I be better off in every way – personally, professionally, financially, and spiritually – in one year than where my current life trajectory is taking me? Question #2: If everyone where I work were to take these promises to heart and act upon them, would we a better job of serving our customers and supporting each other, and would this be a better place to work? 1/2 Take to heart The Self-Empowerment Pledge If you’re being honest, the answer will be absolutely yes – how could it be anything else? The promises themselves are simple, but keeping them will require desire and determination Fortunately, you don’t have to it all at once Focus on one promise each day, so that you make all seven promises to yourself each week Do this each day for one year – it will be the best daily one minute you ever invest in yourself Repeat each day’s promise to yourself at least four times – morning, afternoon, evening, and right before bed Each reading will take you about 15 seconds – so four times a day is one minute At first, you’ll hear a negative little voice in the back of your head telling you that you look ridiculous and you could be watching a TV commercial instead of wasting this minute Ignore it – the inner critic is easily bored and will eventually go away But now it’s going to get even tougher, at least temporarily You’ll begin to experience what psychologists call cognitive dissonance, which is trying to hold two incompatible beliefs simultaneously Cognitive dissonance is a painful emotional state, a form of mental illness When you’ve been promising yourself to be responsible, accountable, and determined, but then catch yourself procrastinating, making excuses, and giving up, you’re experiencing cognitive dissonance At that point, one of two things must happen Either you take the easy way out and stop making the promises, or you change your attitudes and behaviors in such a way as to start keeping the promises When you that, you will start to get better results Now you’re over the hump, and repeating the promises becomes an easy and pleasurable habit, because it’s self-reinforcing Let’s look at each of these seven life-changing promises 2/2 MINIREVIEW From heart to mind The urotensin II system and its evolving neurophysiological role Hans-Peter Nothacker 1 and Stewart Clark 2 1 Department of Pharmacology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA 2 The Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Introduction Urotensin II (UII) is a peptide structurally related to somatostatin ⁄ cortistatin peptides. It contains a carboxy- terminal cysteine-bridged cyclic hexapeptide sequence that is conserved across species. UII was originally iso- lated from fish urophysis, a neuroendocrine gland located in the caudal part of the spinal cord, using a trout hindgut contraction assay [1]. For the decade fol- lowing its discovery UII was regarded as an exclusive product of the teleost urophysis. Contrary to this belief, UII peptides have been shown to have a wide phylogenetic distribution across the vertebrate lineage (reviewed in [2]) and independent reports touting UII’s potent cardiovascular effects in rats have dispelled its mammalian irrelevance [3,4]. These important studies inferred for the first time that a specific mammalian UII receptor must exist and hence postulated the exist- ence of mammalian UII-like peptides. The genes for the mammalian orthologues coding for the preproform of UII were finally discovered in 1998 [5,6]. Shortly after, in the race for the identification of natural lig- ands for orphan G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs) several groups including ours reported the identifica- tion of the UII receptor, an orphan receptor known before as both GPR14 or SENR (for sensory epithe- lium neuropeptides-like receptor) [7–12]. When the UII receptor was identified in 1999, all of the immediate research was concentrated on the elucidation of UII’s vasomodulatory properties. Indeed, the research Keywords acetylcholine; laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus; REM sleep; urotensin receptors; urotensin II; urotensin II-related peptide Correspondence H P. Nothacker, Department of Pharmacology, University of California, 354 MedSurge II, Irvine CA 92697-4625, USA Fax: +1 949 824 4855 Tel: +1 949 824 1892 E-mail: hnothack@uci.edu (Received 21 June 2005, accepted 22 August 2005) doi:10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04983.x The discovery of novel biologically active peptides has led to an explosion in our understanding of the molecular mechanisms that underlie the regula- tion of sleep and wakefulness. Urotensin II (UII), a peptide originally isolated from fish and known for its strong cardiovascular effects in mammals, is another surprising candidate in the regulatory network of sleep. The UII receptor was found to be expressed by cholinergic neurons of laterodorsal and pedunculopontine tegmental nuclei, an area known to be of utmost importance for the on- and offset of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep. Recently, physiological data have provided further evidence that UII is indeed a modulator of REM sleep. The peptide directly excites cholinergic mesopontine neurons and increases the rate of REM sleep epi- sodes. These new results and its emerging behavioral effects establish UII as a neurotransmitter ⁄ neuromodulator in mammals and should spark fur- ther interest into the neurobiological role of the peptide. Abbreviations CNS, central nervous system; CRF, corticotrophin-releasing factor; ERK, extracellular signal regulated kinase; GPCR, G-protein coupled receptor; icv, intracerebroventricular; LDT, laterodorsal tegmental nucleus; PC, pro-hormone convertase; PLC, phospholipase C; PKC, protein kinase C; PPT, pedunculopontine The Power of Self-Coaching The Five Essential Steps to Creating the Life You Want Joseph Luciani, Ph.D. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffirs.qxd 5/21/04 11:28 AM Page i fpref.qxd 5/21/04 11:32 AM Page x The Power of Self-Coaching The Five Essential Steps to Creating the Life You Want Joseph Luciani, Ph.D. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. ffirs.qxd 5/21/04 11:28 AM Page i Copyright © 2004 by Joseph Luciani, Ph.D. All rights reserved Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada Design and composition by Navta Associates, Inc. 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Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. Some content that appears in print may not be available in electronic books. For more information about Wiley products, visit our web site at www.wiley.com. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Luciani, Joseph J. The power of self-coaching : the five essential steps to creating the life you want / Joseph Luciani. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-471-46360-4 1. Self-actualization (Psychology) I. Title. BF637.S4L83 2004 158.1—dc22 2004005661 Printed in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ffirs.qxd 5/21/04 11:28 AM Page ii iii Acknowledgments v Preface vii Introduction: Choose to Change, Choose the Life You Want 1 Part I The Promise of Self-Coaching 1. Self-Coaching: Get the Power 17 2. Choosing Happiness, Dropping Misguided Goals 30 Part II Your Problems: The Roots of Change 3. Why Are You Insecure? 51 4. Choose Not to Worry 62 5. Stop Controlling Life 75 6. Reflexive Thinking 95 7. Stop Insulating and Avoiding 107 8. A Perfect Way to Be Miserable 122 9. No More Lies 137 10. Trust Yourself [...]... contributed to our knowledge of visual cognition In the field of motor cognition, motor imagery, the ability to generate a conscious image of the acting self, began to be seriously considered only in the late 1980s One of the reasons for this delay is that, unlike in visual imagery, there is no clear reference in motor imagery with which the image can be compared: motor images are private events in the sense... areas, together with areas in the motor system (e.g premotor cortex), account for what we have called ‘pragmatic’ representations These are responsible for representing self- generated (overt as well as covert) actions, and the actions of other agents, when these actions have to be understood, learned, replicated or imitated Other brain areas are also involved in perceiving and recognizing actions of other... instructed to look for 5 s at the specified target Immediately afterwards, they were blindfolded and instructed to either walk, or to imagine walking to that target In both conditions, they held a chronometer which they started when they began the task and stopped when they finished it The main result was that the subjects took, on average, the same time to achieve the physical and the mental task In the. .. historical thread The history of the concept of action representations starts at the end of the nineenth century, when motor physiology was dominated by the sensorymotor theory of action generation This model, however, turned out to be unsatisfactory for the generation of voluntary movements In contradistinction to reflex actions which are responses to the occurrence of external stimuli, voluntary actions. .. present events The notion of a mind to world direction of causation stresses the fact that action representations are anticipatory, not only with respect to the execution of the action itself, but also with respect to the state of the world that will be created by the action As a matter of fact, insofar as action representations are the key feature of motor cognition, it follows that motor cognition in... resulted from excitation of the same cerebral centers as the corresponding actual sensation In the domain of motor images, he made the remark that the state of the motor centers influences the possibility of generating a motor image For example, he found it impossible to generate the image of pronouncing the letter b if he kept his mouth wide open: this was because the motor system, he thought, cannot... request and could imitate gestures of others However, they were impaired in naming the gestures performed by the examiner These patients with lesions in the ventral stream, although they had retained NANO EXPRESS Binary Mixtures of SH- and CH 3 -Terminated Self-Assembled Monolayers to Control the Average Spacing Between Aligned Gold Nanoparticles Asad Rezaee Æ Laura C. Pavelka Æ Silvia Mittler Received: 21 May 2009 / Accepted: 17 July 2009 / Published online: 2 August 2009 Ó to the authors 2009 Abstract This paper presents a method to control the average spacing between organometallic chemical vapor deposition (OMCVD) grown gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) in a line. Focused ion beam patterned CH 3 -terminated self- assembled monolayers are refilled systematically with different mixtures of SH- and CH 3 -terminated silanes. The average spacing between OMCVD Au NPs is demonstrated systematically to decrease by increasing the v/v% ratio of the thiols in the binary silane mixtures with SH- and CH 3 - terminated groups. Keywords Average spacing Á FIB Á Gold Á Nanoparticle Á OMCVD Á Self-assembly Introduction Along with the other applications, recent years have seen a tremendous impact on gold nanoparticle (Au NP) optical response in biological assays, detection, labeling, and sensing [1]. It is of great importance to observe a pro- nounced shift in the localized surface plasmon resonance (LSPR) corresponding to an absorption peak intrinsic to Au NPs, upon binding of a material onto Au NPs [2]. However, to achieve such a pronounced LSPR shift—when only a minute amount of sample material is available, or in a screening approach with many different recognition agents—the volume has to be minimized and the accessi- bility of the analyte to the Au NPs has to be enhanced. Therefore, two-dimensional approaches with organome- tallic chemical vapor deposited (OMCVD) Au NPs on a surface are envisaged [3]. The spectral location (k max ) and width of the LSPR peak can be optimized for sensor applications by controlling average spacing [4]. In contrast, the LSPR peak of ran- domly positioned Au NPs can be fairly broad [5]. As a result, a sensor fabricated with Au NPs with a narrow and spectrally well-located LSPR peak shows a clearer peak shift (Dk max ) improving the sensitivity. We have recently introduced a new method to align OMCVD-grown Au NPs via focused ion beam (FIB) nano-lithography on a self- assembled monolayer (SAM) functionalized substrates and refilling the structures with a pure SH-terminated silane SAM [6]. It was concluded that the average spacing between Au NPs can be controlled by varying the FIB dose. In the present work, we follow an alternative route with the dilution of the re-filling SAM to control the availability of nucleation sites to bind Au NPs. Mercapto or thiol groups (–SH) have been used as nucleation sites for the OMCVD of Au NPs [7, 8]. 3- Mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (MPTS), which provides monolayers presenting –SH reactive group, was diluted with octadecyltrichlorosilane (OTS) as a non-reactive site for the OMCVD process with the Au precursor (tri- methylphosphinegoldmethyl) [9]. It has been demonstrated that OTS with a CH 3 -terminal function is a reliable resist for Au OMCVD [10, 11]. Here, OTS plays two roles: a resist SAM to be patterned by FIB and a dilution in the binary mixture solutions of MPTS and OTS to refill the A. Rezaee Á S. Mittler (&) Department of Physics and .. .Take to heart The Self- Empowerment Pledge If you’re being honest, the answer will be absolutely yes – how could it be anything else? The promises themselves are simple, but keeping them... happen Either you take the easy way out and stop making the promises, or you change your attitudes and behaviors in such a way as to start keeping the promises When you that, you will start to get... minute you ever invest in yourself Repeat each day’s promise to yourself at least four times – morning, afternoon, evening, and right before bed Each reading will take you about 15 seconds – so