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Motivation's Effect On Mental And Physical Health

By grecompadaptive - September 2nd, 2010, 18:10, Category: General

Many studies have been done to research the effects of motivation and mental health. As the implications of helping those with negative self-esteem, depression and anxiety are immense this is certainly an area of research that deserves a great deal of attention.

Psychology Online reports on a study investigating the differences between INTERNAL and EXTERNAL MOTIVATION. The report states that "Although our society is largely extrinsically-motivated by external rewards such as money, fame and power, research has indicated those who are intrinsically-motivated by inner desires for creativity, fulfillment and inner satisfaction are psychologically healthier and happier."

How can this help you?

The study of health psychology seeks to understand how our ability to cope with stress can help us to prevent illness and promote health. Some of these coping mechanisms are naturally inborn but may be taught to those who lack them. Motivation is one of the tools that researchers are trying to use as a combatant of negative stress reactions.

Motivation is something that we use every day. It's what enables us to survive - to get food because we're hungry, to go to work to pay the bills or to educate ourselves in order to pursue a higher goal in life.

How we respond to life's demands can affect our overall health. How are you classified?

The same report on Psychology Online identified those who respond to life with negativity or anxiety as most likely to deal with the physical affects of anger, guilt, nervousness, frustration and fear. These emotions can cause hypertension and high blood pressure which can lead to heart attack or stroke. Other complications include ulcers, arthritis, asthma and kidney disease.

Some therapists suggest that by using positive self-talk and trying to restructure the WAY we look at events can offset the physical and mental effects of dealing with negative or stressful events in life.

Interestingly, people who tend to focus on themselves as the controller of their fate - in fact 'self-motivated' - are more likely to feel a sense of control when stressors affect them. Instead of blaming something or someone else they have the motivation to deal with a problem and look for a reasonable solution. This positive behavior helps them to achieve goals and find personal contentment.

Therapists try to teach patients how to emulate this positive reaction to stress and use their motivation as a source of empowerment. Learning to manage stress and using motivation to set goals, work through a problem or fix it can in turn promote better mental and physical health.

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Spiritual Psychology

By grecompadaptive - September 2nd, 2010, 18:10, Category: General

There are a multitude of emotional traumas that can occur in early childhood that can affect a child's emotional health all the way through to adulthood. With the right kind of therapy or intervention though, a child can live a relatively normal, happy and productive life. There are many different types of therapy that can help a troubled child and knowing how to go about finding the right solution that can help them might be as simple as talking to a friend.

Choosing the right one is the key to helping a child have a happy, healthy and productive life. Spiritual therapy is one option that could help a troubled child and it includes talk therapy because getting children to open up is a spiritual experience at heart. This helps children to get in touch with their inner feelings and learn about what has been bothering them for some time. Once they know, they will have the power to fix the problem.

Early emotional childhood traumas in a person's life can affect them at different times in their life and some damage might not be able to be repaired. Deep emotional scarring can emotionally cripple some children. Some people can act out when situations remind them of the traumatic situation in their life.

Other people are able to block it out of their memory completely because this makes it easier for them to deal with the situation. Attending regular therapy sessions is one way to find a healthy route out of an emotional situation that has ballooned out of control. One-on-one therapy with a qualified psychologist will allow a child to face their demons head on and be reassured that they are not alone in dealing with problem.

Traumas in a person's life can also affect them physically and make them very sick. People can begin to have problems going to sleep or staying asleep. You can also have problems eating you can over eat or not want to eat at all. It can also make it very hard for you to cope with every day situations in your life. Therapy can help with all these things regardless what your symptoms may be.

Sometimes talk therapy is not enough; in some cases medication is prescribed. A therapist may find it necessary to treat the patient with medications to help with the physical problems that they are having. This can make your healing process easier, if you feel better physically you can begin to feel better emotionally, this makes healthy living.

Therapy can help you feel like yourself again. With the talk therapy, and medication if necessary you can live a happy and productive life. If you feel like your child has experienced some emotional trauma please seek some therapy immediately so your child can live healthy life mentally physically and emotionally.

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Forex Trading Psychology — The Art Of Mind Control

By grecompadaptive - September 2nd, 2010, 18:09, Category: General

Indeed, you really do need to hone your skills at self-discipline and become a virtual Zen Master if you truly want to succeed in the fluid Forex market. Trading 24 hours per day (the market does close from Friday afternoon until Sunday) thanks to a network of inter-linked computers in financial institutions around the world, the Forex market is by far the largest and literally dwarfs the commodities and futures markets. Nearly 1.8 trillion dollars change hands each day and you can profit from the interchange of currencies—if you can control the four most dangerous emotions that tend to cloud judgment and cost you profits. These four emotions include:

• Greed
• Fear
• Hope
• Faith

With the right investment strategy, the Forex market can certainly be very profitable but greed is always a factor in any human endeavor—especially investing. Greed causes perhaps the greatest problem when it comes to investing in the Forex—overtrading. When an investor overtrades, there is a greater potential to risk too much and enter too late in the trend. Back testing should identify trends and help you determine whether the window has already passed so be sure to stick with your investment strategy and remember that the market is always right—greed can cloud our judgment quicker than anything else but self-discipline and homework can help you maintain focus and profits.

Fear is another emotion that has helped drive the markets from the very beginning and will surely continue to do so in the future—predictably. Fear always leads to panic selling but the market will always correct itself. The best way to combat fear is to learn and understand how the emotions affect the markets and then identify long term trends. These trends will help you plan the best investment strategy so that you can maximize profits but you need to have patience and look at what your charts are telling you.

Hope is something we all need but it can definitely cause some mistaken investment decisions—especially when it comes to staying with a position too long. Exit points exist for a reason so stick with them because the numbers don’t lie—period.

Unfortunately, we can sometimes have too much faith in our numbers. The short term trend can look fantastic and cause us to invest before we have properly researched all the facts—like the long term trends. If these two trends do not agree with one another, it is probably a bad idea to invest in a position.

The market may be driven by emotions but it can also be predicted—because it has ALWAYS been driven by the same four basic emotions. To keep your head in the game, the profits up, and your analysis accurate—use these simple tips:

• Block out noise—short term factors can affect long term profitability if you make rash investment decisions

• Look at what the charts are telling you—the charts are your lifeblood so never ignore what they are saying because the market is always right and ego investing will kill any great strategy

• Stick to investment strategy—this does not mean ignore the charts…simply continue to back test and refine analysis of charts to improve a strategy where the results have not been panning out as planned

You don’t actually have to be a Zen Master to be successful on the Forex market. However, you do need to understand that there is a psychology to investing and that emotions are very powerful forces in any investment market—especially the very fluid Forex. A good investment strategy will consistently produce profits over the long term if properly followed so be sure to control your emotions, do your homework, and stick with your plan—and the pieces will fall in place.

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