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8.20 Love Choices

Power For Positive Living - February 16, 2024 00:55 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The phrase "I love you" contains some of the most powerful words in our language!   The varied choices we make in using "love" as a noun or verb affects our daily attitudes, beliefs, feelings and behaviors as well as our overall physical and emotional health.  We have the choice to focus more...

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8.19 Victimhood Choices

Power For Positive Living - February 09, 2024 01:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Life for most of us is a series of choices.  How do we choose to view what is happening now and select our attitudes/behaviors in preparing for the unknown future? Being a victim of some situation is probably a part of each life path.  We choose whether our skills of managing victimhood rise ...

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8.18 Psychological Fatigue

Power For Positive Living - February 02, 2024 01:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The frequent appearance of fatigue can be an alert that some system within us needs attention for some degree of healing.   Many of us recognize the appearance of physical fatigue and know of attitude and behavioral options to make changes.    The appearance of other system symptoms like psyc...

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8.17 Choices Make Our Relationships

Power For Positive Living - January 26, 2024 01:14 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Each generation receives input from previous generations on the important behaviors, values and beliefs that make our relationships and life journey have meaning. One recommendation from Ann Landers in a previous decade focuses on the important words to be used in relating to others. Wellne...

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8.16 Passive Suicide Awareness

Power For Positive Living - January 19, 2024 01:00 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
 Active and passive acts of suicide continue to be a behavioral option for many who struggle with the hurts and pains of their life issues.  Active suicide can offer the appeal of being a quick and spontaneous decision to end the inner pain of life circumstances. For others, reaching this same d...

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8.15 Am I Really Listening?

Power For Positive Living - January 12, 2024 01:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
One of the key foundations of healthy relationships is when the participants can really listen, hear and understand what is being said by each whether there is agreement or a degree of difference.   Being quiet while another speaks physically and emotionally can be a start.   Active listening...

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8.14 Time Currency Relationship Choices

Power For Positive Living - January 05, 2024 01:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Whether we choose an active or passive pattern in spending our time currency, the connection and disconnection choices we make with our human relationships tend to strongly affect our physical and emotional health.   Wellness psychology encourages us to better understand our daily personal ti...

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8.13 Culture War Invitations

Power For Positive Living - December 29, 2023 01:00 - 8 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Our interactions with others in our society take many forms.   When society embraces polarization of absolutes like "either/or" or "winner/loser" as a valued behavior, we are likely to find ourselves with many invitations to participate in various types of life drama frequently known as culture...

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8.12 Confronting Our Wealth and Death

Power For Positive Living - December 22, 2023 01:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Two topics seem to be most difficult for many in our society:  the wealth we have accumulated on our life journey and the various ways of confronting and managing the last days of our life chapter.   Some individuals seem to determine the value of their life journey by the amount of wealth th...

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8.11 Choosing An Open Mind

Power For Positive Living - December 15, 2023 01:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Research indicates that most people tend to accept and agree with new people and information when they are similar to what we have recorded as being positive on mental 'tapes' from our previous experiences.    People or information that do not 'fit' into our previous experiences tend to be vi...

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8.10 Choosing Privacy Without Dishonesty

Power For Positive Living - December 08, 2023 01:00 - 5 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
People like to be with people they perceive as being similar to themselves in beliefs, values and behaviors.Are we being dishonest when we choose not to disclose certain information about ourselves to our family and friends so as to maintain personal privacy?Can we understand and accept what ot...

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8.9 Sharing Our Personal Secrets

Power For Positive Living - December 01, 2023 01:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
One of the most significant decisions that each of us makes during our life journey is how and to what degree we want to share our inner self with individuals with whom we have created various types of relationships.   Humans do choose many types of personal secrets which can vary throughout ...

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8.8 Psychological Blame Games

Power For Positive Living - November 24, 2023 01:00 - 9 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
One of the major choices we each make in developing positive mental health for ourselves is discovering various ways to understand and assign responsibility for various mental blame games.   When we decide to assign some degree of blame for our thoughts, feelings and behaviors we can choose to ...

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8.7 My Friend Print

Power For Positive Living - November 17, 2023 01:00 - 16 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Friend Print processes were developed for those persons who seek information to better answer the introspective question of "Who Am I?".  Friend Prints are structured to better understand the value of psychological exercising in developing and maintaining ones personal mental health.   Using ...

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8.6 My Friendship Store

Power For Positive Living - November 10, 2023 01:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Seeking and understanding our individual friendship circles can be a powerful contributor to our personal mental health system. One analogy which can be useful is comparing our behavior in a book store with what one might do in  their individual Friend Store whether shopping for a book or a f...

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8.5 Healthy Friendships Change

Power For Positive Living - November 03, 2023 00:00 - 6 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
If we are fortunate with our friendships we encourage ourselves and others to adapt to the life changes that are taking place within ourselves and others.  Much of our emotional life is finding healthy ways to handle the frequent changes that we and others make with our daily choices.  Making...

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8.4 Choosing Our Truth For Relationships

Power For Positive Living - October 26, 2023 22:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
As humans we tend to believe that how we see the choices of living and relating to other people tend to be correct and good.   Persons who have a different viewpoint from ours may be seen as misinformed, untruthful or ignorant.   We may be called to correct the errors of other viewpoints with o...

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8.3 Choosing Personal Life Spices

Power For Positive Living - October 20, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Wellness Psychology's foundation of personal power is that each of us has many individual life choices.  In so many ways the type of life path we choose for ourselves is a result of the internal and external relationship choices we make.  Structuring the personal 'spices' we bring into our life...

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8.2 Using Personal Reframing Power

Power For Positive Living - October 13, 2023 00:00 - 7 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Many individuals can verbalize that they do have the personal power to frame and reframe their own attitudes, feelings and behaviors.   The human challenge seems to come in making the decision to IMPLEMENT their personal choices.    Without taking action, words remain words.  Possibilities re...

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8.1 Our Choice Junctions

Power For Positive Living - October 06, 2023 00:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
The personal path that each of us takes going from childhood to adulthood is unique and challenging. Our parents usually begin our life path by teaching the values of familiarity and safety.  Accepting habituation as an attitude and behavior option allows us to grow within the shelter and saf...

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Mid Season Bonus-Where Are The Answers I Seek?

Power For Positive Living - June 23, 2023 00:00 - 28 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Where Are The Answers I Seek? Your host completes a trilogy of visits with "Hello, Henry" on WBT, AM 1110, in Charlotte, NC.   This broadcast also completes the series of interviews to promote personal retreating with Friend Ship at Sea and was done after the KGBC production of Power for Positi...

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7.20 Saying Goodbye

Power For Positive Living - January 13, 2023 01:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Saying Goodbye  While some of us may have difficulty saying 'hello' to people, it is often the external and internal goodbyes that provide most of us the biggest challenges by invoking anxiety and stress.   Learning to say goodbye in a healthy manner is a significant part of the grieving proce...

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7.19 The Last Chapter

Power For Positive Living - January 06, 2023 01:00 - 20 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
 Many of us have topics that are difficult to openly discuss with others. Two of these sensitive topics seem to be the 'wealth game' of self-worth and the exploring/sharing with others the diversity we wish to live during the final days of our life. Whether we see ourselves as more winners or lo...

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7.18 All Things End: What Have I Learned?

Power For Positive Living - December 30, 2022 01:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
All Things End: What Have I Learned?  At some point, in some way, all living things eventually meet death and our one chance to live this unique gift of life will come to an end.  We each have many choices as we live and our personal choices have consequences throughout our life path.     ...

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7.17 Is This My Last Chance?

Power For Positive Living - December 23, 2022 01:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Is This My Last Chance?  One of the major assets of living life is knowing that at some point our individual life will come to an end. Knowing that our life will eventually end can give tremendous value to each of us on making our personal decisions for whatever time remains.     One choic...

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7.16 What Do I Choose to Leave Behind?

Power For Positive Living - December 16, 2022 01:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
What Do I Choose to Leave Behind?   Our personal life legacy is in a constant state of being created by our daily choices made one hour, one day or one month at a time.  While our life choices are open to varied perceptions by others, do I accept responsibility for expressing my own values a...

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7.15 Life and Death

Power For Positive Living - December 09, 2022 01:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Learning the skills to appreciate our pets with love and caring is important to many individuals.   For some, the lives of our pets may be as important or more important than the skills and beliefs learned to value the lives of fellow humans.   The presence of life also teaches us that at so...

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7.14 Managing Expectations Of Self And Others

Power For Positive Living - December 02, 2022 01:10 - 29 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Managing Expectations of Self and Others Wellness Psychology recognizes that each of us has the power to 'frame' his/her world into the specific perceptions that we choose. We have the personal responsibility for viewing our world along with the power to accept, reject or modify our choices. ...

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7.13 Presence: Best Gift for Human Connection

Power For Positive Living - November 25, 2022 01:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
Presence: Best Gift for Human Connection Our in-person presence can often be the most valuable and useful gift that we have to give to others as we build and maintain our human connections.   The emotionally healthy person recognizes the presence or absence of other humans can significantly af...

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7.12 One + One = One or Two?

Power For Positive Living - November 18, 2022 01:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 6 ratings
One + One = One or Two?   Inherent in our relationships is that the participants have a set of assumptions and expectations for themselves as well as for the other person.  Whether in marriage or friendship we rely on these assumptions and expectations to healthfully maximize the connection ...

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