The words you speak to yourself hold immense power. The words you speak to yourself can shift your perception about the world, it can influence your beliefs about people and society, and it can make opportunities work for you. Unintentionally, it can also create obstacles that block you from reaching your goals and dreams.

What sets high-achievers and joyful people apart from the stressful feeling individuals is their ability to manage stress.

The heart is, in fact, a highly sophisticated, self-organized information processing center with its own functional “brain”. The heart is able to communicate and influence the brain via the nervous system, hormonal system and other pathways. The influences of the heart, our little precious organ, can profoundly affect brain function and eventually determine the quality of our lives.

Repeated negative uncontrollable situations can be events one experience since young when they felt powerless. Negative events happening repeatedly when a person has not yet learned of ways to cope or thrive through the stressful period can leave one feeling hopelessly helpless.

Depression is known to be the prolonged period of time a person feels intense sadness and lack of joy throughout the day.

While we are taught to believe that depression has to do with our genetics or chemical imbalance in the body, what depression really is is a result of the community we live in.

It is your birthright and it is important that you feel a sense of belonging, have a meaning to life.

Praises lift us up while criticism brings us down. We criticize ourselves because we didn’t know better, and no one taught us to choose better thoughts and ways to treat ourselves. Now that you know better, you can do better.