In Arianna Huffington’s book Thrive, she describes her thrive factor formula. She promotes actions which include positive physical and behavioral health practices such as mindfulness, downtime, giving to others, and a renewed connection with your deepest values. It involves what she calls “evicting the obnoxious roommate in your head,”...
Angel Whispers – Conditioning
The word conditioning is a noun that means having a significant influence that in some way helps determine the manner or outcome. The secondary definition means bringing something into the desired state for use. Conditioning occurs as the result of the circumstances affecting the way in which people live...
Angel Whispers – Certainty
The angel whisper theme over the past week has been around the need for certainty. If my clients had certainty, would they be coming to see me? (tee tee) Certainty is perfect knowledge that has total security from error, or the mental state of being without doubt. Objectively defined,...
Angel Whispers – Consequence
A consequence is a result or effect of an action or condition. B.F. Skinner (1904-1990) is best known for developing the theory of Operant Conditioning, which uses re-enforcers or consequences to change behavior. According to this theory, the rate at which a certain behavior occurs is determined not by...
Angel Whispers – Intuition and Consciousness
According to the US National Library of Medicine – National Institutes of Health, intuition represents an unconscious cognitive activity, the results of which become conscious at some point. Their study led to understanding how patterns are established from the unconscious behaviors that match cognition to become conscious actions under...
Angel Whispers – Choosing to Love
Many of the angelic messages for February have been around the importance of choosing love. Many people are in relationships that began when another person was attracted to them. When someone shows interest, it can be flattering. But what if problems arise in the relationship? What goes on inside...
Angel Whispers – Instinct
In Freudian terms, an instinct is said to be an inborn condition which imparts direction to the psychological process. There are two primal instincts: life or Eros, the constructive or generative principle or the life instinct; and Thanatos, the destructive principle or death instinct. The final aim of an...
Angel Whispers – Everything Happens for a Reason
The history of this expression traces back to Biblical teachings that say God is responsible for everything. In the 18th century, people believed that God had created a perfect world, and everything that occurred was by divine design. The philosophy was questioned on November 1, 1755 during a religious...
Angel Whispers – Restorative Justice
An Australian man invited the people who bullied his daughter to attend the funeral of his daughter after she committed suicide at age 14. She was a victim of bullying. He wanted them to view the devastation they had created. Everett Worthington, a professor emeritus at Virginia Commonwealth University,...
Angel Whispers – Amends
At dinner with friends, we were talking about the way people were awakening in greater numbers these days. At least that appears to be part of the lifting of global consciousness occurring in the world at locations other than Burning Man (tee hee). As we talked, I made mention...
