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" Let's be honest. You've tried the sticky-note inspirations, the motivational calendar, and the cute (but ineffective) "carpe diem" mug-yet your attitude hasn't changed. It's time to apply cutting-edge science to the challenges of daily life. While everyone desires self-improvement, we are quickly frustrated when trying to implement the contradictory philosophies of self-appointed self-help gurus. Too often, their advice is based on anecdote and...
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"The rising star and face of the new field "science of the individual" draws from the latest psychological and sociological research to show that success is found in individual strengths and weaknesses that don't fit along any average curve--a powerful manifesto for change in the ranks of Emotional Intelligence and The Power of Habit.Modern science has proven that people behave and learn in distinctive ways. And yet these individual patterns get lost...
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La décision d'écrire ce livre a été motivée par une double contrainte qui m'a poussé dans deux directions. Le processus de travail sur lequel j'ai travaillé pour créer un environnement dans lequel les femmes étaient rançonnées m'a fait réaliser que je devais examiner ce qui n'allait pas avec les femmes dans notre société et ce que nous faisions de mal pour créer ce que tout le monde faisait de bien. Au départ, je souhaitais d'analyser...
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In this cross-disciplinary study, a group of researchers critically examine the ways in which narrative-that is, written and told stories and legends-might aid in coping with traumatic or stressful life situations and with the emotions that these situations engender. Starting with an introduction of basic narrative theories and the therapeutic effects of storytelling, the book moves on to a series of lucid case studies. The contributors present a...
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Each of us has a tribal ancestry. We carry within us an ancient identity. Most of us took the technological path from this source: logical, analytical, exclusive, specialized, centralized. A very small minority has remained on the path of their ancestors: holistic, intuitive, inclusive, diversified, and generalized. Their lives are organized along simpler lines, simpler living. While critically endangered in most parts of the world, and disappearing...
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El Dr. Luis Chiozza es sin duda un referente en el campo de los estudios psicosomáticos, cuyo prestigio ha trascendido los límites de nuestro país. Medicina y psicoanálisis es el tomo inaugural de sus Obras completas, a la vez que una guía y manual de uso de las mismas, cuyos quince tomos se presentan completos en un CD incluido en este libro.
Este volumen está pensado con el objetivo de facilitar el acceso al fruto de la labor profesional y...
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A lo largo de la vida de un ser humano, cientos de imprevistos acontecen y devienen todo un reto, más cuando este cambio es impuesto. Situaciones adversas, como la del confinamiento ante una pandemia, pueden resultar difíciles de aceptar.
Nunca hubiéramos pensado tener la posibilidad de vivir un experimento natural en el que gran parte de la humanidad estuviese confinada en su hogar. Este tipo de crisis ofrece un espacio para auscultarse a uno...
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The Catholic Psychotherapist and Religious Experience: Theory, Practice, and Witness by Deacon Ray Biersbach, Ph.D., examines four questions:
Question #1: Why are religious experiences a fit study for psychotherapists? The answer to that is that all the great religions begin with the spiritual experiences of their founders. Further, many believers have found religious experiences meaningful despite the reality that many people respond to such accounts...
9) Self-Discipline for Entrepreneurs: How to Develop and Maintain Self-Discipline as an Entrepreneur
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How to Develop the Self-Discipline Essential to Become and Remain a Successful Entrepreneur
If you are an entrepreneur or want to become one, self-discipline is one of the most important skills you need to develop to achieve success.
Entrepreneurship is a wild rollercoaster. It will test your willpower and persistence time after time, like nothing else. Get yourself ready for that ride by reading Self-Discipline for Entrepreneurs.
Learn how to...
10) Empático: Guía paso a paso para superar miedos y desarrollar el don de personas altamente sensibles
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• ¿Eres el tipo de persona que prefiere quedarse en casa ya que sabes que aventurarte al exterior con un gran número gente puede dejarte emocionalmente desahuciado?
• ¿Te has sentido incomprendido por tus amigos, familiares y demás personas, los cuales te acusan de ser muy sensible?
• ¿Tienes la habilidad de comunicarte con los animales y la mayoría de estos te dejan pasar tus dedos a través de su pelaje e inclusive darles un beso como...
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Based on findings from the neurosciences and evolutionary and behavioral biology, Bernd Hufnagl explains exactly how our instincts, our reward systems, and even our declining willingness to change are affected as a consequence of working in an environment that is in opposition to brain-friendly conditions. All too often, stress and burnout are dealt with in an indiscriminate manner, without taking the specific risk scenario into account— in the...
12) Everyday Evolution: Practical Perspectives on Personal Growth, Permanent Changes, and Progress in
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If You're Expecting a Revolution, Expect Disappointment
The world wants to sell us the idea that all we need to succeed is one lucky event. One lucky event and your dreams come true, your problems are forever solved, and everything is perfect. But life doesn't work that way. Those who expect an overnight revolution in their lives end up right back where they started-bitter and angry at the merciless world that placed so many obstacles on their path...
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La libertad parece un asunto simple: todas nuestras elecciones han de ser válidas si conducen a nuestro propio bienestar. Pero incurrimos en decisiones que pueden dañarnos: fumar, llevar una dieta desbalanceada, gastar en cosas innecesarias…, actos de disfrute cuyas consecuencias pueden ser lamentables. Cass R. Sunstein considera que, para ponerle un alto a las malas elecciones, sólo hace falta un "empujoncito": sea en la forma de programas de...
14) Daily Self-Discipline: Everyday Habits and Exercises to Build Self-Discipline and Achieve Your Goals
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These Habits and Exercises Will Help You Build Iron-Like Resolve and Self-Discipline
Do you make goals, yet get discouraged when your plans don't work? We all know that person who seemingly was born to succeed. Fitness, health, business, they achieve all their goals. You want that success, and know you can get it... but how?
Everywhere you turn, there are obstacles that block your path. Being successful doesn't mean avoiding them, it means meeting...
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Different institutions, theories and psychological systems have focused their endeavors in different areas, existing from the focuses that are centered solely in the observable behavior. (behaviorism), by passing through those which occupy internal processes such as the thought, the reasoning, the memory, etc.
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Freud comenta que, en un diálogo publicado en un semanario humorístico de Múnich, un hombre se quejaba del carácter de las mujeres, que las convierte en complicadas y difíciles, y que su interlocutor le responde: "Sí, pero es lo mejor que tenemos en ese tipo de cosas". Freud utiliza el comentario para afirmar, a continuación, que, para formar psicoanalistas, lo mejor que tenemos son los médicos.
Lo que el personaje del semanario decía de...
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¿Estás cansado de que te desilusionen, de que se aprovechen de ti y te pisoteen? ¿Estás harto de ser siempre el que no tienes el control de la situación? Si es así, sigue leyendo. Cuando eres un pez pequeño en un mar lleno de peces grandes, tienes pocas opciones: Ser comido, vivir con miedo o adaptarte. La adaptación te permitirá vivir sin miedo y este libro te enseñará cómo hacerlo. Cuando luchas en entornos sociales, puede que te sientas...
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Este libro excepcional ofrece una imagen de vanguardia sobre el Trastorno de Ansiedad Generalizada (TAG). Sus editores han reunido un grupo de expertos internacionales quienes, desde puntos de vista diferentes, discuten modelos conceptuales, pautas de evaluación y estrategias de tratamiento basados en la evidencia.
"El libro contiene capítulos con una variedad de temas incluyendo la evolución histórica del diagnóstico y de los modelos conceptuales...
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La ansiedad que no cesa es un libro actual, sencillo, breve y a la vez lleno de enseñanzas de las que sólo se adquieren con la práctica. Quizás su mayor virtud reside precisamente ahí, en ese poso de experiencias que el autor transmite en cada página. Es cierto que nos habla de la ansiedad y la angustia, algo conocido y cotidiano. Pero lo que cautiva de su reflexión es que lleva muchos años cocinándose a fuego lento. Y eso se nota. Se nota,...
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How to Develop Self-Discipline, Resist Temptations and Reach Your Long-Terms Goals
If you want to make positive changes in your life and achieve your long-term goals, I can't think of a better way to do it than to learn how to become more self-disciplined.
Science has figured out a lot of interesting aspects of self-discipline and willpower, but most of this knowledge is buried deep inside long and boring scientific papers.
If you'd like to benefit...
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