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What Does Cause People to Change? 

Submitted by catherine on Tue, 07/22/2025 - 12:40

As we continue on this journey that we call life, things change for us as individuals. The question is what causes people to change? On the surface it appears to boil down to just two things:

The first thing is that something really, really good happens in life. For example the person gets into a relationship, falls in love and consequently life changes. Or the person gets a fantastic promotion at work, they earn heaps more cash and life changes. When people have experiences like this, life becomes so good that things can’t possibly stay as they were, they move forward and progress. They change.

The alternative is that instead of good stuff happening.....the person experiences not good stuff! Life becomes stressful, uncomfortable, painful, difficult and fraught with problems. The person wants to move away from the pain they are experiencing so they change something. They are forced by the discomfort of their problem(s) to change their life in some way.

How to Improve Self Awareness for Personal Development and Spiritual Growth 

Submitted by catherine on Thu, 11/29/2018 - 12:26

One of the key aspects of any personal development program or indeed spiritual growth is to become self aware, to understand what is going on under the skin, to be sensitive to watch is present in the mind.

And really to increase awareness is to become aware! It’s a practical exercise. All too often people set off on a path of personal development or spiritual growth and they read lots and lots of books, they attend a multitude of seminars BUT they never do anything with the wealth of information they have gathered. As Israel Regardie so accurately puts it in The One Year Manual:

Reading does very little to bring one to any kind of realisation of one’s divine nature.

Getting Better Results with Proven Linguistic Influencing Skills 

Submitted by catherine on Thu, 07/05/2018 - 07:24

Getting Better Results with Proven Linguistic Influencing Skills

Do you ever find yourself communicating in a way where instead of being influential, you are having to be a little bit too forceful with your language to get your point across? It’s a common problem. You’d like to say that actually your choice of words was coming from a place of influence and persuasion, but if you stopped for a moment and honestly thought about it, you were probably making your point or delivering your message using more force than influence.