Self growth with 'gratitude'

People who want to live a better life with the best of their skill level are enthusiastic about self development/self growth. 'Gratitude' or being grateful is a self improvement term which we are going to learn today. There is a review of an online community where you can

Wikipedia explains the word 'Gratitude' in these words: Gratitude, thankfulness, or appreciation is a positive emotion or attitude in acknowledgment of a benefit that one has received or will receive.

Gratitude is an emotion that occurs after people receive help, depending on how they interpret the situation. Specifically, gratitude is experienced if people perceive the help they receive as valuable to them, costly to their benefactor, and given by the benefactor with benevolent intentions (rather than ulterior motives).

Gratitude may also serve to reinforce future pro social behavior in benefactors. For example, one experiment found that customers of a jewelry store who were called and thanked showed a subsequent 70% increase in purchases. In comparison, customers who were thanked and told about a sale showed only a 30% increase in purchases, and customers who were not called at all did not show an increase

Five daily gratitude is an online community gratitude journal to help you increase your hope, optimism and happiness.

It is a positive psychology tool that helps you integrate the power of gratitude into your life by providing a quick and easy way to list five things you are thankful for each day.. It also helps you consistently take advantage of this powerful positive psychology technique by providing a subscription service that sends you a morning email reminder so you can stick to your commitment of increasing your happiness through writing Five Daily Gratitudes.

Latest Psychological research shows that integrating the power of gratitude significantly increases your optimism, health, and self-esteem as well as improves your sleep, motivation, relationships, and even your career..


Start spending a few minutes each morning to focus your mind on the positive things in your life and join this positive psychology movement of bringing happiness and gratitude to as many people as possible by listing your own Five Daily Gratitudes! Start cultivating the power of thankfulness today.

The research shows that in order to receive the psychological benefits of this powerful positive psychology technique you need to be consistent in writing out Five Daily Gratitudes.

What are the benefits of using Five Daily Gratitudes?
As UC Davis psychologist Robert Emmons has demonstrated in his research, “The evidence that cultivating gratefulness is good for you is overwhelming. Gratitude is quality that we should aspire to as a part and parcel of personal growth…Specifically, we have shown that gratitude is positively related to such critical outcomes as life satisfaction, vitality, happiness, self-esteem, optimism, hope, empathy, and willingness to provide emotional and tangible support for other people, whereas being ungrateful is related to anxiety, depression, envy, materialism, and loneliness.

Benefits of being grateful:

"Collectively, such studies present credible evidence that feeling grateful generates a ripple effect through every area of our lives, potentially satisfying our deepest yearnings – our desire for happiness, our pursuit of better relationships, and our ceaseless quest for inner peace, wholeness, and contentment. Gratitude is more, through than a tool for self-improvement.

Gratitude is a way of life."

A large body of recent work has suggested that people who are more grateful have higher levels of well-being. Grateful people are happier, less depressed, less stressed, and more satisfied with their lives and social relationships.

Grateful people also have higher levels of control of their environments, personal growth, purpose in life, and self acceptance.

Grateful people have more positive ways of coping with the difficulties they experience in life, being more likely to seek support from other people, reinterpreted and grow from the experience, and spend more time planning how to deal with the problem.

Grateful people also have less negative coping strategies, being less likely to try and avoid the problem, deny there is a problem, blame themselves, or cope through substance use.

Grateful people sleep better, and this seems to be because they think less negative and more positive thoughts just before going to sleep.

A "Self help" blog from a medical doctor turned counselor

There are a lot of self help blogs or sites, which provide good content relating to self help, self growth or self development topics. Choice is yours how you want to change your life for better. There are a lot of methods which can be used to take first step in self development process, but I believe first you have to believe that it can happen and self growth or self development is possible. I am here with a review of a blog which is about "self help"

Blog is created by Dr. Martin W. Russell, who is a medical doctor turned counselor. Self help blog

More details at this link

Free information about: Self help sleeping pills

Few useful post links:
* Headaches are caused by

* A foundation for self help

* What you need is "will power"

* Article directory where you can submit your articles link to the directory
* If you have a blog or site, you can submit it atthis link

"Evolving Times" a self growth site with "Law of Attraction" resources!

Created by Edward Mills, who is a "Law of attraction" Coach, Teacher, Speaker and writer. Evolving Times is a reflection of his passion about self growth. He is an enthusiast to explore and expand his awareness of himself and the world around him.

Alongwith a long list of posts covering different areas of personal development, this blog shows Edward's passion about "The Law of attraction"

People with no knowledge of "Law of attraction" might be interested in this "Revolutionay theory", which is the talk of the town today. I am also an enthusiast about this concept, and this blog is a really nice resource for this purpose. You may get many search results, while searching for this term, but as most of the sites are professional and selling something relating to this formula, better to have a look at "Evolving Times", before going to other sites. But first, let's learn about "Law of attraction"

Our thoughts can attract what we want, our thoughts simply focus our actions, taking certain actions will certainly bring about certain results. Focusing on what you want, and following that thought with focused and planned action works. It works like magic. "The law of attraction" is based on this theory, and by applying this law in a planned manner, you can get wealth, success and everything you want in life. So in short term you can say that it is "key to success or treasure"

At Secret of law of attraction blog the definition is quoted as:

"The Law of Attraction is very real and people are utilizing it right now to achieve their dreams and goals. Through monitoring and controlling your attitude and perception you can change the experiences in your life. The programming that lies in the depths of your subconscious mind is that which controls your conscious mind, which in turn controls the choices and decisions you make in relation to the direction your life takes. By thinking positively you will be much more likely to have positive experiences to match. The bible verse that says "as you sow so shall you reap" is in line with the Law of Attraction, as is the passage "if you speak death you will eat death". Both indicate that what you think, do, feel and believe is where life will take you."


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At the site a commentator says "The secret to working the Law of Attraction to our benefit involves faith in ourselves, belief in our inspiration and purpose, and then taking the inspired action to assist God/the Universe/non-physical in answering our prayers/intentions/desires."
- Law of attraction posts

- The law of attraction and how the universe works

Resources to download hundreds of free self help e-books!

I love to read books, and self help books or articles are my first choice among other topics. Because I believe that these self help tips, articles or advices can help you in self growth, self development.
At the world wide web, there are a lot of resources regarding self help stuff. I personally go through many self help blogs and sites, read the articles and sometimes buy the e-books. During last week, I was surprised to see few links offering hundreds of self help e-books absolutely FREE. So I am sharing the information with you!

200 free Self Help e-books:

E-books directory at Personal Enterprise

More than 100 free e-books:
FREE eBooks available for download at Universal Law Today

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Self growth or self development in your own way

The greatest discovery of my generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitudes. ~William James

I believe that self development is a process, which should be continuos. You won't get results in days or weeks, it could take years, but enhancing your personality your way is important in achieving success in life. First step is to discover what you are, what negative and positive treats effet you and your life, how you can get most out of your abilities.

And second step is to be practical, whatever the situation and whatever the place you belong to, you have to do it right now. It is your own responsibility to do it on your best way. I am quoting here a piece of quotation from a web site:

Do Something - Take Responsibility
A man distraught by all the pain and suffering he saw all around him broke down and banged his fists into the dirt.
His head turns upward and he yells at his God.
"Look at this mess. Look at all this pain and suffering. Look at all this killing and hate. God. Oh God! WHY DON'T YOU DO SOMETHING!!"
And his God spoke to him and said
"I did. I sent you."

And to prove that God has given us ability to make us a better human or enhance our personality, some research facts are given here:

Old belief that personality is permanently stamped into our genes is not supported by the recent research. Leading expert in psychology Carol Dweck says "personality can change"

Carol Dweck, studying students at Columbia University, found that those with fixed views about intelligence were primarily focused on proving their smartness and so were less motivated to learn and less likely to take on challenges.

Dweck and her colleagues have shown that "when you change the belief, a lot of important things happen: students' motivation turns around; their grades and test scores go up; managers become better mentors, more successful negotiators."

When children or even adults are taught that abilities and character features can develop and change, they become more resilient to setbacks.

For instance, whether a person views intelligence as a fixed trait or one that can change can greatly impact their "trademark" behaviors. Called fixed or growth mindsets, the two different views of oneself develop early in childhood and can contribute tremendously to personality. "It has a big impact on their motivation and achievement," Dweck said. "It plays a role in business and in social relationships, whether people can solve conflicts, and also whether they can bounce back from failures and rejections."

For article link: Personality Change

So change your beliefs with negative thoughts to positive thoughts, as this is the time to do something------------- Self growth your way!

Review of a self understanding and personal development site!

2 Know myself is launched a few months ago, and becoming one of the top 5,000 websites on the web through providing content that can drastically change people's lives is their mission.

What is this website about?

In their own words:
"*This website was intended for the people who don’t want to give up when life gives them a hard time.

* The human being is the ultimate machine, if you know how to use it well; you will be able to take control of your life instead of letting it control you.
* You will be able to succeed under any conditions and you will be able to live a happy life.

* This website aims to help you better understand yourself. The content on this website will guide you through developing yourself in order to get the best out of life and achieve your goals."

The site provides you tons of information, and it was difficult for me to mention what is special at this site. They have forum at their site, where you can discuss self development topics or your problems. And I like to participate these kind of forums because it is a place where you would get something useful, may be some advice, may be some words of inspiration which can change your life.

After logging in to the site, it took many hours to browse, because to me topics are so appealing that it was difficult to divert my attention. Some of the titles are:

Learn body language, graphology (handwriting Analysis), goal setting, hypnosis, time management, how to be successful in life etc. There is another drop down list about the problems, like as lack of self confidenc, anxiety, depression and many more.

I am linking my post to one of their articles, quoting few words from the article:
Dr Emoto's experiment, The Power of Words:

"Around 70% of your body is formed of water", everybody knows this fact.
Dr Emoto made some tests on samples of four glasses of water.





First glass is a picture showing molecular structure of a normal glass of water,







Beside second glass, some prayer was done loudly,







Beside third glass this phrase was repeated "you make me sick",






And beside fourth glass, some heavy metal was played.




These pictures are showing molecular structure of the water. Difference is that first picture is normal water and others are taken after saying some words, or playing heavy metal music, the change in molecular structure is noticeable.
For full article: The power of words

I hope that people like me, would think about it again and again, how much we are careless about the words we utter from our mouth even thinking about the after effects of our sayings.

About "self growth your way"

If you can imagine it you can create it,
If you can dream it, you can become it.
(Ward, William Arthur)

I believe that life is for one time, and there is opportunity for us to self imporve it. We can make, what we believe, and if we imagine positively, constructively, and happily, then no doubt we can become it.

I want to link here another quote, which is a great lesson for me all the time:

"Say you are well,

or all is well with you,

And God shall hear your words and make them true."

(Ella Wheeler Wilcox)