The Viable Alternative

I’ve heard countless gurus, successful people, life coaches, etc. credit their use of affirmations as the reason why they were able to turn their lives around and become successful.

I’ve further been advised by a few coaches that if I wanted to become the person necessary to attract the life I wanted, to use affirmations.

There are many people who swear by them as the cornerstone of their daily personal development routine.

I’m sure if you’ve read any self-improvement books, you must’ve heard something mentioned about them.

People have credited them with helping them eliminate their insecurities, become more confident, think more positive, remove mental blocks, change limiting beliefs, eliminate bad habits, make more money, etc, etc. Read more…

I remember reading about an interesting story (well to me at least because of its implications) where there was this girl who when watching her mother cook, noticed that right before she would put a chicken she was about to bake into the oven, she’d cut off the ends of the legs. One day, after seeing her mother do this so many times, curiosity got the best of her and she asked her mother why she cut the ends of the chicken legs off before she put the chicken into the oven, and her mother, after thinking for a bit, responded that she didn’t know, that she learned it from watching her mother, who did the same thing. Read more…

I’ve told this story in another blog of mine titled M.A.R.R.I.A.G.E. – Has society sold us a lie?, but it bears repeating for the sake of this blog.

Years ago, I met this Korean guy who had just started work at my office (well, he was born here but his parents were born in Korea).

In a conversation I overheard between him and another co-worker, he was telling him how he didn’t believe in interracial relationships and that he was going to marry someone from his own culture. In fact, his current girlfriend was from Korea as well. Read more…

I was watching this documentary recently called, “The Living Matrix” which in a nutshell was about alternative forms of healing. On it, there was a particular segment about a woman who had divorced her husband because while she wanted kids, he didn’t want any. After her divorce, she made plans on eventually getting remarried and having two kids, but in the middle of her plans, she found out she had ovarian cancer, and one of the consequences of ovarian cancer was infertility, i.e. she couldn’t have kids. Read more…

A few weeks ago, I was talking to a friend of mine who was telling me about yet another relationship he had gotten into with a woman whose red flags that were indicated to him in the beginning had begun to degenerate into full blown dysfunction in the relationship. I wasn’t surprised because this was nothing new with him. Just about every one of the women he had gotten involved with since I had known him was majorly broken in some way and all types of drama would eventually ensue because of it. Read more…