the art of managing emotions

The Art Of Managing Your Emotions

Emotional Intelligence Series #9 The Art Of Managing Your Emotions -I When it comes to managing emotions, Aristotle said it best when he wrote: “Anybody can become angry-that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at […]

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Emotional Intelligence Series #4

Emotional Intelligence Series #4 What Are Emotions Anyway? Part II In the last article, I identified emotions in six ways thereby revealing a bit of the complexity about emotions. 1) Emotion as movement. 2) Emotions as inhibiting and exciting nerve impulses. 3) Emotions as distinct […]

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Emotional Intelligence Series #3

written by Dr L.Michael Hall What Are Emotions Anyway? With something as fundamental and basic as emotions, you might think that defining an emotion would be no problem. Yet that is not the case. Part of the reason for that is due to the fact […]

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Emotional Intelligence Series #2

written by Dr L.Michael Hall What Is Emotional Intelligence? If I.Q. refers to intelligence generally, then it refers to your ability to think, reason, figure things out, solve problems, create solutions, etc. Given that, what does it mean when we put the word emotion in […]

Homework Assignments

Homework Assignments

Homework Assignments allows your client to do the work and to be capable for themselves. A cognitive distortions list one of the assignments we provide for you to discover your inner thinking and feeling expressions

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ADHD / ADD – CURSE OR BLESSING?

~ Article by DrL.Michael Hall and Shawn Dwyer ~ Coaching and training often brings us in close contact with people who have (or think they have) Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD) or Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). For nearly 25 years, our analysis is this- People are more […]

Cognitive Distortions

COGNITIVE DISTORTIONS AMONG PROTESTORS ~ Article by DrL.Michael Hall and Shawn Dwyer ~ For anyone who wants to protest something, if you want to truly win minds and hearts and bring change to a system, a community, or an organization- you’re going to have to use your […]

Cognitive Fallacies In Everyday Language

~ Article by Dr.L.Michael Hall and Mr Shawn Dwyer  ~ In ancient times, tribunals accused certain persons (usually women) of being “witches.” If a woman denied that she was a witch, the denial was used as proof that she was a witch. The reasoning was this, […]

When You Deal with a Short-Term Thinker

~ Article by Shawn Dwyer and Dr.L.Michael Hall ~ Short-term thinkers- these are the people who focus on the short-term benefits, gains, and results when going after a goal. This would be a good thing except that they are so focused on the short-term, they do […]

More Memory Empowerment

MORE MEMORY EMPOWERMENT ~ Article co-written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer ~ By understanding memory as a dynamic process intimately related to thinking, there are actually lots of things you can do to develop a richer and more robust memory. In the […]

Empowering Your Memory

~ Article co-written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer ~ While having a good memory is not a prerequisite for coaching, it certainly helps.  And while we do not explicitly train memory development in Meta-Coaching, it is fully implied in the NLP Communication […]

ANXIETY-ING IS NO-THING

~ Article by Shawn Dwyer – Meta-Coach President International ~ Anxiety, what is it really? Recently I’ve been working on material, patterns and practices for coaching anxiety in clients. Part of the process required research into the human orders and their description under our current health […]

WHEN THINKING GETS OUT OF CONTROL

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Just as a person can get out of control, so can thinking.  Thinking can get out of control.  Nor is that all that uncommon.  It may happen to you, or someone you love, […]

The Basics Give You Depth

THE BASICS GIVE YOU DEPTH ~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ During October when when completing metacoach training – I was impressed all over again about the crucial role of the coaching basics. Over and over I found myself […]

ASKING THE EMOTION QUESTION

~ Article written by Shawn Dwyer and L. Michael Hall PhD ~ If you have taken your Meta-Coach training at The Coaching Centre in the past year, then you know that if there’s any really dangerous question that we repeatedly warn about, it is “the […]

Super-Charge Your Ego-Strength

SUPER-CHARGE YOUR EGO-STRENGTH ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer, ACMC ~ What we call ego-strength is the strength that a person has in his or her sense of self to look reality in the face without blinking. It is the […]

WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER AN EMOTION

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD and Shawn Dwyer ~ As a coach, and especially as a Meta-Coach, you frequently (like just about every time) encounter strong emotions in your clients. It’s inevitable. They are humans! The only exception is if you are […]

THE THREE MAGIC WORDS OF RESILIENCE

By Shawn Dwyer and Dr.L.Michael Hall There are three magic words that conveys the inner spirit of resilience. I stumbled onto them in reading Martin Seligman’s work on Learned Helplessness and then on Learned Optimism. In his books he tells the story of moving from […]

PSEUDO-DECISIONS

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Pseudo-Decisions There are decisions and then there are things which pass for “decisions” yet which are not real decisions. They are pseudo-decisions. They often and usually seem like a decision in some respects, but actually they […]

GIVING IT YOUR ALL!

[facebook] ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Do You Give It Your All? You hear it all the time- “Give it your all!” “Go for the gold.” “Second place is for losers.” “You’ve got to be a 110% person.” Even book titles […]

UNBIASED DECISION-MAKING

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ If you and I are going to make great decisions, there’s another requirement. Namely, making decisions that are unbiased. Yet in saying that we now have a problem. The problem is that we all are so […]

Short Term Thinking

Thinking is in Short Supply #4 by L.Michael Hall PhD Short Term Thinking – Another Thinking Disability I’ve been writing about why real thinking is in short supply and the various factors that actually stop thinking. Here’s another. Regarding a central time factor that’s involved […]

The Self-Actualizing Genius State

The Self-Actualizing Genius State ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ What does a person actually do or experience when he or she self-actualizes? Maslow identified eight things that we could add to our list of prerequisites for the “genius” state. In fact, […]

Transforming Depression

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ When it comes to the complex meta-state called “depression,” given that we create it as noted in the past three posts, we can now ask two very different questions. First, “How does a person create depression?” […]

Depression as pressing down

This Thing Called “Depression” ~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Sometimes a word is highly informative and tells the story of all experience. This happens to be the case with “depression”. People who suffer depression not only go through a disappointment, loss, frustration, etc., […]

DEPRESSION: It's about the thinking

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ Given that a lot of things are called “depression,” which are not clinically depression, how can you tell? A good way to begin is to use the work of Dr. David D. Burns and his classic, […]

This Thing Called "DEPRESSION"

~ Article written by L. Michael Hall PhD ~ We are now heading into the Christmas season and all of the holidays from Thanksgiving to New Years. For many this is the season to be jolly, however for others, ’tis the season to be depressed. […]

Challenge in 5 Dimensions

~Written by Dr.L.Michael Hall~ As a Professional you can know that we frame the coaching skills in terms of two seemingly contradictory values- compassion and challenge. You also know that an ideal coach, an expert coach, is a person who has developed the skill of […]

Becoming Real in Relation to Others

Becoming Real in Relation to Others ~ Written by Dr.L.Michael Hall You are not only a human being, one with identity and value, nor are you only a doer, a person who takes action and develops skills, you are also a social being. The sub-matrix […]

Self-Efficacy

More Than Just Self Confidence -> Self-Efficacy ~ Dr.L.Michael Hall While self-confidence is good, there is something that goes far beyond self-confidence and something that would really enrich your life. Interested? Yes, I’m talking about self-efficacy. So what is that? Confidence in yourself refers to […]