The Best of Paradox of Reality 2009This is a list of some of the most read articles on Paradox of Reality during 2009 (based on number of page views).

Whether you’re new to this blog or a long-time reader, thank you for your continued support and also for your emails and comments, both here and on twitter.

There are some improvements to this site coming your way throughout 2010 – stay tuned for them.

Later on, I’ll be officially asking for your suggestions on the things you’d like me to cover. However, if you have any suggestions now, you’re more than welcome to get in touch.

So, on to the list:

  • When an NLP technique is not enough – A student’s imagination is often captured by the flamboyant techniques within NLP.  But because the strength of NLP comes through it’s principles and the thought processes it teaches, there is a need to consider the whole picture before applying a technique. Applying an NLP technique without understanding the cause can mean that the issue gets temporarily buried rather than fully resolved.
  • Seven Ways Role Models Influence Your Success - Just as water moulds it way into rock, the people we encounter leave their mark on the bedrock of our world too. As you think of areas in your life that have been influenced or shaped by others, it can seem as if the enriching encounters happen more by luck and good fortune. When luck is an attitude, you control the influences entering your life.
  • Setting Goals the NLP Way -  You can give your New Year Resolutions a helping hand with this thought process. This PECSAW model is a streamlined version of the Well-Formed Outcomes model of NLP and was taught to me where I studied NLP. It’s a set of guidelines that help goals become do-able.
  • Four Reasons You Procrastinate – Where there are goals, there is procrastination! But when we address the stubborn forms of procrastination through what the blocks mean to us, we have the opportunity of not only achieving the task, but achieving it with enjoyment.
  • Three Ways to Reduce Anger & Cultivate Forgiveness – When disturbances from people and situations around us affect our state of mind, they distort our perspective. Anger becomes a disturbance-triggered reaction and often, it becomes a way of making pain easier to bear.  One way to develop a stronger resistance to external disturbances is through cultivating an attitude of forgiveness.
  • A “muscle test” For Your Subconscious Mind – It is said that our subconscious mind holds the memory of every single experience we have ever had. This exercise is designed to help and train you to get into “the zone” to access this information. A benefit is that it gives you the potential to understand your motives a lot better than you already do.
  • The Double Edged Sword of Help – Two questions: 1) When does helping someone become self-serving or controlling? 2) When does asking for help become making someone else responsible for your happiness?

Finally, there’s ReetaLuthra.com is Live! If you haven’t visited this yet, it’s a new hub for my therapy and coaching practice, it focuses on matters concerning Stress and Your Health and has it’s own blog. It’ll be great to see you there.

That’s 2009 wrapped and onwards to a greater 2010.

Wishing you a 2010 full of 365 days of amazing opportunities and great health.

Happy New Year!