Power For Positive Living

Can I Choose Happiness While Aging? Believing strongly in the power of choice, Dr. Hughey comments on his current views of the numerous options we each have as the decades pass.   Yes, we do change as we age with each birthday.   However, regardless of our age, we continue with opportunities to choose our own personal attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors toward others and ourselves. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Aging Psychologically   We often tend to place most of our attention on the physical aspects of aging which are usually visual.  Often overlooked are the less visual aspects of emotional, social, financial, spiritual, etc.  Usually, the aging process is more positive for all concerned when active planning takes place for both physical and psychological aspects.   Personalizing the various processes tends to be more helpful for the senior as well as family and friends around him/her.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Celebrating My Personal Holiday Month   Each year we have the opportunity to make personal choices on how we wish to mark the arrival of our birthday.   Many choose the path of celebration and joy.  Others choose to add various burdens to this aspect of their Life Journey.  Others make the choice of ignoring the entire event.      Since your host believes in the power of personal choice, a celebration of his birthday has evolved from one day to the full month of October.  He chooses to include as many individuals as possible and create varied memories to add to those from previous years.     As with so many other aspects of life, change arrives with each birthday.   We each have the power of how you and I confront and manage the changes that living another year brings to each of us.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

My Pandemic Birthday Letter   2020 has introduced many life changes for most people.  Taking time to ponder and reflect on the many stresses and challenges we each face during this period allows us to make healthy physical and mental choices for ourselves.     One stress can be "Plexiglas Loneliness" where we are touch deprived of active intervention with other humans.  Another can be trying to play psychological mind games like "If only.." in an effort to change our past.  The third stress might be trying to change other people as they make decisions different from the ones we choose for ourselves.    Living is risky.  Each of us tends to develop our personal risk meter to determine the risks we are willing to take during a pandemic to maintain our physical and emotional health.   Our choices allow us to live life while being aware that all of our choices do have consequences.  The introspection of Wellness Psychology increases our chances of choosing healthy options.   --- Send in a voice message: https:

The Power of Prayer   How one chooses to create and implement their personal prayer life often results in powerful effects on our emotional mental health as well as our spiritual lives.   Prayer can be the ultimate gift of listening hospitality that you and I receive as we manage various personal issues and choices.        --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Am I Rich? One of the most valuable insights for an individual to discover is to become aware of how they see the various roles of wealth and money in their perceptions of self-worth. Additional knowledge is gained when one learns how perceptions of wealth affect their views on the worth of others in their world. Another valuable insight for self-growth is to learn the unique 'pricing system' he/she uses in emotional exchanges with themselves and others. There seem to be no emotional freebies as we live out the individual choices we each make. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Personal Currencies for Living   While financial currency is structured by the political/governmental unit in which we live, each of us has the option to earn and spend currencies that are individualized to us.  We choose how we earn and spend such currencies as time, socialization, emotional, etc.  Unlike financial currency, these tend to be personalized by our individual choices of earning and spending.   Understanding these various currencies we use to implement our values can improve our knowledge of self.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

My 24 Hours of Time Currency   One major way that we humans are equal is the gift of receiving 24 hours each and every day as our individual quota of time currency.  We have the personal power to choose how we will use and manage this time of life.   The personal choices we make to assume responsibility for how we each spend this time currency tends to reflect our values, beliefs, attitudes and contributes to making us unique and special individuals.     --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Expectations Beyond the Holidays    Each day of our life allows us many choices on how we manage the numerous expectations we have placed on ourselves and the expectations we have accepted from others. While a daily occurrence for us, it seems that the holiday periods of the year allow these expectations to multiply and intensify.  Christmas may be the holiday season where we can most easily see these various expectations on full display.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Psychological Intimacy   One of life's major challenges can be developing a true state of psychological intimacy with ourselves and others.  Much of our time is usually framed so that we are emotionally safe and comfortable with any psychological self-disclosure or connection.     Our interactions are usually scripted over the years and we practice them with little or no surprise from ourselves or others.  We tend to be careful in allowing ourselves to be emotionally vulnerable and to encourage others to be cautious in sharing their psychological nudity with us.    Psychological intimacy asks us to strive for openness, honesty, and trustfulness in some meaningful degree as we connect with the people in our lives.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Giving My Life A Good Name   Life is a gift that each of us is free to accept with healthy personal decisions or reject the burdens of "the shoulds", imposing "labels" on self and others or seeking to blame our circumstances on other people for the paths we choose.     We are also free to build the personal guidelines or foundations on which we wish to live this gift of life.   We have the individual power to re-decide our foundations if a change is needed to be healthy and happy.   One of the major challenges we each have is to decide the various locations we place ourselves on a continuum of life.   We can value ourselves for just being human at one end through assigning value only for what we do or do not accomplish during our life journey at the other end.   Answering the question of "Who am I?" tells us a great deal about how we personally choose to see this gift of life.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Old and Still Helpful There are many ways for us to learn. One of the early ways that most of us discover is through the varied information that books can provide. Even though we now frequently tend to use electronic methods to read, the knowledge presented in a book format can still be most helpful with the many opportunities to acquire information. In our culture, we may be tempted to discount knowledge contained in books written many years ago. We may follow the belief pitched to us in the commercial world that newer is better. Since so much human behavior tends to remain consistent decade after decade, one can learn much referring to older books that are still insightful. This podcast introduces five books that have had a significant impact on the Life Journey of the host. A brief introduction to each is offered for your consideration. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Forgiving Self and Others The interpersonal difficulties in giving and receiving forgiveness can lead to challenges with our own self-esteem as well as offer win-win/lose-lose interactions with others.   In addition to being heard and understood by another human being, it seems many people are also seeking the behavior of forgiveness.   This forgiving behavior frequently focuses on giving and receiving between individuals.   Mental health professionals often find that the most difficult experience can be to forgive ourselves for some thought, feeling or behavior.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Distortions to Clear Thinking It appears that almost everyone has some type and degree of distortion when it comes to thinking clearly about a life situation. This podcast has various possibilities to be evaluated. While the temptation may be to eliminate these handicaps, experience teaches us that we are usually more successful when we understand the distortions used in our own personal thinking and how we can learn ways to effectively manage that part of ourselves. None of us is perfect with our thinking or feeling; we generally do the best we can, one day at a time. The opportunity to learn change never seems to end.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Self Talk The methods that we each choose to dialogue with ourselves can have a powerful effect on how we feel, think, and behave each day in our world.   The words that are chosen in our talks with self often frame our attitudes and abilities to view ourselves and others in a positive and healthy manner.    So many words can affect us on our self-image and the way we relate to others.  Examples of small words having a large effect are "if" and "but".   Introspection of our self-talk provides various ways we can understand and frame our choices for living our Life Journey. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Framing and Personal Secrets   One of the most powerful traits for humans is being able to frame and reframe our thoughts, feelings, and behaviors on a continual basis.   Using the power of choice we are able to determine how we wish to perceive our lives and make changes when circumstances change.   Accepting personal responsibility for our choices can be a continuing life challenge regardless of our age and history.   Even when we freely assist others with our various personal gifts, encouraging others to retain ownership of their life choices is usually a healthier way for both of us.     There are many viewpoints within our society on the type and degree of personal information that is best to share with others.   Usually, the type of relationship and individual values determine our choices ranging from telling another "everything" by saying nothing or very little.   As with other areas of personal growth, each person is free to choose, frame and be responsible for what they do.  --- Send in a voice me

Call Me If You Need Anything   There are times when the speaker and listener hear different things even when the same words are used in similar or different situations.    "Call me if you need anything" is an example of where individuals may understand the words and their context in completely different ways.   As is usual in life, each person tends to hear what fits their personal understanding.  It can take effort to seek and understand the interpretation being used by another person.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Letting Go   Season 4 of this podcast series begins by exploring an aspect of the life process we all experience during our life journey.   Each of us is confronted with life changes that require us to find healthy ways to let go of some aspects of our past and prepare to embrace the changes in our future.     We each find an individual path of letting go of memories, physical 'stuff', places, people, ages, etc.  If we are successful in letting go of some aspects of our past we can move more healthfully to live fully in the present.   You and I have only had 24 hours each day to manage the diverse aspects of our living; wishing for more or less does not change that we still have only 24 hours each day.   Finding the healthy balance of our past and our present as we prepare for the future increases our chances of an enjoyable and positive life.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Hugheyisms   Developing personal guidelines was the focus of this live presentation in Atlanta, Georgia. Many people have found these guidelines to be very useful as they developed better relationships with themselves and with others.   The decision to call them "Hugheyisms" referred to his early teaching days when many of his students believed that his wellness psychology lessons frequently seemed to return to our challenges of developing personal guidelines for positive living.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

To Thine Own Self Be True   By the time we have become adults, our society has put forth great effort to teach us how to live as human beings.   We have been taught to be likable/lovable, responsible, communicative, mature, honest, develop expectations, how to learn, etc.   What "price" do we pay to meet the expectations that others strive to impose on us?   How much of our true thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and behaviors are we willing to pay to "fit in" these expectations?     --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message