Power For Positive Living

Listening: Gift of Love   Do you choose to offer the gift of love and caring to family, friends, and others through the gift of listening hospitality?   Do you seek to fully understand what another is saying or do you choose to be content with hearing only words?   Does your understanding of others allow you to reach beyond distractions like speech irritants, content choices, or the repeating of certain words or stories over and over again?   Do we only listen to others who meet our various expectations?   Your host believes we each personally choose to offer this listening gift of love to another in our own unique manner.  A pastoral letter from Texas is shared illustrating how significantly the gift of listening can affect the life of another.  This same letter also offers us a personal challenge to convey our gift of listening to others as well as learning how to really listen to ourselves.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

It's All About Me When one develops an interest in self-study, the most frequent beginning evolves with our perception of ourselves as the humans we are and how we choose to see the world in which we live.      In our own individual life, do we tend to meet our own personal needs before we are able and/or willing to be helpful with the others in our world?   Or will our own personal needs be met when we first focus on helping others?   Your host comments on how we each may find a healthy balance to assist others along with the need to take care of themselves.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Telling Unpleasant News A listener question asking how to tell unpleasant information is addressed.   We each decide on the amount of risk we are able and willing to accept with ourselves and with others whenever we face such a situation.   Few persons appreciate receiving information "for their own good" regardless of our motivation.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Creating My Personal Journal   A personal journal can be a unique, trusted, helpful, creative and intimate friend during our Life Journey.    Any journal we create is personal to us!   Questions and Points to Ponder (PTP) are offered for consideration in the diverse possibilities we each have with the creation and use of our journal.  These PTPs are similar to aspects we use in developing a friendship with another human.    A listener question asking how to tell unpleasant information is addressed.   We each decide on the amount of risk we are able and willing to accept with ourselves and with others whenever we face such a situation.   Few persons appreciate receiving information "for their own good" regardless of our motivation.    --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Mind Games Management-Part 2   We all play various emotional mind games with ourselves and others.  We can strive to understand the invitations, structure, rules, and payoffs of various psychological games. We are then able to use our personal power to choose what games we do or do not play to strengthen the basic life position we favor for daily living.     This Power for Positive Living podcast was recorded from a personal growth class recently offered at a local senior center.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Mind Games Management-Part 1   We all play various emotional mind games with ourselves and others.  Using the personality theory of Transactional Analysis (TA), we can strive to understand the invitations, structure, rules, and payoffs of various psychological games. We are then able to use our personal power to choose what games we do or do not play to strengthen the basic life position we favor for daily living.     This Power for Positive Living podcast was recorded from a personal growth class recently offered at a local senior center.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Paying Relationship Prices   One of the most frequent wishes that so many have is to change another so that they are more like us in the way we see "reality".  It seems my world would be so much easier if others saw and did things my way.  It can be difficult to actually implement the guideline of "different strokes for different folks".      We may avoid trying to understand that relationships frequently involve learning about our ability and willingness to pay the various prices that interactions usually require.  Relationships that we value tend to require lots of work to create and then maintain.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Red Ink Thinking   "If I am 98% perfect in everything I do, it will be the 2% I remember when all is through."   Does this view of perfectionism fit you?  Your host shares his own experiences with this 'red ink' view of behavior.      --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Psychological Ministry   Psychological ministry is the process of helping others using the concepts of Wellness Psychology.  Ministering to others using a psychological format offers information and support for strengthening one's emotional and physical health systems.   Psychological ministry often encourages the participants to be able and willing to participate in a "deep and open conversation" using the self-study process known as personal retreating.  Ministry encourages the presence of psychological intimacy of sharing our true selves with such books as "Why Am I Afraid To Tell You Who I Am?".   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

My Emotional Facade   Each of us creates and maintains an emotional facade to regulate how we choose to interact with our world and to utilize self-talk.     This personal system of filtering our emotions with self and others can be more 'open' or more 'closed' and protective according to our choices.   Like the clothing we wear, most of us utilize a layered emotional system that is thick and heavy when we feel the need for protection and light or almost non-existent when we feel safer.   Our choice for presenting ourselves to others is frequently based on 'what works' for us as well as the input we receive from others on what 'looks good' on us.   A better understanding of our personal facade system can be a healthy and essential aspect of self-study as we make choices for living a positive lifestyle.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Loving and Being Loved   After watching the movie, "Wonder", your host continues an exploration of the basic question we each may face every day:  Is It All About Me?   If it is, what methods do I use and to what degree am I best able to coexist with others as I seek healthy ways to care about myself and others who are part of my world.   Exploration of self-concept is usually a crucial aspect of every personal retreating experience.   One of the critical questions frequently asked is what expectations do I carry into loving myself and others?   What expectations do I have for others on their ways to convey love to me?   How do I and another choose to confront and resolve the many differences that the process of loving and being loved can involve? --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Who Are You?   From the moment we are born, you and I receive input from others on who they wish us to be and what labels they believe define us as 'normal'.   While most of these labels are applied to us in the context of caring and support, few of us receive encouragement to question these labels or to possibly re-label our self-image with current and more accurate terminology.  Wellness Psychology offers strong encouragement to inquire through self-learning about who we really are as persons today.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Is Listening Still Loving? This podcast supports a previously released episode entitled: "Listening Is Loving". The belief is that regardless of the number of years which pass, listening to another is still an important way to demonstrate our love. A cornerstone belief of Friend Ship is that one of the most valuable gifts that we have to give another person is "listening hospitality", the process of seeking to hear and understand the totality of what another person is conveying to us. While words are the most frequent aspect used, one can also use visual cues, voice tone, affirmative touch, etc. Much of the Friend Ship program emphasizes active listening to others. There is also the acknowledgment that learning how to listen to our inner selves is a critical aspect of demonstrating self-love. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Our Passions and Beliefs Maintaining the various passions we often feel during our younger years can be a challenge.  As we live day after day, year after year, we may fall into the patterns of habituation.  Habits may become the motivation for our attitudes, thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.   Examining these emotional and physical habits with passion is usually difficult for us.  This can be especially true if we do our confronting with the idea of making significant changes in these views that we have held for so long.  Unfortunately, many individuals settle into a victim mode and do not see that they are able to choose a different path for themselves.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

My Birthday Letter October is the month each year that your PFPL podcast friend and host celebrates his personal holiday of living this gift of life for another 12 months.   A letter is written to individuals who have contributed a significant presence to this Life Journey over many years.   The letter's goal is to share the current thoughts and feelings of the writer as well as lay the foundation for the adventures of the coming year.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Friend Ship Sails Again Changing from the over-the-air broadcast method to an internet podcast role, Friend Ship Radio continues to offer the perspectives of wellness psychology.   New informational options will be offered for listeners to consider integrating into their personal life choices.   Dr. James Hughey, a retired counseling psychologist, introduces the philosophical and historical framework he will use with upcoming Friend Ship Radio podcasts.   --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Bridging Friend Ship Radio Continuing the format change from episodes of over-the-air broadcasts to producing internet podcasting, your host is interviewed on this transition phase of sharing personal growth options.   Their conversation focuses on the changes and similarities over the years with wellness psychology. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Wellness Psychology Life Lessons   Your host concludes the radio broadcast segment of this Power for Positive Living podcast series with an introspective review of Wellness Psychology life lessons.    He observes some changes that have taken place during his past 27 years of living life as well as how many characteristics of human behavior have remained consistent.    There is a focus on the major factors which he has personally found to be most useful in developing positive life lessons for his own mental health system over the years of using Wellness Psychology. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/power-for-positive/message

Advice-Seeking Mind Games This broadcast PTP (Point to Ponder) involves the behavior of responding to someone who often seeks advice and then chooses not to implement it.   People seek advice from others for a number of reasons ranging from seeking confirmation of ideas (people do what they want to do) to seeking help from others to reinforce a perspective of neediness.   Psychological mind games can be played such as, "See, I told everyone that my problem could not be solved".   A significant point to ponder is for a helper to self-define what he/she sees as their role in encouraging others to seek healthy assistance. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/power-for-positive/message

Listening is Loving (Part 2)   One foundation of Wellness Psychology is believing that listening is loving.   Some key aspects of developing a behavior and attitude pattern of listening to self and others include the following:  Listening is a gift that allows another to take what is inside them and bring it out in the open to be seen and understood more fully in a loving, non-judgemental atmosphere. Understanding that each of us has a different view of ourselves and our world, we can be loving by listening carefully to ourselves and each other. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/power-for-positive/message