Flying Into the Light: Self Esteem and Self Worth

This is a great conversation I had with a client yesterday.

When we first started working together more than a year ago, he said that he suffered from low self-esteem and that this was one of the issues he wanted to work on.? Unsurprisingly, this lack of self-esteem turned out to be related to bad/abusive relationship experiences he'd had, and we've healed a lot of that.? Still, I thought it was time to ask him how he was doing, overall, with the question of self esteem.? I believe that it's important to check in periodically and see how an issue is improving--or not improving--globally.? This is how I can assess if there is something that needs to change in my own approach--do we need to do some EMDR around past negative events, do we need to go into a more somatic process, is it a spiritual/meaning of life/existential issue, etc.

So, he said something very interesting:? "My self esteem still isn't that great but my self worth has come up a lot."

"That's great.? What would you say the difference is?"? I asked, intrigued.? This appears to me to be a very sophisticated and accurate way to talk about it.? This client is very intelligent (far more than he used to think he is, so coming to an awareness of that has been really helpful for his self worth, for sure.)

He said, "Self esteem...it changes a lot depending on who I'm around, how I look that day, what other people might think of me.? Self worth doesn't change that much. I know now that I'm a good person and deserve more from my relationships than I used to think."

I thought this was great.? Self worth is like the core; a sense of being a deserving human who rightly occupies a place in the world, gives and receives love, is treated and treats others with dignity and respect, is effective and capable, competent and strong.? It's the core.? Self esteem, well, it changes; it might be better on the days you have on an awesome pair of jeans, or a good hair day, or you get a smile from a stranger.??

So yeah.? I think the core of good healing is the self worth. I would like to see self esteem come up too, but if the self worth is gaining ground and growing, that's the most important thing and likely a lot of the self esteem stuff will follow it.? Incidentally, how awesome is it for a man to openly say that this is part of what he wants for himself out of healing?? I told him that one of the reasons people love him (because they really do) is that he's brave.? He gets out there and deals with himself and thinks about things, and people admire that even though it scares the pants off them initially.? I think it's hard for a lot of men to even admit they have self-esteem issues much less get assistance with them.? It takes a courageous guy to face that one down and work with it.? I love it when the myth busters show up in my life!

Source: http://www.dovehealingarts.com/2012/10/self-esteem-and-self-worth.html

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Best personal expenses and finance apps for Windows Phone

1. husfus posted on yesterday, 09:11 0 0

Great to see some windows phone app news!! Nice app though

3. snowgator posted on yesterday, 09:18 0 0

I actually have an app called "Bill Minder", which is free. It is a buggy little thing, and a little harder to use then I feel an app such as this should be. It does give reminders and charts, so it does what I need. But I do not recommend it.

Rankings by users on the Marketplace, just FYI:

My Expenses: 4 stars (259 users)

Toshi Finance: 4 1/2 stars (80 ratings

Expensify: 4 stars (27 ratings)

Finance Helper: free 4 stars (116 ratings), paid 4 stars (6 ratings)

Bill Minder (app I use): 3 stars (2 reviews)

For some reason, can not find "my Moneybook". Daniel, did you get the name wrong?

4. Daniel.P posted on yesterday, 10:05 1 0

When you click on the app title, it will take you directly to the app, and, yes, it is all one word "myMoneyBook" :)

5. snowgator posted on yesterday, 13:24 0 0

Thank you, Good Sir!!

Paid version- 4 1/2 stars (39 ratings)
Free version- 4 1/2 stars (2 ratings)

6. AeroPrime posted on 7 hours ago 0 0

If you are thrifty dude like me you don't need these apps. However thrifty for device LOL

Source: http://www.phonearena.com/news/Best-personal-expenses-and-finance-apps-for-Windows-Phone_id36154

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Clinical hypnosis can reduce hot flashes after menopause, Baylor study shows

Public release date: 31-Oct-2012
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Clinical hypnosis can effectively reduce hot flashes and associated symptoms among postmenopausal women, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Baylor University's Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory.

Hypnotic relaxation therapy reduced hot flashes by as much as 80 percent, and the findings also showed participants experienced improved quality of life and a lessening of anxiety and depression.

The mind-body therapy study of 187 women over a five-week period measured both physical symptoms of hot flashes and women's self-reporting of flashes. The women received weekly sessions of hypnosis by clinically trained therapists, and they also practiced self-hypnosis using audio recordings and such visualizations as a snowy path or a cool mountain creek, according to the study, published online in Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society and funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health.

"This is the first study in which we compared both self-reporting and physiological monitoring not just a change in tolerance or ability to cope, but the hot flashes themselves decreased," said Gary Elkins, Ph.D., professor of psychology and neuroscience in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences and director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory.

By the fourth session, hot flashes had decreased about 70 percent, and at a three-month follow-up, the decrease averaged 80 percent, he said. "Some women reported having nearly complete elimination of hot flashes."

To be clinically significant, the decrease must be 50 percent or more, he said. Besides decreasing in frequency, the hot flashes also became milder.

"For women who want to be involved in their own therapy, this is very appealing," Elkins said. "It also has the advantages of cost savings and few or no side effects. Over the long term, the intervention has the potential to reduce health care costs and provide a safe and effective choice for women during menopause."

Other treatment options are hormones estrogen or progestin which are most effective with a range of 90 to 100 percent reduction in hot flashes, but associated with increased risk of breast cancer or heart disease; antidepressants, with a decrease in the range of 45 to 60 percent but with possible side effects such as dry mouth and decreased interest in sex; and herbal remedies, generally found to be of little more benefit than a placebo, Elkins said.

During the study, women wore skin monitors with electrodes. They pushed a response button when they experienced a flash, and the monitor also recorded physiological changes such as temperature.

"This is one of the largest studies for menopausal intervention that has been done, and certainly for mind-body intervention," Elkins said.

"Our next steps are to determine if the intervention can be provided by audio and video recordings as well as the long-term cost benefits," he said. "If it can be provided by audio recording, we could achieve a wide usage and potentially help millions of women. Studies also need to be done to see whether this could benefit the immune system and ward off disease."

Research findings mirrored results of an earlier Baylor study using hypnosis to reduce hot flashes in breast cancer survivors.

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Other researchers involved in the study were William Fisher and Aimee Johnson, both doctoral candidates of psychology at Baylor; Janet Carpenter, Ph.D., R.N., a professor in the department of nursing of the University of Indiana; and Timothy Keith, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Public release date: 31-Oct-2012
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Contact: Terry Goodrich
terry_goodrich@baylor.edu
254-710-3321
Baylor University

Clinical hypnosis can effectively reduce hot flashes and associated symptoms among postmenopausal women, according to a new study conducted by researchers at Baylor University's Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory.

Hypnotic relaxation therapy reduced hot flashes by as much as 80 percent, and the findings also showed participants experienced improved quality of life and a lessening of anxiety and depression.

The mind-body therapy study of 187 women over a five-week period measured both physical symptoms of hot flashes and women's self-reporting of flashes. The women received weekly sessions of hypnosis by clinically trained therapists, and they also practiced self-hypnosis using audio recordings and such visualizations as a snowy path or a cool mountain creek, according to the study, published online in Menopause: The Journal of The North American Menopause Society and funded by the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine of the National Institutes of Health.

"This is the first study in which we compared both self-reporting and physiological monitoring not just a change in tolerance or ability to cope, but the hot flashes themselves decreased," said Gary Elkins, Ph.D., professor of psychology and neuroscience in Baylor's College of Arts & Sciences and director of the Mind-Body Medicine Research Laboratory.

By the fourth session, hot flashes had decreased about 70 percent, and at a three-month follow-up, the decrease averaged 80 percent, he said. "Some women reported having nearly complete elimination of hot flashes."

To be clinically significant, the decrease must be 50 percent or more, he said. Besides decreasing in frequency, the hot flashes also became milder.

"For women who want to be involved in their own therapy, this is very appealing," Elkins said. "It also has the advantages of cost savings and few or no side effects. Over the long term, the intervention has the potential to reduce health care costs and provide a safe and effective choice for women during menopause."

Other treatment options are hormones estrogen or progestin which are most effective with a range of 90 to 100 percent reduction in hot flashes, but associated with increased risk of breast cancer or heart disease; antidepressants, with a decrease in the range of 45 to 60 percent but with possible side effects such as dry mouth and decreased interest in sex; and herbal remedies, generally found to be of little more benefit than a placebo, Elkins said.

During the study, women wore skin monitors with electrodes. They pushed a response button when they experienced a flash, and the monitor also recorded physiological changes such as temperature.

"This is one of the largest studies for menopausal intervention that has been done, and certainly for mind-body intervention," Elkins said.

"Our next steps are to determine if the intervention can be provided by audio and video recordings as well as the long-term cost benefits," he said. "If it can be provided by audio recording, we could achieve a wide usage and potentially help millions of women. Studies also need to be done to see whether this could benefit the immune system and ward off disease."

Research findings mirrored results of an earlier Baylor study using hypnosis to reduce hot flashes in breast cancer survivors.

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Other researchers involved in the study were William Fisher and Aimee Johnson, both doctoral candidates of psychology at Baylor; Janet Carpenter, Ph.D., R.N., a professor in the department of nursing of the University of Indiana; and Timothy Keith, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Source: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/bu-chc103112.php

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Following Its $26M In New Funding, Fancy Talks Numbers: 2M+ Users & $200K In Weekly Sales

A quick update on Pinterest rival Fancy's massive $26 million round of funding, uncovered via an SEC filing yesterday. Because of the hurricane, the NYC-based team had evacuated the city, making it difficult to track down and speak with the service's executive staff. Today, that same situation continues, but COO?Michael Silverman has at least provided confirmation of sorts, telling us that what the SEC filing says is accurate. Beyond that, there are no more details on why the funding was required or what it will be used for.

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Storm knocks down some web sites, but most stay online

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Despite outages at a few well-known web sites and ripple effects that occasionally slowed communications around the country, the Internet came through the massive storm that swamped New York and New Jersey with relatively minor problems.

Built for resiliency and buttressed by the adoption of cloud computing, the Internet functioned largely as it was supposed to, industry experts said, routing around major disruptions in one of its central network locations, New York City.

"You don't hear about big content providers going offline anymore," said Jeffrey Young, a spokesman for major delivery network Akamai Technologies Inc, which has servers spread among some 1,100 communications set-ups. "We can route around issues that are occurring."

New York has two major exchange centers where U.S. backbone telecommunication providers meet data from undersea cables, said Doug Madory, senior analyst at Renesys Corp, which monitors Internet response times. A number of network addresses were inaccessible on Tuesday afternoon, including many in the New York area, and connection times for others were slower than normal, he said, but the disruptions were limited.

Still, a handful of popular web sites, including Google's YouTube, AOL Inc's Huffington Post, and the network of sites owned by Gawker Media, did experience outages.

Social news site BuzzFeed and News Corp's financial site MarketWatch were also reduced to bare-bones versions as they regrouped on Tuesday.

At least some of the problems were the direct result of data centers losing power and being unable to fuel their own generators because of flooding.

Most web sites use commercial data centers rather than running their own computer servers, in part to ensure security and stability in emergencies. Many of those data centers offer back-up services elsewhere.

But New York data centers, including Internap and Datagram, went down due to the power and flooding problems. BuzzFeed, Huffington Post and Gawker all crashed because of Datagram.

"How dumb to locate datacenter in a flood zone. And how dumb to host Gawker servers there," Gawker founder Nick Denton wrote on Twitter. The company moved to blog platform Tumblr for a while, one of a number of creative workarounds made easier by more advanced web offerings. BuzzFeed moved everything onto Akamai and Amazon's web services arm.

An AOL spokeswoman said after Huffington Post's main data center went under that it had shifted to a backup data system in Newark. That worked until all three telecom firms serving that location went down.

"At approximately 3:30 a.m., network connectivity failed at the backup datacenter when all three of its providers each separately failed," said AOL's Erin Kurtz.

Huffington Post switched to a skeletal blog platform until it recovered at eight hours later.

Dow Jones and Datagram could not be reached immediately for comment. YouTube refused to say why it became unavailable, but Google's New York headquarters was closed by the storm. The company said the video site was available, if slow, for most users by Tuesday evening.

Many large and mid-sized companies adopted disaster planning for data after the September 11, 2001, attacks, making sure to have duplicates of core data in different locations. Smaller firms have taken the same route by moving to cloud computing, which generally spreads data across multiple facilities.

"The whole point of the cloud is that companies are insulated from outages really of any sort, absent a giant nuclear disaster," said Bernard Golden, vice president at enStratus Networks, a cloud software company. "You want your provider to have facilities in disparate-enough locations so that even if you have problems in a particular region, your service is still available."

(Additional reporting by Alexei Oreskovic and Alistair Barr in SAN FRANCISCO and Jennifer Saba in NEW YORK; Editing by Jonathan Weber and Paul Tait)

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When people worry about math, the brain feels the pain

Mathematics anxiety can prompt a response in the brain similar to when a person experiences physical pain, according to new research at the University of Chicago.

Using brain scans, scholars determined that the brain areas active when highly math-anxious people prepare to do math overlap with the same brain areas that register the threat of bodily harm?and in some cases, physical pain.

"For someone who has math anxiety, the anticipation of doing math prompts a similar brain reaction as when they experience pain?say, burning one's hand on a hot stove," said Sian Beilock, professor of psychology at the University of Chicago and a leading expert on math anxiety.

Surprisingly, the researchers found it was the anticipation of having to do math, and not actually doing math itself, that looked like pain in the brain.

"The brain activation does not happen during math performance, suggesting that it is not the math itself that hurts; rather the anticipation of math is painful," added Ian Lyons, a 2012 PhD graduate in psychology from UChicago and a postdoctoral scholar at Western University in Ontario, Canada.

The two report their findings in a paper, "When Math Hurts: Math Anxiety Predicts Pain Network Activation in Anticipation of Doing Math," in the current issue of PlOS One.

For the study, the scholars worked with 14 adults who were shown to have math anxiety based on their responses to a series of questions about math.

The questions gauged one's anxiety when receiving a math textbook, walking to math class or realizing math requirements for graduation. Additional tests showed that these individuals were not overly anxious in general; instead, their heightened sense of anxiety was specific to math-related situations.

The study volunteers were tested in an fMRI machine, which allowed researchers to examine brain activity as they did math. Volunteers were given mathematics equations to verify?for example, the validity of the following equation: (12 x 4) ? 19 = 29. While in the fMRI scanner, subjects were also shown short word puzzles. For these puzzles, people saw a series of letters (for example: yrestym) and had to determine if reversing the order of the letters produced a correctly spelled English word.

The fMRI scans showed that the anticipation of math caused a response in the brain similar to physical pain. The higher a person's anxiety about math, the more anticipating math activated the posterior insula?a fold of tissue located deep inside the brain just above the ear that is associated with registering direct threats to the body as well as the experience of pain.

Interestingly, math anxiety levels were not associated with brain activity in the insula or in any other neural region when volunteers were doing math.

The work by Lyons and Beilock suggests that, for those with math anxiety, a painful sense of dread may begin long before a person sits down to take a math test. Previous research has shown that highly math anxious individuals tend to avoid math-related situations and even math-related career paths. The current work suggests that such avoidance stems in part from painful anxiety.

The current work is also consistent with other research from Beilock and Lyons, in which they showed that the mere anticipation of doing mathematics changes functioning in the brains of people with high levels of math anxiety. Beilock's work, supported by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Education, has also shown that mathematics anxiety can begin as early as first grade, and that female elementary school teachers often transmit their math anxiety to their female students.

This latest study points to the value of seeing math anxiety not just as a proxy for poor math ability, but as an indication there can be a real, negative psychological reaction to the prospect of doing math. This reaction needs to be addressed like any other phobia, the researchers said. Rather than simply piling on math homework for students who are anxious about math, students need active help to become more comfortable with the subject, Beilock said. Beilock's work has shown, for instance, that writing about math anxieties before a test can reduce one's worries and lead to better performance.

More information: Beilock is the author of the best-selling book about stress and performance, "Choke: What The Secrets Of The Brain Reveal About Getting It Right When You Have To".

Lyons IM, Beilock SL (2012) When Math Hurts: Math Anxiety Predicts Pain Network Activation in Anticipation of Doing Math. PLOS ONE 7(10): e48076.doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0048076. dx.plos.org/10.137? pone.0048076

Journal reference: PLoS ONE

Provided by University of Chicago

Source: http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-people-math-brain-pain.html

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