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Featured Article
Who Are You On The Inside?
Who Are You On The Outside?
Accomplished. Successful. Kind. We want to appear as though we have our lives all together, with no stress or strain.
But on the inside we often feel unfocused, over-tired, under-appreciated and hyper-critical of ourselves and the people around us.
This dissonance between the person we would like to be on the outside and the person we feel that we are on the inside can create stress. And not just any stress, mind you - this is the kind of stress that will take a physical toll, that will impair your creativity and that will sabotage your attempts at positive change. In other words, the gulf between your insides and outsides can create stress that exacerbates the gulf between your insides and your outsides.
Ready to get off of the merry-go-round?
Dr. Steven Sideroff, Clinical Director of Moonview Sanctuary, and our GUEST EXPERT on the Success Coaching For Women Expert Plug-In Call on June 23rd at 5:30pm (PDT) has developed a simple, clear nine-stage strategy for bringing your inner and outer selves into better alignment.
"Accomplished people work at an all-consuming pace, regardless of the toll it takes on their personal lives. They try to sustain an extraordinary level of proficiency, even when the pressures of life cause tension and distractions that impact performance."
He goes on to enumerate the nine components for creating a balanced life with maximum resilience and peak performance, including: relationships with self, others and "something greater"; physical, emotional and cognitive mastery and finally, mastery of "process" elements, including "presence, flexibility and power, or the ability to get things done."
Read the rest of this insightful, illuminating article: click here Dr. Stephen Sideroff is Clinical Director of Moonview Sanctuary, an exclusive, non-residential treatment and optimal performance center which specializes in combining Eastern and Western approaches. He is also a consultant and Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at UCLA's School of Medicine . Dr. Sideroff is an internationally recognized expert in behavioral medicine, biofeedback and optimal performance. He lectures and conducts training workshops around the world, and has performed groundbreaking research in addiction, neurofeedback and stress management. Dr. Sideroff was the founder and former director of UCLA/Santa Monica Hospital's Stress Strategies, which presented programs for individual and corporations to better cope with stress. Dr. Sideroff has applied his expertise in the area of peak performance and has consulted with executives as well as collegiate and professional athletes and sports teams.
Self Acceptance
