Jeanie Marshall's Articles in Empowerment

  • Prepositions Tell Relationship
    While I don’t recall all the grammar I learned in school, I do remember that the preposition was viewed as a lowly part of speech. I personally think that it is a very important part of speech because it shows relationship.
  • Paradigms are Containers for Change
    Paradigms are ubiquitous. They show up in conversations, books, bedrooms, films, families, restaurants, professions, games, sports, industries, and social systems of all types. Paradigms fall within paradigms, overlap other paradigms, and bump into still others. Paradigms are big or small, new or old, comfortable or uncomfortable, familiar or unfamiliar, long-term or short-lived. Paradigms are ever-changing.
  • Moving Through Puddles (Or, The Puddle Theory of Personal Development)
    "Moving Through Puddles" describes the "Puddle Theory of Personal Development" which helps those seeking enlightenment to move more easily through the cycles and changes of life.
  • Freedom From Bondage
    "Freedom from Bondage" discusses releasing bonds of limitation, including a brief case study of energetic release.
  • Listening Below the Surface
    Most people listen selectively. There’s really nothing wrong with that. We can’t listen to everything. In each situation, we need to determine how, what, how much, and where to listen. We can listen and learn anyplace. Life takes place in little vignettes.
  • Learning The Power of Intention
    Intention is the basis for all action. Here is an incident that helped to form my interest in helping others to be aware of intention.
  • Guidelines for Energetic Meetings
    Everyone has a unique perspective of what constitutes an "energetic meeting." Some may believe that an energetic meeting must be lively and fast-paced; others may believe that a meeting is energetic when they leave feeling energized and uplifted.
  • Fire Free Bird
    recounts a true story about a bird who flew into my fireplace to teach a powerful lesson.
  • Finding Wholistic, Empowering Practitioners
    guides you to trust your inner process when selecting professional help from others.
  • Fighting Fires at Work
    uses the familiar metaphor of managers, consultants, and others who fight fires (or solve problems) in the workplace.
  • Ending Poverty Consciousness
    distinguishes between poverty and poverty consciousness and gives you practical suggestions for ending these limitations.
  • Diversity Means They Will Be Different
    Diversity encases many more attributes than gender and skin tone, and a celebration and/or honoring of those differences. Many attributes are used to sort people out, to place them in categories, often with ideas of better or lesser.
  • Corporate Career Development Networking
    It’s common for people to want to have a "career development plan." Many think that those successful individuals who have preceded them in the corporation had a plan to get where they got. Some did, but quite honestly, it’s easier claim that they had a plan with the benefit of hindsight and success than to produce the plan they had years before.
  • Five Types of Affirmations for Empowerment
    defines five different types of affirmations to progress to greater empowerment, including examples.
  • Empowerment in an Unexpected Field
    Referring to the popular film, "Field of Dreams," this article focuses on trusting the inner guidance process. Sometimes we do not know the whole picture until we are willing to commit to the journey.
  • Best Case Scenario
    Of course, the phrase "Best Case Scenario" is the positive opposite of the popular phrase "Worst Case Scenario."
  • Dichotomy of Preference
    This is a wonderful world of duality. The physical world as we know it could not exist and grow, nor could our consciousness expand, without duality. I think this is extraordinary.
  • Faith, Yes, But in What?
    In most conversations about faith, we generally mean that "everything will work out for the good." As we give our attention to the various aspects of our life, we have the opportunity to consider in what we put our faith.
  • Feeling the Positive Opposite
    This is an empowering practice: to identify a not-good feeling and then identify its positive opposite. The positive opposite feeling is a place to move when feeling a not-wanted feeling.
  • One Thought at a Time
    is a short poem about a simple approach for experiencing greater happiness as a result of intentional positive thought choices.
  • Laughter, Play, Fun, Joy, Happiness
    discusses the value of these dynamics in our lives as a reminder to laugh and play in a spirit of fun and joy.
  • Let's Replace this Expression: No Pain, No Gain
    This article encourages us all to stop using this disempowering expression and how you can help.
  • Focus of Our Attention
    helps us to clarify where we desire to put our attention -- our energy -- which is a creative force. Our attention is so powerful that it creates our life experiences -- where is your attention?
  • Finding the Rhythm in Your Breath
    This article explains the value of focusing on your breath, and especially on the rhythm of your breath. This practice is equivalent to a very brief meditation.
  • Guided Meditation for Empowered Consciousness
    presents an overview to approaching meditation as a practice for greater empowerment. This article includes some principles for more enriching meditative experiences.
  • Asking Empowering Questions
    assists you to ask -- yourself and others -- questions that uplift and enhance life. This popular article includes a list of empowering questions that you can apply to a wide variety of real-life situations.

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