What are some words that mean “personal growth?”?
by admin on Thursday, November 24th, 2011 | 3 Comments
Question by Josh Alfred: What are some words that mean “personal growth?”?
Best answer:
Answer by Return To Eartha
I found that hearing the words “I want a divorce” come out of my own mouth, signaled a period of personal growth for me
Give your answer to this question below!
for Personal:private, individual, claimed, exclusive, intimate, own, particular, peculiar, privy, retired, secluded, secret, special.
For growth: advance, advancement, aggrandizement, augmentation, beefing up, boost, buildup, crop, cultivation, enlargement, evolution, evolvement, expansion, extension, fleshing out, flowering, gain, germination, heightening, hike, improvement, increase, maturation, maturing, multiplication, produce, production, proliferation, prosperity, rise, sprouting, stretching, success, surge, swell, thickening, unfolding, up, upping, vegetation, waxing, widening, development, progress.
All you have to do now is add two of them together.
Something that causes you to be a better person.
self improvement
becoming a better person
rising above the situation
Some words that mean personal growth are -
Mind-Body healing
Practically everything on this site deals with mind-body issues, but it would be fair to say that a central focus is self change and ways that psychology can help with this, especially with regard to enabling greater happiness and better health. Within this mind-body healing theme I’ve included some articles that take a very broad look at such issues. The readings, Personal growth”, “It helps to believe”, Mind over matter” and “all in the mind” look at the role of thinking processes in self-healing
Personality, emotional balance, well-being
Topics covered here focus on the interaction between long term personal characteristics and health issues. This is clear in the readings called “Personality and Cardio Vascular Disease”, “Emotions and immune response”, “Anger kills”, ‘Personality and Illness”, “a Disease Personality” and “Balancing Emotions”. I have also included “Anxiety and Sexual Problems”. In these readings there is discussion of ways that personality characteristics might be managed, even modified, leading to a balancing of emotions and better health and well-being.
Hypnosis, Meditation, Relaxation
I tend to use the terms “Hypnosis”, “Meditation”, and “Deep Relaxation” to describe the same counseling strategy and the same pesonal experience. From a therapeutic perspective it is one of the most helpful strategies available. Some of the successes are truly astounding. There is a reading titled “Hypnosis, Meditation and Deep Relaxation” that discusses why I use these words to mean the same thing, what it is all about and how to do it. There are also a couple of the more spectacular and best authenticated cases of hypnotic “cures” described here. The work of doctors Dabney Ewen in “Hypnosis for Burns” and A. A. Adams in “Curing the Incurable: Fishskin Disease”. (There are also a couple of readings dealing with hypnosis under other Headings.)
Psychology and Cancer: Cancer Support
For many years I have worked with cancer patients, sometimes one-to-one and sometimes with groups. And I have published some research papers describing group based interventions with cancer patients. Here there are readings about some of the central issues – “Psychologists for Cancer”, “The Psychology of Cancer”, Psychological factors and Cancer Pain” and ” Managing Anticipatory Nausea and Vomiting “- as well as a medical report, “Mr Wright: the Power of Negative Thinking”, about a man whose cancer experience seemed shaped more by his expectations than by the disease process.
Handling pain better
Anyone who has had any dealings with people suffering from pain will know that the impact of pain is not easily predictable on the basis of degree of injury. The reasons why pain comes and why it goes are often complex. Some clues about these effects are suggested here. Readings in this are are “The Mystery of Pain”, “Psychological factors in Chronic Pain”, “Hypnosis for Pain Relief” and “Psychologists and Back Pain”.
Stress
Stress is a feature of everyday life. Sometimes we speak about it as though it has only happened in modern times. But of course human beings are adapted to coping with surprising levels of stressful experiences. Indeed we need certain levels of excitement just to keep functioning. Sometimes managment of life events does get a bit tricky though. Readings here are “Where does Stress Come From?”, “Stress and Immunity”, “Stress and Relaxation”, “Work Stress: the importance of having Control” and “Writing about Stress Reduces Stress and Asthma Symptoms”.
Relationships
Apart from stress, pain and health issues, the most common reason people consult Psychologists is for problems of relationships. Here I offer some thoughts about a variety of relationship situations. Three readings are about bringing up well-behaved children: “Influencing Others”, “Punishment is Inefficient” and “Non-violent Control”. Two readings are about the proper place for fathers in raising their children: “Fathers as Carers” and “Fathers Caring for Children”. Five more readings are about sexual relationships: “Hypnosis for a Sexual Problem”, “Sexual Advice”, “Sexual Potential”, “Theories about Love” and “Trust and Intimacy”
Also see – http://humanscience.wikia.com/wiki/Stages_of_personal_growth. Was that helpful?