Miracles Move Me

COMMUNICATION SKILL  BY MENTOR PALOKAJ You send people signals all day, without paying attention to them. The way you move your eyes, the way you shake a hand and so on. There are things you can do to send subconscious signals using body language that make people like you better, or at least give you the benefit of the doubt. Whenever I discuss techniques like these there are always one or two people who feel uncomfortable with ‘influencing’ someone with psychological tricks. Manipulation is not negative Influencing is changing someone’s behavior or mind Manipulation is intentionally influencing When you hear the word manipulation, you may immediately think of negative things. Please don’t. Manipulation is not bad. People with bad intentions are bad. Example 1: Manipulative sneaky person Bad people are bad. Bad people who manipulate are problematic. An example of this: Mean Girl wants to reduce the social standing of Sweet Classmate She

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BY  HELENA NEGRU Quick Summary 1. An “empathy first” approach 2. Avoid making your child feel like a problem to be fixed 3. Consider using play to help your child understand his anxiety 4. Teach your child how to centre himself in reality 5. Allow your child to worry 6. Affirm the importance of remaining in the present moment 7. Help your child take “baby steps” in order to overcome fearful situations 8. Have your child create a “calm down” checklist 9. Don’t blame yourself for your child’s anxiety Parents want nothing more than to see childhood remain a time of carefree wonder and joy for their children, an age of innocence wherein the troubles of the wider world are kept at a safe distance by caring adult oversight. As such, the parents who have anxious children are faced with a difficult dilemma: How do they protect their children from the multitude of relatively “normal” activities (e.g. going to school, socializing with friends) that provoke anxie