Manage Your Reactors In A Meltdown Situation

ByDorothy M. Neddermeyer Ph.D.

You might think radioactivity coming from a meltdown at a power plant or mushroom clouds spreads and kills faster than a cloud of fear coming from your mind that has forgotten the power source. Fear is a ‘lack attack.’ You fear the lack of something to meet the situation at hand. Your ego’s imagination takes a trip onto the ‘far side’, conjuring up a worst-cast scenario or maybe more than one. It plays out as a loud, unruly conversation in your head as if it has a life of its own.

Self-Reflection Creates Self-Empowerment

ByDorothy M. Neddermeyer Ph.D.

Given enough time everyone will become aware that what they reflect on has a direct consequence in their lives. Unfortunately, few people are guided to do Self-Reflection and are bombarded from an early age by what they ‘should’ do. The result is that what they sometimes say they believe (their indoctrination) obscures what they truly believe.

Hard Discipline: A Grand Old Tradition at St. Augustine High School, New Orleans

ByDorothy M. Neddermeyer Ph.D.

In effect, the school’s mistreatment of its students tends to exonerate families’ similar mistreatment of their children. The favor is reciprocal. It’s a winning formula. All parties can then soothe their consciences by camouflaging their questionable behaviors behind the flag of tradition.

Open Letter – Governor Rick Perry

ByDorothy M. Neddermeyer Ph.D.

Medical science has long recognized and documented in great detail how being struck on the buttocks can stimulate sexual feelings. Children are especially susceptible. The tragic consequence for many children who have been punished by paddling or spanking is that they form a connection between pain, humiliation and sexual arousal that endures for the rest of their lives.

Happiness: Create It

ByDorothy M. Neddermeyer Ph.D.

I pondered how many people stop to contemplate the things they do to create happiness. It is important to know what you do to create your happiness so that you can tap into it when the going gets tough or things go awry.

Abraham Lincoln stated, “Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” How happy will you make up your mind to be? What will you do to create happiness? The following tips will set the stage to create happiness.