If your life isn't looking the way you want, check your thoughts. You don't have to remain stuck inside a box of your own making. It's possible to create the environment you dream of - just by changing how you think.

If you notice you have the same thoughts as soon as you try to make plans towards your goal, then you will recognise resistance blocking your next move. Your subconscious collects millions of reasons from the past to decide that change isn't safe, or it won't work because you've failed before ... etc. (Failure is just a trial lesson you needed in order to progress.)

It's normal to have resistance - everyone does - it stops us leaping into a roaring fire without a second thought! When you learn how to by-pass resistance, and eliminate negative thoughts, then you can make rational decisions from a place of clarity. This is far more effective than trying to battle your way through - because your old thought patterns won't be ignored.

If you need help to take that first step outside the box then Z Point will guide you. The Process will safely support you, so that you lose your fears effortlessly. There couldn't be an easier way to move forward and claim an exciting and fulfilling future.

While you're deeply relaxed, you will feel whatever kept you stuck simply fade away. Your mind will become calm and peaceful, and you can think clearly to picture exactly what you really want. The more often you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, the sooner the life you designed will appear.

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If you have low self-esteem it affects every area of your life, and you will find yourself falling into the same patterns.

Do you keep getting overlooked for promotion at work?

Do your friends take it for granted that you will always say 'yes' when they ask a favour?

Do your family not even ask - they just expect you to do everything for them ... ?

Then you will feel resentful and unfulfilled. You are not here to always come last, or to be unappreciated, but the more often you experience this treatment, the lower your confidence levels will sink.

Until you have the confidence to know you deserve only the best, you will continue to attract poor behaviour from others. A list of tips to boost your confidence won't make any difference to your life, because they won't even scratch the surface.

You need to restore your sense of self-worth to how you felt as a baby - cherished, precious and highly valued. This is the core of who you really are, but circumstances, situations, and incidents have all built up layers to crush your true spirit.

If you can't imagine how you can ever feel confident again - Z Point is the answer. The relaxing Process painlessly releases the past, and you will gradually become emotionally detached from upsetting memories, until you feel calm and peaceful.

Because you can feel the change happening, you know that you can choose to have a different future. That instantly gives you confidence, because having the power to let go of the past puts you in control - and that's something you haven't had in a long time. The more you give others the power to direct your life, the more worthless you feel, so taking steps towards restoring your confidence reminds you how much of value you have to share.

You will be able to picture yourself actually participating in the dreams you've kept locked inside - and if you want to perform on stage - then that is entirely possible!

The more you experience Z Point, the more your confidence will build, and you will observe others react to you with the respect you deserve. Feeling more assured stops you accepting the way others take advantage of you. Don't worry - you won't suddenly change your personality!

Confidence isn't about becoming aggressive. You will recognise that the frustration growing inside you now is a burning anger - this is really unhealthy stress. After you've released the reasons that made you lose your confidence, you will feel much calmer, so you no longer snap when you've been pushed too far - because nobody will push you again.

You don't have to be on the outside watching others take all the prizes - you can choose to claim first prize for yourself! Get in touch to see how Z Point can restore your confidence today.

The blog FutureMedica has listed 17 health benefits of owning a cat. These include reducing stress and anxiety, to lowering the risk of a heart attack.

The Digital Journal reported that two cats have been adopted to help relieve the stress of inmates in Lincoln County Jail, to assist in their rehabilitation.

A favourite cat was one I reared after it was abandoned as a kitten. Smokey was very quick to learn, and really well behaved. After the first few nights to settle in, she soon got used to her basket in the kitchen.

But when I broke my foot in a car accident, Smokey came to bed with me every night until the cast came off after 6 weeks. She would wait on the bannister, and jump on to my shoulder as I struggled up the stairs on my crutches.

Even with the plaster cast on, my foot was too painful to walk on, so I had to hop everywhere. One day when I was going to visit my parents, I hadn't managed to shut Smokey inside, and she followed along a wall until she could land on my shoulder. She did make me laugh, and I still don't know how she clung on as I hopped and hobbled along the path!

I've found cats come into your life when you need them most, and to me, there's no question that they reduce stress, and improve the quality of your days. When a cat interrupts you to play, it is doing you the greatest service, because having fun is always an essential break. Stroking a cat is the most soothing way to release tension, and time evaporates as you're rewarded with a symphony of purrs ...
 

It's all too easy to be caught up with the drive to become successful, and only start to think about making changes when stress takes hold, and the symptoms are impossible to ignore.

If you factor in stopping to relax, and switch off, you will feel more balanced, and be far more productive. When you stop regularly through the day, and practise deep, slow breathing, you will feel much calmer, and able to think more clearly.

Instead of struggling to find solutions, when you have clarity in a place of peaceful silence, the answers will come to you easily. Once you learn to stop forcing things to happen, and create a balance, you will be in the natural flow where results arrive far more quickly than before.

When you experience the Z Point Process, you reach deep relaxation effortlessly. You have all the wonderful benefits of meditation without all the time needed to become an expert. Within minutes Z Point releases the source of your stress, so that you find a place of complete stillness.

If you find it difficult to get off the treadmill of work, caring for your home, and looking after others - stop, and make time for yourself. Your health and your life will improve immeasurably. Get in touch and ask how Z Point can make the difference for you.

Enjoy the fun cat pictures - because making time to laugh is essential!

The first breathing exercise to listen to is the stress buster, which expels all your pent up stress and tension in seconds.

You literally copy the cat, and allow your tongue to hang out of your mouth . . . making it one to experience in private!

Use this quick and easy exercise whenever you feel tension starting to build up. It's very effective, and it prevents you from letting stress get on top of you so you explode. It's always better to look silly than it is to get angry!

The second simple breathing exercise is the stress release. If you observe cats, you will see them constantly stretching. Follow their example as you gently combine slow, deep breathing with the release of tension in your neck and shoulders.

This is where you become stiff when you sit in one position, such as on the computer, and your muscles become tight. Unless you relieve them regularly, you will find yourself suffering from increasing amounts of pain. Paying attention to your breathing benefits your whole body, and learning how to control your breath as you perform a stretch greatly increases the results.

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After thousands of years of knowledge from yoga masters, scientists now also have evidence that learning how to breathe correctly can improve everything from panic attacks to hypertension to chronic pulmonary obstruction.

A heart attack is caused by an acute circulation blockage depriving the heart of oxygen. When this happens in the brain it results in a stroke.

Oxygen is more vital to your body than food or water, but not enough attention is paid to how it's possible to increase oxygen levels. In 1947, research done in Germany showed that when oxygen was withdrawn, normal body cells could turn into cancer cells. (I can remember my mother having panic attacks, and she died of cancer.)

Your breathing and stress are tied together, because you cause panic and stress by gasping for air, and also when you feel stressed you don't breathe slowly and deeply. So, learning how to breathe using your diaphragm will reduce symptoms of stress. (Watch the video below.)

The more often you experience the Z Point Process, the more you become in tune with your body, and you know that feeling relaxed is how you want to always be. Breathing exercises are the perfect way to maintain the sense of peace and calm between sessions.

When there is a part of your life that you don't feel happy about, just repeating positive statements will have no effect. Unless you have supreme self confidence, it's unlikely that you can look in a mirror and state how much you love all of you.

All that happens is you zoom in on your perceived faults, and you will make yourself feel even worse. When you don't connect with the affirmations, they have no meaning for you - and they're simply empty words. If you don't feel confident - you don't even like yourself - and the idea of loving yourself is as far removed as the moon.

You have to have a specific mindset in order to be able to succeed at changing something about yourself that you're not happy with. No matter how unhappy you are, you know that it's difficult to imagine how you can reach your goal, so it can seem easier to stay where you are . . . but you don't stay where you are. You become increasingly more frustrated, and more unhappy, as you feel life slipping by without you fulfilling the dreams locked inside you.


LACK OF CONFIDENCE ISN'T JUST A BAD HAIR DAY

Lack of confidence is not simply feeling unsure about whether a style of dress suits you - it's not even going into a dress shop - because you don't feel you deserve something special. Low self-esteem is when you say you want to lose weight, but after putting more weight back on after each failed dieting attempt, you can't even imagine yourself looking slim in a gorgeous outfit.

The source of having no self-confidence lies with your family. From any form of abuse, to being told that it's not good to get 'above yourself', or 'nobody likes someone who's conceited'; when you're always put down, and never praised - you feel worthless.

You're supposed to be able to depend on your family for support, but when they don't provide it, you lack faith and trust in all your future relationships. This undermines everything you attempt to do. It's extremely sad to know you have talents and skills you want to share, but you always fail through different forms of self-sabotage - purely because you don't feel good enough, or deserving of success.


YOU CAN FEEL THE DIFFERENCE WITH Z POINT

Don't keep your gifts trapped inside you - the Z Point Process can release all the painful memories from the past. You can move from tears, to a sense of hope that you never entertained before, in a single session. You will feel distant from the hurt, and much lighter. Leave the heavy burden of the past behind, and allow Z Point to re-build your confidence.

The difference that makes Z Point work is that you feel the change in yourself. Before, you knew that positive affirmations didn't work, because you didn't value yourself, so they didn't apply to you. Afterwards, you know through experience that it is possible to let go of the memories of the past, and create a new set of beliefs. Feeling hope where there was none before is worth that brave step of trying something new. Z Point is a safe place to land.