Power For Positive Living

Power For Positive Living

Personal thoughts for positive living shared by a retired counseling psychologist as we all travel on our mutual journey through life.

Episodes

February 7, 2020 20 mins
Loving Friendships With Listening Gifts   One way we each can create loving friendships is by giving the gifts of listening hospitality.  When we love a person to the degree that they can truly be themselves without the burdens of perfectionism, we encourage the mutual gift of friendship.  This attitude of listening with others also allows us the opportunity to build a strong, positive and loving friendship with ourselves. 
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Personal Currencies for Living   While financial currency is structured by the political/governmental unit in which we live, each of us has the option to earn and spend currencies that are individualized to us.  We choose how we earn and spend such currencies as time, socialization, emotional, etc.  Unlike financial currency, these tend to be personalized by our individual choices of earning and spending.   Understanding these var...
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January 17, 2020 18 mins
My 24 Hours of Time Currency   One major way that we humans are equal is the gift of receiving 24 hours each and every day as our individual quota of time currency.  We have the personal power to choose how we will use and manage this time of life.   The personal choices we make to assume responsibility for how we each spend this time currency tends to reflect our values, beliefs, attitudes and contributes to making us unique and ...

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January 3, 2020 18 mins

Making Resolutions Which Are Real

Many individuals begin the new year with wishes and hopes that the days ahead will be better and a change from their past.   Year after year, these resolutions become little more than "wish lists" and very little changes as the days pass.   This podcast series believes that "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always gotten."  Change is our lives requires...

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December 27, 2019 13 mins
Expectations Beyond the Holidays    Each day of our life allows us many choices on how we manage the numerous expectations we have placed on ourselves and the expectations we have accepted from others. While a daily occurrence for us, it seems that the holiday periods of the year allow these expectations to multiply and intensify.  Christmas may be the holiday season where we can most easily see these various expectations on full d...
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December 20, 2019 11 mins

Expectations and Stress

One life challenge that tends to remain the same over the years is the decisions that one makes in how he/she chooses to manage the many expectations and stresses of various holiday periods.   

This brief radio interview has your host offering some factors for choosing options on WGBR, Goldsboro, NC, during the Christmas season of 1992.

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December 13, 2019 16 mins
Do I Want A Real Conversation?   Most of us spend much of our awake-time talking with other people.   If one is ever exploring the questions associated with feelings of loneliness, one helpful way is to consider what makes a conversation with others 'real'.   We can also explore the degree of 'connection' we wish to have with others and for them to have with us. Do we need to explore how much of our talking/conversa...
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December 6, 2019 15 mins

Can I Choose Happiness While Aging?

Believing strongly in the power of choice, Dr. Hughey comments on his current views of the numerous options we each have as the decades' pass.   Yes, we do change as we age with each birthday.   However, regardless of our age, we continue with opportunities to choose our own personal attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors toward others and ourselves.

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November 22, 2019 16 mins

It's All About Me

When one develops an interest in self-study, the most frequent beginning evolves with our perception of ourselves as the humans we are and how we choose to see the world in which we live.     

In our own individual life, do we tend to meet our own personal needs before we are able and/or willing to be helpful with the others in our world?   Or will our own personal needs be met when we first focus on helping ...

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November 15, 2019 17 mins

Why Lie to Your Counselor?

Truth and lies tend to come in various shades and degrees.  Individuals tend to choose to interact with themselves as well as with others by following personal beliefs, values, beliefs, feelings and behaviors on how they see themselves and their world.   Many people choose to assist other people with their life journey.  Regardless of being self-defeating, some will choose to interact with these helpers w...

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November 8, 2019 14 mins
Describing and Interpreting Behavior   Whether we are talking and communicating with ourselves or others, the challenges to be accurate and effective remain for most of us.   Learning how to differentiate between the objective description of behavior, thought, attitude or feeling with the individualized interpretations we add can significantly improve our understandings and effectiveness.   Describing and interpreting go together t...
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October 31, 2019 30 mins
Developing personal guidelines was the focus from this live presentation in Atlanta, Georgia. Many people have found these guidelines to be very useful as they developed better relationships with self and with others.   The decision to call them "Hugheyisms" referred to his early teaching days when many of his students believed that his wellness psychology lessons frequently seemed to return to our challenges of developing ...
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October 24, 2019 15 mins

Self Talk

The methods that we each choose to dialogue with ourselves can have a powerful effect on how we feel, think and behave each day in our world.   The words that are chosen in our talks with self often frame our attitudes and abilities to view ourselves and others in a positive and healthy manner.    So many words can affect us on our self-image and the way we relate to others.  Examples of small words having a large effect ...

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October 17, 2019 14 mins
Give What You Are Able and Willing   Almost all relationships are built on the processes of giving and receiving, making assumptions and having expectations of each other.   Our relationships tend to be more harmonious when these processes are fully understood and acted upon honestly by the individuals involved.    When a person understands what degree they are able to give to another as well as the degree to which they are willing...
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October 10, 2019 24 mins
Change and Choice   Each day of our lives brings some type and degree of change in our world.  This is a constant of living with each breath that we take.   The personal challenge each of us faces is how do we decide to manage our reactions to this constant parade of change.  What choices will each of us make to have the most healthy outcomes in our lives?  Will we allow ourselves to believe that we truly are in charge of what choi...

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October 3, 2019 17 mins
Aging Psychologically   We often tend to place most of our attention on the physical aspects of aging which are usually visual.  Often overlooked are the less visual aspects of emotional, social, financial, spiritual, etc.  Usually the aging process is more positive for all concerned when active planning takes place for both physical and psychological aspects.   Personalizing the various processes tends to be more helpful for the s...

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September 19, 2019 27 mins

Building Relationships By Listening

About 10 years ago your host was invited to visit the Teacher’s Lounge.  This podcast is primarily for teachers, hosted by a teacher.

 This brief interview discusses the importance of building relationships with students and parents through the process of listening and communicating with understanding.

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August 29, 2019 16 mins
Call Me If You Need Anything   There are times when the speaker and listener hear different things even when the same words are used in similar or different situations.    "Call me if you need anything" is an example of where individuals may understand the words and their context in completely different ways.   As is usual in life, each person tends to hear what fits their personal understanding.  It can take effort to seek...

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August 22, 2019 16 mins
Culture War Stresses   Everyone has an opinion!  With wide diversity in our society, we often face the many stresses that occur when individuals choose to strongly impose their viewpoints on others.   While no topic is "safe" from the different perspectives of those around us, some areas of our life seem to attract conflict more easily than others.  Some views tend to attract the belief that other people would be so much wi...
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August 15, 2019 12 mins
Who Am I?  (Part Two)   Wellness Psychology encourages us to explore the personal question of "Who Am I?".   There are many ways for a person to experience this process of introspection.    Using the multiple-question method that is similar to the personal retreat format, one can seek the answers to questions created to go beyond our surface traits.   Questions can be entered in a personal journal, verbally shared wit...
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