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please help i really need to know asap.
and i need mostly things for physical

contact with others provides stimulation to try new activities. if someone does not encourage a child to walk there may be no incentive to do it. I think that copying behaviours, activities and the like are very important for development.

Environment can also be a factor - safe places which allow a child to experiment rather than hurt themselves would encourage them to try

hope that helps

"The healing of the body can not be separated from the healing of the mind". - Hippocrates

"If someone wishes for good health, one must first ask oneself if he is ready to do away with the reasons for his illness. Only then is it possible to help him."
—Hippocrates

Hippocrates was an amazing physician from ancient Greece (Kos).  He believed and taught that the mind and body functioned together.  Hippocrates was the father of holistic medicine, focusing on treating the whole person, not a symptom.  Unfortunately, most of Hippocrates’ teachings were ignored for centuries.

Today, much thought has gone into the state of mind which co exists or actually causes the development of many physical symptoms.  On a subconscious level, we are aware of the mind-body relationship, and this is evident from our everyday vocabulary.  "I can’t stomach it".  "A pain in the ***".  "what a headache that is". "He wont swallow that excuse." and the list of phrases goes on and on…

However, beyond our everyday jargon, it is essential that we examine actual physical symptoms and diseases and their possible emotional root causes.   The idea that the actual root of our symptoms and diseases are from the mind means that in order to achieve wellness we have to eradicate the problem or the issues plaguing us.

It is fascinating to see that this very premise is a basic teaching of many  present day belief systems with ancient roots (such as qi jong, ayurvedic principles, Hippocratic medicine) as well as modern day alternative theories (etheric surgery, flower remedy practice, quantum healing, past life regression, rebirthing…).

I have listed some symptoms and diseases along with the most common emotional causes.

AIDS- although AIDS is seen as a sexually transmitted disease, it is a syndrome that encompasses many different conditions.  Usually, those that are susceptible to acquiring  AIDS are known to also be struggling from issues  such as suffering from a lack of self-worth and lack of sense of belonging and searching for it through their relationships,  - usually through their sexual relationships.  This usually puts a strain on the emotional aspect of their relationships.  Also, there is usually an undercurrent of guilt associated with their sexuality.  This causes a subconscious desire for punishing the self, and it also further diminishes their sense of self worth.  These issues find their way into the persons relationships.  This commonly causes a frustration - loss- guilt vicious cycle because of the different complications in their relationships that arise  because of their emotional issues.  Most AIDS sufferers are extremely sensitive and compassionate people.  In order to survive, it is essential that they understand that they are strong, loved and valued by those around them.  They have to accept that their sexuality is their own right, and the lack of acceptance by others is a lesson that the others have to learn in life, not something that should be seen as a reason to punish themselves.  But this acceptance cant happen unless they first learn to love themselves for who they are, regardless of anyone else’s opinion.  This change in their state of mind will adjust their emotional selves.  The immune system is known to interact with the emotional state of being and their bodies will strengthen and they can begin to rebalance and heal.

Cancer - There are many physical toxins which are known to cause cancer (cigarettes, chemicals…)  However, it has become understood that the vast majority of people with cancer are also people who have harbored emotional trauma within themselves.  Hurt, rejection, disapproval and anger are the types of emotional suffering that most of these people have buried deep within themselves.  Usually, these people are very sensitive and capable of giving alot of love.  Unfortunately, they received emotional blows at one point in their lives, and harbored this grief. Disapproval and  rejection from others seems to be a common element harboring in their psyche.   It has been known that this heavy load of buried emotional baggage became too much of a burden on the body, eventually causing the abnormal cell growth to flourish in a body with weakend defenses.  People with cancer need to look deep inside and face the emotional wound that they carry.  Although this is extremely painful for many people, (which is why they buried it in the first place), it is necessary to release the hurt and anger in order to strengthen the immune system and rebalance the body.  Here, the person needs to learn to let go, to release any anger or humiliation, and to accept any rejection or betrayal that they may have experienced as "history" and to move on.  This emotional cleansing also needs to be done in support with the elimination of all physical toxins in the diet and environment as well.

Multiple Sclerosis is a perplexing condition.  Like cancer, there are known physical causes of the disease.  Many toxins have been implicated, such as immunizations, chemicals, even dairy and wheat products to susceptible individuals.  However, there is an emotional element prevalent in the vast majority of these patients.  A common finding is an emotional trauma  has rendered the person "paralyzed" and unable to move on.  Usually this has been seen as conflicts with their loved ones and increased emotional burdens put on them from othersas well as insensitivity from others in general.  These ms sufferers seem to be very sensitive people, physically and emotionally, eager to please and loving.  They have difficulty accepting behavior towards them that they themselves consider unacceptable.  When other people become emotionally domineering towards them and insensitive, or if they receive emotional blows, they tend to bury this within their emotional self instead of confronting it and causing more hurt and conflict. This gives their immune system more toxicity to deal with.  It is important that they clear this emotional toxicity to achieve balance of their physical and emotional selves, and to heal their overworked immune system.

Depression also seems to stem from the same harbored feelings of anger, hurt and denial.

Alzheimers Disease seems to be a response by many people to shut down and tune out from a world which they cant accept, because it has been too painful, because they suffered loss in it, because they experienced pain or because they felt that they didnt accomplish what they wanted to do.

Diabetes is an expression for many people of their harbored feelings of rejection, abandonment or lack of attention from those they love ( in childhood, adolescense or adulthood). Most often we see this in people who are extremely loving, sensitive and caring, and feel that they do not receive the same attention and love from others as they have given, and they are easily hurt.  Also, some of the people suffering from diabetes actually fear one day facing the condition of being unloved, or being alone.  Most of these sufferers look to replace the attention and comfort that they feel was (or is, or will be, in the future,) missing with sugar.  Even if they dont consume sugary foods, their body is compensating for their state of mind with the glucose imbalance.  Usually these sufferers are overweight as well, which is usually another expression of trying to compensate for the love and comfort which they felt was  not reciprocated to them.

Back problems are usually seen as being caused from excessive emotional burden.

Leg problems are usually emotional burdens as well as a fear of moving ahead because once one does move on, certain emotional issues and situations  will need to be confronted.  It is a way of staying in one place.

Headaches are usually a conflict between what you are perceiving around you and what your emotions and beliefs are.  It comes from disapproving of what you see, or feeling guilty about what you see. Examples of this are dissatisfaction with the workplace, conflict with a decision made by a loved one, feelings of guilt regarding ones behavior itowards the decisions made by others (such as feeling resentment or dissapproval about a family members choice , be it their choice to move away, choice of spouse,etc..).  Therefore, headaches usually arise when you do not want to be somewhere, to hear or see something, or to deal with something, and you do not express or deal with this conflict.  The conflict of "I dont want to" or "I dont like this"  or "I feel responsible for this" going on in your emotional self causes a headache.  These headaches can be eliminated when one accepts and deals with what they dont like, allowing themselves to not participate in things which bother them.  Also, one needs to let go and allow others to live freely and to make their own decisions.  Many times, chronic headache sufferers were stifled, and not allowed to make their own decisions for themselves, and this behavior gets carried down - wreaking more havoc down the chain.

Hemorrhoids are commonly caused by people who do not want to let go.  This could be not letting go of roles they played.  An example of this is the parent who is unable to let go and accept that their child has grown, and doesnt need the same type of parenting as in childhood.  This is a typical situation when the adult tries to hold on emotionally to their role as the parent of a dependent child,  because they identified their sense of self with that role that no longer exists.  Other times we see this is when facing change in ones career, life style , marraige or other meaningful parts of our lives.  The key is to literally let go of what you were and what you did because these were integral to the past and dont belong in the present, and to embrace your new activities and opportunities in life.  Fear of facing the future , coupled with insecurity and hiding behind a role as a measure of self worth is what needs to be addressed.

Heart problems are most commonly developed by the person harboring great conflict within their emotional self.  Usually these people suffer from absorbing too many ideas, actions and behavior from their loved ones and/or working environment which conflicts with their own.  They usually work on overdrive to accept and accomodate these stands, in their attempts to please and provide for others while denying their own desires.  Concurrently they subconsciously punish themselves for not asserting their own desires and personal wishes by eliminating sources of joy, happiness and pleasure for themselves.  This is why we see the classic pattern of overwork, exhaustion and unhealthy living in the history of heart patients.  This develops into a chronic vicious cycle which burdens the heart and eventually physical heart problems develop.  The heart is literally squeezed and compressed in spasm from the emotional conflict and burden a person carries from focusing on pleasing and living for others at the expense of denying themselves and the wishes of their own hearts.

Susanna Kompogiorgas
http://www.articlesbase.com/alternative-medicine-articles/if-you-dont-heal-the-mind-you-cant-heal-the-body-682462.html

Some companies feel they have a global market ecommerce with an online presence. But are the international clients coming to your online store? And if they are, how did they find you? Does your online website have a real presence in foreign countries?

Once you have a local or national business operating through a website, there are a few steps you can take to develop your market further abroad.

Targeting international markets still involves the same type of market analysis you needed for your current business. Often a bit more market analysis is needed to allow for the cultural adaptation of your products. This market research is multiplied by the number of countries you would like to do business in.

Assess your communication

Then you must step back and look at your current means of communication. The website you have for your own local market. How would foreigners react to your website?

There are a few general questions to ask yourself:

1. Is your website clear and easy to understand?
2. Could an 8 year old easily understand what your company does?
3. Do you only provide an 800 number? Do foreigners know how to reach you? Put in your local land line telephone number. Give your full physical address.
4. Is your order form compatible for international addresses, or does it get stuck if you don’t put in an American State code? Make sure your order forms have enough lines for foreign addresses.
5. Do you use one specific word for things? - having two or three ways for saying one thing makes it harder for foreigners to follow you. Choose between “car” and “vehicle”. It is a good idea to create a glossary of company terms - you will greatly appreciate this later on.
6. Do you use specific cultural expressions or slang? Keep your communication easy to understand by everyone.
7. Does your website refer to specific national holidays? Is that something you should change?
8. Do you have any embedded words in your diagrams? Avoid them and it will make it easy for you to translate any images later on.

Making these changes should not take away the strength of your sales message to your local market. The good practices for an effective website in your local market are very similar. Taking those local good practices a little further will open your website up for international expansion. Your communication will become clearer to your international clients.

Once you make these transitions to your current website you will be on your way to your next transition towards an international business:

Localized Websites

Once you have your main website open for international business. If your website is actually speaking to foreign visitors and not alienating them, then it is time to take your next step in developing a global market presence.

All of your marketing efforts should be aimed at determining where you need to sign up for a localized website.

• Are your current international clients from a concentrated area on the globe?
• Does you market lead you to choose a specific international market?
• Is there a country you feel passionate about and feel there is a market there for your products and services?

Depending on your resources you may only choose to develop one new country market at a time. The more countries you do a market analysis for the easier it becomes.

Some companies at this stage decide to translate their website into 5 languages: Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, and German. This can be a wasted investment at this stage. Will your product hit the same emotional buttons in your foreign markets? This is highly unlikely.

Remember Spanish in South and Central America is very different from the language spoken in Spain. And the people are different. French is spoken in several countries too. Which culture is your main target?

Become Acquainted With Your Foreign Market

If you are a small business and or do not want to go to the expense of too many changes in translations, take this process slowly. Take your time to get some detailed market knowledge for your products in the foreign countries. You can do this from your “internationalized” local website.

Work with your current international clients. Run international campaigns in English from your local website that stimulates international market feedback. Use traditional methods of market research and client prospecting by phone. Even when only speaking English you will get some feedback. Keep at it until you feel you are now acquainted with your foreign market.

Localized Websites To Get To Know Other Markets

You now know which country you want to sell to. You may even have decided to target a country that speaks your own language. The next logical step is to create a localized website in your first overseas target market.

So what does a localized website mean? Create a second website for your foreign market. This new website is localized for your new target market. It can be hosted locally or in your foreign market. But it will be submitted to all of the local foreign web directories.

And it will be written specifically for your foreign market. Use your original website as a model to adapt to communicate with your new market. Company branding is important. Truly communicating with your foreign markets in a way that will get them to listen to you is more important. Play around with finding the balance.

One key to successfully finding this balance is using web templates…without text imbedded in the graphics.

At this stage probably only part of your website will be translated. This is not the best scenario. It may feel like a cold brochure. Just be sure to give your international clients access to your local website in English. If they know what to expect in which language and this is clearly indicated on your new website, this is acceptable.

Continue to develop relationships with people in your new markets, do more research, test changes and adaptations to your localized website. With a little bit of follow up and concentrated effort you will become very familiar with your new market. You will learn how to offer your product and services to get sales in a different market.

You will then be ready for the next transition:

A Fully Customized Website

Once you have a localized website adapted to each of your target markets you will want your international clients to feel more familiar with your products and services. You will want to improve the level of communication with your foreign markets.

Your website is now localized. It is already on their territory. The best way to deepen your relationship is to communicate with your foreign markets solely in their language, and to communicate exactly how you would if you were your local competitor.

Foreign Language Communication Strategy

The better you know your foreign markets the more options you will have. At the very minimum you could organize an email campaign in their language. Before doing this, make sure this would be appropriate in their culture. Will your target market read your emails, how would they read your emails?

Foreigners targeting North American business men might be surprised at how many of them use tiny little Blackberry screens to read emails. A country like France with high ADSL penetration might forget that other countries are not so lucky and they should therefore send appropriate content in their emails.

Easy, Low Cost, Multi-Channel Communication Each Month

Once these elements have been defined, create a simple communication strategy in the foreign language. With a little thought and preparation you can come up with a foreign language communication plan for minimal investment in time and money.

Take advantage of the possibility of re-purposing content to be used in different formats both online and offline. Come up with ways to get your international clients to interact with you, plan beforehand to get feedback and track results.

• Online events
• Surveys
• Competitions
• Ask for feedback campaigns

Use incentives to improve responses. Think of the foreign appeal your incentives might have. This can often translate into something low cost. Tie this with your own local events.

Example Based On A Monthly 2-Page Newsletter Written

One cost effective solution is a monthly 2-page newsletter with 4 articles written by a foreign native marketing professional. This monthly newsletter can be repurposed into several formats using the same content. This will give you a variety of communication touches in your foreign market each month:

• Monthly Newsletter - online and in print
• Weekly Emails
• Podcasts
• Videos
• Monthly Surveys
• Product Reviews
• Case Studies
• …and more, with variety over the year

This entire international client lead generation strategy only by investing in one 2-page translation.

This can work very well if combined with a local event, international exhibition or some other way clients can interact with you.

A great bonus is getting your writer to use foreign language keyword optimization.

This foreign language communication campaign will increase your understanding of your international markets even further. A valuable asset for any business. You will be ready to move towards a fully customized foreign website.

Website totally customized to local cultures

You will need to analyze your market potential again. Do you understand what incites your foreign market to buy your product? If so, then it is time to look at translating your entire foreign language website.

Your own knowledge of your international market will make it easier for you to determine which web pages can be translated and which web pages should be exchanged for pages written in the foreign language by industry experts. Your foreign website will probably not look exactly like your original local website.

Adaptation Phase

Creating a foreign language website can be done in stages. Remember to always think of how your foreign visitors may react to this.

• Welcome them
• Acknowledge their needs
• Show them what you have in place already to help them.

You may or may not have a fully multilingual staff, explain this appropriately somewhere on your website.

“We particularly appreciate all of our foreign clients. Unfortunately we are not able to have staff to speak to you in your own language on a full time basis. Please leave us a message and we will get back to you as soon as we can”.

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For over a decade, businesses, government and non-profit organizations have been exploring ways to help their people enhance their Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills. The roles of people participating in EI programs have ranged from executives to administrative staff. And, although the challenges and pressures these people face at various organizational levels are quite different, the emotions they experience are the same. When organizations empower individuals by helping them develop EI skills, they enable them to become internally self-managed and capable of making their greatest contributions. And when employees work in that zone of peak performance, so does the organization. Below are examples of how development of EI skills can benefit executives, high potential people and managers or supervisors.

Executives:

Executives must make decisions daily that may make or break their companies. They must rely on more people than ever to achieve results they, personally, are held accountable for by the board. They must quickly and flexibly lead system-wide organizational change, while inspiring and energizing their followers. This constant, burdensome pressure can create feelings of anxiety, fear, caution, and even guilt and depression. “The Street” may hamper the company’s ability to meet its goals and stockholder expectations by undervaluing the company if the executive makes a wrong decision, an untimely decision or no decision.

Research has shown that high EI skills are the distinguishing characteristics that separate star performing executives from average ones. With enhanced EI skills executives are able to demonstrate their passion, lead with courage, retain and grow talented leaders, and empathize with people while humanely challenging them to meet demanding business goals. When a leader creates a flexible, resilient, strong organizational culture, he or she attracts talented people, ensuring organizational success and creating a lasting legacy.

High Potential People:

High Potential People must assume the demands of multiple projects and leadership roles. Unforeseen events occur that delay or derail critical business initiatives under their responsibility. They have daily contact with customers, suppliers and even competitors who are often irate and threatening. Hundreds of emails demand immediate attention. These situations can cause the person to feel anxious, fearful and overwhelmed. They may feel frustrated that things are not moving faster and may worry that problems are hurting their career. Negative emotions can lead to poor decisions and multi-million dollar flubs. Products flop and marketing campaigns go awry as critical details fall through the cracks. A company’s chances in its industry can be crippled if a shallow talent pool keeps the company from developing new products and services.

Since high EI skills are a distinguishing characteristic between average and high-performing individuals, then the earlier these skills are developed and ingrained, the more likely High Potentials and the company are to experience success. When high potential people develop their EI skills to the fullest, the company has a cadre of competent global leaders capable of introducing new products and services, starting new businesses, and leading the integration of new acquisitions.

Managers and Supervisors:

Managers’ and Supervisors’ behavior and treatment of their people determine turnover and retention. They interact daily with individuals who have distinct needs, wants and expectations. Within their department and other departments, they significantly influence the attitudes, performance and satisfaction of employees. The stress of trying to lead and satisfy so many people’s changing needs and expectations can be overwhelming, to say nothing of the demands from upper management. Being both firm and caring at the same time causes many to feel inadequate for the role. Forty percent of turnover is reportedly due to an inadequate relationship between the employee and their direct supervisor. Where trust is lacking, performance suffers.

Enhancing EI skills enables Supervisors and Managers to regulate their emotions and motivate themselves more effectively. This allows them to manage their own emotional turmoil effectively and demonstrate compassion and empathy for their employees. Enhanced EI skills also equip them with the courage to challenge existing thinking and processes to make necessary changes for their people. All employees want a supportive, caring Supervisor or Manager who has their best interests at heart. Knowing this, the employee will be more likely to turndown offers from other companies to work for such a person.

Results:

While it’s evident that developing EI skills can be extremely valuable to the individual and the organization, it’s beneficial to examine actual results people have achieved. Participants in EI training programs have reported a range of 20% to 35% increase in personal productivity, 15% to 35% increased teamwork, a 20% to 40% reduction in stress and worry, and similar improvements in management of emotional reactiveness, personal motivation, creativity, work/life balance and more. These increases can translate into positive return on investment for the organization.

Byron Stock
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/benefits-of-emotional-intelligence-for-leaders-688069.html

Based on my experience in the area of Emotional Intelligence (EI), a group of internal consultants asked me to facilitate a session for their Chicago Organizational Development Network. Comprised of highly seasoned consultants from large organizations, the group gathers with the purpose of sharing best practices. I decided to take advantage of the opportunity to be with such a highly experienced group by drawing on their expertise. Through a highly interactive session, the group identified the significance of Emotional Intelligence (EI) skills for the workplace.

After defining Emotional Intelligence and providing some examples of the results obtained from our applied EI skill-building programs, I asked the group to divide into three smaller groups and note on flipcharts what issues or problems could be improved within their organizations by increasing EI skills. The groups were given 10 minutes to identify and discuss the problems or issues and then reported on their lists. Below is a composite, alphabetized list of 45 identified issues.

- Absenteeism

- Call reluctance

- Change management

- Coaching

- Communication

- Conflict management

- Creativity

- Culture change

- Customer satisfaction

- Decision-making

- Developing leaders

- Efficiency

- Emergencies

- Employee engagement

- Employee satisfaction

- Expectation setting

- Goal attainment

- Goal setting

- Grievances

- Group interaction

- Health care costs

- Lawsuits

- Leadership

- Lost time accidents

- Mergers

- Non-union status

- Patient safety

- Performance management

- “Politics”

- Problem solving

- Process improvement

- Productivity

- Project management

- Quality

- Retention

- Sales/revenue

- “Silo” mentality

- Stress

- Succession planning

- Supplier relations

- Teamwork

- Thought clarity

- Trust/loyalty

- Work/life balance

- Workplace violence

It’s quite eye opening to see this expansive list which is, most likely, not all-inclusive. I can’t think of any other organizational improvement intervention that has the potential to positively impact so may organizational problems concurrently. Development of Emotional Intelligence skills does not just improve leadership competencies or management skills. It has a far-reaching effect. And the percentage improvement our clients have experienced is dramatic. Program participants have reported improvements that range from 20% to 40% reduction in stress and worry, 20% to 35% increase in personal productivity, 15% to 35% increased teamwork and similar improvements in personal motivation, management of emotional reactiveness, work/life balance, creativity and more.

I am always conservative when determining results such as those listed above. Let’s be even more conservative by cutting the above ranges in half. What would a 10% to 17% increase in personal productivity, a 7% to 17% increase in teamwork or a 10% to 20% reduction in stress and worry mean to your organization? Since we know that stress impacts health, we can infer that there may well be an indication of reduced health care costs which, in turn, directly and positively impacts the organizational bottom line.

Let’s look at a few other areas identified by our group of experts. Grievance resolution is one of the toughest issues on the list. Despite its difficult nature, one of our participants, using simple, proven techniques, was able to resolve grievances at the first step in the process and reported a significant reduction in step 2 grievances. And in another specific example, a participant reported an increase in employee engagement. As a result of applying the techniques, he was viewed as more approachable, and his direct reports presented an idea that, when implemented, saved the location the equivalent of 10 people per year. The impact on the bottom line is a savings of about $300,000.

I always enjoy stories from the transportation industry. When asked about improvement in resolving or managing conflict, one participant stated, “This is huge! I used to thrive on the conflict. Now I avoid it. It’s a daily issue. Now I will talk between dock guys and drivers. Now we’re not yelling and throwing stuff. It would get ugly sometimes - wresting matches at times. Drivers are rough around the edges and can get pushy/feely. I was always the first one to step up. This hasn’t happened in awhile. Arguments don’t break out now. I let people vent and explain why (the issue is they way it is) or I don’t say anything (just let them vent and be heard).”

The point is that helping people at all levels of the organization to develop their EI skills helps improve or resolve multiple problems and issues. Rather than focusing on a narrow, targeted intervention such as conflict management or change management, or communication, consider leveraging your scarce resources with EI skill-building.

Byron Stock
http://www.articlesbase.com/business-articles/emotional-intelligence-a-multiproblem-solution-670469.html

In this case a practitioner is a child care worker, not a medical practitioner.

The caregiver helps support the emotional development of children by creating a trusting and loving bond with the child. Through daily interactions the child will develop a bond to the caregiver and will trust that caregiver to help and guide them. The caregiver will help the child learn to be a friend, social cues and conflict resolution, how to appropriatly handle their emotions and realise that ALL emotions are ok it i how you express them that matters (such as when you are angry it is okay to cross your arms, to even stamp your foot but it is not okay to hit others or say mean things).

The educator role models appropriate emotional behaviour and also helps the child deal with and understand their feelings, providing language to express themselves. They know what they feel but they can not always verbalize it. This is vitally important for the educator to help children do. By relating a feeling back to themselves it helps give the child a name to a feeling an realize others feel the same way smetimes, creating empathy and sympathy. Such as a child fell and is crying the educator could say while consoling the child " I know that hurts, I cry sometimes too when I get hurt"

An example of something I done to deal with a couple childrens fear at halloween of monsters was read the book "Go away big green monster" and done a puppet with them where they got to put his face together and then take it apart. We then made our own monster story together and drew pictures of monsters. After we discussed them and we pointed out the silly things. Emotionally I gave the power back to the children, I acknowledged and validated their fear and I showed them what they can do when they are afraid as well as gave them an outlet to verbalize their fears and create their monsters. A few of the parents have said that since those activities have been done they will hear their child scream in a firm voice at bed time "GO AWAY YOU BIG MONSTER! and DON’T COME BACK until I say so!" That is an example of the practitioner helping support the childs emotional development.