Article Topic: Self-Help

There have been periods throughout history, such as the Golden Age, the Renaissance, and the Age of Enlightenment, in which humanity has shined. We are entering the year 2012, and a time of great change is upon us, especially within the United States. How do we best embrace the upcoming changes? How to do we balance healthy communities and country with a healthy self? Michell DesPres, author of The Clairvoyant Path, discusses our our intuition can lead us to positive and permanent change—within ourselves and throughout the world around us.

In popular culture, vampires are as big (or even bigger) as they ever have been. Why? Why are so many of us engaged in this love affair with the Undead? Claudia Cunningham, author of Biting Back: A No-Nonsense (No Garlic) Guide to Facing the Personal Vampires in Your Life, explains that our own relationships with our personal vampires has fueled our love for the vampire culture, and that, like fictional characters, we too can slay our own vampires and reign victorious over our personal demons.

There is a correlation between your frequency, the spiritual energy of your personal vibration, and the positive or negative things happening in your life. A higher inner frequency results in more positivity in life, while lower frequencies result in stressful, negative situations. How can we raise our frequencies to attract more positivity into our lives? Can we give ourselves a purpose, to attract certain things in our lives? Melissa Alvarez, author of 365 Ways to Raise Your Frequency, explains.

Oftentimes, women in particular have questions about relationships, including how to find a good man, knowing when the time is right for marriage, and calling it quits when the relationship isn't working. And what about sitting by the phone, waiting for his call? Louise Helene & Kim Osborn Sullivan, co-authors of I Saw Your Future and He's Not It, offer four activities to help you regain your personal power and confidence...and to make him call.

As we move forward in our lives and closer to the New Year, how can we reinforce our spirituality through our mind, body, and spirit? How are we connected to our own new beginnings?

Sometimes it is difficult to know and understand our "self." We may think we understand our thoughts, feelings, compulsions, and desires, but we may be left wondering just why we do or say certain things. Carl Llewellyn Weschcke, co-author of Self-Empowerment Through Self-Hypnosis, details just how we can understand ourselves fully and realize our full potential, becoming actualized wholes.

Predictive dreams have been experienced and recorded all over the world, for thousands of years. But what about predictive dreams involving animals? What do these dreams mean for us? Richard Webster, author of Spirit & Dream Animals, explains just how these prophetic dreams can help us.