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Dr. John Schinnerer, host of Guide To Self radio, speaks out on top ways to reduce city-wide violence. Listen in as he tells of the Broken Window Theory which lead to great success in crime reduction in New York City and Tacoma Washington. Richmond, CA is next up for a reduction in violent crimes. Guide To Self Radio airs daily at 5 pm PST on KDIA 1640 AM (www.kdia.com). Guide To Self can be visited at
www.guidetoself.com. Dr. John is available for coaching and consultation at (925) 944-3440.
What is positive psychology and why should you care? Dr. John Schinnerer takes you on an audio journey describing this new branch of psychology. Positive psychology looks at what is RIGHT with you instead of what is WRONG with you. It looks at your strengths rather than your weaknesses. It looks at how you can become healthier and happier rather than how broken and sad you are. And, best of all, it is all based on the latest in scientific research from top universities around the world. Find out some of the proven positive psychology exercises that you can use to improve your happiness today. Guide To Self Radio airs on KDIA, 1640 AM in the SF Bay Area with host, Dr. John Schinnerer, a U.C. Berkeley psychologist.
Dr. John Schinnerer, host of Guide To Self Radio, jokes his way through a discussion on specific tools to use to identify and overcome destructive thoughts.
Make no mistake. Your thoughts are critical to your success and passion and love of life. Your thoughts and your feelings are the ones
to become expert. On Guide To Self Radio on kDIA 1640 AM in SF Bay Area. 5 pm daily.
(925) 944-3440 Duration: 54 minutes, 38 seconds
Part 2 of a 2 part series on effective boundaries. Dr. John Schinnerer coaches Amy on how to be appropriately assertive by figuring out where her personal boundaries are and then enforcing
them. Learn how to say NO and stick to it without guilt.
Dr. John Schinnerer, host of Guide To Self Radio, interviews Dr. Mohammad Shafii, author of School Violence and Director of Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Louisville School of Medicine. Focus is on the out of control Violence in Richmond and the ways to quell it. Check out more shows at www.GuideToSelf.com . (925) 944-3440
Dr. John Schinnerer coaches Amy on how to be appropriately assertive by figuring out where her personal boundaries are and then enforcing
them. Learn how to say NO and stick to it without guilt.
Personal boundaries are the key to being assertive without aggression. The main idea with boundaries is that you are responsible to others
and for yourself. Boundaries are NOT walls. They are permeable. Boundaries allow good in and keep bad out.
The goal is to find a balance between being
flexible and firm. Join Dr. John Schinnerer on Guide To Self Radio and find out HOW!
Dr. Lusckin, Would you please tell our listeners about the following ... Tell us about the blame game.
How do we help those planes, our grievances, in our head to land?
Tell us about unenforceable rules.
How does forgiveness help us to be less angry?
Does it help us physically?
How do you forgive?
How do you learn to take things less personally?
Richmond is the most violent city in California. It ranks 11th among the most violent cities in America. This is unacceptable and we will find a way to improve the situation.
Dr. John Schinnerer has a candid talk with a wise cop on the Richmond P.D., Lt. Mark Gagan. Mark has led SWAT teams, worked homicide and patroled the street. On top of that, he has a remarkable and poignant take on the perception of cops within Richmond, the prevalence of depression and PTSD among the officers, the horrors of witnessing the crime scenes over and over. The stress of knowing that potentially everyone around you is a threat. So most officers ridicule emotions. What they don't realize is that the negative emotions created by ongoing violenct aftermath are literally eating them alive - from the inside out. That attitude is the first step to real change withing the Richmond PD. We need a little enlightenment injected into the culture. Dr. John Schinnerer
Dr. John Schinnerer, host of Guide To Self Radio on KDIA 1640 AM, interviews Dr. Fred Luskin, author of Forgive for Good. Forgiveness is
an extremely powerful tool for getting past tragedy, betrayal, hurt and deception. We've all been hurt in life. Pain is the price of admission to life. Everyone gets their share of emotional hard knocks, bumps and bruises. They key is in learning to forgive and let the anger, sadness and disappointment go. Here is a powerful tool to help you let your negative emotions go.
Guide To Self coaching and radio both focus on the intersection of positive psychology, emotional management, physical health and spirituality to allow people to find passion, purpose and peace.
So what, exactly, is positive psychology?
Where traditional psychology has focused on what is wrong with us, positive psychology focuses on what is right with us. Positive psychology focuses on our strengths and positive attributes.
The best part is that it’s all based on scientific research. To many people, “positive psychology” sounds like all the other self help, self improvement hoo-haa out there. It’s not. It's all based on hard science.
Each of us wants to be happier, more productive, have healthy relationships and discover our purpose in life. And in 1998, a new branch of psychology sprung up specifically for those purposes - positive psychology.
Positive psychology studies positive emotions (e.g. joy, excitement and forgiveness) and positive qualities (e.g. wisdom, emotional intelligence and curiosity) in people. What’s more, positive psychology looks at new ways to develop these areas and how to use them to achieve greater happiness, productivity, and passion.
The most exciting part it is that it is not merely a motivational speech or bits of baseless self help advice. It’s science. Positive psychology studies these subjects scientifically and provides empirically proven exercises to help us achieve our dreams and goals.
There are numerous simple yet powerful exercises proven to increase your satisfaction with life. These scientifically proven tools can identify your strengths, increase your passion for life, create more optimism and help you manage your thoughts and emotions. It is truly powerful information.
Another way to think of positive psychology is using a football analogy. Click here for the football analogy.
Dr. John Schinnerer, host of Guide To Self Radio, lifts you from merely surviving to positively thriving. Recent advances in science have shown that everyone can learn to increase their level of happiness, emotional intelligence, passion and satisfaction with life. Find out how - now.
Guide To Self Radio is on KDIA 1640 AM every Monday - Friday at 5 pm.
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Guide To Self Radio
More Ways to Build Resiliency – The Main Component of a Successful Individual
Guide To Self
Dr. John Schinnerer
I speak a lot about resiliency, a key component in a happy, successful and thriving life. Resiliency is the ability to bounce back from adversity with more passion and knowledge than you had before the bad times. Bad times are inevitable. They are the price of admission to the game called life. Greater resiliency means that your mood, your outlook and your health rebound more quickly from tragedy.
Here are some additional ways that a person can boost their resiliency by asking for help from appropriate others: namely, seeking out support from your loved ones. There is honor in asking for help. This is one lesson that took me years to figure out. When I was growing up, it was just understood that you didn’t ask other people for help. It’s difficult to ask for help. I think it’s burned into the American psyche that we must pull ourselves up by our bootstraps, that we do it alone, otherwise we are weak.
Well, I’m here to tell you that the real weakness is the belief that you can or should do it alone. More and more, we are learning that not only is life easier when we ask for appropriate help, it creates more happiness for us and those around us and this leads to a better quality of life for all of us.
Also, there are cognitive strategies that we can use to make the best of a lousy situation. In highly emotional situations, however, using these strategies can be both transformative as well as helpful in making the best of a terrible situation.
Suppression where you sit on an intense negative emotion until you can calm down. Example, A man on probation for the first time “counting to ten” while intentionally looking at his anger, as opposed to instinctively punching a highway patrolman.
Anticipation where you know something bad is coming and you mentally prepare for it. As with a father rehearsing and preparing himself emotionally, instead of denying, the fact that his son is dying.
Altruism is where you do to others as you would like others to do to you. As with a survivor of child abuse, instead of abusing his own kids, he donates his time to a shelter for other abuse survivors.
These behaviors come to fruition as we mature as life-altering shifts in how we perceive ourselves and the world around us. It is possible. You can do it. Awareness is the first step. Desire to change is the second.
Many of these factors that bolster resiliency such as altruism, humor, suppression and anticipation, are common among the mentally healthy and become more prevalent as individuals get older and progress through their life.
Suppression lacks the compassion of altruism, and it is frequently regarded by therapists as a negative, not a positive. However, suppression can be used effectively, like buying yourself precious seconds to calm down and plan your next step.
Suppression involves the decision to postpone paying attention to a intense emotion or conflict. A critical difference between suppression and repression, is the extent to which suppression enables all the elements of conflict to exist at least partially in consciousness. So even while holding back the strong emotion, you are still aware of it and its cause. The delicate conscious awareness involved in successful suppression is partly voluntary and partly involuntary. It involves the ability to keep your current emotional impulse in mind and to control it. It requires practice yet it can be done.
The use of anticipation is typically voluntary. It is in cases where trauma is expected and foreseen that anticipation becomes a useful coping skill. Anticipation is the ability to keep the emotional response to an unbearable future in mind and in so doing, prepare yourself for the emotional storm that is coming.
Anticipation is the capacity to view future adversity emotionally as well as cognitively and thus to break down a larger problem into smaller chunks to enable you to deal with it better. Anticipation involves both thinking and feeling about the future.
For example, consider legendary pilot Chuck Yeager who calmly excelled at dangerous flying by dealing with stress in tiny increments. It would have been equally problematic to underestimate the danger as to exaggerate it. So he worried in advance, made lists, and practiced. Then, appreciating that he had prepared as well as he could, he relaxed. Anticipation is so easy to suggest but difficult to do.
Having a strong spirituality also helps our resiliency. Spirituality, or a personal faith in something greater than ourselves, enriches and sustains our resiliency reserves. In many ways it is the foundation of resiliency, the belief that good will ultimately outweigh the bad. Faith cannot be arrived at by means of the intellect. It must be approached at an emotional level. In my experience, emotional awareness is necessary for true faith. Originally, I approached spirituality from a purely intellectual view. The intellectual approach merely allowed me to become familiar with the concepts of world religions. It provided me with a distant connection to something greater than myself. However, it did not lead to a satisfying personal relationship with a higher power. There is a huge difference between connecting to a higher power with your heart rather than your head.
Mindful prayer allows us to give up our fears, anger, sadness, doubt and limitations to our higher power. Faith allows us to relinquish our need for control. When things are going well, a personal relationship with a power greater than ourselves enables us to see the beauty in the smallest of happenings – an eagle flying overhead, a sunrise, a child’s smile. Progress results from persistence with purpose. And purpose comes from belief in a higher power. To be successful in this world, it is necessary to accept it as it is and to rise above it.
To sum up, resiliency is a trait to work towards, to strive for. It is at the pinnacle of effective traits if you want to create a rich, meaningful life. Resiliency is comprised of a number of traits – a sense of humor, spirituality, altruism, suppression, anticipation, and the ability to make meaning out of adversity. Resiliency also entails an attitude of lifelong learning, realistic optimism and looking at trying events as challenging rather than threatening.
All my best,
Dr. John
Guide To Self
(925) 944-3440
"If you will call your troubles experiences, and remember that every experience develops some latent force within you, you will grow vigorous and happy, however adverse your circumstances may seem to be."
— John R. Miller
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