Websites for personal growth

You can use the following Web resources to learn more about living from the heart and your personal growth.

A Course in Miracles: information about this program, which is billed as a unique, universal, self-study spiritual thought system that also teaches the way to Love and Inner Peace.

Authentic Happiness: This Web site is provided by the author of Authentic Happiness, Dr. Martin E. P. Seligman. The site contains over a dozen questionnaires that you can use to assess your current feelings about yourself and the world. Your responses to all of the questionnaires on this Web site are voluntary and will be used, anonymously, in ongoing research by Dr. Seligman, the Values in Action Institute, and the creators of the questionnaires. The questionnaires are a potentially huge resource to use for personal growth. You can fill out a questionnaire today and re-do it six months later and, in this way, track your personal growth.

Leo Buscaglia: Dr. Leo Buscaglia’s book Born for Love and a Love Quiz. When you complete the quiz, you will receive a customized affirmation statement, showing you your loving strengths and pointing out ways in which you can show even more love toward others. You can print out your statement for frequent reference... and re-take the quiz any time. Remember, this is one quiz you can never fail! www.

Byron Katie: The Work of Byron Katie is a straightforward transformational process of inquiry that is helping people around the world approach their problems from a perspective of clarity and inner peace.

Chauvet Caves: What did cavemen and cavewomen do for personal development? A fantastic guided tour of the Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc Caves including pictures from several very large galleries that accommodate more than 400 paintings and engravings dating to the Palaeolithic Age some 30,000 years ago.

Choose Love Not Fear: Web site and services are dedicated to shifting the current world paradigm that is based on fear to one of love.

Fear: Information about dealing with fear.

Focusing Resources: Learn about the work of Dr. Eugene Gendlin and his method of reading your body called focusing.

Landmark Education: Courses to help you along the path of personal transformation.  Learn by direct personal discovery.

Mindfulness: An overview of research on mindfulness, especially as it relates to depression.

Nature: Information about parks in Canada where you can fully experience nature. www.pc.gc.ca/

Outdoor education: There are a large number of links & references associated with theories of outdoor education and for the benefits of connecting with nature.

Peace Pilgrim: Writings from “Peace Pilgrim” who walked more than 25,000 miles on a personal pilgrimage for peace. Her message was both simple and profound. It continues to inspire people all over the world: “This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.”

Personal Development: A portal devoted to personal development, success, and self-improvement. It allows users to search for articles and quotations. In addition, it hosts some 250 well-written personal development articles by Chuck Gallozzi. The site also provides links to several personal growth newsletters. Offers a free happiness e-book when you subscribe to a biweekly newsletter.

Religious beliefs: A portal for religious beliefs ranging from the wisdom of Angels, Buddhist, Hindu, Horoscope, Jewish, Muslim and including a prayer of the day and a religious joke of the day.

Suzuki: An introduction to the David Suzuki Foundation, working to find ways for society to live in balance with the natural world that sustains us.

Terry Fox: Examines Fox’s Marathon of Hope as well as current activities of his foundation.

The Coaches Training Institute: Courses and services related to life and business coaching.

Thich Nhat Hanh: Biography, quotations, writings, notes, bibliography, links, sources.