Goal:  To grow your Sexual Core Area, which includes your thoughts, feelings, behavior, and experiences about engaging in actions that stimulate and facilitate connection, sensuality, sexual pleasure and spiritual intimacy.  The Importance of this Core Area:  There aren’t many things in life that could rival the significance of this core area and if there’s any row in … More Defining the 7 Core Areas (Your Sexual Core Area)

“Give us today our daily bread…”  Matthew 6:11 (TNIV) Goal:  To grow your Physical/Biological Core Area, which includes your thoughts, feelings, behavior, and experiences regarding living a bio- balanced life, evidenced by engagement in health and wellness producing activities and responsibilities.  The Importance of this Core Area:  This is one of the harder Core Areas to address in … More Defining the 7 Core Areas (Your Physical/Biological Core Area)

Goal:  To grow your Emotional Core Area, which includes your thoughts, feelings, behavior, and experiences about the safe and open expression of a range of emotions and feelings that facilitate warmth, security, connection, understanding and importance. The Importance of this Core Area:  The Ancient Greeks said, “the heart is the seat of all emotions,” and I’m prone … More Defining the 7 Core Areas (Your Emotional Core Area) by Dr. Ken McGill

Printer-Friendly PDF – Ten steps to improve your Emotional Self-Awareness using the Emotions and Feelings Wheel by Dr Ken McGill Read today’s “Wisdom that Sticks” for 10 second insights to change your life!  Use the Feelings Wheel along with the questions on the opposite side of this sheet to help you think about your emotions, feelings, … More Ten steps to improve your Emotional Self-Awareness using the Emotions and Feelings Wheel

Goal:  To grow your Cognitive Core area, which includes (but is not limited to) your thoughts, feelings, behavior, and experiences concerning your brain, mind, intellect and the communication of your ideas, vision and viewpoints with others. The Importance of this Core Area: One person I lean heavilyon who helps me make sense of the Cognitive Core … More Defining the 7 Core Areas (Your Cognitive Core Area)

Goal:  To grow your Spiritual Core area, which includes (but is not limited to) your thoughts, feelings, behavior and experiences with God, Life, Spirituality, Morals, Values, Virtues and the cultivation and maintenance of Spiritual Empowerment.  The Importance of this Core Area:  Your Spirituality is the lifeline of your existence. You’d be hard-pressed to experience a certain quality, … More Defining the 7 Core Areas (Your Spiritual Core Area)

Goal:  To become aware of your 7 Core Areas, along with the necessity and benefit of daily work in these core parts of yourself.       “On one occasion an expert in the law stood up to test Jesus. “Teacher,” he asked, “what must I do to inherit eternal life?” “What is replied in the Law?” he replied.  “How do … More Introduction to the 7 Core Areas

Goal: To become aware of and competent with a process of growing constructive thoughts and behaviors consistently. There are two insights I’d like to convey to you about growing wisdom (there are actually more, but I’ll condense it to two!). First, growing wisdom is much like the gardening experiences you may have had in your … More Growing Wisdom

Goal: To understand the value and components of making good, practical and wise decisions Proverbs 3:13-18: “Blessed are those who find wisdom, those who gain understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. Long life is … More The Value and Ingredients of Wisdom

This post includes the Table of Contents in Cultivating Love: Wisdom for Life!   In this post, you’ll be able to access all of the material in the book Wisdom for Life (as it is written then “published” on my blog), via the hyperlinks attached to each of the Table of Content titles below. As mentioned in a previous post, you … More The Table of Contents in Cultivating Love: Wisdom for Life by Dr. Ken McGill