Positive Affirmations & Positive Sayings

This short video by Darryl Cross, a clinical psychologist, explores the subconscious and how people can change themselves by re-programming their own way of thinking. Cross refers to the subconscious as "the real engine" that determines how we view and present ourselves to others. The good news is that self-sabotage and the subconscious can be easily changed with some willpower and commitment.

This is a very informative video that lets the viewers learn how self-sabotage occurs and work towards eliminating it in their lives permanently.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• Self-sabotage occurs mostly in the subconscious, or in the "DVDs" that we play in our minds
• We can re-program these DVDs - the subconscious can be tricked
• Set aside 2 minutes day and night to visualize yourself as the person you want to be
• Results start in 4 weeks and become permanent in six months

Overall Rating (1-5): 4

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 3

Although the speaker does speak clearly, the video feels more like a university lecture.

Instructional Rating: 5

The speakers provides easy, practical ways to apply the theories that he explained in the beginning of the video.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

This short video by Darryl Cross, a clinical psychologist, explores the rise of depression in the workplace.

Although people need a moderate level of stress in order to do well at work, unnecessary stress causes a significant drop in job performance, and therefore needs to be prevented. He explains the different stages of stress and how to identify them.

This is a very informative video that lets the viewers learn how depression occurs and work towards eliminating it in their lives permanently.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• We need some stress to perform well at work
• Job performance of employees that experience distress (excessive stress) drops significantly
• Stress Stage 1: anxiety
• Stress Stage 2: moodiness, anger, depression
• Stress Stage 3: emotional/mental breakdown
• We need to catch anxiety and depression as soon as possible

Overall Rating (1-5): 4

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 3

Although the speaker does speak clearly, the video feels more like a university lecture. Since the video is short, this can be overlooked.

Instructional Rating: 5

It is very informative in showing the signs to look out for in catching anxiety among employees.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Lailani Mendoza for this in-depth inspirational video review!

I found the chart helpful in this video and I liked the way Darryl Cross presented the material. He spoke intelligently without being judgmental. His thorough explanation gave a visual to use in order to analyze thought processes throughout the day.

The suggestion of writing down daily those thoughts which are negative and analyzing them and finally changing them to positive thought patterns may help to teach you how to change affirmations from negative to positive.

Key Points from this Inspirational Video:

• To change your life, change your thinking
• Every action has a reaction. How we handle it is our choice
• Our thoughts control our emotions
• Our actions are impacted by our emotions which are activated by our thoughts.
• Visuals can assist in learning to think more positively

Overall Rating (1-5): 4

Entertainment Rating (1-5): 4

I found Darryl Cross to be intelligent and to use logical flow in the speech, which held my attention. The use of the graph helped visualize the concept for better understanding in how to change thought patterns to improve life.

Instructional Rating (1-5): 4

The simple, straight forward approach to logically writing down the emotions and trigger, then analyzing the thoughts made sense. In this way, I felt a bridge could be found in which the negative could become the positive through using Darryl Cross's example.

Sincere thanks and appreciation goes out to Elizabeth Giffin for this in-depth inspirational video review!