Each time you assert yourself, the most important result is what it gives your inner self.  No matter how the other person responds, when you assert, you are giving yourself messages that say, "I'm important, too.  I count, too.  My ideas and my feelings count."  These messages actually feed your self-esteem and help it to grow.
     In this presentation, the emphasis is all about the ten different kinds of assertiveness.  Dr. Rosen doesn't just talk about it.  He teaches you and shows you how to do it.
     The ten ways include:

• Standing up for your rights (without violating the rights of others)
• Asking for what you want
• Agreeing & disagreeing actively
• Questioning people in positions of authority
• Saying "no"
• Accepting compliments

     Self-esteem is at the heart of so many good things.  It's at the very center of living a lifestyle that generates good health.
     Self-esteem is a learning process.  It's not something that you acquire and then it just stays the same.  There is no perfect state of self-esteem.  Because the self is always changing, there is a need to love and respect your changing self.
     As you do this, as you develop your love and respect for your changing self, life becomes more meaningful and purposeful.
     Dr. Rosen gives you the tools for strengthening and securing your self-esteem.  Some of these tools are:

• Learning the difference between who you really are and who you think you're supposed to be
• Making a new definition of your ideal self
• Becoming inner directed
• Positive regard for yourself as a person
• Learning to fill your own empty place
• Self-expression and being your real self
• Assertiveness and setting limits
• Behaving in self-loving ways
  

     No one can take away what you have learned.  Your inner development is yours to keep, and it gives security and stability.  Your inner development is your relationship with your inner self and your relationship with God.  This is true self-esteem.  This is what it means to learn a firm sense of who you are.
     When you teach self-esteem to kids, you give each child a firm sense of who he or she is on the inside.  You give them the strength to handle the pressures of the world.  You give them a gift that no one can take away.
     Dr. Rosen teaches you how to be a better teacher for your kids.  Here are some of the things you will learn:

• Being a better role model
• Being a better listener
• Unconditional love: distinguishing between the child and the child's behavior
• Tough love: setting limits and sticking to them
• Avoiding the trap of co-dependence
• Making your kids responsible for what they do
  

     Now you can keep up with the Joneses and have every bit as much stress as they do.  Stress is popular.  Stress is definitely "in."  If you're not taking some kind of drug for a stress problem, there is something wrong with you.  You're out of the loop.  You've been left behind.
     Well, Dr. Rosen can give you the tools to compete and acquire your fair share of stress.  You do not have to just sit idle, calmly waiting for stress to hit you.  You can actively participate in creating and maintaining a high level of stress.  Dr. Rosen will show you how.
    

You will learn the advanced techniques for:

• Becoming a better "people pleaser"
• Becoming a more effective door mat
• Being in a hurry
• Building a bigger wall around yourself
• Repressing your emotions
• Squashing your needs
• Spending time with people who judge you
• Trying to be perfect
• Avoiding relaxation & recreation
• Adding more guilt to the pile
• Hating yourself & putting yourself down

     In the vast majority of cases, depression and anxiety are not chemical problems.  Of course that's not what you've been led to believe.  Pharmaceutical companies make many billions of dollars on their sales of drugs, and they have flooded the world with very effective marketing.
     Dr. Rosen shows you the psychological causes of anxiety and depression.  Then he takes you through the changes you can make in your life to overcome these problems.
     You will learn & discover:

• The underlying source of anxiety
• The five causes of depression and how they fit together
• Your thoughts, behaviors and emotions are changeable
• You can conquer anxiety while you build your self-esteem
• You can overcome panic attacks
• You can improve your self-worth while also ending cycles of depression
• Realistic, honest beliefs will lead you to peace of mind
• You can learn to listen to your own heart and gut
• You can become the best judge of what's right for you
• Personal fulfillment can indeed be yours

     You can take control of your health.  But if you expect to be healthy, you have to live healthy lifestyles.  It's not just diet, exercise and taking medications.
     Generating good health means living a life that is emotionally and psychologically good for you.  What are the key ingredients to emotional and psychological health?  There are seven.
     Dr. Rosen teaches you how to achieve:

• Greater self-esteem
• The ability to appropriately assert yourself
• The skills of emotional release
• Better & deeper relaxation
• Balance: attending to the different sides of your humanness
• Purpose & meaning in life by striving
• A support group of close friends