Do You Feel Hopeless, Helpless or Powerless to Change Your Life ?

Exactly How Does it Feel To Be Powerless? - Most people experience powerlessness , or the loss of personal power, in one or several of the following ways:

Impaired self-concept and self-esteem Feelings of frustration and hopelessness Chronic depression and shame A heightened stress response Social anxiety and disrupted relationships

These symptoms are often diagnosed as psychiatric disorders, however, these are normal adjustments to an impaired worldview that tells us we are not comptent to function normally.

How Can I Address Such A Broad Issue As Personal Power? The first step is an accurate assessment. Based on years of conceptual development research in the academic setting, as well as outcome studies conducted in clinical practice, Douglas Frans, PhD has developed a comprehensive assessment tool as well as a set of competency-based techniques to address personal power deficits and assist you in reinventing your most important life domains: carrer, relationships, and health. For the first time, the assessment tool used in this groundbreaking research is available to you. Receive your scored Personal Empowerment IQ Test (EIQ) FREE of charge. Click on the following link - you'll receive your score report quickly.

Power deficits are serious obstacles to achieving many of the succesess and satisfactions associated with our important life-functioning areas like our career and relationips. People who live in chronic states of powerlessness almost always have significant health risks as well. If you experience any of these issues with enough regularity that your life is disrupted, this assessment and the accompanying plan to overcome them is indicated for you. 

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Six Paths to Personal Power
Douglas Frans, Ph.D.

Powerlessness is a condition that we all periodically encounter throughout our lives. While the intensity of our experience of disempowerment varies over time, there is little doubt that it is a phenomenon embedded in the very fabric of our lives. When we feel powerful, life seems an unblemished horizon of opportunity. When we experience the vacuum of powerlessness, it can range from a minor annoyance to a crippling deficit resulting in emotional instability, social isolation and poverty. We all know people that seem to exude a sense of esteem and confidence that we associate with personal power and we often make the following erroneous assumptions:

You will be able to have your personal power matrix assessesed and your strengths and weaknesses analyzed in relation to your own life circumstances. The Empowerment IQ Test developed by Dr. Frans was initially validated with over 1000 subjects and has subsequently been used in empowerment studies across the nation. You can now take the version developed specifically for client assessment and treatment- planning employed in clinical settings

Your sense of personal power is mediated within six different domains of human experience. You will learn how well you function within each of these domains relative to other test-takers. Equally important, you will be able to identify where your power deficits are localized and where you need to focus your efforts to make the most immediate impact in your life. Our most valued life areas - RELATIONSHIPS, CAREER LIFE, and HEALTH - are profoundly impacted by the way we perceive ourselves within these power dimensions and the way we act accordingly. You will examine your personal power matrix along the following dimensions:

• Somatic Perception - your relationship to the physical world and your self-image.
• Psycho-Spiritual Orientation - your perspective on the larger cosmic forces in life, your belief system and the underlying assumptions & attitudes that govern your existence.
• Self-Concept - your unvarnished self appraisal including your relationship with your past and how it affects your current self valuation.
• Collective/Social Indentity - the degree to which valued social groups and collectives provide meaning and definition to your life.
• Critical Awareness - your ability to monitor events in your environment, interpersonal dynamics and how this awarenss informs your responses .
• Efficacy - a combination of knowledge and skills that allow you to effect change in your life and your propensity and ability to act on them.

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Once you submit the Empowerment Index questionnaire your scored results are quickly generated and returned. This report provides an analysis of each empowerment subscale and directs you to relevant sections in the manual for expanded information on each of your scored domain areas. The text is divided into a number of sections developing your knowledge and awareness of various power deficits which affect you in addition to providing assistance developing self-interventions to address and change them. The following outline highlights the main topical areas covered in the book: