December 5, 2014
If, like many people, you are avoiding your pain and grief as a means of coping, remind yourself: Fear of pain is often worse than the pain itself. When pain starts to seep through to your consciousness, let it come. Don’t fight the tears back, […]
December 2, 2014
Many of us live in our heads because feelings can be too frightening. It’s far easier to stay in our heads, thinking, believing and judging, because doing so seems safer than navigating through our uncomfortable feelings. People who are good at this could be referred […]
November 21, 2014
Improve your physical environment – you don’t have to move house, just buy some flowers. Laugh out loud for 20 minutes every day and flush out those anxiety toxins. Switch your negative thoughts to positive ones and make this your new daily habit. Talk to […]
November 7, 2014
It was the snake charmer in the summer, now it’s the lion tamer’s turn – all those years as a kid wanting to run away to the circus…they weren’t wasted! See below! Graham Thomas Chipperfield, a star lion tamer with Barnum & Bailey Circus, was […]
October 24, 2014
Bouncing back depends on the stories you tell yourself. These stories or “self-talk” as we call them, can either help you to persist in the face of failure or disable you and make you downright miserable. Pessimists, who generally don’t bounce back easily from bad […]
October 10, 2014
“Make the most of your mind” may be part of the Inspirational Winners’ philosophy, but the reason I use it is down to a book I came across back in the 1970s, written by the maestro genius, Tony Buzan. A fellow Gemini, precisely 20 years […]
September 23, 2014
They say laughter has always been the best medicine – and it’s generally true, at least psychologically speaking, together with it certainly being the cheapest. Of all our responses, laughter is one of the most instinctive. Along with eating and sleeping, we are hardwired to […]
My clients seem to be quite divided in their opinions about mantras and the use of affirmations – there is no denying, however, the power of one’s self-talk as a way of casting our own inadvertent, nasty spells: how we talk to ourselves can either […]
Just like Harry Potter’s Death Eaters and Dementors, watch out for these suckers – they’ll either turn you into one of them or squeeze all of life’s joy out of you! Brainstorming is supposed to be a collaborative idea-generation process that, theoretically, gets great results. […]
Working as a wellness coach, I have been absorbed with the mind-body connection for many years, but it is the mind-brain connection that has been really intriguing me more recently. Our brains are responsible for creating our individual worlds – whatever we experience today – […]