Tal Ben-Shahar: Five Ways To Be Happier
This is a video segment of a longer interview with Tal Ben-Shahar a Harvard lecturer and researcher in Positive Psychology (the psychology of what is right with us and how to get more of that). In this five minute piece Ben-Shahar talks about: The importance of accepting our feelings whatever they might be. The benefits [...]
Three Ways To Change Your Life
There are three broad ways that people try to change their lives. The first is hard, the second is popular, the third gives you your best chance of happiness. 1. Change The Universe If we could only change the world to fit in with our expectations. Make it sunny for the picnic on Sunday, make [...]
Facing up to the shadow
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness concious. The latter procedure, however, is disagreeable and therefore not popular” – Carl Jung
Just listening
A friend of mine, who I was trying to help, remarked that I wasn’t taking her difficulty seriously because I was trying to fix it rather than acknowledge it. On reflection I think she was right. Just to emphasize the point the universe, in the shape of Bill O’Hanlon, sent me this: DEEP LISTENING: How [...]
How To Release Identity Beliefs
“I think, therefore I am” – Descartes “I am what I am!” – Popeye When we grow up we sort through masses of experience to come up with an understanding of the world and ourselves. Part of this understanding is of the aspects of our experience we label ‘I’, ‘myself’, ‘me’ – names for parts [...]
Inner Reconciliation
‘A house divided against itself cannot stand’ – Mathew 12:25 Just imagine for a moment you are in a conversation with someone important to you and they start saying “I hate you” or “I blame you” or “I can’t forgive you”. That would be difficult stuff to take, especially if the reason you are being [...]
The Gulliver Club
Changing your life one step at a time The Gulliver Club is an opportunity for anyone who has learnt EFT to come together in a supportive environment to practice their EFT skills. This is a place to do just that in a warm, friendly setting in which we use EFT to undo old hurts, put [...]
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