Garden for Happiness
The warmer weather prompts me to repost this article by my good friend Masha Bennett Having been a horticulturist in my “past life”, I would like to include some leafy and flowery thoughts to contribute to your happiness and well-being. It is well known that gardening can be therapeutic – but no tips on digging [...]
Counting your blessings
When I was growing up my Mum and Dad often used to say to us: “You should count your blessings”. I think they were right that I had a lot of blessings to count. Now that I’m older and more aware of what’s going on in the world I can see that my ‘cup runneth [...]
Are you sitting on a happy chair?
I came upon this story from Vikas an NLP Practitioner from India on the excellent Art of NLP newsgroup. I particularly enjoyed the simplicity of his approach. About 18 months ago a young lady asked me for help for her depression. She was visiting a psychiatrist and taking some medicine for depression for preceding few [...]
Juggling your way out of anxiety
This is a very useful (non-EFT) method for reducing anxiety recommended by Andy Austin. All you need is your anxiety and a tennis or juggling ball. Brain scan studies have demonstrated that anxiety only occurs in one hemisphere of the brain. If you force the both hemispheres of the brain to communicate with some physical [...]
Stepping out from under a cloud
Riding on the bus into Newcastle this morning, sinking into the familiar flat feeling that’s been with me since my mum passed away. It’s barely noticeable a slightly sad, low and flat feeling the Victorians would probably have called lassitude. It’s been quite constant feeling not bad enough to do something specific about but here, [...]
What You Attend to Typically Expands in Your Life
Here’s another useful suggestion from Bill O’Hanlon to put the idea that ‘energy flows where attention goes’ into action. This era has been called “The Age of Attention,” since so many things are vying for our attention (television, radio, the Internet, video games, movies, family, work, etc.). Your attention can be a powerful force and [...]
EFT for Self Acceptance: Part 1
To be in harmony with the oneness of things is to be without anxiety about imperfection. Zen Master Dogen (1200-1253) I deeply and completely accept myself is a part of the standard EFT set up statement a little incantation with tapping that prepares the way for working on the presenting problem whatever it may be. [...]
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