Challenging negative thoughts

This post and Distract Yourself from Self Talk was inspired by a previous comment saying “how am I supposed to stop caring about what people think? It’s not a switch I can just turn off…” I said there were two techniques, one – “distraction”, which featured in the Distract yourself post, and two – positive […]

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Distract yourself from self talk

I’ll start with a postscript to my recent posts. My wife and I have just returned from a weekend visiting our daughter in Yorkshire. Whilst there we visited the Museum of Photography, Film & Television in Bradford. One exhibition had a large display of news photographs – including one from the Albert Hall, London in […]

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Perhaps Britney should manage England?

I came across this great post recently What you can learn about blogging from Britney Spears – even the title is great! Michael Martine makes some interesting observations and I recommend reading – thanks to Chris Garrett for the original link. What I found most stimulating was that Michaels observations can apply to life in […]

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Do you believe in fairies?

Let me tell you a bit about Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes. He was born in Scotland in 1859 and he studied to be a doctor at Edinburgh University. Medicine took him to the Arctic Circle (on a whaling ship) and Africa before he established a practice on the English south coast. […]

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How to breathe confidently exercises

It may sound silly to have a post about breathing – after all, we all do it without thinking. None of us were taught how to breath and, apart from pregnant women, most of us don’t get taught how to breath in later life. An interesting exception is those who perform on the stage. To […]

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If you don’t make changes…

In what habits do you want to change, I started getting you to think about what aspects of your life will be like in the future – if you don’t change anything. You can look at the whole you, but I find it simpler to take one aspect of “you” – be it work, leisure, […]

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What habits do you want to change?

I don’t spend all my time watching TV, I promise, but I’m going to start yet another post with a reference to a particular show. There’s a programme called “Honey, we’re killing the kids” which each week presents a couple with obnoxious children, who live off junk food, take no exercise, etc. The parents are […]

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We all need to celebrate

I enjoy this time of year. The countryside is at its most beautiful, the weather is starting to turn, but its not too cold or wet. And although I don’t actively celebrate either, we’re in the midst of two national “festivals” – Hallowe’en and Bonfire Night. Most countries have days of celebration. Whether linked with […]

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