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Lack of mission and purpose in life always results from thoughts that have been distorted in some way. The first idea is that we as human beings are disturbed not by things but of the views we take of them. Our thoughts our interpretations of events create our feelings. It is not what happens to you […]
In the wonderful film Eddie the Eagle, Bronson Peary the coach of the British Ski Jumper Eddie the Eagle Edwards said: Eddie, listen. You got more dedication, you got more heart and spirit than any of those jumpers out there. Any of them. I mean, I spent six months trying to get rid of you. […]
How can we sift through the slide show of our experiences in order to make sense of the future and the past? How can we sit still long enough to find out what moves us most? How can we recall where our truest happiness lies and consider whether we are making a living or making a life? It is […]
Those who develop the technological platforms we use, know of the limitations of those platforms. A growing practice in Silicon Valley is an Internet Sabbath, consisting of black hole locations where they turn in their technology for a day. In our Super accelerated world many of us have the sense that our Lives have accelerated to […]
The most powerful method of all for responding to fear is Reappraisal. “Change the interpretation, [and] you change your underlying reaction to it,” says psychologist Matthew Lieberman. Reappraisal is a natural, instinctive process that we all engage in. “If you see someone in a picture who’s all bloody and banged up, and you think to […]
In his book Extreme Fear Jeff Wise tells of his experience of making his first parachute jump. He said ‘the most stressful part of the whole experience, was the immediate anticipation. Compared to that, free- falling was a relief! For humans, uncertainty in the face of danger magnifies stress by forcing a person to think about […]
If we look back over the past 60 years we have been liberated from housework by technology and labour saving devices which we thought would free us but it looks like we have now been enslaved by technology. We have become a nation obsessed with how fit we are and the appeal of technology now […]
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