Category Archives: cancer

Evidence of mind control; Hypnosis: All hypnosis is self hypnosis. The Evidence.

Posted on January 1, 2017 by coalfacecaring

Not infrequently, patients experiencing mood- and stress-related side effects of a life threatening illness and treatment have raised the possibility of the use of hypnosis. Does it at such times represent a helping strategy, which can somehow deflect or in … Continue reading →

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’Shades of Einstein”·. (Cont’d from previous blog). Postscript.

Posted on December 30, 2016 by coalfacecaring

When I was in my late ‘teens, I used to participate on certain weeknights in a ‘soup-run’ down to “Cardboard City” (as in those days we called it) on the Thames Embankment. Sometimes the soup was returned (not in quite … Continue reading →

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’Shades of Einstein”·. (Cont’d from previous blog).

Posted on December 20, 2016 by coalfacecaring

It is not a bad idea to just jot down your thoughts, as currently they exist, on one side of an A4 sheet of paper. The task thereafter is to spot and distinguish between realistic negative thoughts and errors in … Continue reading →

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’Shades of Einstein”·. (Cont’d from previous blog).

Posted on December 20, 2016 by coalfacecaring

Textbooks will ‘tell’ you that it was one Aaron T Beck who originated a theory of emotion and emotional problems, by defining their core problem in depression as a “thinking disorder”. This disorder, so he explained, developed out of “negative … Continue reading →

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Thinking your way out of trouble. (Cont’d from prev.)

Posted on December 10, 2016 by coalfacecaring

As with thinking, so also with behaviour: we can and we must sometimes unlearn problem and negative behaviour and replace it with something better, more productive. Indeed, it is the application of just such a proposition that leads the sports … Continue reading →

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Thinking your way out of trouble. (Cont’d from prev.)

Posted on October 20, 2016 by coalfacecaring

As With thinking, so also with behaviour: we can and we must sometimes unlearn problem and negative behaviour and replace it with something better, more productive. Indeed, it is the application of just such a proposition that leads the sports … Continue reading →

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The “One” and the “Many” (Cont’d from previous blog)

Posted on September 13, 2016 by coalfacecaring

In my last blog posting, we witnessed how it is that brain is the perceived and acknowledged product and thus the crowning glory of the life that we have come to know. We also, if only by inference yet just … Continue reading →

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A personal encounter with need i Continued from prev…)

Posted on September 10, 2016 by coalfacecaring

Have you, like me, sometimes marvelled at the manner in which quite major dimensions and developments (as later they may have become) can begin with a chance remark, or something equally unspectacular – mundane even? Indeed, at the time it … Continue reading →

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Post Script to previous “touch” blogs.

Posted on September 8, 2016 by coalfacecaring

A tale of “one city (and two doctors)”. Scotland in general and Glasgow in particular professes a reputation which is “second to none” for fine doctors. Names such as Lister, Black, Beatson and McCall Anderson (to name but a few) … Continue reading →

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