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“TIME AND TIDE WAITS FOR NO MAN”. (Continued from previous blog.)
And there is another important lesson for all of us to learn here. I remember returning home from university during undergraduate days at the commencement of vacation, about two years after my father had died. At the time of his … Continue reading
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“O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING…?” Cont’d from prev. blog)
Some years ago now, I was afforded a rare and invaluable opportunity to gain a glimpse into one man’s final journey and his attempted answers to question posed in the immediately preceding blog paragraph. I had known him as a … Continue reading
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The Make-up of Mind: The Conscious and Unconscious mind. (Cont’d from previous blog).
Having briefly considered those key elements arising out og the concept of consciousness, the question now arises; what do we mean by the unconscious and how do we know anything about it at all if – as the question implies … Continue reading
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’Shades of Einstein”·. (Cont’d from previous blog).
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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Thinking your way out of trouble. (Cont’d from prev.)
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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Parts of the whole. (continued from previous blog.)
The power to visualize then, is the ability to harness the creative and therapeutic power of the imagination. This we do whenever we employ and further develop such already on-board skills, in order to ‘paint’ or portray a relaxing and … Continue reading
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The Makeup of mind: Perception. (cont’d from previous blog).
Up to this point in time, we have acknowledged how it is that both the corporate and the individual concept of mind rely heavily on memory and language. It is this that makes communication with the self and with others … Continue reading
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“Progressive relaxation”: a brief historical account.
“It takes all kinds to make a world”; so runs the old saying and – certainly, in my dealings over the years with both patients and members of healthcare staff – it has, if nothing else, proved to be almost … Continue reading
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Change (of emphasis and perspective) can be as good as a rest. (Continued from previous blog).
I intend for a moment to return to the analogy of “the untidy room”, to which there is a self-evident need to restore at least a semblance of order out of chaos and upon which I opted to focus in … Continue reading
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Post Script to previous “touch” blogs.
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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