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Living through uncertainty
I wanted to share a thought with you this morning. The realisation starting to hit me that I am feeling a little more anxious at the moment. I then accepted that I find this time of year a little tricky. … Continue reading
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Contribution to others
The website is in existence today simply because the man who started it, my father, was driven by a desire to provide help and support to the community of people who continue to be touched by cancer. As part of … Continue reading
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A thought on ability….
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Spiritual Discernment (Continued)
It is the power to increasingly become oneself, the self we are meant to become through our realization of and association with the “beyond self”; that unbounded and unfailing resource that we can with, at times, such confidence tap into … 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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’Shades of Einstein”·. (Cont’d from previous blog).
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.)
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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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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The Brain ‘Minds’ the Body. (i) ( Continued from previous blog).
Having made reference to the manner in which the human brain has controlled and contributed to every aspect and facet of human functioning – conscious and otherwise – I want in this presentation to refer to another essential way in … Continue reading
When Fact is Stranger than Fiction! (Continued). (From previous blog)
It is important to emphasize that what is being attempted here amounts to little more than a ‘cook’s tour’, incorporating only, where essential, the occasional rudimentary reference to brain neurobiology. In the first place, any detailed reference to the latter … Continue reading
