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How are you feeling?
If, as Marc Brackett eloquently writes in his book, you’ve been given ‘Permission to feel’ then it’s amazing what you can uncover! ❤️ Last evening I wrote an email to those who have taken part in a survey & asked to be … Continue reading
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Be Prepared…..
It was in 1907 that Robert Baden-Powell wrote that to be prepared meant “you are always in a state of readiness in mind and body to do your duty.”Baden-Powell was an English Soldier who’s idea, as stated in the Scouting Magazine, … Continue reading
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The lifestyle of a tree and Lifestyle Medicine?
When you stop to look at a tree, do you ever entertain the thought that it has a lifestyle? I’m guessing the answer is likely to be no, as it was for me, up until a few weeks ago. Perhaps … 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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“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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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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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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“Wheels within Wheels” iii (cont’d from previous blog).
Now it would not surprise me to learn that the overriding question uppermost in your mind as you read on, is simply this: interesting though, in its way, all of this may be, undoubtedly is to some; what possible relevance … Continue reading
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