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The Obsession with Body Image
I recently watched an excellent documentary on TV about body builders. I was gripped by the dedication and motivation to which these fitness devotees pumped their body in the gym for hours on end, day in and day out, in search of the ‘perfect’ physique, and it got me...
The Burden of Ill Health
Dealing with a diagnosis of a chronic health condition, be it mental, emotional or physical, and living with it on a daily basis is no mean feat. It takes enormous courage, energy and determination just to get through each day sometimes. It is not until going...
Comparing Lifestyles Since the Moon Landing in 1969
50 years’ ago, the American Apollo 11 mission successfully landed two astronauts on the moon in the highly publicised ‘space race’ of the late 1960s. Thoughts inevitably turned back to my own vivid childhood memories of the event, sitting cross-legged on a grey rug...
Fear of Flying and Travelling
With our weather so heavily influenced by the jet stream, bringing a somewhat unpredictable and changeable outlook, thoughts of jetting off to the Mediterranean and relaxing in the summer sun, or enjoying a fresh baguette with a cool beer in a foreign destination,...
The Honeymoon Effect
At the beginning of a romantic relationship we can feel elated with joy and have so much fun together and everything seems wonderful, as if it could go on that way forever. Then, gradually as the weeks or months go by, something changes within us and we decide there...
Self-Worth
Hardly a week goes by without seeing an article online or in a magazine where there are tips and tools claiming to increase our self-worth, and how important it is that we do so. We are regularly subjected to adverts that sell us products because “we are worth it”...
Goal Setting for the New Year
As decorating the Christmas tree increasingly becomes a distant memory, our thoughts turn to what we want 2019 to look like. It has become a tradition for many to start the new year with a resolution, which is basically a commitment to change. We begin with enthusiasm...
Hawaiian Healing
When I first heard the term ‘Ho’oponopono’ a few years ago I couldn’t pronounce it let alone accept that a process, as simple as it is, could really help as much as proponents of this system said it could, so I set about finding out more. Ho’oponopono is a Hawaiian...
Anger
Switch on the TV or radio, go to a supermarket or socialise in public, and you can almost guarantee to encounter someone getting angry. We seem to have somehow morphed into a world enraged, whether it is about Brexit, traffic, extortionate rents or people being too...
DARE TO BE YOU
When something first gets discovered it’s given a label which represents the energy of that event/discovery/experience, at that moment in time. For example, when the whole hippie-fuelled, flower-power awakening emerged, in the 1960s, it was labelled “new age”, and...