The Power of Visualisation
“Creativity is intelligence having fun.” – Albert Einstein Practising visualisation can help you achieve exactly what you want in life without actually having to physically practise. Not only does it expand your creativity, it also prepares you for the goals you are seeking. Let’s begin with a classic example of the power of visualisation. During the Cold War, the...
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Twitter: No likes
No Likes. A social media addiction? The social media world is buzzing with talk that Twitter could be planning to drop the heart-shaped ‘like’ button. Twitter chief executive, Jack Dorsey, speaking recently at a ‘tweetup’ in San Francisco, said he was not a fan of the feature and may scrap it “soon”. The event was part of Twitter’s attempts...
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Post Vacation Blues
Post-holiday blues. Do you get it? Post holiday blues – Few things in life are as gloomy and dispiriting as waiting at the airport luggage retrieval carousel at the end of your holidays. You’re tired, possibly jet-lagged, maybe hungover and you’re painfully aware it’s back to the daily grind the next day. A return to earth and ‘reality’ with...
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Generation Zombie
Generation Zombie…the iDead. A social media obsession. The widespread use of social media hasn’t been around that long, so reliable research on its impact on human behaviour is still a bit thin. Our relationship to the internet is rapidly evolving in unpredictable ways. But, drawing on our own experience and what we see around us every day, we can...
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Mental health treatment could save the NHS.
Holistic approach produces valuable outcomes. How mental health treatment could save the NHS. The Mind and Body are inseparable. Problems in one frequently lead to issues in the other. Well-being in either helps well-being in both. Sadly, hard-pressed doctors and hospitals – perhaps also through out-dated training theories –tend to treat human ailments mechanistically – as if the body...
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Summer time blues
Summertime blues, SAD, surely not? Seasonal Affective Disorder – SAD We’ve all heard of seasonal affective disorder, SAD relating to the long, dark, cold, days of winter, but can you experience SAD in summer? Well, there’s plenty of research that shows a significant proportion of us go through the summertime blues. Summer is supposed to be about sun, fun,...
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The Conflicted Mind – Cognitive Dissonance
Cognitive dissonance and suicide. #removethestigma Cognitive dissonance and suicide; how it can kill. The conflicted mind. No one wants to spend their life with an endless internal battle going on in their head. Mental conflict is exhausting, unproductive and can lead to depression. Being your own enemy is such a sad waste of mental energy. Surely what we’re looking...
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Big boys DO cry (and die)
Big boys do cry (and die). Suicide and men. The recent suicide by a young former soldier – deployed to Iraq at 18 – has once again focussed attention on PTSD, depression and the shocking numbers of males that take their own lives. The single largest cause of death of men under 45 in the UK is suicide. An...
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Depression does not discriminate
Money, fame and and our pursuit of happiness Depression does not discriminate Barely a day goes by without a celebrity or high profile public figure revealing their experience of depression. Most recently, the heavy weight boxer Tyson Fury, told the media of his battle with depression and thoughts of suicide. This raises several themes. First, that the many forms...
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Lost in the Mental Jungle – Get Me Out Of Here
Ant McPartlin, Mental Health – Lost in the Mental Jungle. Get Me Out of Here! Addiction & Ant McPartlin. Who could possibly be unmoved by the sight of Ant McPartlin suffering this mental anguish? The latest video of him after the car crash and drink-driving charge shows the face of a man in torture. By all accounts he has...
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