Whilst watching “The Look Of Love,” it’s hard not to think that it would be better suited for a Sunday night on BBC Four than a Friday night at your [...]
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Lead, follow or get out of the way?
Some of our readers asked us last week about life strategies and philosophies and thus we are starting a series on coping strategies and relate them to famous people. Thomas Paine, an Englishman who was one of the founding members of the United States of America, made a bold statement once: Lead, follow or get [...]
How Do You Bounce Back When The Chips are Down?
Life has a habit of sending us testing situations to navigate during our life. When these things happen it is not always easy to bounce back. Having had a few of these moments in my life I know a thing or two about this. It can be a huge challenge remaining positive when testing times [...]
How to Get More Positive Energy
Before we discuss how to get more positive energy it is important to understand exactly what energy is and how it is generated. In short, everything is energy. Your universe is energy, your planet is energy, your body and mind are energy and so are your thoughts. In this article I will only be discussing [...]
Stress Management, Obesity and Hypertension and How They All Relate
Watch a video by Adam Shaw about: Stress Management, Obesity and Hypertension and How They All Relate. In 19 years as a health and well-being professional there has been one common link in all illness. In this video I explain… – the link between stress, hypertension and obesity – how stress works and its effect on [...]
Power Questions
Part 1: What would happen to me if I stopped judging other people? There are many other such questions, though this is a good one to start with. I still find myself judging others occasionally, though this now happens much less since I made a decision to focus more on my actions and less on [...]
Pomegranates – Advice for Overwhelming Situations
A good friend of mine often asks me to retell this story as he says it has helped develop the way he handles situations. I therefore have included it below, but before I start I should explain this friend is an INTJ, also known as a strategist or more commonly a fixer. To be [...]
Taking Responsibility on Life’s Ride
Adam Shaw reports on taking responsibility. Watch his video on City Connect In life we all get dealt seemingly good and bad cards. How we see them is important and by seeing them as separate it is possible to lose the bigger picture. Only by realising that everything that happens in your life is inter-related [...]
Five Steps to a Better Life
Clients often come to hypnotherapy or life coaching expecting us to delve into the past and drag up and rake over old memories to produce a multitude of emotions for the client to then deal with. This used to be the way that the likes of Freud conducted his hypnotherapy sessions. However there is a [...]
Self Esteem – How to Increase It
Self Esteem is actually how we see ourselves, but is so often linked to how we think others see us. How we take in the information presented to us both internally and externally has a major impact on our self esteem. Such understanding of what we need to feel good about ourselves, as provided to [...]
Private Members Club – The Do’s and Dont’s for Your Night Out
There is a price to pay for partying in exclusive surroundings, but that price is not always monetary. It is more the case that you are out and about on show in your community within a group of people that have higher expectations than your local pub, bar or restaurant. Below are a few guidelines to help you [...]
The Insider’s Guide to Living with Depression
I am a young woman who has suffered from clinical depression intermittently throughout my life. I have had counselling, psychotherapy, anti-depressants and cognitive behavioural therapy; whilst these treatments work and should always be carefully considered in a case of mental illness, I have learned to manage this condition in my own little ways. I can [...]
How to Lose Weight Without Going on a Diet or to a Gym
The idea of being able to lose weight without going on a diet or to a gym may appear like an elaborate claim. However, having been overweight myself during my former years, navigating myself out of it and witnessing the struggles of hundreds of people with weight issues, I have discovered certain things in my [...]
An Exercise in Being Assertive
I dare you to be assertive. Don’t be aggressive or selfish, just recognise that you should be getting the same respect that you give. You deserve as much recognition as other people do. By asking to be treated in a certain way, by speaking out, you aren’t being unreasonable. You’re just making yourself equal with [...]
I Dream and Think, Therefore I Am
Recently I came across the recordings of “Tabaluga”, a German children’s story by the pop star Peter Maffay. It is old now and probably not quite what children are listening to these days, but the central message is powerful and still holds. Tabaluga is a small dragon who is making all sorts of mistakes and [...]
A Metaphor for Self-Esteem
Where does your self-image come from? If your opinion of yourself often comes from what people say to you and how they treat you, then perhaps you will find this idea helpful. Imagine yourself as a blank canvas. When you hear negative comments, if you take them to heart and start to believe them, you [...]
Happy New Year: Walk Innovation Can Be a Bridge for Sustainable Results
Have you made any New Year’s resolutions? Another year ends and a new one begins. There is always talk of new year’s resolutions, most of which will not be kept for long. Many a person has vowed to give something up, whilst doing it. I’ve heard many smokers promise to quit on New Year’s Eve, [...]
A Healthy New Year’s Resolution
A new year just started and again how many of us decided to loose weight on top of the list? Many of us are constantly thinking of trying to lose a little weight and shape up for the new season ahead. However dieting can be a daunting task and can turn out in a disaster [...]
Visualisations
On the X Factor auditions recently a contestant began her audition by saying “I can win, I will win”. Clearly she was utilising powerful mantras to give herself confidence and enable her to perform at her best in order to win. Unfortunately her confidence was misplaced and her dreams of winning did not come true. [...]
Empowerment
Empowerment is a valuable tool if used effectively, to enable those around you to be able to make decisions, take the initiative and feel valued. Empowerment is especially useful as a managerial skill, to empower colleagues, allowing them to take ownership of their own work and to have a certain feeling of having power, albeit [...]
Be Grateful Because Walking is Good For You
Gratitude alone has been proven to improve your health and wellbeing and walking can also help to: – reduce excess weight sustainably – lower blood pressure naturally – regulate your blood sugar – strengthen your body – reduce stress Health and fitness are two completely different things. It is possible to be fit without being [...]
Explore, Dream, Discover
Change is an evitable process we all have to go through. Sometimes we chose to make changes, starting new jobs, changing careers, new relationships, moving home. At other times in our life we have to adapt ourselves to a changing environment, for example, redundancies, divorces and illnesses. As humans are creatures of habit, we feel [...]
Sport Psychology – How Does Emotion Affect Performance?
If you have read my first article for City Connect in this field you will know that I have been working in Sports Psychology for a number of years now, triggered by my love of rowing and tennis which both tend to get a tad competitive. With the Olympics 2012 coming up, the demand for [...]
Sport Psychology – Motivation: How Do We Harness It?
With the Olympics 2012 this year in London, the demand for sports psychology has dramatically increased enabling me to work with some fabulous individuals in this arena. I love the variety in my job and the fact that although I spend 75% of my time dealing with clinical issues and life coaching, I am also [...]
Sport Psychology – All Achievement Begins With a Thought…
I love the variety in my job and the fact that although I spend 75% of my time dealing with clinical issues and life coaching, I am also stretched to develop coaching talents in new areas. I have been working in Sports Psychology for a number of years now, triggered by my love of rowing [...]
Overcoming Procrastination – Part 4
We are now in Part 4 of the Overcoming Procrastination series and some of you might have even booked that summer holiday or beach break and have made a promise to yourself that you will lose weight to fit into your bikini or swimming trunks before your plane takes off. However have you found that [...]
Meridian Psychology – Emotional and Mental Wellbeing – Part 2
Continuing on from Part 1 on meridian psychology the following article looks at emotion and mental well being and neurovascular holding points for the reduction of anxiety. If you are interested in Meridian Psychology, do check out the first article in this series which looks at what meridians are and how meridian tracing works. Emotional [...]
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Lead, follow or get out of the way?
Some of our readers asked us last week about life strategies and philosophies and thus we are starting a series on coping strategies and relate them to famous people. Thomas [...]
Style
Savile Row – Who’s Who
Anderson & Sheppard, My former employer; where I learned the cutter’s trade from the great Mr. Hallbery. Superb clothes, great traditions and very well priced. What still makes me smile to this day [...]
Relationships
How Nice is Too Nice?
Having a conversation with a friend the other day….it opened with ‘I don’t do nice -can’t handle men that put me on a pedestal’. I smiled because actually that’s true, an almost mirror reaction of [...]
