I visited my sister and her family during the year in London her husband pursued graduate work in play directing. My nephews hated British school, their American ways considered freakish and weird by the other kids. It was hard to eat well there as the produce offered in the grocery stores was at least a [...]

You might have often thought “what is my purpose in life”? Don’t you? In fact it might have miffed you time and again. Isn’t it? But could you discover any answer to your query? All these questions often beleaguer our nerves and stand the test of time. Don’t get baffled, relax and review your life, [...]

Relaxation is important to both physical and mental health. Mental relaxation benefits not just your mind but also your body. Stress is part of life; it is almost impossible to avoid stress. In fact, attempting to avoid stress is enough to create stress. Stress is what you experience emotionally and internally in response to a [...]

Are you an Action Man (or an Action Person, I suppose, to be politically correct!)? Because most of us are Reaction Men – and Reaction Women!! The normal mind is a highly-tuned, highly effective reactive mechanism. Evolutionary psychology proposes that we automatically react and behave to ordinary everyday events because we need to retain our [...]

If you have adult ADD, then you know that sometimes, slowing down is a very hard thing to do. There are so many tasks to accomplish and so little time to get them done. So your mind goes into high speed, trying to accomplish it all and more, or worrying about the fact that it [...]

When we are stressed our bodies go on alert and hold on to tension and fatigue. I have researched many ways to help me to relax and de-stress and I found three simple techniques that really helped me, and I hope they help you too. De-stressor No 1 – Body Attention Martial arts and yoga [...]

Believe it or not, I know exactly what to do when my clients have lost their “center,” and come to me “for balance.” They usually report feelings of “being wired,” or say things like “I just can’t seem to shut my mind off at night” or ” I’m always on the go.” The stress and [...]

We can busy for the whole of our waking hours. This is particularly true in professional life when it seems there are not enough hours in the day. While it is important to get things done, it is counter-productive to just bash on regardless. If you were climbing a mountain – and sometimes work feels [...]

Everyone is at a crossroads each moment of each day – it’s just that we never stop to reflect on the fact that each minute decision we make can have life-changing consequences. A client recently recounted a story from his youth. He told me about he used to hang out with his best friend – [...]