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How healthy is your mind? Or perhaps an even better question would be: How do you measure a healthy mind? When I ask this question to people, some of them answer: 'I don’t have depression or don’t have too much anxiety, so I must be ok'. Or they look at their achievements and successes and use that as proof that all is well. Some very successful and high achievers often have severe anxiety and/or depression. Who are you or would you be without the achievements? In a way it is much easier to measure the health of our physical bodies.…

Every single client I have ever seen has some form of internal or external conflict. "As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…” ― Hermes Trismegistus. What this means as that all external conflict we experience in the world is just a projection of our inner conflict, For instance, helping clients to overcome and releasing anger; the breakthrough only comes when the inner conflict is resolved. Angry nations and countries usually have deep inner conflict; between self acceptance and a fear of humiliation and being made to look small and inferior (again). Endless wars…

Most clients who come to see me want to be happier and more content in some or other way. Their anxieties, depression, sadness, and other obstacles are in the way, and I help them to remove these blocks. Often it is old childhood traumas and then we use NLP, EMDR and hypnosis techniques to release these old traumas and essentially get new ‘eyes’ and ways of seeing. What is often more challenging for me as a therapist is that when there are no or little childhood or early life traumas; instead, their childhood thoughts are filled with happy memories; their…

It was a blue-blue sky morning. My heart was pumping like a fire engine. I was beyond the end of my physical resources after a very hard and intense physical workout with my trainer, when he looked meaningful and intensely at me and said: “This is where it really begins to matter. This is where you differentiate you from the real you.” With sweat dripping down out of every pore from my body and gasping for air like a fish out of water; his words hit something deep inside where it really mattered. He went on: “It is in these…

One of the pillars of NLP is: Flexibility. The absolute truth of this was once again proved to me on a recent NLP course while demonstrating the NLP Phobia cure. (more…)

A person traveled for many days to the Himalayas to seek ‘The True Meaning of Life’. He went to a sage, meditating in a cave. Tired from his journey, but eager and expectant that the ‘ultimate mystery of life’ was going to be revealed to him in the next moment, he asked the sage, “What is the meaning of life?" After a long pause, the sage said, "Life is a fountain." "What do you mean life is a fountain?" barked the questioner. "I have just traveled thousands of miles to hear your words, and all you have to tell me…