Does materialism and being materialistic really deliver the kind of happiness and enrichment or meaning that people seek in life? I’m not convinced it does. Recently, I took over the UK Hypnosis Convention and had lots of people desperate to give me advice about how...

Balance is our theme today…. “The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.” – Euripides. Maintaining balance in life is what many...

Are you in denial? “It takes a lot of courage to face up to things you can't do because we feed ourselves so much denial.” - Zoe Saldana. We’re all in denial. We’d barely get through the day if we worried that we or people we love could die today. Life is...

Living life with integrity is my topic today. "No amount of ability is of the slightest avail without honour." - Andrew Carnegie. According to the Collins Dictionary online, "if you have integrity, you are honest and firm in your moral principles." Personal integrity...

Be present. That’s my message today. “Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha. Some people may well say it’s obvious or even redundant to say this is the one rule everyone should try to stick to: Be...

Your best year ever - It is a grand statement indeed.“We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility.” ~ Albert Einstein. Yes, it’s 2019 already! I recognise that is the kind of statement that smacks of a man in his mid 40s, but to...

Accepting mortality – sounds like a bit of a morbid way to start the year here on my blog, I understand how that might initially appear and how worrying some might find the chosen imagery and the terms used on it at the top of this entry. That is a symptom of what I'm...

It's the festive season - Happy Christmas to everyone. We are in the biggest holiday season of the year (well, for those of us in countries that celebrate Christmas anyway). For many of us, this is also a time of reflection to see how our year has been, what we can do...

Embrace your sensitivity is my message today. 

Throughout my entire life, I have been overly sensitive. It was not until my early adult life that I was self-aware enough to address it, and really not until the last decade that I have learned to actually embrace it...