Archive for the ‘Personal Development’ Category

Well, it really is a good job that I am a married man… Apparently, my current nerd status is likely to have women flocking all from far and wide to have relations of all sorts with me and those like me… At least according to an encouraging article at the New Scientist entitled “Braininess boosts likelihood of sex“… And there was I thinking it was just my incredible good looks that was doing the trick!

I read the title and thought, heck, are the readers and writers of New Scientist magazine just trying to encourage and maybe even kid themselves… Maybe trying to make their readership feel better about themselves? Well, let me tell you some more about this and we’ll see…. (more…)

In the members are of my website, I started a thread going about our pace of life and thought I’d add my (slightly edited) first entry on that thread for your reading today…

Katie told me on a couple of mornings this week, that I woke her up on a few occasions in the night because I was laughing in my sleep. I loved hearing that. She has said it to me a few times in the past fortnight…  
 
“What has gone on in the last fortnight Adam,” I hear you ask… Let me tell you. (more…)

In the field of NLP, the element of eye-accessing cues fascinates people… That is, when we access certain parts of our brains when thinking or communicating, the eyes go upwards, left, right or down and indicate a number of things… It is of general interest because anyone can understand and use the information and the insight gained by such…

Taking this more than a step further is the field of EMDR… Which stands for Eye Movement Desensitisation Movement.

EMDR is becoming known as quite a controversial treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder. In a nutshell, it involves the traumatised person holding a painful memory in mind while simultaneously following with their eyes the horizontal movements of their therapist’s finger….

I have been known to wag my finger in therapy a few times… I had never thought to tell my client to follow it closely… I am learning all the time here… I wanted to think about this process and the connection with the eyes in therapy today for exploration… (more…)

So after a rousing blog entry yesterday… With the females getting animated by my questioning of a single, seemingly provocative word… I have decided that rather than playing it safe, I shall devilishly dive further into the fire… In the hope of causing a hot flush or two…

If ever there was a word to illuminate the female psyche as much as yesterdays ‘labour’ then I think I have it… Primed and ready to deliver… The word ‘menopause.’ A word that raises temperatures and has a lot of hypnotic connotation for sure… Let me tell you where I am going with this… (more…)

Ok, this really is going to be a good one… (more…)