Neutral

Choose and be free

April showers. Grey clouds. All a bit blah here this afternoon. So do I dare to be happy despite this? I’m on a course at the moment with Landmark Education ( I highly recommended their flagship course ‘The Forum’, by the way, I did it some years

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The Nocebo Effect

I thought this was absolutely fascinating in the Observer yesterday. Good to see that Science is looking at this: The nocebo effect Penny Sarchet discusses research on the ‘nocebo’ effect in her winning essay for the Wellcome Trust science writing prize: Can just telling a man he

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Delayed Gratification

This is a familiar one for me. Sitting in bed contemplating my commitment to something and thinking “I’m frankly not sure I can be bothered”! This morning at 9am – still holed up comfortably under my duvet and reading a great book written by a friend of

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I’m afraid of neutrality

I’ve just posted a new emotion in my library – Neutral. In there I mention that this is the one emotion I would like to transform. I realise that there is a big part of me that craves neutrality – I like the peace and balance it

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Friday on my mind

Today I’ve woken up full of thoughts about this blog and the direction I should take my Future Self Now site in. (I’ve been pondering the latter for a long time). Ahead of us today is a trip into Bath to get some things for the new

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