The other day when I was working with my client I encountered a moment where the intensity of the conversation really ramped up. It was when I started to use some ideas I learned from watching Byron Katie. I asked my client to take a hurtful idea about herself and then claim the opposite to be true and then see if the mind can find any evidence of that. For example if a person has a problem about not having any money I would ask them to say the opposite and say “I have lots of money” or “...

There is so much going on these days. We are all bombarded with information from the moment we get up in the morning top the moment we fall asleep. We are told how to live from advertising and social pressure. We get told what is right for us and more and more we perhaps put aside our own feelings to take someone else’s opinions on how to live. Those with money in corporations know what they want, what they want is more money, and the way to sustain this is to make their products appea...

I have recently been watching some videos by Robert Smith a man on Youtube.com who pioneered Faster EFT. (Emotional Thought Filed Therapy), which is Tapping. He uses Tapping now to help people get rid of internal traumas from their past. I think what he says in the video is very interesting because he mentions how no one is broken. No one needs fixing, we are just doing the best we can with what we know and in fact we are masters of being ourselves. No one else could do us so well. We hav...

I have to admit that I have always wondered how we can know that the things that other people say are only their opinions, yet we still find it difficult to ignore. If someone laughs at us, why do we take offence? If someone tells us something bad about ourselves, why do we assume that they are right? If someone cuts us off in traffic, why do we assume that they did it just to make us angry? Here is my story. If someone calls me fat, I actually like it, because I have been thin my ...