I talk about self-efficacy a great deal in my classrooms, and it gets mentioned often in my research and today I wanted to write an article explaining what it is and how to apply it in one’s day-to-day life. “If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely...

This weekend just gone by, I was teaching the final module of my current hypnotherapy practitioner diploma course and we spend some time discussing applications of hypnosis for advancing sporting performance. One of the themes that crops up with applications of mental...

In the past week, I've posted a bunch of photos and film clips that have been recorded at my gym or when out running. It just so happened to be a testing week last week to see where I am at and how I have progressed in the last training block. In January, I was really...

As of Boxing day last year, I went vegan. On rare occasions, I have been a bit flexitarian, that is, I have had the odd lapse on dairy here and there but not got stressed about it. I did Veganuary very strictly, and was strict in February but then stopped worrying if...

Live Your dream life - I know that it is a bit of an ambiguous term, and a dream life is going to be open to your own interpretation, but there are many qualities and ways of thinking that many people have in common when it comes to living the dream.  “When you reach...

Today, I don my foil cap and talk all things conspiracy theories, and focus on how to debunk them. Neil deGrasse Tyson, American astrophysicist and science communicator said:  "One of the biggest problems with the world today is that we have large groups of...

I speak with so many people in my professional life who experience insecurity, and in addition to the therapeutic assistance I offer, I tend to give some stock answers that I think all can benefit from – I thought I’d collate some of those answers to form today’s...

Scientific thinking is my topic today. I have wanted to write this article for a long time. Scientific thinking is not just the exclusive domain of academia, research or education – it is something of huge benefit to all of us. “The essence of the independent mind...

Enjoy your Alone time, solitude or time spent away from others is my topic today. I was joking in class last weekend about how I love spending time by myself and that I’d enjoy my work so much more if it involved less people. It was a joke and I talk often about the...

We all go through periods of overthinking and problematic rumination, some of us for longer than others and it is something I work with in my therapy rooms often as it contributes to a great many problems in life. The human mind seems to be unable to process a...