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“To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.”
Buddha

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"To enjoy good …

by | Jan 12, 2013 |

"To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him." Buddha

Question ‘reality’

by | Jan 12, 2013 | ,

To have my two children I went through three rounds of IVF and 10 attempts at re-implanting frozen embryos.  I did the final round in a controversial London clinic which had a reputation for the ferocious intensity of the treatment. For over a month I had daily blood...

Question 'reality'

by | Jan 12, 2013 |

To have my two children I went through three rounds of IVF and 10 attempts at re-implanting frozen embryos.  I did the final round in a controversial London clinic which had a reputation for the ferocious intensity of the treatment. For over a month I had daily blood...

The Sirens’ call

by | Jan 11, 2013 |

In Homer’s Odyssey, the Sirens sing in the sweetest, most beguiling voices to lure sailors to their death. Everyday there are thousands of beguiling voices using ever cleverer ways to attract us eg. with humor, drama, friends, protest, shock, envy.  Attention...

Protest

by | Jan 10, 2013 |

Advertising and communication can have a hypnotic effect. They create bright, attractive, aspirational worlds that we most often encounter when we relax into the suspended reality of a magazine, film or tv programme. If we are not careful we can float into unconscious...

Who is in the car with you?

by | Jan 8, 2013 |

When I was a relatively junior consultant in a PR agency, I was responsible for running a specific meeting with a very volatile client and it soon became clear that his view of the purpose of the meeting was not at all the same as the one I had planned for.  Within 30...

We live in the map not the world

by | Jan 8, 2013 |

Neurolinguistic programming distinguishes between the ‘map’ and the ‘territory’. The map is the representation of the world that we have in our minds. The map is our reality but it is not the ‘territory’, which is the vast flux of space and atoms that make up the...

Become aware of what you can’t perceive

by | Jan 7, 2013 |

There is an enormous amount of sensory information swirling around us that our human sense organs are not able to detect. There are clear limits to human sensory detection. Each species has its own set of limits. Bats, dogs, dolphins are living in a completely...

Choose your train carefully

by | Jan 7, 2013 |

A man was on a train. He looked out of the window as the train passed through the station. What an ugly place he thought. The train carried on. The surroundings were gloomy and miserable. "I don’t like this journey at all. This isn’t where we should be going," he said...

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