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Get A Life

By Alison | April 10, 2016

“I wish I had worked longer hours” said no one on their death bed ever. In fact one of the top five regrets of the dying is that they worked too hard, so, this week I am going to examine the role of thought in creating a life of balance. Having a peaceful mind, knowing…

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Grumpy Glasses vs Jolly Glasses

By Alison | April 3, 2016

I woke up with my grumpy glasses on the other morning. I had worked late the night before and I was feeling weary and just couldn’t get going. I stayed in bed thinking about stuff that wasn’t quite going the way I wanted it and took a while before I got up. I couldn’t find…

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Stop stressing!

By Alison | March 27, 2016

Warning notice- This article may have positive health benefits. So there is this thing called Stress. It accounts for a large proportion of days off work. You can get medication for it. You can buy countless books about it. You can even go on courses to avoid it. And….you can’t weigh it. You can’t see…

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Good and Bad, Right and Wrong?

By Alison | March 21, 2016

The festival of Easter is approaching this weekend. A moment in history where a man was put to death from his body because what he said was judged as wrong. I wonder how often in your life/day you judge someone or something to be wrong? Well, I am here to tell you there is no…

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How to create “no brainer” influence

By Alison | March 13, 2016

How much influence do you have in your life when it comes to changing your behaviours, and how do you create the right circumstances for change, for example if you want to lose weight? In order to create change the three parts of our brain have to be aligned. These are the Neocortex- which is…

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To love oneself

By Alison | March 7, 2016

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance” Oscar Wilde So I thought I had finished writing about love but it turns out there is something else that wants to be expressed, and that is about self love. Now I know this is something we hear all the time, something that is trotted…

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Thoughts about love ~ Part 3

By Alison | February 28, 2016

Love without conditions If you are trying to find the “perfect” version of love outside of yourself, you will be continually frustrated and your experience will always fall short. How much time do you spend being present in your relationship or is the mind wandering off finding fault with it, wishing that it looked as…

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Thoughts about love ~ Part 2

By Alison | February 21, 2016

Mind reading and expectation- Insecure thinking is a trickster. It tells us we have to look a certain way to be loved. It tells us we need to be a type of person to be loved. It encourages us to read magazine articles on how to be “The type of woman men can’t resist” or…

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Thoughts about love~ Part 1

By Alison | February 14, 2016

There is so much I can write on this subject so I am going to cover some of it here, in Part 1 and continue next week. L.O.V.E. It is said that love is joyful; that it brings romance, fulfilment, pleasure and happiness into our lives. It is also said that love is painful; that…

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Planning your holiday?

By Alison | February 9, 2016

In these days of busy work/home lives it can often seem as if a break away from it all will bring us some peace and respite. A chance to unwind and relax away from our everyday schedule. However there is something that we take with us that can often prevent that from being the case-…

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