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Reverse Thinking
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For personal development, health, well-being, emotional intelligence and stress management. Articles on therapy, coaching and self-help. How to overcome anxiety, depression, stress and illnesses such as chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia.
Recent Posts
Hugh Laurie, Schopenhauer, and the art of life
This is the follow up article to Schopenhauer: a philosophy for grumpy people? Which attracted a good response from many readers, many of whom had never heard of him, and were intrigued by his pessimism. Like Hugh Laurie in House he attracts peopl...
Best 15 instant Xmas stress-busters
Another survey - this one mentioned by Colin Brazier in his Sky News Blog - comes up with two facts:1. Most people, when asked to come up with a word that goes with 'Christmas' don't say 'happy', or 'merry', but 'stressful'.2. On average the first C...
Why guilt is useless
Guilt is a delusionary state. It doesn't serve you at all and is a creation of the imagination; of Headmind's drive towards conformity.Here's how Headmind creates Guilt:1. Headmind is stuffed full of judgments about the person you could be, should b...
Schopenhauer - a philosophy for grumpy people?
In my last article - Can feeling grumpy be good for you? I mentioned one of my favourite philosophers - Arthur Schopenhauer - who was a grumpy old man already by the age of 19. I first read him at 15 and developed a 'bah humbug' attitude which was d...
Can feeling grumpy be good for you?
I receive a mischievous communication from my very good friend Mark McGuinness who wants me to comment on a research article he has looked into, written by some 'Australian psychologists', which claims that being in a 'bad mood' can be 'good' for y...
Escape from personal misery
This is the follow up article to Go mad with Dr Johnson. If you haven't read that one yet then best to read it here before returning to this page.The core problem with Johnson was that he was dominated by his ego. I have written quite a bit about th...

