Concentration

  Most of what makes an experience so magical is that we are  experiencing it at just the right moment. Over the past few weeks maybe months, I've had quite a bit of change in my life and the chain of events have just been spinning and spinning in my head at the serendipity of it all, so this morning I finally got around to realising the occurance of things and I began to smile from ear to ear. One of the most extraordinary functions of the human brain is—it thinks for us even when we’re not consciously thinking. Really! how is that possible? Well, the scientific answer—which can breed curiosity about—is that our brain is a sophisticated parallel processing system capable of intuitively assessing and reacting to data that our conscious mind is never even aware of. But I dont always want or need a scientific explaniation for every little thing that happens in life. When just the right thing happens at just the right moment, I simply want to beli...

One of my favourite books was written by Byron Katie, A Mind at HomeWith Itself, I highly recommend it. Every now and then I have to give myself a reminder to remember, many of our biggest misunderstandings in life can be avoided if we simply took the time to ask, “What else could this mean?” A wonderful way to do this is by using what I learned tp call a reframing tool, I initially picked it up from listening to Byron Katie, which I now tailor through my coaching work with others. I call the tool The story I’m telling myself. Asking the question itself—“What else could this mean?”—can help reframe our thoughts and broaden our perspectives, however using the simple phrase The story I’m telling myself as a prefix to troubling thoughts has undoubtedly created many “aha moments” for mtself, friends and clients in recent times. Here’s how it works: The story I’m telling myself can be applied to any difficult life situation or circumstance in which a troubling thought is getting...