3 most important changes in psychotherapy
Changes in psychotherapy The aims of psychotherapy are manifold. The resolution of mental health problems is what it is best known for. But alongside that goal there are several others:…
How personal values push you to transform
The importance of personal values A personal value represents a commitment to improving yourself, or the people and the world around you. They are what keep you going through the…
Resilience: breaking your comfort zone
What is a comfort zone? A comfort zone can be a place, a situation, or a habit. Anything at all that you associate with ease and security. The human brain…
9. Reframing problems and stories
What is reframing? Reframing relies on our ability to switch attention from one way of looking at something to another way. The duck-rabbit illusion on the right is a famous…
3. Ecstatic consciousness
Ed Mitchell's journey through space In February 1971 Ed Mitchell, a pilot on the Apollo 14 craft, flew back to Earth after a successful moon landing. He was about to…
2. Personal change will happen, whether or not you do anything about it
Personal change is inevitable People will change whether they want to or not. From babies into children, from children into teenagers, from teenagers into adults. During the course of the…
0. How people change (New series on personal change)
Personal change I have been a student of personal change ever since I was a depressed teenager reading Dale Carnegie's How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (although that book…
9 habits of resilient people: self-renewal
What is self-renewal? By self-renewal I mean resilient people are never satisfied with the status quo; they are always looking for new horizons. Another way of putting this is that…
Letting your personal genius loose
Explaining personal genius In my last post - Losing your personality - I briefly mentioned that developing your genius can free you from the ego. This item explores what that personal…