What worries you most about the virus? Take a moment to think about it. I’m certain that your mind immediately filled with concerns about health, money, boredom, employment – a whole host of worries waiting there on standby to flood in on request. Anxiety and fear that pours into your mind as easily as water from a tap. Continue reading “Overcome Worry and Fear – Facing COVID-19 the right way”
Why is it that we spend so much time worrying about the future? I am as guilty as the next person. I felt sick to my stomach every time I thought about my son sitting his GCSE’s from 1stJanuary right through to the very first day of his exams. I made myself feel so stressed, imagining every kind of awful scenario that could potentially happen.
And where did it get me exactly? Nowhere! Continue reading “Fear of the Future – Why worry?”
Have you ever heard of The Power of Now?
I am not a huge fan of self-help books. Those I have read over the years have left me feeling underwhelmed and without any lasting sense of change or improvement that I can recall. I no longer seek them out and never recommend them to my clients.
But one Sunday morning in January, I was lying in bed, listening to the radio. The DJ and her guest casually mentioned a book that they had both read and that had changed their lives. I was about to go away to a cottage without any internet or phone signal for seven days. And so I popped online and ordered the book, simply for something to do while I was away.
The book in question is The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle. It arrived the next day, I packed it away and gave it no further thought until I arrived at my cottage the following weekend.
In the interests of full disclosure I will now admit the following: Continue reading “The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle – A Life Changing Book”