How to navigate an emotional minefield

If you’re unable to say what you really think or feel on a daily basis, it’s like you’re living in an emotional minefield. This is basically a situation in which interacting with people could, at any moment, trigger intense emotional reactivity. It could be them, it could be you.  It could be with a partner, […]

How to use chi to forgive and forget

If you often say “I’ll never forgive myself for…” or “I’ll never forgive… (fill in person, politician, organisation etc) for..”, you could be creating a mental health issue for yourself. Being unable to forgive creates stress, obsessive thought patterns, grudges or those re-running angry internal dialogues. This prevents inner peace, and inner peace equals mental health. Every […]

Hurkle-durkle (lying in bed) is not good for mental health!

I remember back in 1994, I went to a seminar by Dr Leon Hammer, a famed clinical psychotherapist and Chinese medicine expert, and someone I really admire. I read his books so often they fall apart. Anyway, during his presentation he warned us that spleen function was rapidly declining in people and that this would […]

Mental Health: It’s Elemental

The latest ‘aha’ moment in neuroscience is that the brain changes constantly. It’s not static and it doesn’t automatically decline as we age. We change our brain either proactively by cultivating thoughts which lead to good mental health, or it is affected by an environment that leads to poor mental health. If we live ‘correctly’ […]

How to Build Hope

How to Build Hope Every time obstacles, freak-outs, fear twinges or depressing news moments threaten to drag you down, you can create little hits of hopefulness to counter it. See, hope is not a psychological state it’s an organ state and that means you can generate it yourself regardless. You can’t control what is going […]