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March 22nd, 2007

Understanding Negative Thinking

Once again in my day job I was privileged to speak to Robyn McMaster of the MITA International Renewal Center who look into all kinds of areas related to the brain. The interview with Robyn is about understanding negative thinking and how we can be influenced by others, also the effect of depression on us […]

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March 21st, 2007

Facing Death

I was travelling back from London yesterday and was joined on the train by an old lady who really touched my heart. I started to speak to her and found out that she was riddled with cancer and living on borrowed time. She was laughing at the thought that she should not have been on […]

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March 21st, 2007

Living with Grief

Remember tomorrow the teleconference on living with grief - here is a brief summary
“The Hospice Foundation of America’s 14th Annual National Bereavement Teleconference “Living with Grief: Before and After the Death” will be presented from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Thursday, March 22, in Rutland Regional Medical Center’s CVPS/Leahy Conference Center, rooms A, B and C.
Live […]

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March 13th, 2007

Your life as a film

We understand that death draws to close your story. We understand the pain, the depression. What we do need to think about is how we spend the rest of our life. Lou Tice on his  The Pacific Institute newsletter today asks this question
“If a Hollywood producer wanted to film the story of your life, would […]

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March 8th, 2007

Depression and Learning

I was fortunate to speak to the wonderful Dr Ellen Weber about how the brain works and motivation - what a wonderful lady. You can hear our interview - she dedicated to the memory of my father - at my Enagaging Brand podcast site you will want Show 67 and Show 68
I have been looking […]

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March 1st, 2007

People affect your emotion

I was speaking to someone today who is doing research into the brain. I was fascinated as I lost my dad to dementia. One thing that she said was that people influence others moods. Happiness is actually contagious….did you know that an adult laughs on average 17x a day, compared to a child that laughs […]

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January 18th, 2007

How your brain works

I came across this post about how your brain works. It is quite interesting and gives us some ideas of how to relieve stress, which when you lose someone is high.

Walk beside a river and this reduces the hormone cortisol which generates stress.
Solve one old problem in a new way today.
Run from negative people.
Drink water […]

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