Posts by Beth
A Stroke of Insight
I recently read a book by Jill Bolte Taylor, a brain scientist who experienced the results of a stroke that incapacitated almost the entire left side of her brain. Most people are aware that our left and right brains carry out very different functions, the left keeps time, makes comparisons, judges, categorises and labels. It contains our to do lists, our recollection of past and our future and also gives us our capacity for skills like language and mathematics. It provides us with a perception of our boundaries and a sense of who we are in the world, our name, age, occupation and our standing in society. It was these analytical and ego functions that Jill...
Read MoreThree therapy techniques to free you from troubling thoughts
Ever get a thought in your head that won’t go away and makes you feel terrible? You and the rest of the world! Here are quick three techniques that can help: 1. The Switcherooney This is a very eye opening technique to help you gain clarity and insight on a situation or relationship that you have a complaint about. First of all put the name of the person you want to address at the top of the paper, someone you feel has done you wrong or you feel should have behaved differently. Then, in as much detail as you like, and using as colourful language as you like, address them, listing all their wrongdoings, their faults, and unleashing all the criticism you...
Read MoreIf I’m hysterical, it’s historical
I read a brilliant phrase in the memoir of TV writer Tracy McMillan called I love you and I’m leaving anyway. She said: “If I’m hysterical, it’s historical.” What she meant by that is when what would normally only be a mildly upsetting or neutral experience, unknowingly keys into similar past events that have not been fully processed and you find yourself going absolutely nuts over it – you’re in floods of tears, or incredibly anxious or you shut down completely – and no-one, perhaps least of all you, can understand why this has produced such intensity of emotion. This is our first clue that we have undealt events and...
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Read MoreSelf-Love – an old concept, but a vital one
Recently I’ve been receiving the message again and again in different guises about how important self-love is. I’ve found it to be such a hackneyed phrase that it’s become easy to ignore over the years. Louise Hay who wrote ‘You can Heal Your Life’ was probably the first to push the message to the forefront, and even in the EFT set up we make the statement that ‘I love and accept myself.’ So I knew it was important, but a part of me never really took it to heart, accepted what it meant or how it feels to truly live that phrase. However certain things I’ve read and watched recently have really put together why it is so...
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