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Important Questions / Meaningful Answers From a Professional Optimist

by Michael Levy

In a world that seems so full of despair, or as the Buddhist puts it, when all life is suffering, is it possible to maintain a healthy and Optimistic world view?

In Defence of Positive Thinking

by Vera Peiffer

As many have discovered from reading Vera's book Positive Thinking, adopting this attitude can help us to overcome problems and deal with difficult life situations in a more constr...

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

by Michael Levy

In this column the author focuses on how all our inner knowingness gets influenced by external suggestions, as well as our ego. He also looks at how we can achieve a more authentic...

It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time

by Michael Levy

Wherever we turn today, we find a financial guru, spiritual teacher, inspirational life coach, religious leader, scientific author, media expert or academic professor, etc., who is ...

Live an Interesting Life? A Blessing or a Curse?

by Michael Levy

An old curse originated in ancient China. It is "Have an Interesting Life". You may think that is a strange curse, for don't we all want to find life interesting?

Living an Authentic Life - the Path to Fulfilment

by Deborah Ward

In a world where success is defined by money, and happiness is just a weight-loss plan away, many of us have lost sight of our most valuable asset, our true selves. By living authen...

Making a Change: Useful Tips on How to Change your Life

by Gina Pickersgill

A voyage to happiness begins with the journey into the mind in order to change what you have in your heart.... In order to understand the process of gaining clarity on this issue we...

Making the Most of Your Purpose: A Transpersonal Approach to Moving On

by Gina Pickersgill

A resident notion within us makes us feel like we have nowhere to go when we are feeling tired, exhausted or out of sorts. We often make it feel like we are to blame for many of our...

Marrying Theatre with Personal Transformation

by Claire Schrader

The author focuses on the therapeutic benefits of theatre. Her fascination with the theatre and quest for self-exploration led her to the discovery of dramatherapy – the healing po...

Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility

by Michael Hogan

The author reports on the similarity of his work as a social psychologist and that of Ellen Langer, the author of Counter Clockwise: Mindful Health and the Power of Possibility. Th...

Music Maestro Please

by Michael Levy

Neil Armstrong walked on the moon and declared: “One small step for man, one giant leap for humankind.” The first human footprint imprinted on the moon and will forever be a monumen...

No More Soup

by Michael Levy

This column focuses on the deeper significance of an old folklore on the search for enlightenment and our ego-master who holds many negative emotions in its memory banks and sends ...

Normal Ignorance and Natural Truth

by Michael Levy

For the past few million years human beings evolved into the species that exists today. What we observe is six billion people on a planet who all believe they live a normal life in ...

One Step Beyond: A Lifestyle Management Strategy to Support Your Health and Wellness Goals

by Gina Pickersgill

It is beyond our wildest dreams that we need to go in order to sustain the idea that we can achieve them.

Only A Visitor

by Michael Levy

According to Michael Levy, ‘the human brain has sophisticated itself far away from authentic happiness and contentment.’  If we recognise that we are just passing through, it giv...

Our Secret Potential

by Tessa Richter

I've always been fascinated by what humans can accomplish and intrigued by what we term miracles. I remember, as a teenager, wondering how one could possibly compose such wonderful ...

Past, Present and Future Dangers From Self Delusions

by Michael Levy

This article expresses most strongly the importance of being true to oneself, and the dangers for both self and society of trusting the intellectual processes of the brain, and all...

Personal Growth And Insight

by Ginny Fraser

In 1985 I got involved with a personal development seminar company called Insight, which has become a very important part of my life. So much so that I now travel around the world ...

Poor Little Rich Thief

by Michael Levy

With so many financial scandals effecting peoples health is may be time for us to put things in prospective before our health suffers.

Psychophonetics - Psychotherapy as In-depth Coaching for Personal Transformation

by Yehuda Karabo Tagar

This article focuses on Psychophonetics, a combination developed from coaching and psychotherapy – in-depth coaching for personal transformation and change. The author shares his j...