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A Practical Guide to How Your Brain Works

Given that our brain is where the thoughts, feelings, ideas, beliefs and decisions that guide our whole life arise I think it's helpful to have a rudimentary understanding of how it works so we can use it more effectively.

Your brain is the most complex system in the known universe. Over eighty billion massively interconnected neurons form the most complex parallel-processing biological computer imaginable, and it's right there in your head controlling your every move. Nobody fully understands how it works, which isn't at all surprising when you consider that we're using our brain to try to understand itself. That's like a computer trying to understanding itself. So I can hardly do it justice in a single article but here's a rough guide to the features I think are most important.

Consciousness and The Mind

The mind is a function of our brain. When people talk about “the mind”, they … Continue reading…

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Breakthrough To Success with Christopher Howard

Does the idea of spending three days with a bunch of positive, excited people in a rock-concert style atmosphere while learning how to drop limiting decisions from the past sound like fun to you? That's the best description I can give of Breakthrough To Success, and if you haven't been to one yet, it's time to get yourself along and check it out.

I made a whole bunch of limiting decisions about myself and about the world while I was growing up, and I find that each time I go along to this event, I come back a more loving person. Isn't that interesting?

Christopher Howard's work is based on Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), which has a bunch of tools and techniques for changing the way we think to overcome restrictive thought patterns. I admit to being a little sceptical of NLP, but many people I know who have learned it … Continue reading…

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The Mental Toolbox

Over the past few years I've become increasingly aware of how powerfully the way we think influences the way our life goes. Whether it's our relationships, career, finances, health, well-being, social or spiritual life, virtually everything comes back to our mindset. Cynicism, negativity, lack of faith in ourselves, and limiting beliefs about who we are and what we're capable of can all get in the way of us having a great life. We often pick up absurdly negative ideas about ourselves through experiences we have as we grow up, and then carry these ideas with us right through adulthood as if they were actually true.

Mental Toolbox logo sml The Mental ToolboxChanging the way we think can have a dramatic positive impact on our experience of life. With this in mind, I want to invite you to an event called The Mental Toolbox which promises help you to change the way you think away from negative … Continue reading…

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