Attitudes are very powerful. They unlock reserves of power within us to produce results that we never conceived as possible. Dr. Joan Borysenko, Director of the Mind/Body Clinic at the Harvard Medical School, reports on an experiment which illustrates the power of attitudes and belief. “Women with morning sickness were asked to swallow intragastric balloons [...]

When I was 18 years of age I listened to a series of motivation tapes produced by an American motivation speaker called Earle Nightingale. The series was called Lead The Field and on the first cassette Earle Nightingale promised to reveal a magic word that could literally make the difference between success and failure. It [...]

This following transcript is of an interview I did with Bev Selmer on the 12th February 2011 asking her how she copes with stress at 82 years of age. Bev lives in retirement on the Central Coast of NSW. Bev you are a person that I have know for some time and you never ever [...]

photo credit: puroticorico In 1987 I made my first visit to Chicago. One day I had to catch a train to Hinsdale, an outer suburb of Chicago. The train left from the Chicago Union Station. I walked to a street near the station but couldn’t locate the main entrance. As I was walking down the [...]

Our response to stressors is essentially individualistic. However society does tend to influence and condition our responses. For example, if someone speaks to you aggressively then the common response is to return aggression with aggression. If a motorist cuts you off the common response is to yell abuse accompanied by rude finger signs. These are [...]