Reignite: A Practical Path to Spiritual Awakening

Reignite

Around 20 years ago I had a spiritual experience, which I wish to reignite. I was driving down to London listening to the soundtrack of the Trainspotting film. I was zoned out from listening to music, during the 4-hour drive from Manchester Then Blur’s Sing came on. For no apparent reason, the hairs on the back of my neck stood on end. A warm flow rose up through my spine, to the crown of my head and back down.

For a brief moment I saw everything was connected, through time and space.

Continue reading “Reignite: A Practical Path to Spiritual Awakening”

Is Shadow Work Useful for Personal Growth?

Shadow Work

I’ve been passionate about personal growth for around 30 years now. I’ve studied NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming) and am a certified life coach and hypnotherapist. I am always open to looking at new technologies. Lately I’ve come across what is known as shadow work.

Shadow work sounded esoteric and I’m always a sucker for something new and secretive, so I’ve decided to investigate it.

Continue reading “Is Shadow Work Useful for Personal Growth?”

I don’t want to pick sides

Pick Sides

I love my football team; I’ve supported them since I was seven. This means I go to watch them play live and on the TV. I am unashamedly biased when it comes to my team. I’m the same with my family and friends because I care about them. I also care about some local issues, which others may find trivial. That’s fine because I’m sure I won’t care about some of the things other people care about. I don’t want to pick sides on every single issue of the day.

Continue reading “I don’t want to pick sides”

Using an Intention Statement to Achieve Your Goals

Intention Statement


Every achievement starts with an intention. I can’t think of many good things I’ve achieved by accident. It therefore follows that if we want to achieve something we should set an intention. This is all part of goal settings and is well known, but how do we make sure that we follow through on our goals? Keeping our goals front and centre can help and for this I’ve been using an Intention Statement for a while now. Here I explain what an intention statement is and how you can use one to help you achieve your goals.

Continue reading “Using an Intention Statement to Achieve Your Goals”

Be Happy but not Content

In one of my first sales jobs, the company wisely knew the importance of sales training and coaching. One such development programme the company set up was a ‘Sales Buddy’ system. For one day per quarter, the younger, greener sales reps would be accompanied in the field by an older more experienced sales professional. I can still remember my ‘sales buddy’ and our trips out. I also still remember and practise much of his sage advice. In particular, I remember him telling me the epitaph ‘be happy but not content.’

Continue reading “Be Happy but not Content”

Who controls the world?

Controls The World


Here’s my take on who controls the world. Hint – it’s not who you think.

They

Have you heard what They are planning next? They want to control you and make you subservient. They keep you from achieving your dreams and they don’t care about you.
You read and hear things like this in online chatrooms, social media or in bars. Idle chat maybe, but just who are They? Who does control the world?
Let’s have a look at some of the contenders for who They are.

Continue reading “Who controls the world?”

Using Running to Solve Problems

Using Running To Solve Problems


Running has many benefits, especially for health, such as cardiovascular exercise and mental health. Using running to solve problems, however, is a benefit few people know about.
Problems can be solved by logical analysis. They can also be solved by intuition or allowing the subconscious mind to find the solution. Using the subconscious mind to solve problems often provides more elegant solutions. But how do we get the subconscious mind to work on the problem. Well, there are many ways. You might have already noticed that answers to questions pop into your mind when you are thinking about something else. Or alternatively, you can’t remember someone’s name, but then when you are relaxing or doing something mundane like having a shower and the answer is delivered.

Continue reading “Using Running to Solve Problems”