Thursday, August 30, 2007
I don’t think the “Law of Attraction” would be so popular if it was called the “Theory of Attraction”?
I don’t think it would have become famous from a book titled “My Belief About Attraction”?
Does calling something a Law make it similar in reality and significance to the “Law of Gravity”?
I don’t think so.
I can toss [...]
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The credit for making this site a reality goes to a guy called James Brausch.
He wasn’t really the inspiration for this site, more like a solid kick up the butt.
Anyway, he got me to do something I was thinking wouldn’t happen for at least 3 years, if ever. I’ve got much else to credit the [...]
I continue to be amazed that the term “Law Of Attraction” has become the catch-cry of the first decade of this new millenium.
A movie like “The Secret” fits a certain era.
I think LoA’s preeminence could only come about from long periods of strong economic growth, just like we have had over the past couple of [...]
It’s really interesting to watch this debate going on, especially when it gets into very high level medical journals like this Head to Head debate in the British Medical Journal here:
No: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7615/329
Yes: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7615/328
Depression in its various different clinical descriptions over the years has been claimed to be present in anywhere from 1% to 17% of [...]
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
TV has a lot to answer for, particularly in terms of therapy.
Television has been blamed for 101 problems in the world, and I’d like to add a few more.
For example, was there ever any likelihood of one of the characters in Seinfeld changing when they went to counselling?
What would have happened to the show if [...]
One of the basic assumptions in any self help process has to be that you can assess yourself.
However when a survey shows that 60% of drivers on the road think they have above average driving skills, this is not an assumption that can be taken for granted.
How well do you assess your own performance, in [...]
When I was training to be a doctor there was one book that was the “underground” text for our training.
It was a book that I only heard once mentioned officially… and that was to be told “Don’t read it.”
Imagine what we did with that instruction!
It was the story of a fresh medical intern coming to [...]
Saturday, August 18, 2007
Usually when people hesitate to take sleeping medication, it’s because they are concerned about the risk of becoming addicted.
But a few years ago a gentleman came to see me in my counseling practice because he was addicted instead to relaxation tapes.
He would go to bed at night and if he didn’t play one of these [...]