Recently I have been reading Caroline Brazier’s Buddhist Psychology, which I recommend. This lead to me thinking about suffering and how we respond to it – this is quite important in Buddhism (not to mention in our lives). I have written about this in a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. [...]
I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog called An Introvert’s Authenticity. The introvert referred to is yours truly. For me honouring my introversion has probably been the trickiest part of authenticity – especially at those times and in those places where you are meant to ‘sell yourself’ (I think [...]
The World of Hamish McBeth My partner and I don’t bother about Christmas very much. It doesn’t mean much to her and I loathe the commercialism; so we tend to leave it alone. This year I did buy myself a small Christmas present – a Hamish McBeth novel, called Death of a Charming Man, from [...]
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It is often said that genius and creativity lie close together. I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog where I examine this idea. I think I know what the idea is but all the creative people I know are quite sane. I also talk about bringing creativity into our [...]
10-10-10 is a book that gives you a simple way to make decisions. Suzy Welch is married to Jack Welch the American executive. The bit about how they got together when Jack was separated, but not yet divorced, from his wife is on pp.154-158. What are the three tens? They are ten minutes, ten months [...]
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I have a guest post on the Psychology, Philosophy and Real Life blog. It is called The Spirit at Christmas. In it I talk about experiences of spirit usually involving a sense of abundance and not mean-spiritedness. Also that there do seem to be things that diminish or demean spirit – shown in the sense [...]
This is a link from Kaushik on his blog Beyond Karma. Kaushik writes with insight and simplicity. At risk of being too simplistic Kaushik writes from the perspective of ‘non-attachment and letting go is the path to happiness’. I have a few quibbles with this perspective – and I put some things differently than they [...]
Just a link to a post on How to Change Your Focus and be Happy Now. This post lists four shifts needed to become happy now. They are: From Unconscious Living to Conscious Living From Looking Outward to Looking Inward From Living in the Future or the Past to Being Present From Criticism and Judgment [...]
