Category: Mind
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The Busy Mind
Currently I have a couple of clients who are plagued by racing minds. Both are intellectuals and grasp the truth of the concept that our feelings come from thought. In other words they get that their experience is being created from within, rather than from external circumstances. For each of…
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Rethinking Addiction
I come from an extended family that has been inflicted with a broad selection of destructive habits or addictions. Within the wider family there have been issues with alcoholism, drug use, smoking, overeating and porn to name but a few. Some of the outcomes have been anything but happy. Suicide,…
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Being Less Toxic
Recently a dear friend paid me a lovely compliment. It was along the lines of, ‘You are so lacking in bitterness.’ We had been talking about the struggles, ‘injustices’ and loneliness I had experienced as a single parent in the early years post separation. I observed that, because I didn’t…
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The Bearable Lightness of Being
Each of us has a natural lightness of being which is sufficiently buoyant to balance the things which come our way. What can tip our experience into unbearable is our own Thinking about these events. Sometimes consciously, but more often innocently, unconsciously and automatically, we entertain habits of thinking which…
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Enjoying Easier Relationships
Recently a woman, whom I’ll call Ann, spoke to me about one of the most common issues of all, negotiating the challenges of relationships. In her case it was a relatively new relationship which had started very promisingly then unravelled a bit following a disastrous trip to a family wedding.…
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The Epidemic of Misunderstanding
After more than 2 decades of trainings and working with clients, I have come to see that is a single, yet important misunderstanding at the root of many of today’s chronic problems. These include addiction, obesity, stress, anxiety relationship breakdown and even depression. That misunderstanding is the false belief that our…
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The Transformative Power of Insight
One of my ongoing challenges is being able to answer the question, ‘What do you do?’ with any clarity. For 30 year or so I was a lawyer. Even if person asking had a different concept of what lawyers do from my actual role, they got a sense of it.…
Christian McNeill 