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The importance of smiling
At the risk of boring my millions of readers, I am going to give a few more words on the mental health gig. I was chatting with a friend recently who actually works in the life coaching business. It seems he has developed a protocol around activating the parasympathetic nervous system. There are four aspects…
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Football cold turkey
It has been eight days since the last meaningful football match. I am not impressed with this Inaction. The World Cup kicks off on Thursday. I am counting the seconds.
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Junior siblings
I am the youngest of three brothers. In the last few years it has become apparent to me that this is something of an issue in my family. Recently, I sent the mental health podcast that I’m listening to along to my brothers given the relevance it has for how things were when we were…
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Deep breaths and dukkha
Dukkha is the Buddhist term for suffering.There are times when my mind is very much in dukkha mode. The parasympathetic nervous system is the network of nerves which relaxes your body after stress. It seems to me that the latter is a better bet than the former.  Inhaling breath through the nose, holding for…
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Ambitions
I have two main ambitions in life.First up has to be peace of mind. Following on closely behind is my long held desire to become the worlds leading vision impaired, Guinness guzzllng, cocktail sipping classical guitarist. No major news on this front. 31 pieces to my name with the high bar of Receurdos de la…
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Close but no cigar
Arsenal were beaten last night on penalties in the Champions League final. My pet theory that they would win both the Premier League and the Champions League did not come about. It would appear that I do not know everything. 
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Happiness is within
I was chatting with a friend recently about the whole mental health gig. She made the very good point to me that happiness is within. I could not agree with her more. Self acceptance and living in the moment seem to be the key phrases to me. It’s a bit like learning a new piece…
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Pain and suffering
Pain is inevitable, suffering is a choice. I was reminded of this line when listening back to the first episode of A New Day,. The idea that thoughts and images from the past will always happen and that the trick is not to linger on them. The recommendation from the podcast is to take three…
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Almost
I tuned in to the Monday night Club yesterday evening to see if my latest email would get a mention. I felt that if the player/pundit Andros Townsend was on the show, then I had a chance. It was Townsend who had disagreed with my email of April 20 which made the point that Arsenal…
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Cocktails
One of the barmen in The Great Institution goes by the name of Mayoounaa. He hails from Mongolia. Yesterday he made me a cocktail. Gin, mint, elder flour and lemon. I liked it. I happened to be passing that way today and I had another two of those cocktails. It seems that it has been…
Blind light 