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Why is This Happening?
Every day, all year round, things happen to us. But we don’t question why they happen. We can’t, there are...
The Importance Of Feelings
This is a big topic, so this post confines itself to a summary of the latest three journal entries from...
How Easily The Mind Goes To Work
This post is is about how quickly, easily and effectively the mind goes to work to convince us of its...
Prediction
It’s helpful to be able to predict what will happen in any given situation. We are aided in this by...
If At First You Don’t Succeed…
…and the chances are you won’t, if what you’re doing is changing your behaviour. To begin with, at least. But...
Just When We Think We’ve Made It
As we progress with our personal development, it is easy to think that things will be forever different, better, as...
Punctuated Equilibrium
Today’s historical post (Noticeable Progress) mentions the first time during my training when I noticed a leap in my progress....
Only You Can Fully Know What You Need
A couple of my recent historical posts (see the related posts at the foot of this entry) have been about...
Child Ego State
This is a TA (Transactional Analysis) term and needs a little clarification because of the two approaches I have used:...
Contradiction, Paradox & Friendship
The writings in this blog may sometimes seem to contradict themselves. Where that happens, it is worth examining the contradiction...
Drivers
In Transactional Analysis, ‘drivers‘ are the behavioural patterns we unconsciously and repeatedly fall back on, particularly in times of stress....
Experiencing Yourself
There are a few recent journal entries from 11 years ago missing. I have left them out because they are...