The question above was asked on Quora recently. Below is my answer. You can’t. You have the illusion, common in the Western world, that you control your mind or thoughts. [...]
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Last week I busted one of the biggest mindfulness myths: that [...]
“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson Like me, you have probably heard a fair bit about “mindfulness” [...]
It’s normal to feel down and lonely when life gets rough or when you lose a loved one. This kind of depression is what everyone is familiar with. It’s temporary, [...]
Is counselling an effective therapy? Effective therapy is no accident. But many people hesitate to seek help for life’s challenges or to address psychological conditions because they are afraid [...]
What you can do when everything you try makes things worse There are some problems in life that are like that. The harder you try to escape the problem [...]
Nervous stands up too It is my experience that no matter how easy the music or how many times I have delivered the workshop or no matter how simple the [...]
In this article Steve Hayes, the founder of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT, pronounced as the word 'act'), talks openly about how he began his own ‘journey into the hell of [...]
Four of Australia's most experienced ACT practitioners will help you raise your ACT skill levels in this highly experiential training workshop. Australia-New Zealand Chapter of Association for Contextual [...]