Health

Training And Consulting For Health, Mental Health And Coaching Professionals

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I offer training and consulting in subconscious mind coaching for a variety of health, mental health and coaching professionals including:

Psychologists
Psychiatrists
Counsellors
Mental Health Nurses
Mental Health Educators
Academia
Other Mental Health Professionals
Doctors
Nurses
Therapists
Life Coaches
Executive Coaches
Leadership Coaches
Relationship Coaches
Sports Coaches
Shamanic Practitioners

Clients receive:

Details of my background and experience
Training in the logic and science of why and how my method works – the ‘hope’ and ‘knowing’
Training in how to activate the principles learned – the doing
Actual workshop experience in implementing the principles – the results
Examples of how the techniques can be applied in a variety of situations
An opportunity for questions and answers

These services attract specialist consulting fees of $275 (Australian Dollars – AUD) per hour for a one on one basis. Group coaching rates available on request.

Please contact me for more information.

Enjoy Better Relationships With Fewer Arguments And Less Stress This Holiday Season

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The festive holiday and new year season is, for many people, a time of argumentative discussions, disagreements and stress; which can have nasty undertones – a minefield for relationships.

Here’s information about how you can improve your relationships this festive season.

One of the key life principles I use is learning from experts, from some of the best available. For example: I learn some self defence from a former Warrant Officer in 22 SAS who trained British and allied Special Forces in close combat.

Today I want to talk about the insights of Dr Gleb Tsipursky, a ‘Disaster Avoidance Expert’, consultant, speaker and author, who advocates proven behavioral science-based strategies for avoiding disasters.

Dr Tsipursky has written an excellent article in the Scientific American blog, which I enjoyed immensely:

How to Talk to a Science Denier without Arguing. A simple strategy with the acronym EGRIP can be surprisingly effective.

EGRIP: (Emotions, Goals, Rapport, Information, Positive Reinforcement)

I recommend that you read the article more than once and take time to reflect on how you can incorporate the Doc’s strategy into your discussions. You will pass the time with family and friends this festive season anyway, so it may as well be better spent enhancing your relationships, and the lives of those around you, instead of acrimony. Perhaps write notes and plans on how you will use this material.

This is a good illustration of how, if you spend time gaining greater wisdom, your life, and the lives of those you know, will improve significantly. Life is hard enough as it is without adding troubles due to a lack of insight and knowledge.

Short of time to learn?

Reframe your perspective and consider the time you will save by using better skills, consider the stress you will avoid. We know that stress is bad for health too, so the more you can avoid the better. Swap out activities giving a poor ‘return’ with investing the time saved in building wisdom.

Learn about confirmation bias, empathy, rapport, truth, fake news and more.

Self deception, a form of delusion, is a terrible thing. Crap in your head. Over 30 years ago, when I began my journey of mind healing, I realised that I must set my inner compass to seek truth, regardless of my opinion, or the pain involved. It has been well worth it.

Dr Tsipursky’s book on the subject is The Truth-Seeker’s Handbook: A Science-Based Guide.

I also recommend reading the Scientific American, even if you don’t subscribe; they have many free articles.

Amazon commentary:

“How do you know whether something is true? How do you convince others to believe the facts? Research shows that the human mind is prone to making thinking errors – predictable mistakes that cause us to believe comfortable lies over inconvenient truths. These errors leave us vulnerable to making decisions based on false beliefs, leading to disastrous consequences for our personal lives, relationships, careers, civic and political engagement, and for our society as a whole. Fortunately, cognitive and behavioral scientists have uncovered many useful strategies for overcoming our mental flaws. This book presents a variety of research-based tools for ensuring that our beliefs are aligned with reality. With examples from daily life and an engaging style, the book will provide you with the skills to avoid thinking errors and help others to do so, preventing disasters and facilitating success for yourself, those you care about, and our society.”

Be Wary Of The ‘Big Bad Person’ At The Grocery Store

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The ‘big bad wolf’ has had a bum rap; an undeserved bad name.

In our culture we are subconsciously conditioned to fear the wolf, and to see wolves as bad. It’s wrong and has exacerbated persecution of wolves. The Little Red Riding Hood story is the source of some of this conditioning, which has affected multitudes from a young age. Stuff we learn when we are young can get deeply embedded in our subconscious, affecting the rest of our lives unless we ‘clear’ our subconscious minds of unhelpful material.

As children we may have learned to ‘be careful if we go down to the woods’. (Unfortunate thinking also, because being in nature can be a wonderful thing; good for our health, mental health and more).

We need to be wary of the ‘big bad person’ instead.

And careful when we go down to the shops.

Especially the grocery store.

Lots of people want your money, all the while damaging the health of you and your loved ones.

Bastards yes? Scum perhaps? Yet they smile in their corporate offices and often wear suits; looking oh so respectable.

So who are these people, how do we ‘spot’ them and how do we safeguard our health?

To begin, we need to decide to seek truth from our inner core, regardless of our feelings, opinion or bias. When we have decided to seek truth it is easier for the reality of life to start cutting through the delusion with which so many of us are affected.

Read the article linked below (opens in new tab/window), and then please come back to my article.

‘Big food is like big tobacco’: Former McDonald’s advertising exec reveals the tricks food manufacturers use to persuade the public to eat supersized portions that fuel the obesity crisis.

It’s good that this former executive has helped society and spilled the beans on the food industry, though some of us have been aware of this kind of thing for decades. Yes, decades. Kudos and gratitude to him.

Simple version: Big food is driven by profit, big food does not genuinely care about your health and big food likes to appear respectable, responsible and ethical. Big food runs on deception.

Big food puts huge effort and money into psychology (how to manipulate and deceive you), chemistry (such as: ‘correct’ use of sugar and salt are ways of maximising consumption and profits), marketing and more, so they can take advantage of you, your lack of knowledge, your weaknesses and so on.

And big food can be cruel too. Look into how factory farmed pigs and chickens are treated. More here: Aussie Farms and Animals Australia (I only buy genuinely free range or organic pork, eggs and poultry. We are omnivores and biologically meant to eat meat as part of our diet. Being vegetarian or vegan is not the ‘answer’).

Focus on learning about good nutrition. Be wary of fads and sloppy thinking. Good thinking and research takes an effort. Start building better nutrition into your life bit by bit. Your body will respond and start to heal. Swop some junky so-called ‘treat’ with delicious fruit for example. Drink more water.

Learn about the psychology of marketing, deception. Nothing complicated; just the key points.

Learn about food chemistry. Again, nothing complicated; just the essence (pun intended) of what can make people eat more food in general, and more of the bad stuff. (Hints: look into salt, sugar and money).

Learn about the science of how our bodies work. Yet again, the simple stuff. Add to your knowledge daily and honour (do) it.

Remember…big food is trying to affect and deceive you in ways that you are unaware of. So many of us think we can think clearly and that others will not be able to take advantage of us. Humility is a good defence, among other things. (I love being humble, but all the reasons why are beyond the scope of this article – humility’s help in gaining wisdom is just one).

Your health is your most important asset. Guard it well or spend more time suffering and/or die earlier etc.

Be careful when you go down to the grocery store today; big bad food will get you if it can.

If you would like help with any of the issues covered in this article, not just the subconscious mind aspects, please contact me. I can coach you on how to increase your knowledge quickly and effectively.

People say they want to live longer — if in good health – Science Daily

Chart of the day: How much of the food in a supermarket is healthy? – ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)

Physical Healing

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At times I may be able to assist people in gaining a physical healing.

People have benefited in many ways, including health issues, during or after sessions; for a variety of reasons.

I am not a Physician. I do not have any medical qualifications. I do not diagnose medical issues. I do not dispense any kind of medication or other substances.

This article is designed to give you an idea of how I might be able to help with physical healing. I say ‘might’ because there are no guarantees.

I have a focus on truth and results, and tread a careful path based in reality and evidentiary experiences.

Healing and health are complex issues which can be affected by a myriad of factors.

Personally for instance, I suffered from Hives. I had no spiritual/intuitive prompting/urging for healing; which you will see made sense later. I went to see various medical doctors about my Hives, including one GP with around 40 years of experience. In ‘desperation’ after their failure to help, I asked the ‘intuitive realm’ for wisdom, partly because I had a strong intuitive impression that there was something I needed to know, and which I was missing.

I felt inspired to do different Internet research than before, and soon uncovered a little known and recent scientific study that some Hives can be due to Vitamin D deficiency. It fitted my personal situation and after researching safe dosages etc I supplemented with Vitamin D. My hives disappeared (around two and a half years ago). I no longer needed steroids. (Why numerous Doctors never tested my vitamin levels is a matter of curious conjecture).

A Surgeon friend of mine stated that it had been ‘flukey’ for me to discover the solution to my Hives myself.

Some ‘spiritual types’ would have waded in to attempt a spiritual healing on me and the hives when what was really required was Vitamin D. This underlines the importance of getting facts and being genuinely in tune with spiritual wisdom (not to do any spiritual stuff in this case), and also of consulting trained Physicians (though in my case the latter did not help, apart from the vicarious aspect of scientists who conducted research on hives and vitamin D). It explains why I had no inspiration to do a spiritual healing for my Hives. Such a healing would not fix a Vitamin D deficiency; so I had no inspiration. I was malnourished. It’s logical. I got better by eating differently (Vitamin D supplement).

Sometimes, people get well because they think they will. Placebo effect can be involved.

There are other aspects to physical healing too. On another occasion some years ago, someone told me that he had a strange pain in his ankle and the Doctor had booked him in for an MRI scan. On being told, I received intuitive knowledge that 1) the pain was not just in the ankle, but that the pain also ran up the shin to below the knee and 2) which spiritual technique the person needed to use to fix the issue later that night when at home. The person was amazed and said that he had not even told the Doctor the part about the pain running up the shin. He of course realised that the chances of my guessing such a thing were statistically remote. He did what I suggested and later informed me that the pain disappeared and that he cancelled his MRI scan. He has never had a recurrence, even years later. Simply speaking; I got some knowledge – the person knew I could not have guessed it. He did what I suggested and the issue resolved. A good result. A key point is that I received knowledge – I did not ‘wade in’ and ‘do a healing’. All I got was knowledge.

Initially I know nothing. I await helping inspiration with a humble mindset. I do not get answers to everything.

Others get improvement with health issues because they fix mind issues which are contributing: Psychosomatic.

Still more others get health improvements due to Life Coaching – changing some aspect of their behaviour or lifestyle.

Again, the important things are truth, reality, results and being responsible. Years ago, I went late to a spiritual healing meeting where I did not know the nature of the illness of the woman’s husband. I received intuitive knowledge that it was cancer of the brain; which was correct. I did not effect a healing and had no inspiration to do so. Just because one gets insights/knowledge does not mean that one can/should help. That said, had I received that knowledge before the poor man was diagnosed by Doctors I would have strongly suggested that he attend a Physician and get checked out (and diagnosed) by qualified people with scientific tests.

One of the big concerns around physical healing is that irresponsible ‘spiritual healers’, or such thinking by people who are sick, can lead to extremely bad outcomes. Some ‘spiritual healers’ are liars at best and harmful at worst.

I have a friend who is a GP, another a top Surgeon, another an ICU Nurse, another trained in Special Forces Combat Medicine, and I have deep respect for responsible and competent medical practitioners. Science, and logic, is something I value and appreciate.

Spiritual healing is simply just one tool at our disposal for health management; but only if it is based on fact, truth, reality and responsibility. A deep desire for knowing truth, and not one’s own opinion, is a good safeguard – there is so much dangerous and unhealthy thinking around health in society.

To summarise then; these are the ways I may – might – be able to help you with physical healing:

Psychosomatic – You may recover because you have affected a psychological issue.
Placebo Effect – This can be extremely powerful. In some drug trials for example, people have recovered despite knowing they were taking a placebo. I do not dispense drugs or placebos – the placebo effect in this case may be the effect on your mind of coming to see a Shamanist such as myself.
Intuitive/Spiritual Shamanic Healing – At times people have felt heat or some other phenomenon. At others, I have received specific knowledge from an external source.
Life Coaching – Changing aspects of your life can lead to better physical health outcomes. I might suggest you go and see a qualified medical or other health practitioner.
Subconscious Mind Coaching – Psychosomatic and Placebo can be related to this of course, however such coaching can lead to clients being able to get access to forms of healing directly themselves.
Coping With Health Issues – I help people cope emotionally and otherwise with health issues. Not every physical issue can be fixed.

Notes:

Shamanic Healing: I’m probably about a 3 out of 10 ability wise. Most of the populace would be zero or even negative. Some non ‘first world’ indigenous healers are much better. I am indigenous to Britain, with ancient Nordic roots, and have thus been ‘westernised’; the damage from which I am gradually ‘undoing’.
Subconscious Mind Coaching/Healing, which can include some Shamanic stuff: I’m probably a 7 or 8 out of 10, partly because I have been ‘immersed’ in it for a long time, with over 30 years of experience.
I had this post reviewed by a Doctor, and I thus added the phrase: “(Vitamin D supplement)” to the ‘eating differently’ comment. This does not mean that the Doctor endorsed, or did not endorse, the article.

“It is advisable to approach every illness from the psychological side as well, because this may be extraordinarily important for the healing process.” C. G. Jung

Change The Colour Of Your Thoughts

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“The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts.” Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius was a clever man. Besides being a Roman emperor, he was a philosopher. I like learning from smart people.

The wrong type of thoughts can severely harm us, even kill us. Slow deterioration in health is one example of a severe impact (Example: Nocebo) and another, suicide.

What can we do about changing the ‘colour of our thoughts’, and thus improve our lives?

We know that positive thinking only goes so far. In fact, positive thinking used wrongly can also be harmful, but that is another story.

Many of us know how hard it is to try to change our thinking from the top down. Our conscious minds, logic and decisions move us toward change, however we are often frustrated and our attempts are of limited use. This is because we need to change our thinking from the bottom up – we need to start with the subconscious mind. To do that we need to know how the subconscious mind works – the laws which it operates by – and how to effect subconscious mind change.

Metaphorically speaking, the subconscious mind is a series of building foundations. Any good builder will tell you that good foundations are essential for a good building; and that if foundations are undermined, damaged or poorly constructed, the rest of the building will be adversely affected. The leverage power of foundations is huge. Everything rests on them.

So it is with our minds. By working on and with the subconscious mind we can achieve great leverage. As an example, a client (mental health professional) tell me that they overcame a phobia which had been in place for decades due to what I call a ‘side-benefit’ to using my techniques (despite working in mental health, having ‘learned colleagues’ and a hypnotherapist best friend) . A ‘side-benefit’ is when an issue not specifically targeted by use of my techniques resolves as a result of a client focusing on other issues. The reason this happens is partly because of the leverage activated by working on foundational stuff. Fixing one area can cause others to resolve also.

To learn more, please contact me.

Should We Say “Hey Sleepy” Instead Of “Hey Stupid”?

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A long time ago I realised that ‘economising’ on sleep was not a good idea; partly because it violates ‘natural law‘.

Here is an interesting article which, among other things, says:

“People who lack the right amount of sleep suffer a reduction in their cognitive abilities without really being conscious of it”.

Scientists using smartphone app to study slumber patterns warn of ‘global sleep crisis’

Notice the lack of awareness…delusion even.

Can you imagine trying to explain the issue to those affected? The resistance would be high.

And what about all those driving with impaired ability?

Should we say “Hey sleepy” instead of “Hey stupid”?

Some will read this and make no changes to their lifestyle. Now that really is stupid.

Which are you?