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New Year, New Motivation: Your Path Starts Here

As the New Year begins, many of us feel the pull to set resolutions—promises to ourselves that we will finally make the changes we’ve long desired. But let’s be honest: the road to lasting change can feel overwhelming. Doubts creep in, challenges arise, and it’s easy to lose sight of why you started in the […]

The Art of Embracing Your Feelings: How Avoiding Emotions Increases Stress

“To find happiness, we try to avoid or get rid of bad feelings, but the harder we try, the more bad feelings we create.”Harris Russ- The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living Avoiding difficult emotions is something we all do. When we’re feeling stressed, lonely, or upset, it’s natural to reach for […]

Understanding the impact of Thought Suppression on our Mental Health

Everybody is confronted by intrusive thoughts, painful images or memories; it is natural to want to push them away. In the self-help book The Conquest of Happiness (1930), the Nobel-prize winning philosopher Bertrand Russell discussed the impact of thought suppression on chronic anxiety, explaining that while it may provide temporary relief, it can ultimately exacerbate […]

Why our thoughts are the cause of our problems? – Our freedom lies in the ability to control our own minds.

Epictetus, the stoic philosopher, once said, “we cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.” According to Epictetus , by cultivating mindful awareness of our thoughts and choosing to view situations with rationality, we can exert control over our emotions and guide our behaviour in a more purposeful […]

Mastering change – How to transform habits with Cognitive Behavioural Hypnotherapy?

“First, we form habits, then they form us. Conquer your bad habits or they will conquer you.” Rob Gilbert Habits are defined as repetitive behaviours or actions that are performed automatically, often without conscious awareness. These behaviours can be either positive or negative and are associated with specific triggers or cues. Habits can be linked […]

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