Personal Skills HypnosisYou don't have to pass an exam before you get to live your life, but you probably wish sometimes that there were some courses in developing personal skills that you could take.
Some time in adolescence most of us wake up to the fact that life is more than just a random set of 'happenstances' (though there's plenty of randomness to go around). How our lives turn out also depends to a large extent on what we know how to do. Both outwardly, in terms of what you might call hard skills and knowledge, and, more importantly, inwardly. — read more
Overcome caffeine addiction and get your natural energy backCaffeine is the most widely used drug in the world and it's no coincidence that its use has increased alongside longer working hours. For most healthy adults 200-300 milligrams a day (about two cups of coffee) is fine .
But too much caffeine (three cups of strong coffee or more) can lead to insomnia, anxiety osteoporosis, diabetes, ulcers, PMS, stroke, heart disease and may be linked to certain types of cancer.
Other common symptoms are migraines and exhaustion, as caffeine dehydrates and overstimulates your adrenal glands. This leads to an inevitable 'energy crash' - which you may have wrongly interpreted as a cue for another cup! Caffeine abusers say they often feel 'exhausted but edgy' at the same time. Caffeine can simultaneously prevent you getting rest - compounding the effect. — read more
Take the anxiety out of waiting for exam or test resultsWaiting for results whether academic exam results or medical test results can cause huge anxiety. The powerful desire to know the outcome is magnified by the impossibility of knowing. And people often say that not knowing is the worst thing.
We humans dislike uncertainly. We like things to be clear, wrapped up with certainty and completed.
Not knowing the outcome of results that are important to your future can be hard to handle. Yet leaning to deeply relax with the uncertainties of life is such a hugely life enhancing skill. — read more