by Dr Sharon | Oct 23, 2014 | Relationships (Self and Others)
As a youngster, I went through a phase of comfort eating and picked up a lot of extra weight. Some family and friends – with the intention of being kind – told me not to worry, it was just “puppy fat” and I’d grow out of it. Many other school kids weren’t as kind and...
by Dr Sharon | Oct 13, 2014 | Emotional Intelligence, Relationships (Self and Others)
The past two weeks we have spent time together learning about the way we filter our reality and how our perceptions are formed by deleting, generalising and distorting. So, it shouldn’t come as any surprise that the sages through the ages all say that the path to...
by Dr Sharon | Oct 7, 2014 | Emotional Intelligence, Relationships (Self and Others)
Last week I shared with you how our beliefs and values shape our perceptual filters. I specifically focused on the potential disadvantages of the way we filter (out of absolute necessity) the overwhelming 2 million bits of data our sense receive every second. This can...
by Dr Sharon | Sep 30, 2014 | Uncategorised
According to numerous leading experts, including Dr C D Broad (Cambridge philosopher), “Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe.” The problem...
by Dr Sharon | Sep 22, 2014 | Uncategorised
I was reading an article recently that inspired me to write and remind you that small changes can make a BIG difference. A lot of us often feel challenged or overwhelmed by the “big changes” happening in the world around us. This can lead to a variety of “out of...
