Archive | November, 2008

Change your life in 40 days…

28. November 2008

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I'm just about to do the Big Peace yoga retreat at the weekend. (Now sold out! sorry! You can sign up for priority notification for the next one here.) And my wonderful yoga teacher Viv has just sent me this information about changing a habit in 40 days and thought that it was encouraging fodder [...]

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HOW NOT TO FIND THE BIG PEACE LESSON 2.

26. November 2008

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How Not to Be Peaceful Lesson 2. Compare yourself to others - be it the Joneses with a nicer car/house/spouse or jungle girl Dani Behr with a perfect body after 2 kids (really, how is that possible???) – when does comparing ourselves to others EVER bring inner peace. Even if you find yourself comparing yourself [...]

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Big Peace December warm-up: Strive to be perfect

25. November 2008

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Today, just wanted to flag up a way of NOT finding your big peace and that's by striving to be perfect and have the script running in your head that you've got to get this (and everything right) or you will never be approved of/loved/included or respected. Perfectionism is one of the most self-defeating strategies that [...]

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Peace is on the Sunday Times hot list

24. November 2008

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Finally…..we've got what someone else wants! The Sunday Times hot list has just named peace as the no 1 most desirable must-have - ‘taking over from 'time' as our biggest, most elusive luxury.’ Not so elusive if you join The Big Peace? We start our live Big Peace journey on this blog on Monday. Stay tuned!

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Big Peace Free coaching!

20. November 2008

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So, very excited! I'm going to run The Big Peace programme daily from this blog through the month of December. Love it! Hopefully all that focus on peace in December will ease me – and hopefully you – into a 2009 of loved-updom and peace to all men (and women, dogs, you know what i [...]

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Big Peace Design

14. November 2008

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People keep asking me who designed the cover of the Big Peace CD – and I feel awful because I forgot to give Big Leaper Kate a plug on the CD. Kate England from Marmalade Moon designed it. and isn't it cool?I was never in the too cool for school gang. But hire a designer [...]

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Giving up coffee

10. November 2008

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It's a small thing but a big thing. I drink coffee. Sometimes A LOT of coffee. (10 cups or more a day) I told my workshop group (I went to the wonderful and amazing How to Self Publish a Best-Seller seminar on saturday with the creative and genius Jacqueline Burns and Kirsty McClachlan of Freethinking.tv) [...]

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Interview with William Bloom

7. November 2008

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I was privileged to talk to wise and rather wizard-like William Bloom last week about his work and his book The Endorphin Effect, all about the miracle hormones – endorphins. William Bloom is Britain's leading holistic teacher and has just been presenting at the annual global conference in London 'Happiness and its causes'. William was [...]

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Dr David Hamilton interview: listen to a doctor dance

5. November 2008

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I was very excited to get to interview Dr David Hamilton, author of his new book How The Mind Can Heal the BodyDavid is a scientist, a trained chemist who was inspired by the field research tests he conducted for chemical companies. Realising that placebo tests produced comparable results with the sample that received the [...]

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If not now, when?

2. November 2008

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I'm just back from half term holidays and I took a quick break up in Haworth in Yorkshire – by heck, it was cold! But spent time walking my lovely dog Oscar over the moors where Cathy and Heathcliffe fell in love.I also visited to the Bronte museum, which was the residence of the Bronte [...]

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