by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Hypnotherapy, Mind, Personal Development
Learn about ideal weight control within minutes! This short video cuts out all the jargon, dogma, and rituals. Get your head in a better place, and the rest of your body will follow.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Hypnotherapy, Mind, Personal Development
Learn to meditate within minutes! This short video cuts out all the jargon, dogma, and rituals. Get your head in a better place, and the rest of your body will follow. My YouTube channel is the GO TO destination for busy people like you who want to hack their brain...
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Hypnotherapy, Mind, NLP, Personal Development
Knowing the best way to talk to others is very important if we wish to get our message heard. Talking can get us into all kinds of problems, and this short video gives a few suggestions to avoid common pitfalls.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development, Weekly Blog
There is a popular saying that if something sounds too good to be true it probably is. I prefer to look on the bright side of life, and at least consider anything that looks good. On this occasion the mice were correct, and were not fooled by the cat’s clumsy...
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development, Weekly Blog
Sometimes a reward may not be what it seems. A badge of honour can in reality be a badge of dishonour to everybody else. You might say the vicious dog got what he deserved. Or you might feel sorry for him perhaps?
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development, Weekly Blog
The charcoal burner and the fuller lived in the same village and became friends. However there very different jobs placed a limit on their friendship. Whether this limit was real or imagined is the question? As usual with Aesop there are several different conclusions...
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development, Weekly Blog
Perhaps we should truly value what we already have, rather than think too much about what we want in the future? Not for the first time less is often more.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development
There are many reasons why Aesop’s stories have resonated so strongly with people of all ages and all cultures for at least 2,500 years.
Every story has at least one powerful point which I can use in my work with elite performers. Everybody has the potential to be an elite performer in at least one area of their life, so these videos are well worth checking out.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development
The mice had suffered enough and they really had to take action. They called an Extraordinary General Meeting to discuss how to deal with the vicious cat. They came up with a cunning plan but unfortunately forgot one critical detail. We often make the same mistake...
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development
The determinism story so far In my last blog about determinism I explored why Albert Einstein and many other scientists and philosophers believe that our lives are pre-determined. If this is true then free will does not exist, which is rather frightening. There is a...
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development
No free will? Think again. There are ways to make your own luck.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Golf, Mind, Poker
We will all face adversity at some point in our lives. How we choose to respond to it will have a major affect on our happiness, and the happiness of the people who surround us.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Hypnotherapy, Mind, Personal Development
The reason is that feeling confident is the default normal state for all of us. It is when we have problems with other emotions that confidence hides away in some deep part of our brain. So my approach with clients who want more confidence is not to search for it, but to search for the factors that that are blocking our natural confidence.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development
I have been a strong believer in the power of affirmations and mantras for more years than I care to remember. But for the last few months I have started to have some doubts. Don’t get me wrong. I still think they can help people achieve their goals, but I think there are other methods that will be hugely more powerful.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Acting, Articles, Mind, NLP, Personal Development
Clients often ask me where they can find creativity. I always have a few suggestions to offer. If there is a creative block then by definition they need to do something different.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Acting, Articles, Havening, Mind, Personal Development
About eight years ago two apparently unconnected events manifested in my life that would significantly change my life, and the way I work as a coach. In retrospect this is definitely an example of a Carl Jung synchronicity. It can change your life too.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development
Watch this video, and you will discover why others do not always agree with you, how to connect more effectively with your pets, and much more too.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Articles, Mind, Personal Development
A Simple Technique For Mindfulness. The following video about mindfulness may be the most important one that I have recorded to date.
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Mind, Weekly Blog
You have less control than you imagine. Control of our lives and the events that surround us is a very high priority for most people. We live in an uncertain world with many dangers and it is tempting to believe that much of this is within our personal control. The...
by Dr. Stephen Simpson | Mind, Weekly Blog
Human Genome Project. Many of my recent posts have been about how and why our brain comes up with such crazy ideas. Sometimes they can be illuminating ideas verging on genius, whilst at other times they are just plain stupid. The answers to these questions can be...