When we are suffering, we may be tempted to isolate ourselves. In contrast, reaching out to help others boosts a sense of connection and helps our mental and physical health.

When we are suffering, we may be tempted to isolate ourselves. In contrast, reaching out to help others boosts a sense of connection and helps our mental and physical health.
Hypnosis is a state of increased suggestibility, which can be induced to reduce perceptions of pain and fear, to enhance performance and confidence, and to change habits or behaviour.
Anger evolved as a way to defend against threats. But it is an expensive strategy in relationships.
It is often better to enter into each other’s worlds, than to pull others into our worlds and expect them to conform to our rules.
When we are mentally healthy, we feel more complete, less alienated, more ‘at one’ with the universe.
After trauma, our relationship with life can become distorted. We can swing between anxiety and depression. Part of recovery is rebuilding a healthy relationship with the fact that ‘life happens’.