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Mmmm….delicious

Posted in from the consulting room, from the dark room, health, photography, tagged nutrition on March 31, 2008 | 5 Comments »

Mmmm….delicious, originally uploaded by bobsee.
Who would have thought that tomatoes could be controversial?
Well, if you agree with this person – you’ll think they are fabulously health-giving (offering all kinds of protection against cancers)
But, if you agree with this person – you’ll think they are some kind of abomination (because they are from the [...]

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Reflected freedom

Posted in from the dark room, life, photography on March 30, 2008 | 3 Comments »

reflected freedom, originally uploaded by bobsee.
What is it about boats? So many people have such a fascination for them. These ones in the harbour at Cassis were such beautiful colours. Aren’t they lovely?
How about you? Do you like to be beside the seaside?
What do boats mean to you?

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Celebration

Posted in from the dark room, life, photography on March 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »

There’s something going on in the garden……

What do you like to celebrate? And how do you do it? What would you celebrate in a big tent like this?

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Sloping off somewhere this weekend?

Posted in from the dark room, life, photography on March 28, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

What do you like to do with your time off if you’ve busy and working all week? Do you like to slope off somewhere with friends?

Or do you prefer to slope off alone?

Or with that someone special?

What works best for you?

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More What do You See Here?

Posted in from the dark room, perception, photography on March 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »

rock, originally uploaded by bobsee.
For those of you who enjoyed the recent “What do you See Here?“……..here’s another one!

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Managing illnesses without drugs

Posted in from the consulting room, health on March 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »

We do live in a “pill for every ill” society. Arthur Frank, in his “Wounded Storyteller” describes the commonest type of story told by patients in contemporary society as being the “Restitution Story”. By this he means “I’m broke, Doc, please fix me”. He says it’s the fast food approach to health, the quick oil [...]

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William Glasser’s Five Basic Needs

Posted in books, from the reading room, personal growth, psychology on March 25, 2008 | 11 Comments »

In his Choice Theory, William Glasser make the point that we are all born “genetically programmed” to have five basic needs. However, we don’t all have each particular need to the same degree as another person. Our personal mix of these five needs will tell us a lot about our personal motivations and what lies [...]

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What do you see here?

Posted in from the dark room, perception, photography on March 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »

building, originally uploaded by bobsee.
Perception involves a lot more than just sensory inputs ordered by our eyes and brains in the way a computer would process an image.
We use memory to match the patterns we see to what we’ve seen before. And we use imagination to see more than could be seen by [...]

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The past is past. It’s the present you need to pay attention to.

Posted in books, from the consulting room, from the reading room, life, personal growth, psychology on March 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »

William Glasser, in his Choice Theory, says this -
I disagree with the usual psychiatric thinking that you can learn from past misery. When you focus on the past, all you are doing is revisiting the misery. One trip through the misery is more than enough for most people. The more you stay in the past, [...]

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