My "Skills of All-Round Well-Being"

...for your everyday life, and the lives of those you care for.

• What exactly is All-Round Well-being, if more than physical health?
• What brings Profound Happiness in contrast to superficial pleasure?
• And what has Nature made our number-one priority in life?

I help to answer these questions as together we explore HOW TO...

1. Muster sufficiently powerful self-motivation to dramatically improve your quality of life by treasuring and channelling the energy of your most painful emotions, rather than consuming 'pain-killers' that only repress those feelings (such as comfort foods, pharmaceuticals, alcohol and television). Our painful emotions (shame, fear, anger, regret, loneliness) are saying 'pay attention, this is vitally important to you', and the most inspiring individuals have learned to 'ride the wave' of such emotions to help them make satisfying progress in life.
2. Love Wisely. Give and receive love in the particularly healthy and helpful ways that nurture and deepen the bond. For instance, sharing adventures with someone (through a hike in the wilds, or a new evening class) is a sure-fire way to improve your rapport.
3. Unhitch yourself from unhelpful habits and replace them with useful ones ... my so called 'Antidote Activities'. Distinguish your Essential Needs from 'superficial wants', replace your problems with your passions, and so create your home-grown 'natural cure'.
4. Actively balance your personal and working life by investing yourself in creative spare-time activities carefully chosen by you to fully engage the insufficiently used parts of your body, mind and soul, and dynamically refresh the exhausted parts. Finding these 'Positive Opposite' activities is the secret of the 'well-balanced all-rounder'... the Renaissance Man and Woman.
5. Harness technology so it helps your relationship with life rather than hinders it. What rules do you have for yourself about using your mobile, emails, computers, ipods, facebook and fantasy worlds? What are the essential nutrients your life derives from hands-on, face to face, physically dynamic real life... nutrients that your more sedentary, artificial and isolated experiences might not give you?
6. Become exceptionally good at the things you're passionate about. Desperately wanting to isn't enough on its own; our practice time requires some crucial ingredients for fast, effective skills-acquisition, otherwise our efforts are largely wasted.
7. Overcome your most daunting fears and emotional traumas that can hold a life back in key areas by imprisoning you in unhelpful automatic responses to certain situations. For instance, combining deep relaxation with Imaginative Rehearsal in your mind's eye can help acclimatise you to once daunting real-life scenarios, and can effectively neutralise the poisonous memories of past experiences. Working in harmony with your sub-conscious mind like this can also help with psycho-somatic ills - the very real physical problems caused by a disgruntled sub-conscious mind prompting you to resolve the situation.
8. Honour your most dearly treasured passions. That is, invest yourself in the people, places and pursuits you care about the most, and which together comprise one's Spirit & Soul. Striving with all your heart for these imbues one's life with a profoundly satisfying sense of purpose.
9. Explore being versatile, playful and surprising. Your skill for being versatile in the face of life's many 'unpredictables' and for creating 'welcome surprises' renders you not only highly resilient, but positively irreplaceable.
10. Progress in your personal exploration of Well-being Skills. Find where to look for the most inspiring ideas & coaching on how to bring more well-being into your everyday life, and into the lives of those around you.

Drawing upon the above themes, we can readily discuss your particular interests. To bring them to life, I cite some highly inspiring individuals, and offer some colourful examples from the world of Art, Science, Craft and Technology.