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Learn how to improve your relationship by understanding first how your emotions form and influence your Conscious and Subconscious Mind. The article details scientific discoveries concerning the subconscious mind and the mind/body connection which show us how we understand, manage, and can change, our relationship with other people and ourselves.

Overcoming Anxiety & Fear

Learn about origins of Fear and Anxiety and how to over come this. We can all experience different fears and anxieties in many different ways, yet there is a common factor behind most of our fears or our anxiety - the way they are formed. Fear and Anxiety can be resolved.

No need for Heroes - Short excerpt's

The Tunnels, the Australian story reproduced from the book No Need For Heroes The Aussies who discovered the Viet Congs tunnels by Sandy MacGregor as told by Jimmy Thompson.

I recently attended your CALM Life Skills Seminar and bought the book

I recently attended your CALM Life Skills Seminar and bought the book "Students Steps To Success". My 11 yr old ADHD son has difficulty in making friends and thus finds himself becoming the "class clown" to attract attention.

Anger is overwhelming me just lately and I was wondering what advice you have to help me control it?

There are so many things, I don't know just quite where to start. Have you read the link to Anger on the Home Page of this website? Self love and self esteem, along with lack of forgiveness could be issues.

How can I deal with the challenge of anorexia?

Although I am not a medical person, from my observations and (limited) experience I understand that self esteem can be a major component of anorexia and perhaps not coming to terms with "growing up" and being responsible for one's own life.

I am a particularly anxious sort of person and would like to control this - can you help?

I believe that meditation is the best way through anxiety. Start off meditating in the morning for ten minutes and in the evening for ten minutes, and see which timing suits you best (many people go to sleep at night, when they are trying to meditate, because they're too tired).

How can I use your techniques to help my child who wets the bed?

Staying dry at night can be a challenge. One of the main things is not to draw attention to it excessively - especially by using negative language. Always use encouraging language, particularly when the bed is dry ... say "Well done, that's great".

Do you have to close your eyes when you relax and go to your Peaceful Place?

No. Have you ever seen someone else, or caught yourself, staring. That's the Alpha state. Single focused concentration. You are not looking at anything when you're staring, but your mind is fixed on a subject.

Below is an exchange of communication which I had with a seminar participant who was following up about Depression

I am writing to you in the hope that you might be able to offer me some advice. I did the CALM Life Skills Seminar a while ago and have found that I got a lot out of it. I have been focusing on a healing goal around a health problem, namely depression, which I have had off and on for more than 20 years now.

How can I deal with the challenge of dyslexia - do you have any products that might help?

The journey of dealing with dyslexia is challenging, and ultimately for those who persist in working with this challenge, the results can be fortuitous - skills developed along the journey can often end up being a great advantage in life, sometimes even careers are developed.

What if I don't easily recall good events in my life to build my Emotional Anchor?

What you can do is to start building your Anchor each day. If you've done something you feel good about - pat yourself on the back and anchor that feeling.

I put things down and then can't find them. Help please!

The major reason is that you didn't pay attention to where you put them, that's why you don't know where they are. Take just a fraction of a second to pay attention to where you put them.

How can porpoising affect goals?

If you do porpoising 20 times a day, 30 seconds each time ? that's 10 minutes a day ? after a month it will be automatic and you will be able to:

I am really struggling with my attachment to my ex-partner. I have purchased your tapes, but i can't recall all of the topics - is one of those useful for learning to 'let go'? I seem to be quite stuck- any thoughts?

I don't have a specific tape for letting go, however 2 thoughts come to mind. The first is that we really don't need the love of another person to happily survive, if we love ourselves enough - the tape (or CD) PP13

One of the things I want to do is get rid of my migraines.

I know they are related to both stress and muscle tightness in my shoulders and neck (which in itself is stress related). Since doing your CALM Life Skills Seminar there is some improvement although I have still had several bad migraines.

Can hypnosis be used together with your method of relaxation?

Hypnosis is when someone else is doing the work and implanting thoughts in your mind. Self hypnosis is when you are doing it yourself and totally in control of yourself.

What if we're listening to a good news station ? at some stage they're bound to come through with some bad news. How do I handle the bad news?

Yes, what you're saying is so true and bad news can be the source of negative thoughts. If you're expecting it, for example at "News Time", you could turn it off. There will always be bad news.

Is it OK for children to do meditation? And have you got any suggestions of books where we can find meditations for children?

Yes, it's fine for children to meditate. Remember that the number of minutes that they can hold their focus is two, plus their age. So for very young children, it would be quite a challenge to meditate for longer than five to ten minutes.

I am interested in the memory aspect of your program. I have tried a pegging system in the past and found it difficult. Could you explain in detail how the memory procedure works and any other relevent information?

There are many things that affect memory and there are many memory methods. On this website you can see what I believe to be the major component of memory, which is the ability to work with the subconscious mind, using a relaxation method.