March 20th, 2008 by Phil

They say laughter is the best medicine. I couldn’t agree more, which is why I wanted to share this video with you. The Japanese come up with the most original pranks!

March 16th, 2008 by Phil

I found this interview with Tony Robbins. A great guy who has lots to offer anyone, no matter what state or situation you’re in. If you’ve got 12 minutes to spare, hit the play button and enjoy!

February 13th, 2008 by Phil

The regular routine things, like sleeping, eating and walking are so common that we hardly spare our time in thinking about them. It’s a vast territory of mystery, which Shakespeare once termed, “night’s second self”. We sleep as it is needed. It’s an inevitable part of our life. But a simple general knowledge about sleeping can make this almost overlooked part a strongly enhancing factor of our life. Let us take a deeper look at some interesting sleeping facts.

Sleep more - feel good, makes sense right? We know that at least eight hours we should spend in sleeping. We are, Bernard Shaw said, “slave to nature for that”. But the recent neo-scientific theory demonstrates the lesser we sleep, the more energetic we feel. It may sound heretic, almost breaking the standard norm of understanding. But the bone of contention goes, a five-six hours of sleeping can make you healthier and more awake. In fact, you may be taken aback hearing the fact that the world’s busiest people, CEOs, entrepreneurs, scientists, whose minds are constantly running relentlessly, sleep only four hours and wake up fresh to face the challenges the day brings.

With the world changing fast and strongly dependent on electronics, you have really a lesser time to adapt to it, both physically and professionally. Thus, there may have been some change in biological need as well.

Is the change destructive? Are those people victim of insomnia? Or do they hide some secret mystery? The truth is the more you sleep, the lazier you become. Sleep more than necessary and it’s likely you will feel tired and sluggish. Oversleeping makes you feel exhausted, and consequentially lazy.  After a particular point of time, you are bound to feel bored or irritated.

So is it possible to sleep less and feel vibrant? The answer is ‘Yes’, it’s astonishing that people are performing well while sleeping less. Actually, the old calculation goes, you should sleep eight hours a day, but how true is this? This mathematics strips you off one third of your life. The quarter of the rest is gone in performing nature’s duties.

In fact, this order has been set according to the load of the work. Previously people had much time to perform their work. But this ultra-sophisticated world demands from you more time to ameliorate it better. Thus the order of sleep has lessened accordingly. Science is in no way opposed to that. It’s only a matter of adaptation.

Now, prepare the statistics. Eight hours of sleeping gives sixteen hours of work. Add two hours to your work by deducting it from sleeping, and then calculate it for the next ten years. The amount can fulfill any number of dreams you set. In fact, you waste one-third of your life by sleeping. Imagine how much progress you could make if you were able to dedicate two hours extra to your work. The working proverb is not, early to bed and early to rise anymore.

January 13th, 2008 by Phil

Do the big pharmaceutical corporations really have your health in mind or are they just after the billions of dollar’s they make each year. If you thought it was the first, then it’s time to wake and smell the coffee.

Grab a coffee and watch this now:

Quote from Dr Mercola: “For over 100 years conventional medicine has seized control of the US health care system and as a result we have over 800,000 people who are killed by interacting with this system. It is likely that over 50 million Americans have died prematurely from this abuse.”

Check out his site www.mercola.com A truly awesome guy who knows what he’s talking about. I love coffee, but I try and avoid it (caffeine is a stimulant that can disturb sleep), so go grab yourself another drink, a herbal drink or better still a glass of fresh water and check out this next highly acclaimed video at www.mercola.com/townofallopath/index.htm

December 2nd, 2007 by Phil

Daily life can be tough, with so much going on sometimes, some days can get pretty darn stressful. It’s good to take a breather sometimes and just relax -take some time out to compose yourself. Go somewhere quiet and practice some breathing exercises or EFT to help soothe your nerves.

Stress isn’t good for the body or the mind. It’s important to take note and observe your emotional behavior. Don’t just let it build up inside you. It’s important to release negative energy. Often we do something silly when we’re in a bad mood or our behavior becomes erratic. Remember, you are in control of your emotions.

A friend of mine emailed this video to me the other day. At first I found it amusing, but then I felt sympathy. There have been days in my life where things have seemed too much to cope. But nowadays I pay attention to my emotional levels and put my health first before work.

Anyway here’s the video:

October 20th, 2007 by Phil

Lately my other half has been complaining that I spend too much time working and that I’ve been neglecting her. So recently I’ve been trying to make more of an effort to spend time with her, when I’m not working. However, this has proved rather difficult since I spend most, if not all my time working.

So, to remedy this, I’ve been using my time at work more efficiently. Instead of spending time pottering about and sometimes in a daydream, I now focus on achieving the tasks quicker. If I get stuck on a task I move on to another and come back to it.

For this, I’ve given myself an extra half an hour to an hour free time to do what I want. We’ve also started playing a game I came up with. It’s a relationship building game which is also fun.

This is how it’s played: Get a piece of paper and draw a line down the middle. Write your name on the top left and your partner’s name on the top right. Now here comes the fun part. For any good act or deed that your partner does for you e.g. giving you a massage, offering to do the dishes when it’s your turn, or ironing your clothes for you etc – you will award 1 point. We’ve decided that 1 point equates to £1.

Now, you don’t necessarily have to award a point if you do not think the act or deed is worth the point. It’s best not to give out the points frivolously as this will detract from the point of the game.

But what you’ll find is that you will both make more of an effort to do things for each other and pay more attention to one another. We’ve decided that the game ends a week before Christmas. The money that we’ve each accrued will be the value of each of our Christmas gifts. I’m aiming for a set of drums, although it looks as though I need to do a lot more to attain that!

So give it a try, it will help you put the fun back in your relationship and get you to appreciate each other more.

October 9th, 2007 by Phil

I was about to write a post on how to apply EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique). But as it’s a physical technique which requires explanation of the various tapping points on the body’s meridian system, I thought it would be difficult to explain with just words. I found this great video which gives a simplified version of the technique. Use this to combat stress anytime. If you want to know more about how you can apply EFT, as well as several other powerful techniques to beat insomnia, visit How to beat insomnia

Here’s the video for the stress busting technique:

October 6th, 2007 by Phil

Do we have control over stress? Some people wake up and feel that they are not in control of their thoughts and emotions, and they might wake up in a bad mood, with negative thoughts about themselves and the rest of their day. We’ve all experienced a bad day where nothing seems to go right.

What we all need to realize is that we do have control of our thoughts and emotions. In a relatively short space of time you can learn to handle stress and control your emotions. It’s important that we deal with stress as it can have detrimental effects on our physical and mental health.

Stress is an overproduction of adrenalin and other hormones, when these hormones are not expelled quick enough, we may experience a spike. In the short term this can affect our mental and physical state of being. We may feel upset, angry or hurt. Physically we may feel tense, irritable and on edge.

In the long run, too much stress will have a far greater impact than just a headache. Too much stress increases your chances of heart disease, stroke, heart attacks and psychological disorders. What’s more, stress is a major factor in causing sleep disorders.

So what can we do to reduce stress?

Here are some ideas you can try when you feel stressed:

In the next few post, I will show you how you can deal with stress using a simple yet highly proven and effective technique. In the meantime, take it easy on the cushion.

October 3rd, 2007 by Phil

I hope you enjoyed ‘The Secret’ video I posted a week ago. If you’re interested in how you can achieve your goals and desires, I recommend reading Ask and it is Given by Esther and Jerry Hicks.

Some people may think that the Law of Attraction is just a bunch of mumbo jumbo and that it’s impossible to achieve a desire by merely focusing on it. However, this is how I interpret it: I focus on a desire, say for example a beautiful home overlooking a beach. If I was to merely focus on the desire and just ‘hope’ it comes someday…I wouldn’t be confident in the slightest it would manifest.

However a true desire, is like an itch, it is not a throw away comment such as ‘I want to be rich someday’. Someday; a goal without a timeframe is not a goal. A true desire is an itch you want to scratch; it niggles at the back of your mind everyday and motivates you to work towards it, to take action and to achieve your goal.

This is how I see the Law of Attraction working. It’s all about taking action! If you have a big goal – break it down into smaller goals. Let’s start small; I want a glass of orange juice – I go to the supermarket, buy a carton of orange juice, go home and pour myself a glass and drink.

The glass of orange juice isn’t going to just materialize on my table is it? I have to take action and take small steps and achieve the smaller goals to reach the greater goal or desire.

I often visualize my desires and play them over in my head, because it puts me in a positive frame of mind and motivates me, thus helping me to achieve my goals. I truly believe it opens doors and creates new paths and opportunities to attain my desires.

Try visualizing yourself living in abundance, living without insomnia or achieving your desires.

September 27th, 2007 by Phil

I don’t think there’s an awful lot I need to say other than what’s already in the title. If you’re serious about getting your life together and you want to know how to acquire all that you desire, then watch this video. Millions have watched this video and it has undoubtedly opened up people’s eyes, to what is achievable with the power of thought.

I thought I’d post this a) because I’ve watched it and loved it (I have it on DVD) and b) I’ve been searching for ages to find a free video available online and I wanted to share it with you. Oh, by the way there are Hebrew subtitles but they’re barely noticeable -sorry!)

Enjoy!

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