I think there is probably something evolutionary in that we are drawn to the easiest option. But in our age of convenience, cars, ready meals and off….

We need to look at the repetitions in the stories we tell ourselves [and] at the process of the stories rather than merely their surface content. The….

Plasticity is an intrinsic property of the human brain and represents evolution's invention to enable the nervous system to escape the restrictions o….

People tend to slip up and go along the old road before they realise what they've done and climb out of it again..

Beginning a new habit, or ending an old one can feel like letting go of a rope that swings a mile above the ground. So we feel reluctant to let go, a….

Our emotional map is laid down mainly in relationship with our earliest caregiver in the first couple of years of life..

The trouble is if we take no new steps to try a new challenge, our comfort zone doesn't seem just to stay still, but retract..

When we had to survive on our wits, gather and kill our food from scratch and be more at the mercy of our environment than we are today, we probably ….

If someone is depressed they tend to retreat within the inner circle of their comfort zone which in the longer term, may contribute to exacerbating a….

I am talking about being optimistic enough to sow some seeds in the hope that some of them will germinate and grow into flowers..

If we keep practicing mental skills it is likely we can strengthen neural connections and make new connections..

If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle..

A relapse doesn't mean you'll never walk down the path you prefer. But I think relapses are almost an inevitable part of any course of self-developme….

If you start from a position of I'm a no-hoper, in a paradoxical kind of way you are not risking being vulnerable..

The extreme of flexibility is chaos and the extreme of being structured is rigid and staying sane, or indeed using your creativity, is about being aw….

Meditators are shown to have thickening in parts of the brain structure that deal with attention, memory and sensory functions. This was found to be ….

There are probably times where the creative process is not helped by collaboration..

A sense of achievement improves general confidence and self-esteem..

As we get older it is our short term memory that fades rather than our long term memory. Perhaps we have evolved like this so that we are able to tel….

Whether you plan or whether you flow in order to be creative probably isn't the point. The point is to keep practicing to maintain neural pathways an….

It used to be thought that you stopped making new neural connections in your youth and from then on your brain was fixed and it was downhill all the ….