“Keeping Your Head”
In this newsletter:
- “Keeping Your Head”
- Personal Development Group – “Stress Management”
- Sports Performance Coaching – Free Report
- Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma
It’s packed with loads of useful stuff so well worth reading to the end!
“Keeping Your Head”
It’s been an absolutely crazy week so far here in theUK, mindless rioting, violence and looting inLondon,Birmingham,Manchesterand other major cities.
Watching (or even experiencing) these awful chaotic and often disturbing events has caused people to feel a whole range of emotions; fear, anxiety, frustration, anger, sadness, depression, despair, loss and grief.
From people I’ve spoken to in the bank, supermarket, clients, friends and what I’ve observed on social networking sites; it seems to have emotionally affected everyone in some way.
At times like these we go through a process of thinking that is designed to help and protect us: Why are they doing it? Why didn’t the Police intervene more quickly? How could we allow this to happen? What would I do if I were threatened or attacked? Why aren’t they being punished more harshly?
We will also project statements to ourselves and others to appease the way we feel, usually statements of anger, frustration or understanding towards the looters, Police or Government.
Often this is a waste of energy because we have very little control over this, so my philosophy is to influence those things that are within your control and this will pay massive dividends to your long term health and happiness.
Giving negative energy to those things you cannot control is like sitting in your car revving the engine as hard as you can without putting it into gear…it literally won’t get you anywhere!
I believe despite technology we have gone backwards in our emotional evolution.
We seem to live in a time similar to that of the Gladiators when the baying crowd would be entertained by people fighting for a violent victory and the crowd would take sides by either cheering or booing the winner.
The only difference is that it is being played out in the News, programmes like Jeremy Kyle and Eastenders or social media like Facebook; we appear to now be merely spectators in our own lives…
…except of course those of us who are interacting with other human beings in order to work together to create greater things rather than leave a trail of destruction.
So in light of these recent events I’ve decided to make the topic of the next Personal Development group “Stress Management”, as we’re probably in a time where we need to learn these skills most.
But for now to help you I’ve copied a poem that gives me inspiration at times like these called “If” by Rudyard Kipling, I hope you enjoy it too!
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too:
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream and not make dreams your master;
If you can think and not make thoughts your aim,
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same:
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build’em up with worn-out tools;
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings,
And never breathe a word about your loss:
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on!”
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much:
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And – which is more – you’ll be a Man, my son!
Personal Development Group – “Stress Management”
It’s on Saturday 27th August 2011 between 3pm and 5pm I will be presenting “Stress Management” teaching you how to deal with and reduce harmful stresses and anxieties so you can use that extra energy towards those things that make you happiest.
These are techniques I’ve developed and honed over the last 11 years after collapsing with stress myself in 2000 so it’s a subject I’m really passionate about.
I’d appreciate it if you’d let those of your friends (that want to get more out of life) know about this event as I want to widen the net to reach out and help as many people as I can!
NB Critical and negative people need not apply as this group is all about supporting and helping each other lead happier, healthier more successful lives!
Once again it will be held at the Jaguar Cars Sports & Social Club, (XJS Suite), Browns Lane, Allesley, Coventry CV5 9DR only £5 entry! All welcome from novice all the way up to seasoned professional, drop us an email to let us know you’re attending at info@wsoh.co.uk
Sports Performance Coaching – Free Report
I’ve prepared a detailed 9 page free Report “Sports Performance Coaching- Keys to a Winner’s Mind” giving you loads of valuable information and including one of the strongest techniques I’ve created for helping sportsmen and women perform at their peak level, register your details here to get it www.ndsp.co.uk.
I’m keeping the discount open for the 2 day workshop (20th & 21st August) until midnight Friday 12th August as there are 2 places left and I want the room to be full as the event is being videoed, if want to attend, secure your place on the link here www.wsoh.co.uk/sportsperformancediploma
Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma
If you’re looking for a new career, an extra part time income or want to study to help you to understand yourself and others better, then it’s important you register for this course by emailing me ASAP at info@wsoh.co.uk.
The Hypnotherapy Practitioner Diploma offered by the Warwickshire School of Hypnotherapy has been Assessed and Validated at Practitioner Level by The General Hypnotherapy Standards Council (UK). Graduates from this course are eligible for professional registration with The General Hypnotherapy Register (the GHSC’s Registering Agency) at full Practitioner status, together with the acquisition of the industry-based award – The General Qualification in Hypnotherapy Practice (GQHP).
The course will be run over four months with three one week intensive training modules, run on the following dates (weekdays only): Hypnosis – Module One: 10th October – 14th October 2011, Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) – Module Two: 7th November – 11 November 2011 and Hypnotherapy – Module Three: 16th January – 20th January 2012.
NB – This will be the only year the course includes the certification in NLP, next year you will have to pay extra for this module.
Please register your interest early via email (info@wsoh.co.uk) as there are limited places and there is some pre-course work to complete, we will then send you a full electronic prospectus and application form and arrange an open evening where we can meet each other and discuss any questions you have. The application form and deposit payment must be received first to secure your place; the balance must be cleared before the course begins.
Take care,
Nick
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