Personal Synthesis

In this episode, we discuss how to deal with self-sabotage, build confidence, and preserve it if you make a mistake or receive negative feedback. We also tackle the negative effects of overconfidence and provide some easy-to-follow interventions that can help you regain your confidence in tricky situations when you feel you may lose it. 

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In this first episode of the second season, we will discuss how to deal with fear reactions as well as their causes and triggers. Nash will also use the exposure technique to help Boby be more in charge of his fear of snakes. We hope this demonstration will help our listener deal with their fears too. 

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In this podcast, we will discuss two types of development (qualitative and quantitative), how we can further our development, and various challenges we may encounter on that path. This is the last session in this session, but the new session is on the horizon!

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Discipline has bad press. Many of us feel that there is something restrictive about it. But this is because we usually think about the top-down kind of discipline. There is another kind that actually enhances our freedom and is one of the most useful abilities that we can develop. In this episode, we offer some tips on how to do that.

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In this episode, we will discuss how to develop and maintain stability.  If you are tired of chasing a good mood all the time for fear that you will otherwise fall into a bad mood, discover the value of the neutral position and how to get there! Centring, grounding, some relaxation techniques, and a simple form of meditation that can help you be more in charge of impulsive relations will also be thrown into the mix. 

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Since ancient times many have believed that the secret of happiness is peace of mind or inner harmony. That harmony is achieved by reducing internal conflicts. This will be the main focus of today's podcast. We will also suggest how to deal with one of the most common and difficult types of such conflicts - regret, 

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Our concepts, ideas and beliefs create an inner structure, a private castle if you like,  within which your mind lives. That structure is important to us, and when part of it crashes down or a hole appears in it, we experience anxiety and distress. In this episode, we will discuss how we can integrate and develop that inner structure. 

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Are you creative? Well, you are - and much more often than you think. You create thoughts and images in your mind almost all the time. Sometimes spontaneously and sometimes deliberately. In this podcast, we will discuss how we can be more in charge of that stream of spontaneously generated thoughts and images. Also, we will consider have we can develop our capacity for deliberate creative thinking that can be handy in many everyday situations. 

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Do you think well? In this episode, we cover how to check if our thinking is lazy or biased and what we can do to think better and be more objective or realistic. This can pay off in so many situations! 

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Do you love learning? Yes? No? Well, we all did when we were young and then, for some of us it turned into a chore and the spark for learning has been lost. And yet, learning is and can be wonderful! We will discuss in this podcast various types of learning and also suggest some learning tips as well as mnemonic techniques with the hope that this will ignite that spark in you again!

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