Originally written for the Lynn News, Thought for the Day Viktor Frankl was a Jewish psychiatrist and neurologist who was a survivor of the Nazi Holocaust. He spent three years in the infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz. This experience led him to write a transformative book called Man’s Search for Meaning. The book describes how finding deep…
Originally written for the Lynn News, Thought for the Day When we think of the word compassion, we associate it with the attribute of kindness. Compassion does consist of kindness. However, it also consists of far more. Professor Paul Gilbert (OBE) is a renown clinical psychologist who has made significant contributions to the field of compassionate…
Originally written for the Lynn News, Thought for the Day The internationally acclaimed medical doctor, Gabor Maté, is a bestselling author, teacher and public speaker whose pioneering compassionate work with people suffering from addictions and their causative underlying traumas, has been a very important voice in the development of global humanitarianism and compassion. Gabor was born…
There is light that is more luminous than billions of stars. This light resides deep within our consciousness, but remains largely unseen in this universe because the egos eyes cannot comprehend it. The light is manifest in this world through the giving and receiving of love and compassion. These radiate our true luminous nature into…
Dr Iya Whiteley is a Space Psychologist & Director for the Centre for Space Medicine, at University College London. She works with the psychological needs of astronauts who must to acclimatise to the strange environment of space for long stretches of time. She described to author, Dr Diana Pasluka, how most astronauts who for the…
The pages of Twitter and Facebook have swelled with bile concerning the current Middle East crisis. Twitter especially is a toxic swamp. The grandstanding, often accompanied by ad hominem comments, misses the fact that human beings have, and are, dying horribly. Too many lives – Israeli and Palestinian – have been destroyed already. This alone…
We are a fractured, fragmented and dysfunctional humanity in many ways. We are also an incredibly good, compassionate and creative species. We oscillate between these. Our global history bears witness to this. Most of us don’t intend to cause harm, but we do. Some of us have been twisted into narcissism by destructive formative experiences….
My deepest hope for you dear reader is that you experience a sense of deep, deep joy and unconditional loving belonging. I hope you will enjoy true peace that surpasses all understanding. If you struggle with physical and/or emotional pain or even the searing pain of trauma, I hope for you to experience healing alleviation…
During the rise of the terrorist movement ISIS over a decade ago, the world was horrified by their cruel medieval butchery displayed in barbaric live streamed executions. These executions included burning people alive and hacking off heads. The horror stories of ISIS are the same horror stories of the past as seen in the crusades,…