thinking compass

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A simple wooden rope swing hanging in a shaded garden with text 'The Swing and the Now: How to Ground Your Thoughts.'

The Swing and the Now: How to Ground Your Thoughts

Stop the wild swing between past regrets and future fears. Learn how to ground your thoughts in the “Now” by binding truth to your heart. Sometimes my thoughts seem to go to another time. They don’t stay grounded in the here and now. They either swing out into the future […]

Your Rehearsal can Change your Mind

Your Rehearsal can Change your Mind

Our self-talk can keep us depressed and anxious, but we can learn new thinking tracks. Your rehearsal can change your mind. I always marvel at how the experts seem to effortlessly do something that I would difficult. My earliest experience of this was watching shearers shear our sheep on the […]

Change can feel like Being on the Wrong Side of the Road

Change can feel like Being on the Wrong Side of the Road

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. Henry Ford. To change, it may feel like you’re driving on the wrong side of the road. It all made sense. I began to understand how the brain changes and that to learn something new […]

How to Create New Rope Bridges in our Thinking

How to Create New Rope Bridges in our Thinking

Our thoughts can take us to both the best and worst of places, but we can create new thinking pathways. It will require a plan to rope bridge the synapse gap.  It was a small rope bridge, and it had only three wires. One wire where you could place your […]

How to Develop a Compass for the Brain A hand writing in a small, pocket-sized notebook with a pen, representing the "Thinking Compass" technique for mental health recovery.

How to Develop a Compass for the Brain

When the stress loading becomes too much it is very easy to lose your way. What we need is some sort of Thinking Compass. Mental Illness is one of the worst fog generating experiences you can have. Your brain can play tricks on you. Your perceptions can change, sometimes quite […]