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How Do You Deal With Fear?

Anne Skyvington — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 12:29:53 +0000

Extreme Fear in the Time of Covid The only thing we have to fear is fear itself! The above quotation from an American Second World War time president has become part of history: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. When someone sneezes in America, the whole world hears, and so it […]

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How I Overcame Chronic Depression

Anne Skyvington — Sat, 31 Dec 2022 06:51:14 +0000

And suffered intense pain and a nervous breakdown as a result of my choices I was in my early thirties when I first started looking inward, which I conceived as a descent into the unconscious mind, as popularized by Sigmund Freud and his form of psychoanalysis. Later on, I discovered Carl Jung’s complex writings on […]

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Did You Know That Cold Showers Are Good for You?

Anne Skyvington — Fri, 02 Dec 2022 08:40:30 +0000

Wim Hof, from the Netherlands, is called the “Ice Man”. He has been known to climb freezing mountains in his shorts and tee shirt without ill effects. He claims to have ascended Mount Everest in light attire. You be the judge of this! The Wim Hof method for overcoming extreme reactions to the cold is […]

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The Fear … the Fear…

Anne Skyvington — Sun, 10 Jul 2022 09:29:13 +0000

Ways of Facing Fear Fear, like pain, is often a good thing. It’s normal to be afraid of dangerous creatures, such as funnel web spiders. It’s only when fear is out of proportion, and gets in the way of life and living, that it becomes a negative emotion. Some people are afraid of all spiders. […]

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Always something there to remind me…

Anne Skyvington — Thu, 19 Sep 2019 06:25:08 +0000

Do you ever wake up with a song playing in your head? With lyrics by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, this one, I discovered, was originally recorded as a demo for Dionne Warwick in 1963, and first charted for Lou Johnson in the summer of 1964. And then, in the early eighties, just as I […]

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Psychology as a Field of Study

Anne Skyvington — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 11:58:37 +0000

Psychology is a relatively recent area of research and treatment for “inner” emotional problems, with Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) creating his famous brand of psychoanalysis in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. William James (1842-1910) is an American philosopher who favoured pragmatic psychology as a way of explaining the mind. Other well-known leaders in the […]

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Western Influencers Down Through The Ages

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 05 Jun 2018 01:48:46 +0000

GREEKS of ANTIQUITY I had my first taste of philosophy at Armidale Teachers College in 1961. This was one of the options that I chose to study, apart from the more mundane teaching subjects that were mandatory. Miss Margaret Mackie enchanted us with stories of the Delphic oracle, as well as introducing me to a […]

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Shadows and Synchronicities

Anne Skyvington — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 14:05:19 +0000

The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung (1875-1961) created many of the enduring terms for the mind and for the unconscious that have enriched literature and humanity during the twentieth century. Certainly he was firstly a follower of Freud and the psychoanalytic method that Freud instigated. But terms such as “projection”, “archetypes”, “complexes”, “the shadow”, “the collective […]

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Networking and Emotional Intelligence

Anne Skyvington — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 21:46:52 +0000

Swedish love coach, Carolin Dahlman, gave a presentation to our writers’ group on the idea of networking in order to be published. Most of the large group of writers who attended were hoping to be published one day. Her message was that, in this fast-moving world, we need to self-promote through the internet and other […]

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Are You Left Brained or Right Brained?

Anne Skyvington — Thu, 15 Sep 2016 13:49:08 +0000

I must tread carefully here… I have to be careful when discussing the concept of left versus right brained people, as I’m married to a scientist, who also happens to be a very creative person. He was an actor when we first met, but has for a long time worked in a left-brained (academic) field: […]

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