All the solutions you seek are inside you 16 August 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , 1 Comment All the solutions you seek are inside you. It’s one of those pithy sayings floating around the Internet and popping up in annoying Facebook memes. A colleague used to call them “inconvenient.” They’re […]

Deep emotional blocks need impacts to dislodge them 1 June 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , 1 Comment One of the less appealing features of the healing journey (not that it has many to begin with) is that the further you go, the more deeply our unprocessed emotional trauma is lodged […]

To make change happen, you must be uncompromising 16 December 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments We all struggle with change. At the same time we often want change, or at least recognise the need for it. Things have become stale. Or a situation that we have long tolerated […]

Do you listen to hear or listen to respond? 18 November 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , How-to & step-by-step , 1 Comment Listening. Like breathing, it’s one of those things that we tend to take for granted—in other words, to assume that we do it well. I recently wrote the […]

If you’re failing at success, then succeed at failure 28 September 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , 1 Comment I’ve read some dumb-ass motivational statements in my time. One of my favourites is: “To succeed, simply outlast failure.” It sounds wonderfully and deceptively simple. Just keep going. You’ll get there. Failure […]

You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps 18 September 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , 1 Comment I am standing at the lip of a chasm. I would like to tell you that my back faces the chasm—that I have just crossed it. But no, the chasm stands before […]

Everything you desire lies outside your comfort zone 30 June 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments I know. It’s not what you wanted to hear. We all have desires, and we all like to think that they are almost within reach. Yet some of our desires simply stay almost […]

Emotions precede thoughts 14 May 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , 1 Comment Have you ever wondered why people behave irrationally? Or why they sometimes can’t seem to stop themselves uttering put-downs or engaging in other low-grade abusive behaviour for no obvious reason? The answer lies in these three simple words: emotions […]

Shadow work – making the unconscious conscious 10 March 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Are you familiar with the term ‘shadow work’? It’s been around for a while. It seems to be gaining in prominence—perhaps because the need for shadow work is growing. Shadow work is a term that […]

Our lives are constant feedback loops 19 February 2018 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , 1 Comment What is the meaning of life? Ah, the ultimate question. In The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams gave the answer as 42. He just didn’t say what the exact question was. In Buffalo […]