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How to surf the wave between conscious and unconscious behaviour 11 April 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , 1 Comment The great difficulty in personal development is that we shift from conscious to unconscious mental control without being aware of it. In How to develop your ‘inner observer’ I wrote […]
8 Steps to identify family skeletons 6 April 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , Generational trauma , How-to & step-by-step , 1 Comment How do you identify family skeletons, i.e. generational trauma, in your family? Your family tree is the obvious place to start—as are the emotional symptoms you’re observing, in your […]
Unconscious fear + flashpoint = fighting over toilet paper 28 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Anxiety , No Comments On Sunday 8th March, as the first wave of fear over the coronavirus swept the globe and induced panic shopping, two women fought over diminishing supplies of toilet paper at a Sydney supermarket. […]
Mastering fear is like learning to walk – fall down, get up 25 March 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: How-to & step-by-step , 1 Comment You probably don’t need me to tell you that right now fear is on the rise. The fear of coronavirus, of food shortages, of economic failure… the fear […]
Measuring wellbeing – the Family Stability Index 16 February 2020 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Genealogy , Generational trauma , 1 Comment I’ve blogged a lot about unconscious shame, and also written a little about generational trauma. This is inherited trauma, like a superficially mild case of PTSD that comes from scandals and traumatic […]
Problems cannot exist without their solutions 28 November 2019 Posted by: Michael H Hallett Category: Emotional principles , No Comments Ah, problems. We all have them. What distinguishes success from failure in life is the ability to solve them. To turn problems into solutions. Yet what if problems cannot exist without their own solutions? When […]
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 […]