The Inner Compass

According to the World Health Organisation, by 2030 depression will account for the highest level of disability accorded any physical or mental disorder in the world. Anti-depressant drugs are now among the best-selling drugs in medical practice with a market of US$12 billion. But many are suffering, not from clinical depression, but circumstantial depression. This is not a sickness of the brain. It is a sickness of the heart. "People’s spirits are sick. They are living in resignation, hopelessness, and fear."

This lecture will highlight the difference between clinical and circumstantial depression and explain how we can overcome it.

Searching for peace outside of ourselves will always leave us disappointed. We must lay aside all hope of finding happiness and peace in situations, places, people or things and realise that the only way to truly be at peace, is to find it within ourselves.

The worksheets are designed to help you process all that you are learning and practically apply the information to your life. Simply write down what is in your heart and mind at the time you are doing this activity.

The worksheets are designed to help you process all that you are learning and practically apply the information to your life. Simply write down what is in your heart and mind at the time you are doing this activity.

The key to understanding our identity is having a sense of purpose. We are not what we do, however doing what we love makes us come alive and be who we truly are.

Dr Martin Seligman spent over 35 years researching happiness and how to find it. Through his research he aimed to see if he could measure different forms of happiness, classify them and possibly find causes for happiness. In this lecture we look at the 3 causes discovered by Seligman's research:

The Pleasant Life, where happiness is contingent upon a pleasurable experience,

The Good Life, where we find joy in our work known as "flow",  and

the Meaningful Life, where we have found purpose.

I discuss another cause for happiness... The Magical Life, where all things are added unto us when we seek first the peace within.

The worksheets are designed to help you process all that you are learning and practically apply the information to your life. Simply write down what is in your heart and mind at the time you are doing this activity.

What are triggers? How do they effect our lives and how can we overcome them?

In this lecture I describe a situation of a full-blown trigger; a time in my life when I encountered a situation and experienced the fear I had felt as a child, in my mid 40s.

The worksheets are designed to help you process all that you are learning and practically apply the information to your life. Simply write down what is in your heart and mind at the time you are doing this activity.

As a man thinks… so is he. Our inmost thoughts will determine what we are and who we will become. If we want to change who we are and who we want to become, we must first change our thoughts. Thoughts and actions are interlinked. They can imprison us or set us free.

It is true we cannot directly choose our circumstances, but we can choose our thoughts and therefore our actions, and indirectly shape our circumstances.

The worksheets are designed to help you process all that you are learning and practically apply the information to your life. Simply write down what is in your heart and mind at the time you are doing this activity.

There are certain letters in the English alphabet that are “voiced” and certain letters that are “unvoiced”. The voiced consonants carry a vibration, the unvoiced consonants do not. All words contain voiced consonants therefore all our words carry a vibration. Experience the vibration of our words in a simple, practical experiment.

Our words carry the power to change every difficult situation in our lives. Learn to trust the creative power of your words.

The worksheets are designed to help you process all that you are learning and practically apply the information to your life. Simply write down what is in your heart and mind at the time you are doing this activity.

When we begin to think about the possibility of something new, something different ... we can create it. This is the wonderful transformative power of our choices.

Do we really have free-will? Or are many of our choices made subconsciously due to our past programming? According to Sam Helmstetter, we can lose “free-will” by our past programming and, as adults, continually make decisions and choices that are not right for us. It is possible to change our past programming and allow the free-will we have been given to take effect in our lives. But how do we do this? How do we over-ride the past programming?

The worksheets are designed to help you process all that you are learning and practically apply the information to your life. Simply write down what is in your heart and mind at the time you are doing this activity.