People with this are rarely fragile by nature. Often intelligent, emotionally intense, caring, stubborn and creative. They dislike conflict and have suppressed anger. Their natural dominance or playfulness was frequently constrained earlier in life.
Health Anxiety, Hypochondria and Contamination OCD Read More »
We are all made of energy. Depression is a lack of energy; anxiety is fearing the release of energy; and OCD is placing your energy on things not beneficial to your life.
It’s all about Energy! Viewing Life with an Energetic Lens Read More »
The art of knowing where your responsibilities end and the other person’s start! This is life-changing knowledge, especially for people-pleasers and those who are very nice…
Boundaries of Responsibility – Exploring and Resetting Them! Read More »
A practical six-perspective model for calmness and emotional self-mastery — Observer, Nervous System, Body Chemistry, Energy, Human Skills and Life Purpose.
John’s Big Theory of Calmness (by ending anxiety)… Read More »
Procrastination is an unconscious choice that keeps a better life at arm’s length. Learn why action creates motivation — and how John Glanvill’s iStory ERP (Exposure and Response Prevention) rewrites the fear story. Using Common Sense To Stop Procrastination Extract from lecture 44 of John Glanvill’s – The Calmness in Mind Process for your mental
How to stop procrastinating and get on with your life Read More »
Placebo works, and if you are not consciously using it all day, you haven’t been taught properly what it is or how to use it. I’ll show you what placebo is all about.
The Huge Role Placebo Plays in Anxiety Recovery Read More »
Everything we can see and everything we can’t is energy. We sit within an ocean of energy. Trees, people, thoughts, emotions, the ground under our feet — all of it is vibrating, interacting and influencing what happens next.
Are Humans Affected by the Energy of Nature/Universe? Read More »
Today I’d like to explore OCD compulsions – whether they are good or bad, changeable or not, restrictive or empowering? I guess the first question to ask is “What is a compulsion?” We see compulsions as innately irresistible urges to do certain things that will avoid some form of pain (offering relief) or lead us to an action offering
OCD Compulsions Can’t (or Won’t) Ignore Them? Read More »
Learn the three practical modality questions that help to clarify how you (and they) actually need to give and receive love in a relationship.
How Do You Desire to be Loved? Do You Know? Read More »
If you can’t define your values, beliefs, intentions and desires, then life will live you! This process and workbook help you define who you want to be and do in life.
Defining Values, Decision-Making & Setting Intentions Read More »
Intelligence is useful, but common sense usually prevails. But anxious or depressed people often use their clever minds to overanalyse everything. Common sense usually outperforms the intellect; let me show you how.
The anxiety battle between Intelligence and Common Sense Read More »
This video explores how we can remove our masks and find mastery of our true and authentic selves. Lecture 39 of The Calmness in Mind Process.
The Authentic Self Beneath Our Childhood Conditioning Read More »
Fear is chemistry plus imagination. Learn how to stop treating the feeling as an emergency, use John Glanvill’s practical iStory ERP, and let the body/brain update their old predictions. There Is Nothing to Fear, including Fear Itself! An extract from lecture 38 of John Glanvill’s The Calmness in Mind Process, where I discuss using ERP
Accepting Fear and Use Smart iStory ERP to Desensitise your Body Read More »
Many people with anxiety and OCD share a particular trait: they are very nice. They put other people’s needs first, worry about causing offence, feel responsible for other people’s feelings, and work hard to avoid conflict or disapproval.
Is it Sensible Being Too Nice? Read More »
If Your Mind is so powerful that it inhibits/scares/controls YOU… What is it? What is your mind? How can you change your mind? This video explores a whole new perspective.
The Mind, Pure OCD & Psychosis – My Hypothesis Read More »
How adopting genuinely new perspectives on energy, death, thinking , values, beliefs, opinions and other people can transform your experience of life.
Starve (the fear) of Anxiety by New Life Perspectives Read More »
We explore the shift from a conditioned small self to Big Self-Awareness. Practical insights on anxiety, Pure OCD, iStory ERP & becoming someone new for clever, exhausted overthinkers.
Move from Self-Consciousness to Loving Self-Awareness Read More »
This video shows you all the options for living life now, regardless of what happens after your death. Clever stuff. Let’s start now.
What Do You think Happens When You Die? Read More »
A great video exploring traps that keep anxious people stuck, how ADHD-type wiring is often a repressed superpower and ways to quiet the mind so intuition and clearer decisions can emerge.
Anxiety Traps, ADHD as a Superpower, Trust & Intuition Read More »
In this powerful video, we explore how most clever people with complex anxiety or Pure OCD are sabotaging their own recovery without realising it.
Truth, Sabotage & Reassurance in Complex Anxiety & OCD Read More »
Practical tools for rebuilding trust, optimism and temporary purpose when anxiety or OCD have left you feeling lost. The REPLICATOR model: reparenting yourself and shifting from fear to deliberate action. Trust, Optimism & Purpose (REPLICATOR Model) Long periods of anxiety or depression often leave people feeling detached from who they are and what they want.
Trust, Optimism & My REPLICATOR Model for Life Purpose Read More »
My definition of an addiction (which anxiety and OCD are) is straightforward: something you cannot consciously stop. If you were truly in conscious control, you would simply say “stop”, and it would stop.
Anxious or OCD People, Let Go of Your Demons! Read More »
The common trait that links all people with anxiety and depression is that they are all exhausted. Therefore, the common-sense remedy would seem to be more sleep!
Why Sleep is So Important for Your Mental Health Read More »
I explore how we might become a lot braver and adopt new, more courageous (and positive) attitudes, and I share with you the story of my recovery to mental health wellness. Adopting New Attitudes to See Life Less Anxiously An extract from lecture 24 of The Calmness in Mind Process – Where I discuss my
The actions I took to change my life (my story) Read More »
Learn how to update the Virtual Reality Story another person has about you, which they are (unknowingly) using to choose how to treat you.
Training Others to Treat You with More Respect Read More »
If there is an afterlife, how should that change how we live now? A practical reflection on Earth School, growth, acceptance and preparing without needing proof. If there is an afterlife, what are the implications for how I might live my life now? My topic for today’s thoughts and musings: If there is an afterlife,
Afterlife versus now Read More »
The real opposite of OCD is not calmness — it is playfulness. Learn why childlike curiosity, imperfect action and reduced responsibility free the system more effectively than control.
What is the opposite of OCD? Read More »
A phobia is an intense, persistent, and irrational fear of a specific object, situation, or activity that is typically out of proportion to the actual danger posed. Here is a list of them.
What are phobias? Here is a Typical List Read More »
You do not have Anxiety — you are thinking and behaving in anxious ways. Learn how dropping the old labels and updating the story of who you are begins a real reset. The Great Reset: Changing the Story of Anxiety Excerpt from Lecture 20 of The Calmness in Mind Process by John Glanvill. You do
Changing Your Story about Yourself Making it More Kind and Loving Read More »
We explore love and care more deeply, alongside strategies to express these feelings with less emotional trauma and exhaustion.
Understanding How to Love and Care in Powerful New Ways Read More »
