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 »
I explore two topics that are essential for achieving emotional calmness and a quieter mind: your Belief Systems and your Reticular Activating System (RAS). The RAS is the part of your unconscious brain that filters information—both positive and negative—and sends it to your conscious mind – ignore reprogramming this at your peril! This is an
Programming Your Reticular Activating System (RAS) Read More »
I explore how fallible and trickable our senses are. Knowing this can be a game-changer for those with anxiety or OCD. This excerpt is from lecture 17 of The Calmness in Mind Process by John Glanvill.
Should we trust (or trick) our senses to be less anxious? Read More »
Anxiety often comes from our Warrior, Settler and Nomad aspects fighting for control. Learn how to separate the three, run one at a time, and reduce the internal conflict.
Nature versus Nurture, which is your True DNA Personality? Read More »
Suppression, expression, distraction and repression keep trapped energy locked in place. Learn why sitting with discomfort — rather than avoiding it — is what finally allows release.
How we Unknowingly Avoid Emotional Pain & my Vipassana Experince Read More »
Discover effective techniques for releasing emotional triggers and changing the stories you use to justify or cover them up.
Emotional Triggers & the Stories we Cover Them Up With… Read More »
We explore the question, “Who am I and what is the feeling of I?” And look at how we stop a racing mind and calm down an anxious body.
Who (or what) are the Feelings of I, My or Me? Read More »
Chronic pain, fatigue and unexplained symptoms can be the mind’s diversion from unprocessed emotions & stuck trauma. Learn how TMS and psychosomatic loops seem to operate.
Psychosomatic Illness & Somatic Symptom Disorder (SDD) Read More »
A racing heart, tight chest, dizziness, and trembling are the body’s survival system firing at the wrong time. Learn what the symptoms actually mean — and how to stop fearing them.
Deeply Understanding the Symptoms of Anxiety/OCD Read More »
Wisdom from my 20 years as a therapist working with ADHD —Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (and my wife is ADHD, so I have first-hand experience).
ADHD – Attention Deficit Hyper-Activity Disorder Read More »
John Glanvill talks about awakening to the realisation that everything is about energy; it can’t not be, really! We are made of atoms (which are energy), and those atoms are connected to other atoms by some sort of (intelligent) energetic life force that holds them all together.
When Will You Realise It’s All About Energy? Read More »
