Author Archives: Robin

Expect The Best

I’m pleased to announce that Kindred Spirit, an excellent and long-standing UK magazine on spiritual development and similar matters (now in its 115th issue), includes a three page spread I wrote about using creative visualization, affirmations, and goal setting, three … Continue reading

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Using Confident Eye-Contact

People with low self-esteem tend to have difficulty holding eye contact and, as well as being correctly interpreted for what it is, it can also be misunderstood as being shiftless or lying. But correctly applied, eye contact is one of … Continue reading

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Free review copies of my books

I have obtained a limited quantity of each of my more recent books from their various publishers, which I plan to give away on a first-come, first-served basis to people who are prepared to take a moment and write a … Continue reading

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Visualizing creatively for a healthy body and mind

One of the best guards against ill health is to have a healthy mind. Luckily it’s well known that positive thinking in the form of creative visualization can have remarkable healing effects – simply by imagining being well you can … Continue reading

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Bridging the gap between you and your goals

One of the things that makes it harder for us to achieve our goals is the perceived gap between where we are now and where we want to be. The two seem so far apart that getting from one to … Continue reading

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Behaving as members of the same family

According to the Bible and other religious texts we are all descended from an original pair of ancestors, while evolution shows that we all diverged as a species from a common ancestor. Either way, every one of us is related … Continue reading

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Taking the time to reflect on who we are

Whatever your religious beliefs (or otherwise), you have to admit that life is an astonishing thing, especially when considered on the microscopic scale. Every living thing on this planet is made up of trillions of minute particles, far, far smaller … Continue reading

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What’s your personality type, and what does it mean?

The Myers-Briggs Type Indicators were created during World War II to help women entering the industrial workforce to identify the sort of war-time jobs in which they would be “most comfortable and effective”. These preferences were extrapolated from theories proposed … Continue reading

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Why unskilled think they are skilled, and vice versa

There’s a fascinating psychological principle known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, which is a cognitive bias whereby someone who knows a little about a subject is unaware of just how much there is that goes into it, and therefore assumes that … Continue reading

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Why you should learn to lucid dream

If you’ve never experienced it then you may find it hard to understand what lucid dreaming is all about. In fact you may be thoroughly sceptical and dismiss the whole thing as silly nonsense. But I can tell you from … Continue reading

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