There is so much anger on the planet these days that it is accumulating in what Phyllis Krystal calls a thought form. We only need to get a bit angry at somebody/something and we feel a huge wave of anger all of a sudden. It is because we subconsciously connect to the thought form of anger. What can we do about it? Firstly we can avoid anger. Listening to the news regularly creates unnecessary anger. We can go on-line and choose individual TV shows – for example we can pick only the happy news or the news from our line of work, where we can actually do something about the new happenings. What can I,...

»You cannot spend your life trying to avoid the mistakes I have made. You have to make your own.« This is a line from a movie. It is a piece of advice a mother gives her grown-up daughter. (Laws of Attraction with Julianne Moore and Pierce Brosnan) Being a light comedy the movie still has some important messages in it. I would like to concentrate on the upper quotation. Many times we are so afraid of making the same mistake our parents did that we exaggerate in the opposite direction instead and make even worse mistakes. Or we as parents or older sisters or brothers try to protect the children or...

I was asked to write a few lines for a Slovene daily newspaper last week, so I thought I could expand on this subject in my blog. Those who have read my self help book about my experience with mental illness already know the sequence that worked for me: 1. Accept the fact that you have bipolar disorder (or any other mental illness). 2. Find a psychiatrist that you feel you can build a good doctor-patient-relationship with and listen to him/her. 3. Separate your mental illness symptoms from your personality traits. 4. Leave the bio-chemical aspect of your illness to your psychiatrist and the prescribed...

The picture left was taken during a walk in an Alpine valley. I noticed some heaps of white stone in the distance and they compelled me to come closer. I stepped off the hiking path and explored the interesting columns of stone that are usually used as path guiding marks in high mountains and are made by mountain hikers or mountaineers. Since this was a valley, they were probably only a decoration. When I came closer, I noticed a column that was completely different from all others (see picture). It was made of only two big stones, of which the upper one was brown. Then I noticed that this horizontal...

It is actually easy – you will probably never experience a burnout. No, I am joking. But seriously: Who defines a person as a loser? The person herself/himself or others? What are the basic criteria for this kind of a definition? Or is the word ‘loser’ just a label, almost a curse? Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines a loser as ‘a person who is incompetent or unable to succeed’. In my opinion this definition applies more to certain situations and cannot be viewed as a general description of somebody. For example I cannot drive hence I am a loser as a driver. I was trying to drive...