Recommended film.
Prince Of Tides
This is a film that maybe the older subscribers to Free The Mind Friday will remember!
Nick Nolte plays Tom Wingo, a football coach struggling with his family’s tragic past. Barbara Streisand plays a New York psychiatrist treating Tom’s emotionally scarred sister, who asks him to shed light on the family’s troubled history.
Things unravel from here and it becomes apparent that Tom is hiding aspects of a traumatic situation from the past.
This film has some dramatic scenes and demonstrates how unprocessed emotional trauma will wreck havoc upon someone’s life or in this case, an entire family.
This weeks podcast.
The Gift Of Darkness – Shining a light on depression and anxiety.
It's tough in modern society to avoid being labelled as something.
Social media will always offer questionnaires on what type of person you are, personally profiling and self esteem tests. On top of this, every day vast numbers of people get diagnosed with bipolar, ADHD and many other forms of mental health issues.
As a client told me the other day, it only takes a 15 minute telephone chat with a doctor to get diagnosed with bipolar now. What really concerns me with this nonsense, is the impact it has on the diagnosed and where it leaves their future mindset.
Sometimes it’s a diagnosis of convenience where those looking to avoid living life fully, are given a reason to do so and justify existing negative behaviour.
Others have huge potential and the label given to them masks this and often condemns them to a life of simply coping rather than embracing an opportunity.
No-one talks about post traumatic growth but only stress.
This weeks podcast looks differently at depression and anxiety and the potential contained within.
The Gift Of Darkness – Shining a light on depression and anxiety.
https://simonlee.buzzsprout.com
Saying of the week.
“The greater the outward show,
the greater the inward poverty. "
– J. Krishnamurti
Online Course Reminder:
Reconnect: Moving beyond depression, anxiety and emotional stress
Two days ago I sent out a brand new course outline based on my years of coaching and experiences.
It moves beyond much of the current treatments and outlooks we have in regards to depression and anxiety.
In addition I will be covering the re-emerging ancient approaches to mental health that are now proving to be essential to the healing and resilience of the mind.
Please click the link below to read more:
http://www.simonlee.online/general/reconnect/
A question I got asked this week.
“Will Kickboxing make my son violent?”
There is a general misconception about Martial Arts that practising combat sports makes violent people more violent or anyone more violent in general.
Most instructors smile at this because the truth is it’s the man that feels untested, the big ego, the highly stressed without any physical outlet that will be the most violent.
Confidence comes from ability and something like kickboxing is capable of creating huge confidence in someone.
Most good level individuals at kickboxing are humble, respectful and calm. They have nothing to prove and are able to take more measured, intelligent decisions in potential confrontations.
The physical, focused outlet of energy in breathing, force, sound and movement in kickboxing, make it the best way to release un-utilised adrenaline. Martial Arts are steeped in a code of conduct that you can feel in any decent club.
This is why those that practise have no need to be violent.
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