Post Tagged with: "Roger Harty"

IF I am to be honest, anger was a stranger to me all of my life in the sense that I never gave it too much thought. It wasn’t that I didn’t get angry at anything, of course I did, but I wasn’t aware of the different aspects to it so […]

LAST week I asked you to simply make a list of all the emotions you (and a small group) could think of and to compare with another group such that you ended up with an agreed list of emotions that were common to all groups. Then the next task is to […]

A SIMPLE Emotional Awareness Exercise. As human beings if we want to prosper in this world (by prosper I mean to grow and not always in the financial sense, and by the way I have no difficulties with that either!) it is of vital importance to become aware that every human […]

  ABOUT 10 years ago I did a wonderful course in Cork. It was called a SHEP course. At the time I hadn’t a clue what SHEP was and it would be fair to say I was unable get the image of a dog out of my head for a […]

  Roger Harty responds to Gareth O’Callaghan’s controversial view on suicide expressed in a Facebook post last week (click here to read O’Callaghan’s post)… Dear Gareth, I call you Gareth as I feel as if I know you, even though I have never met you. Ten years ago I was […]

  I LOVE a little bit of humour in everyday life. As they say, ‘laughter is the best medicine’. As I write this article, the obvious expression that comes to mind is ‘The early bird catches the worm’, but like every good rule there is always an exception and the exception […]

ACCEPTANCE is one of the most powerful tools that you can have in your psychological welfare arsenal. I discovered this many years ago and I regularly use phrases like ‘it is as it is’ or the infamous teenage phrase of ‘whatever’ much to the chagrin of my family and friends. The […]

  IN the world we live in passion is something that is very often confused with aggression. Take modern sport for instance. We often hear phrases like ‘how much do you want it?’ or ‘are you going to let them other fellows climb the steps to lift that trophy?’ and this […]

  OK the big day has arrived – it’s All Ireland final day and Kerry are involved. If Carlsberg did heaven in Kerry then this is it! All the talk at the moment is who is going to win, that is the burning question. Obviously my heart is with Kerry, […]

  MIKEY Sheehy, the former Kerry footballing great, is a man worth listening to. I do not say this lightly. All we need do is to look at the facts – he has won an All-Ireland with Kerry on eight occasions while at the same time is very modest about his achievements. […]

  I REMEMBER reading for the first time about the Dalai Lama that when he meets someone all he sees are two eyes and a brain. The reason behind this practice (and believe me it must be practiced) is that he sees the beauty in everyone and everything and remains non-judgmental. […]

  THE Rose of Tralee Festival is now well and truly over and the mind-set is now on ‘Back to school’ and all that that entails. Many people like this because it involves getting our lives back into a clear routine format. Human beings can be funny because we spend half […]

  WE can always learn. One of my favourite sayings is; May I live as though I’m going to die tomorrow, May I learn as though I’m going to live forever. In other words, we should learn every single day of our lives. We are in very dangerous territory when we think […]

  IN a previous article (here) I gave the best definition of stress from a working point of view that I have ever come across. It is as follows. If you ask the question ‘what is stress?’ the answer is ‘stress is being here and trying to be there’. Now […]

THIS is a very powerful story that I came across a few years ago. I suppose to say it is more like a parable than a story would be the correct description, as the message it delivers is of far more importance than the story itself. Like a good movie, […]

OUR self-esteem connects deep into our inner core – I suppose you could say it is our inner Sat-Nav and our driving force all in one. Without it – to borrow a phrase from former Kerry footballer Tomás Ó Sé – we are rudderless. But what is self-esteem and why […]

Galileo Galilei (15 February 1564 – 8 January 1642), was an Italian astronomer, physicist, engineer, philosopher, and mathematician who played a major role in the scientific revolution during the Renaissance. It would be easy to write an article on the life of  Galileo, but in fairness there is so much […]

  I WAS doing a course many years ago when the tutor came in one night and informed us that the two most dangerous words in the English language when used together are “I know”. I must admit that my first reaction was that of being a little indignant (if […]

  OUR conditioning (the way we were brought up from childhood) is truly the most important aspect of our lives – it is what moulds us and shapes us as individuals and it is what creates an outlook on our world whether that be negative or positive. The one great […]

  OUR conditioning (the way we were brought up) plays an enormous part in the way we live our lives. In fact you could also argue that it also plays an enormous part in inhibiting our freedom to live. For instance, if you were brought up in a certain way, […]

  AS an adult there is very little to compare to the joy you experience when you catch a new-born baby smiling or laughing. It is something that puts us in awe of the wonders of the world and nature in general. Normally serious people, can behave like juvenile silly […]

  AS human beings it is almost impossible (is that a judgment?) to live life in an absolute non-judgmental way. Even Jesus Christ Himself showed He was human when He cried out “My Lord and My God why have You forsaken Me?” It was an exception to His own request […]

  ABOUT 10 years ago, I began to start my journey of recovery from severe depression and I came to the conclusion that ‘if my mind could make me sick then my mind could make me better’. What I mean by the mind, is ‘the thinking mind’. So the opposite of […]

  THERE is a powerful saying by The Buddha which goes like this – ‘Don’t believe me try it for yourself’ – in other words it is in the ‘doing’ of something that the real benefits reveal themselves. This is certainly a truism in the case of laughter and is […]

  What is it about nature that makes us feel so good? Perhaps the answer is so obvious it is as plain as the nose on my face, being that we come back to what we truly are. Like the quality of good air, it is very hard to explain […]

  IF we need to research wise old sayings and proverbs then there is no need to look any further than our own abundant Irish heritage and rich culture. In fact, if you explore this you will find that there is an old expression for practically every experience and in […]

  I LOVE to examine wise old sayings and proverbs, especially to discover their origin. They can give a great insight into life as it was in years gone by and how people reacted to the world they lived in and how they saw it. An example of this is the saying […]

  It almost goes without saying to talk about the benefits that changes in technology have brought to our lives. I suppose we could go back in history and firstly look at the invention of the wheel, then perhaps the industrial revolution and then the introduction of ‘mass production’ by […]

  I WROTE in a previous article about stress  (here) and it is appropriate for this article to examine the definition of stress. Stress is – being here and trying to be there. Ancient man was open to stress when he hunted in the forest as he was exposed to the […]

  I HAVE a distinct memory as a child of watching a children’s programme called ‘Wanderly  Wagon’ every Saturday on RTE at 5pm. The stars of the show were O’Brien – Eugene Lambert of the famed Lambert puppet theatre – along with his sidekicks Rory, Godmother, Mr Crow, Judge among others. […]