The MindFields College Blog

What are you imagining for 2007?
About 40,000 years ago the human brain suddenly developed the capacity to make a mental image of the future, an essential tool for imagination and creativity.
A team at Washington university report that they have been able to capture with MRI scans which areas of the brain (the left lateral premotor […]

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- The health protection agency has release a report stating that 80% of survivors of the London bombings of July 7th last year have been left with with “emotional upset”. 80% of these were referred to counsellors and specialised post traumatic stress disorder services. Read what Joe Griffin has to say about treatments for post […]

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A few weeks ago it emerged that the Youth Justice system in the UK has reached a crisis point - with literally only a few beds available.
In response, the Government is targeting parents with their £4 million “super nannies” scheme - which will install 80 child psychologists in high crime areas to teach parents good […]

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Here is some background from our Human Givens Institute website on the origins of the human givens approach. I thought it would be interesting reading for people new to the concept who might be visiting this blog:
It is now commonly realised that there is a core set of principles for stabilising the human mind, creating […]

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Hot off the press, the very first delivery of the next title in our ‘Essential help in troubled times - the human givens approach’ series has just arrived.
We experienced a lot of anxiety ourselves in getting this book to print, so it’s very satisfying to finally be able to hold a copy!
Here’s some further information […]

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Anyone who worries unconstructively is in danger of clinical depression. Depression is not selective - to take recent examples from the media: the famous, single mothers, politicians, men, women are all susceptible to depression.
When you worry incessantly about something which can’t be immediately solved or is circular, you generate unresolved emotional arousal. Once an […]

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An amazing entry from the blog of Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert cartoons, gives us an example of the tremendous power of expectation and the plasticity of the brain.
Adams had suffered for 18 months from Spasmodic Dysphonia, a disorder in which the part of the brain that controls speech essentially shuts down. Adams relates […]

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