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Take Control of Your Superannuation

Your future is coming ready or not. In this episode Superannuation expert Darren Tappouras talks about taking control of your superannuation using a Self managed Super Fund. Make sure your retire with enough to make life interesting. This is the way to do it!

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The Hidden Market

In this episode Phil Lovell introduces the idea of the Hidden Market and how you can use it to take control of your job hunting and career development.

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The Hidden Market

In this episode Phil Lovell introduces the idea of the Hidden Market and how you can use it to take control of your job hunting and career development.

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UNSW - NTEU CALL TO ACTION

In this episode Julie Smith reads a statement from Sarah Gregson to UNSW Professional Staff and asks you to join the campaign for job security.  

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Economic Anxiety and what to do about it

There are plenty of people who are feeling anxious as we head into Christmas and the New Year, and that may not be a bad thing according to Australia's leading NLP trainer Chris Collingwood from Inspiritive. He says anxiety is a signal that needs to be paid attention to in this podcast, and he has some tips on allaying your anxiety too.Originally recorded for The U Curve

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Economic Anxiety and what to do about it

There are plenty of people who are feeling anxious as we head into Christmas and the New Year, and that may not be a bad thing according to Australia's leading NLP trainer Chris Collingwood from Inspiritive. He says anxiety is a signal that needs to be paid attention to in this podcast, and he has some tips on allaying your anxiety too.Originally recorded for The U Curve

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Welcome to the U Curve

Welcome to the first U Curve podcast, the successor to the WellSpring.In this episode, designed to be carried on our site www.youcurve.net, we explore anxiety around employment with organisational psychologist Ambrose McKinnery, of mckinnery.com.auAs times get tougher more and more employees, employers, and business operators are feeling uneasy. What can you do about it? Ambrose makes some useful suggestions about marshalling support.

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Welcome to the U Curve

Welcome to the first U Curve podcast, the successor to the WellSpring.In this episode, designed to be carried on our site www.youcurve.net, we explore anxiety around employment with organisational psychologist Ambrose McKinnery, of mckinnery.com.auAs times get tougher more and more employees, employers, and business operators are feeling uneasy. What can you do about it? Ambrose makes some useful suggestions about marshalling support.

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Chris Barker's new book

Chris Barker has been a regular and welcome presence in these podcasts as someone who gives dharma talks at Wednesday night's Lotus Bud meetings.He's also an academic and writer who has turned his attention to the emotional lives of men in his new book. It's also chronicles a very direct view of his own spiritual journey.Here he's speaking to Bob about the book, and that journey....

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Chris Barker's new book

Chris Barker has been a regular and welcome presence in these podcasts as someone who gives dharma talks at Wednesday night's Lotus Bud meetings.He's also an academic and writer who has turned his attention to the emotional lives of men in his new book. It's also chronicles a very direct view of his own spiritual journey.Here he's speaking to Bob about the book, and that journey....

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Cultivating Happiness and Joy

"Cultivating Happiness and Joy" was the title of the dharma talk that Ven. Thich Phap Hai recently gave at the Lotus Bud Sangha at the Buddhist Library in Camperdown.Joking that the Dalai Lama was addressing similar issues when he comes to Australia soon, Ven. Thich Phap Hai went on to give a wide ranging talk that touched on many aspects of his life as an Australian born monastic within the Order of Interbeing.Please enjoy this entertaining and insightful dharma talk.

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Cultivating Happiness and Joy

"Cultivating Happiness and Joy" was the title of the dharma talk that Ven. Thich Phap Hai recently gave at the Lotus Bud Sangha at the Buddhist Library in Camperdown.Joking that the Dalai Lama was addressing similar issues when he comes to Australia soon, Ven. Thich Phap Hai went on to give a wide ranging talk that touched on many aspects of his life as an Australian born monastic within the Order of Interbeing.Please enjoy this entertaining and insightful dharma talk.

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Chris Barker's Dharma Talk

Recently at the regular Wednesday night Lotus Bud Sangha meeting at the Buddhist Library in Camperdown, Sydney, Chris Barker gave the dharma talk. He spent some time discussing the work on Authentic Happiness done by Professor Martin Seligman, and his own approach to Buddhism.Although he doesn't mention it in this talk Chris has a wonderfully pragmatic view of free will. We should regard other people as being substantially predestined, he says, so that we can be more forgiving of them. But ...

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Zen meets NLP, and other issues...

The WellSpring has been quiet for some time. But now we're back. In this series of short podcasts Chris Collingwood and Bob Hughes discuss the overlap between Buddhism and NLP. The Buddhist idea of seeds in our store consciousness is quite similar to the NLP understanding of our unconscious http://media.libsyn.com/media/thewellspring/edit_1_buddhist_seeds_and_nlp.mp3 Many meditators work with their breath. In NLP internal propriocentric sensations are often used in inducing tra ...

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The WellSpring 45

In this episode: I'm moved by a speech that Linda Stone gave recently, which was carried on ITConversations, about the Connect Connect Connect generation and how that may be changing. Just as I'm about to finally get a BlackBerry I think she's probably right. I also found myself very moved, pardon the pun recently meditating in a 737. The podcast will probably look more closely a ...

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The WellSpring 45

In this episode: I'm moved by a speech that Linda Stone gave recently, which was carried on ITConversations, about the Connect Connect Connect generation and how that may be changing. Just as I'm about to finally get a BlackBerry I think she's probably right. I also found myself very moved, pardon the pun recently meditating in a 737. The podcast will probably look more closely at the stillness in the heart of things than we have been. I've also been much stimulated this weekend by Who ...

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The WellSpring 44

In episode 44: Welcome if you're a new listener following the story in Icon from Nick Galvin. We consider how long spiders have been weaving the orb web – it could be as longas 130 million years, and how long humanshave been wearing jewellry – perhaps as long as 130 thousand years. However thatmay be a sign that humans were 'behaviourally modern' that long ago. And that mean ...

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Podcast Like A Pro

Thanks to the story by Nick Galvin in the Sydney Morning Herald's Icon section, we've had a lot of visitors recently. If you're seeking information of the Podcast classes we run in Sydney please go to NetCastNow.Net You'll find the podcasting information on the upper right hand side. Or for more information email podcastlikeapro@gmail.com If you're looking for corporate podcasting information, our sponsor Co ...

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The WellSpring 43

This episode is mostly recorded on the banks of the Hawkesbury River near where it flows into the Pacific Ocean north of Sydney. In this episode we discuss how self-esteem makes a difference in the way we see others. People with lower self esteem tend to view those close to them as all good or all bad. ...

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The WellSpring 43

This episode is mostly recorded on the banks of the Hawkesbury River near where it flows into the Pacific Ocean north of Sydney. In this episode we discuss how self-esteem makes a difference in the way we see others. People with lower self esteem tend to view those close to them as all good or all bad. DNA tests now allow you to trace your ancestors with great accuracy. Are you descended from someone famous? What might you learn about yourself from your family tree? The scienti ...

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The WellSpring 42

In episode 42, we don't discuss themeaning of life. But we do consider how far back life goes on earth. It may be almost 4 billion years! Nowthat deserves some contemplation.There's a mini meditation on losing your worries. And LiminMao joins us to rethink antibiotics.You may not need to take the fullcourse. Plus an anti-smoking vaccine.Robert Fritz has some tips on livingcreatively, from his book The Pathof Least Resistance.Music: Satori's Relaxation CD fromwww.magnatune.com http://bl ...

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The WellSpring 41

In this episode:We explore the idea that plants under stress produce a chemical, resveritrol, that helps people live longer. David Ewing Duncan raised the idea on a recent Biotech Nation on NPR and ITConversations, and David Sinclair, who heads the aging study at Harvard, is behind the research.If you motivate yourself by worry, or by setting up big fears about the bad things that are going to happen to you, then you may find that that strategy doesn't work in the long run. Robert Fritz's b ...

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The WellSpring 41

In this episode:We explore the idea that plants under stress produce a chemical, resveritrol, that helps people live longer. David Ewing Duncan raised the idea on a recent Biotech Nation on NPR and ITConversations, and David Sinclair, who heads the aging study at Harvard, is behind the research.If you motivate yourself by worry, or by setting up big fears about the bad things that are going to happen to you, then you may find that that strategy doesn't work in the long run. Robert Fritz's b ...

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The WellSpring 40 (re-edit)

In this re-edited episode: Do you sabotage your present because of patterns you've inherited from the past? The Love Coach, Frances Amaroux joins us to talk about how we can change those patterns, based on her recent reading of Robert Fritz's The Path Of Least Resistance. She's not offering a quick fix, but she does say that the process has given her great insight into herself. Find out more about Frances, and her Life Partner Quest at http://www.turning-point.com.au/ New re ...

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The WellSpring 40 (re-edit)

In this re-edited episode: Do you sabotage your present because of patterns you've inherited from the past? The Love Coach, Frances Amaroux joins us to talk about how we can change those patterns, based on her recent reading of Robert Fritz's The Path Of Least Resistance. She's not offering a quick fix, but she does say that the process has given ...

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WellSpring ep 39 Promo

This is an audio promo for WellSpring Podcast ep 39 - runs 39 seconds. If there's somewhere you can play it I'd be grateful. Thanks Bob

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WellSpring ep 39 Promo

This is an audio promo for WellSpring Podcast ep 39 - runs 39 seconds. If there's somewhere you can play it I'd be grateful. Thanks Bob

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The WellSpring 39 - Prejudice and Gossip.

In this episode: Prejudice and gossip. Why we think ill of some people; why we speak badly of others; and the science behind both. Recent brain scan studies from Harvard show that different areas of the brain light up when we think about people who are similar to us and those who aren't. Plus gossip, spreading negative tales about others, can be a strong bonding f ...

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The WellSpring 39 - Prejudice and Gossip.

In this episode: Prejudice and gossip. Why we think ill of some people; why we speak badly of others; and the science behind both. Recent brain scan studies from Harvard show that different areas of the brain light up when we think about people who are similar to us and those who aren't. Plus gossip, spreading negative tales about others, can be a strong bonding force, even among strangers, according to the University of Oklahoma. Both phenomena are rooted in our need to have in-gr ...

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The WellSpring 38 - "Now - An Answer To Mortality?"

In this episode:Rick Farley is dead this weekend, at 53, Grant McLennan passed away in his sleep last weekend, at 48. That's moderately alarming for a fiftysomething male who had met them both. Ruth Ostrow, writing in the Weekend Australian, tells of a ritual where you spend 12 months making each decision as if you were in the last year of your life. Sogyal Rinpoche says that we westerners are too caught up in the things of the world, to give sufficient attention to impermanence, which is t ...

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The WellSpring 38 - "Now - An Answer To Mortality?"

In this episode:Rick Farley is dead this weekend, at 53, Grant McLennan passed away in his sleep last weekend, at 48. That's moderately alarming for a fiftysomething male who had met them both. Ruth Ostrow, writing in the Weekend Australian, tells of a ritual where you spend 12 months making each decision as if you were in the last year of your life. Sogyal Rinpoche says that we westerners are too caught up in the things of the world, to give sufficient attention to impermanence, which is t ...

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The WellSpring Special Edition from Cebit 2006 in Sydney

This is a special edition of the WellSpring Sound Guidance taking you to Cebit 2006 in Sydney. We explore just two questions: what's gee whiz about the gadgets on show? and how do they really improve human happiness? We talk to experts from Panasonic, Netgear, the RFID Association, G3, Blackberry, and the Open Sour ...

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The WellSpring Special Edition from Cebit 2006 in Sydney

This is a special edition of the WellSpring Sound Guidance taking you to Cebit 2006 in Sydney. We explore just two questions: what's gee whiz about the gadgets on show? and how do they really improve human happiness? We talk to experts from Panasonic, Netgear, the RFID Association, G3, Blackberry, and the Open Source Association. Good Gadget Guy Peter Blasina wraps us up, too. Science underpins our ideas on spirituality, and spirituality informs science. But where does t ...

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The WellSpring 36

In this episode:There's a must listen to story from Peter Wale about memories of his mother and how he's been healing the past.Dr Mao joins us to discuss what's in your lunch, and what should be. Do you know that 300 grams of hot chips takes a woman 3 hours to walk off? Can you tell when someone's lying? Mark Frank can, and his system is so good, he has automated it for law enforcement authorities across the world.New neurological research by Yale University researchers into attraction and ...

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The WellSpring 36

In this episode:There's a must listen to story from Peter Wale about memories of his mother and how he's been healing the past.Dr Mao joins us to discuss what's in your lunch, and what should be. Do you know that 300 grams of hot chips takes a woman 3 hours to walk off? Can you tell when someone's lying? Mark Frank can, and his system is so good, he has automated it for law enforcement authorities across the world.New neurological research by Yale University researchers into attraction and ...

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The WellSpring 35

In this episode: It's dry in Oberon, as the picture shows. Our theme sound effect of thunder and rain belies our desire to hear just that outside. In News You Can Use: We discuss teamwork why and how it works, according to the American Psychological Association. Teams of three seem to be most effective but what does that imply for marriages? Plus nature not nurture wins as we loo ...

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The WellSpring 35

In this episode: It's dry in Oberon, as the picture shows. Our theme sound effect of thunder and rain belies our desire to hear just that outside. In News You Can Use: We discuss teamwork why and how it works, according to the American Psychological Association. Teams of three seem to be most effective but what does that imply for marriages? Plus nature not nurture wins as we look at genes and alcoholism and inherited intelligence. There's more evidence that walking is good for you fro ...

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The WellSpring 34

In this episode: You can protect yourself against Alzheimers by following a Mediterranean diet you could lower your risk by up to 40% One American company is pushing its business model for implantable microchips that carry your medical history. Would you have one? Maybe not at their price. But with the history in pets how long can it be before we have a workable model for humans? ...

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The WellSpring 34

In this episode: You can protect yourself against Alzheimers by following a Mediterranean diet you could lower your risk by up to 40% One American company is pushing its business model for implantable microchips that carry your medical history. Would you have one? Maybe not at their price. But with the history in pets how long can it be before we have a workable model for humans? Some people call it flow, some call it being in the moment, now Israeli scientists have shown what happ ...

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The WellSpring 33

In this episode:The 'medicalisation'  of everyday  problems  has been the subject of a Newcastle University conference this last week.  Prof David Henry and  journalist Roy Moynihan  have attracted academics from around the world to examine the corporate sponsored creation of disease which turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources and may even cause harm.The perennial question of nature vs nurture gets some new evidence this week. Yale Unive ...

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The WellSpring 33

In this episode:The 'medicalisation'  of everyday  problems  has been the subject of a Newcastle University conference this last week.  Prof David Henry and  journalist Roy Moynihan  have attracted academics from around the world to examine the corporate sponsored creation of disease which turns healthy people into patients, wastes precious resources and may even cause harm.The perennial question of nature vs nurture gets some new evidence this week. Yale Unive ...

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The WellSpring 32

It's been a busy week – with The Yoga and Ayurvedic Medicine Conference in Sydney taking my attention. I spent all day Saturday hosting the speakers events and there were some wonderful highlights – like Simon Borg-Olivier's extraordinary display of yoga gymnastics. He's from Yoga Synergy, and we'll have a chat with him in a future episode. P ...

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The WellSpring 32

It's been a busy week â with The Yoga and Ayurvedic Medicine Conference in Sydney taking my attention. I spent all day Saturday hosting the speakers events and there were some wonderful highlights â like Simon Borg-Olivier's extraordinary display of yoga gymnastics. He's from Yoga Synergy, and we'll have a chat with him in a future episode. Prof Marc Cohen gave a comprehensive run down on the state of complementary medicine in Australia â it's big and getting bigger! Stephen Penmann ...

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The WellSpring 31

In this episode: The Power of Prayer? Recent research in the American Heart Journal suggests that heart by pass patients who know they're being prayed for by strangers have more complications. People who have no prayers and people who don't know they're being prayed for recover faster. Of course not everyone's happy with the study. And some people say that being prayed for by fri ...

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The WellSpring 31

In this episode: The Power of Prayer? Recent research in the American Heart Journal suggests that heart by pass patients who know they're being prayed for by strangers have more complications. People who have no prayers and people who don't know they're being prayed for recover faster. Of course not everyone's happy with the study. And some people say that being prayed for by friends and family may work â because of the social connection. Loneliness isn't healthy for older people, anot ...

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The WellSpring 30

In this episode: Most baby boomers devote about 15 minutes a day to sex and romance, and five hours a day to the TV or Internet. The importance of sleep continues to be reinforced by research. And our picture of King Street, Newtown is meant to portray a relaxed evening for you. Sleeping too little or too long for has been related to an increased risk of late onset diabetes for men. And many ...

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The WellSpring 30

In this episode: Most baby boomers devote about 15 minutes a day to sex and romance, and five hours a day to the TV or Internet. The importance of sleep continues to be reinforced by research. And our picture of King Street, Newtown is meant to portray a relaxed evening for you. Sleeping too little or too long for has been related to an increased risk of late onset diabetes for men. And many teenage behavioural disorders may in fact be caused by out of phase sleep patterns, and not eno ...

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The WellSpring 29

In this episode: That London drug trial that went badly wrong, for whatever reason, will surely mean tighter controls on human trials in future and longer times for research with higher drug prices. You may think it probably also means more trials in developing countries, if you've read or seen Constant Gardener from John Le Carre. Prof Carol Dweck of Stanford has a new book: Mindset: the New Psychology of S ...

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The WellSpring 29

In this episode: That London drug trial that went badly wrong, for whatever reason, will surely mean tighter controls on human trials in future and longer times for research with higher drug prices. You may think it probably also means more trials in developing countries, if you've read or seen Constant Gardener from John Le Carre. Prof Carol Dweck of Stanford has a new book: Mindset: the New Psychology of Success. We'll forgive her the shrill subtitle because of the research she advan ...

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The WellSpring 28

In this episode: There looks to be water on one of Saturn's moons.....could there be life? It raises some problematic questions about how humans would react to 'alien' life when we're so disagreeable to our own species. Dr Carolyn Porco who heads the Cassini imaging team has been the lead spokesperson. She gave a wonderful talk at PopTech which you can find on ITConversations. Are they about to medicalize the ...

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The WellSpring 27

In this episode: Coffee and your heart: more caffeine can be good for your heart, or bad for it, depending on your genes, new research shows. Also new radio isotope heart imaging shows that mental stress does reduce heart blood flow. Until now it's been a silent symptom the doctors say. But it comes as no surprise to people who have felt 'the cold hand of fear grasp their heart' we suspect. Our picture is of hot air balloons floating over Ca ...

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The WellSpring 26

In today's podcast: The people on digg.com have been contemplating how smart we humans may be capable of being with a discussion about the brain power of Daniel Paul Tammet who recited the value of pi to 22,514 places. He's a UK autistic who can explain the way that he thinks, prompting Professor Alan Snyder to call him the Rosetta Stone for our understanding of extraordinary mental abilities. ...

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The WellSpring 25

After a day training people in communication skills I was reminded of the powerfulness of Professor Robert Cialdini's Factors of Influence. The six essential techniques for getting people to agree with your thinking are familiar to us all, because of their universal human usefulness. They're especially powerful when you use them as a check list for ways of thinking and talking about issues you're working on. We also hear an extract from Bob Cialdini speaking at Arizona State University abo ...

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The WellSpring 24

Limin returns from China with her report on the growth engine of Asia (and Australia). She captured the image on the right in Shanghai. Not long after the FDA approved Exubra – the inhalable insulin, Researchers at the University of New South Wales have developed a pill coating from seaweed that allows insulin to be delivered through the gut. Meanwhile in Melbourne a Monash University has g ...

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Yes and No Signals

Hi folks, I'm not well with a stomach bug today. So I've reposted the Yes and No signal meditation. It follows last episode's report on research about the power of your unconscious. It's based on John Grinder's New Code of NLP. You'll find more meditations under the Personal Change tab. There will be a new episode of the WellSpring over the weekend. Use headphones for this me ...

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The WellSpring 23

In this episode: New Dutch research shows that the unconscious mind makes better big decisions than you can consciously. Dr Ap Dijksterhuis from the University of Amsterdam has shown that when it comes to complex decisions (like weighing up 12 criteria for a car purchase) the unconscious makes better decisions in 60% of cases, while the conscious mind only gets it right 23% of the time. Prof Dijksterhuis makes the point in his biography tha ...

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The WellSpring 22

Today we report from the much anticipated Positive Psychology Seminar in Sydney, and hear a few words from Professor Martin Seligman. That's him in the picture on the right, pretty thoroughly dominated by his message in a powerpoint. Also in this episode: The photos of Abu Ghraib revealed last night on SBS TV in Sydney have made global media news. They're shoc ...

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The WellSpring 21

Sound nutrition for children is an unmet human right, a conference at Tufts University has been told. It's not conflict or natural disaster that's to blame for the starving children in Africa or the Indian subcontinent, it's a failure of the programmes designed to fix the problem, the experts say. Loving kindness could lead to good loving says a survey that links altruism to romantic love. People who say they're altruistic also say their mar ...

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The WellSpring 20

We hear from Martin Seligman the professor of positive psychology and founder of the highly recommended site www.authentichappiness.org. He's in Sydney this week and I'm going to see him in a full day seminar on Thursday. Our picture is of a handrail at St James Church in Sydney. It captures the Georgian elegance and simplicity of one of the oldest churches in Australia. It may also be a reference to the violence surrounding religious belie ...

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The WellSpring 19

Www.banthebulb.org is the brainchild of Dr Matt Prescott who's trying to rid the world of cheap incandescent light bulbs. If they were invented today they'd never be allowed he says. He's calling on governments to increase their price to push consumers into the initially expensive but much greener compact fluorescent bulbs. Sex Chemistry, and Italian scientists have done more research on the hormones that go with falling i ...

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The WellSpring 18

Going without a drink can make you more sensitive to pain according to new research out of the Howard Florey Institute in Melbourne. If you're about to go through a painful experience you'd be wise to hydrate, the researchers say. But when you get really thirsty the pain dulls. This may be an adaptation allowing people to go through hardship to find water. It's been hot in Sydney '31 feels like 36' today, hence the cooling g ...

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The WellSpring 17

It's almost back to work in Australia as summer break finishes for almost everyone. And our thoughts turn to the motivation part of our wellness brief of "meditation, motivation and health". As part of that effort in Sydney harbourside walks are on the agenda. The photo is of Blackwattle Bay taken from Annadale. We've been working intensely on our Podcasting Manual and I'm offering a draft copy to prospective ...

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The WellSpring 16

On Australia Day 2006, after the riot at Cronulla and the simplistic political backlash, many people will be asking about how Australia moves forward from here. We celebrate Ian Frazer, Australian of the year who invented the cervical cancer vaccine. Prof Frazer says helping other people can make you feel really good yourself and being Australian is about doing good for the community. Our picture is of a Lion Dance in Belmor ...

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The WellSpring 15

In this episode we're joined by Limin, and ahead of her return to Shanghai next weekend, adopt a Chinese theme. Acupuncture does suppress the pain response according to brain scans. A BBC-TV show to be screened this week shows open heart surgery in China performed without a general anesthetic, but with acupuncture. A newly rediscovered map suggests that an ancient Chinese mariner, Zhen He, ma ...

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The WellSpring 14

Sex or a TV in the bedroom it's your choice. Put down that remote control and give it some thought. We ask our Love Coach, Frances Amaroux what she thinks. And no we're not going to tell you here what she says. You'll have to listen. About a fifth of Irish men in northwest Ireland are descended from one man, King Niall who lived in the fifth century. And about 2% of all male New Yorkers carry the gene. About 3 million males ...

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Your Personal Change Programme 9

The Heart Meditation is an opportunity for you to express your gratitude to your heart. It faithfully beats thousands of times a day for your life. People can be surprised by the reaction they get when they express their acknowledgement and say thanks to this constantly active organ of ours. And when we ask our heart if it has messages for us, we can also be quite surprised at how strongly a deeper something communicates wit ...

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Your Personal Change Programme 8

This Progressive Relaxation meditation is the classic remedy if you have trouble falling asleep, or if find you hold emotional tensions in your body. You may already have done another version of this meditation in the past, tensing and releasing your body from the tips of your toes to the top of your head. This version of about 10 minutes is designed to be listened to through headphones, preferably while you're lying down. T ...

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The WellSpring 13

The WellSpring #13! In an attempt to thumb my nose at superstition about 13, I wanted to record this yesterday on Friday the 13th, but too many things went wrong! I explain in the audio. This time we look at new research about how unhealthy young Americans are becoming. As teenagers they seem to live healthy lifestyles, but researchers at the US National Institutes of Health say that its alarming how rapidly ...

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Your Personal Change Programme 7

This meditation on Infinity may awaken a sense of the great open space of awareness that is who you truly are. It may also give you a sense of how you fit in the world. It is a meditation on the great space of the universe down to the tiny spaces of the atoms of the cells in your body. It runs about 10 minutes. We are grateful again to DAC Cro ...

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Your Personal Change Programme 6

This is Your Sanctuary - probably our most popular meditation at The WellSpring. In this you take yourself to your own special place in nature - with a little guidance. This 10 minute meditation (11 minutes with the introduction) should get faster and easier each time you do it. Please don't drive, or operate machinery, or do anything that takes your attention ...

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The WellSpring 12

Another wide ranging and discursive podcast linking science and current events with thoughts of the spirit. In the news we cover: A fatal shark attack in Moreton Bay in Queensland has raised alerts that an alarming number of sharks are off the east coast of Australia this summer. Heinrich Harrer, who wrote 7 Years in Tibet, about his time in the Dalai Lama's household in Lhasa in the 1940's an ...

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The WellSpring 11

A drizzly but warm and humid mid summer Thursday evening in Sydney. Crowds of shoppers, holiday-makers and tourists are in the cbd, all looking a bit crumpled and sweaty, but not really caring. For those heading back to work, likability is more important than competence, says Susan David from Yale University. And Tim Sanders has written a book about it: The Likability Factor. But Alexandra Levit who wrote The ...

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The WellSpring 10

Our first for 2006. Limin and Bob discuss the extreme heat in South Eastern Australia in the past few days. Temperatures soared into the 40's (Celcius - well over 100 F) in many parts of New South Wales, coming close to records. The Met Bureau says the recent very hot years are a consequence of global warming. Bushfires have destroyed houses, caused evacuations on the Central Coast, and one ...

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Your Personal Change Programme 5

Some people seem to be in touch with their intuition and others don't seem to have the knack. But listening to the messages that your unconscious is trying to communicate is often just a matter of opening up your awareness. This exercise does that by creating Yes and No signals from your unconscious mind. They're very useful in themselves, and often open the door to a real conversation between your conscious and unconscious. ...

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Your Personal Change Programme 4

If you've ever thought about the way you spend your time and where and with whom, and wondered if you could do it all better then this is a useful exercise for you. The Logical Levels Exercise is based on a concept from Robert Dilts. You can choose to do this exercise standing up and moving around, or in your imagination. Don't listen while you're driving or operating machinery - make the most of this exercise for yourself. ...

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Your Personal Change Programme 3

The Well Formed Outcome is the rather quaint title for a set of questions that separate realistic goals from fantasy. Use this technique to discover if what you want is something that you can reasonably get for yourself. In this exercise we allow you to contemplate what you want, whether you have the appropriate resources or can get them, and the costs and consequences of your goal. We also include a future pacing exercise where we ask you to go forward in time and then lo ...

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Your Personal Change Programme 2

If you've ever been caught with not enough options in a situation then this will be useful for you. The New Behaviour Generator allows you to borrow other people's actions and have them trigger automatically. Find a comfortable spot and put the headphones on for this meditation. Don't drive or operate heavy machinery as you listen. Give yourself your full attention for this process. The music is Northeastern Corridor from DA ...

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Your Personal Change Programme 1

Welcome to Your Personal Change Programme. In this segment we'll look at your own values and how they affect what you want, and need from life. The Values Sorting Exercise is with thanks to Chris Collingwood of Inspiritive. This is an incredibly useful exercise that often creates "a-ha" moments, and almost always involves a reassessment of some parts of your life. Allow yourself plenty of time ...

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The WellSpring 9

In this edition we consider the time between Christmas and New Year. For many of us it is a chance to recall the past, consider how we really are now and plan the future. We mention that we're about to revisit Your Personal Change Programme in a series of mp3s as another stream. They'll address your values, your identity, and how to create achievable outcomes. Dr Limin Mao joins us to look at News You Can Use. We mention the BBC's advice on how to keep your ...

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The WellSpring 8

Christmas Eve 2005. We contemplate the advantages and disadvantages of spending Christmas alone. Dr Limin Mao joins us for our science News You Can Use segments. A new survey in the BMJ says there's no herbal (or other) cure for hangovers. They suggest drinking less, which for serious drinkers may not be useful information. But then serious drinkers will have their own ways of dealing with hangovers. CSIRO research says that r ...

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The WellSpring 7

At last an explanation of what The WellSpring is (a 24/7 wellness audio channel on Foxtel and Austar in Australia).There's more at www.wellspringconnection.net We discuss the news that artifical lighting may be contributing to the epidemic of breast cancer, and talk about the hormone melatonin. We report the Harris Poll that 82% of Americans believe in God, and 21% believe they've been reincarnated. We borrow some good eating ideas to avoid a 'stagnant body' from Kimberley Norton, from the ...

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The WellSpring 6

Welcome to Podcast 6. In the week before Christmas we give some thought to Midsummers Night, and the change of the seasons from the energy of Spring to a more fruitful decline into Autumn. I call the wicca festival Litha, Lilith mistakenly, and quote witch and author Yasmine Galenorn. We update the quiet weekend on Sydney's beaches, talk about sugar as an analgesic for kids, how obese Britons are becoming, and an English health service which doesn't want to ...

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The WellSpring 5

Chris Collingwood, from Inspiritive, Australia's leading NLP trainers, joins me today. We're pleased that Sydney has calmed down a lot since Sunday's angry mob at Cronulla. We talk about the American Psychological Association's recent view on the usefulness of hypnosis. As an Ericsonnian hypnotist Chris gives some tips on how he helps clients with weight loss. We note new research that says cellphone calls from work to home, or the other way ...

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The WellSpring 4 - Why Not?

The rowdy street scenes at Cronulla have exercised my thoughts today. It's like spectator sport meets direct political action. And suddenly we have the danger of angry mobs and sporadic guerilla attacks occuring in Sydney. Could TV and Hollywood be partly to blame through desensitising us? We consider the idea of the pain body which is raised in Eckhart Tolle's new book A New Earth.Could it explain the anger we're seeing? We investigate the i ...

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The WellSpring 3

In which we discuss teenagers imitating smoking in the movies, and how the trust hormone oxytocin works by slowing down our fear centre. We look at why fructose (fruit sugar) may be behind the obesity epidemic, but how Tai Chi might prevent diabetes. We also ponder the effects of ozone on Tibetan spirituality, and the health benefits of super broccoli, wheat germ and pistachios. Sydney's been very hot lately, but I'm suffering a cold, hence the delay in get ...

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The WellSpring 2

With each of these dummy runs we're getting closer to a polished product. On this one Dr Limin Mao joins me to test out the two mike setup, and we also talk to Stu on the street about the meaning of life.

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