by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Feb 9, 2020 | Musings on today
Notes from a Boomer Vegetarian Meat and I separated twenty-seven years ago during my first foray into Goa. I observed an ageing sacred cow ambling at will, keeping the traffic in thrall, with ancient Hindu dogma directing her fate. I decided not to eat meat. The tough...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Jul 1, 2019 | General, Habit Breaking, Mental detox, Relaxation, Thailand
The wind’s mood’s swings: fresh perspectives at Kamalaya, Ko Samui Last April, in 2018, as I swam to and fro in the lap pool at Kamalaya, a wellness retreat on the island of Ko Samui, I pondered on the plight of the long, streaming Buddhist prayer flags flying...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Jul 29, 2018 | Habit Breaking, Hypnotherapy
We often hear about ‘the art of listening’ … but is listening an art? Real listening … listening from the heart may well be an art… For embedded in the heart is the art and the ear … I am so often astounded by the magic and luminosity of words! Do you listen with the...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | May 7, 2018 | General
Were you punished by writing lines at school? You and I perhaps remember staying in detention at school and ‘writing lines’? These ‘lines’ were usually an extra-curricular punishment, and so scribed after school hours. But sometimes not: on occasion, lines were...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Apr 9, 2018 | Hypnosis, Thailand, Uncategorized
Marketing for Mindlessness? If you wished to study marketing perhaps the place to go to learn the art of marketing for mindlessness is Bangkok. From a marketing perspective it is a city all wrapped up. Wrapped up in the sense that most surfaces are branded and...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Apr 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
Remember the Lion in the Wizard of Oz… I feel a little like the cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz. Do you remember how the Lion, Dorothy, the Tin Man and the Scarecrow are all scrubbed up to meet the kingly Wizard of Oz having been welcomed into the Emerald...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Apr 6, 2018 | Hypnotherapy, Thailand
Do not read a book by it’s cover or a shop by it’s facade… I’ve stepped into a coffee shop to write for an hour having just deposited a ring in a gem stone shop close by … one I’ve stepped inside of on several trips over the years … perhaps...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Mar 23, 2017 | Fear, Hypnotherapy
So you think hypnosis is dangerous? So you think that you will open yourself to the subtle suggestions of your hypnotherapist, and that hypnosis will ‘mess with’ your mind? If so, then it is time to wake up to ‘fake news’… “We rely on reporters and news...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Nov 9, 2015 | General, Hypnotherapy
How do some movies move you toward a path? You may have seen the Hollywood film, City of Angels, starring Meg Ryan, but I first saw the original, Wings of Desire, more than twenty years ago it seems. The movie is directed by Wim Wenders, and like the film, The Wizard...
by Deborah Marshall-Warren | Nov 4, 2015 | Hypnosis, Hypnotherapy, Thailand
Today may I blow my own trumpet and champion you to call? I’ve listened to you and today, perhaps you’ll listen to me! A few days ago, Whole Being Hypnotherapy was twenty years of age, and how the time has flown —literally. Just as a client may say, when I tell her...
