Following a degree in Philosophy in the late seventies, I began teaching English as a Foreign Language. Over a four or five year period I taught at schools in England, at a petroleum refinery in Algeria, and at a university in Spain. I also went back to university in London for post-graduate training in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages). That was all very varied and interesting experience. In 1983, my first child was born, in Spain, and it seemed an appropriate time to consider establishing a permanent home and settling somewhere, perhaps where the world could travel to me, rather than vice versa.

I am going to reveal to you the secrets of how to hypnotise yourself. You don’t think us clinical hypnotherapists pay each other for therapy do you?! Well sometimes we swap therapy, but most hypnotherapists will regularly hypnotise themselves in order to stay happy and healthy. You do not need to be a trained clinical hypnotherapist in order to effectively hypnotise yourself - it just takes a bit of practice.

We often talk of "vibes" that we receive from people we regularly interact with. These may be family members, friends, new relationships, business associates, colleagues at work and sometimes even people we travel with in public transports.

Most close relationships are based on the principle of compensation, people seek partners who either fill voids or supplement them. Not for no reason do we say "opposites attract".