Tony Burkinshaw

(retired) Harley St.Cognitive Hypnotherapist. Vaguely political, somewhat cynical. Always promoting good mental health.

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It’s the exact opposite of “levelling up”.
It’s almost as if ‘levelling up’ was a slogan, not actual policy 🤔.
In any case, ‘How do we find the money’ is only ever used for NHS/Social Care/Benefits, never when it’s new trade yachts, trident, nuclear power, or PPE contracts.

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It’s twenty one minutes past two in the morning. I’m tired but wide awake. I’ve had a good run of not being up in the middle of the night but it seems that after my session in the gym my calf muscles are twitching & I’ve got restless leg syndrome…

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Bad Habits and ChatGPT, by @TBtalks https://t.co/gh5SI4DD0u

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Jhana Meditation Level 2. (Perhaps), by @TBtalks https://t.co/yNhgkq7skG

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Here we go again. It’s a full nineteen days of meeting intentions and getting in a daily chat with you. Thus far today’s promising to be a good one. The sun’s shining, the sky is impossibly blue, there’s a gentle cool breeze & my meditate was a good one

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It’s a double philosophy week, this week and one of them involved a post philosophy pub lunch. What more could you ask for than a bunch of seasoned travellers of life, (old people), chatting about Socrates & if his ideas are relevant in our times

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I’m concerned that you might think this one is a bit too Zen, which implies that I already know what I'm going to talk about, which in turn implies that I'm flying in the face of intent and pre-planning this post/chat/story or whatever…

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Unexpectedly, well a bit unexpectedly as I knew I was headed here yesterday, I'm back in Sheffield at the Northern General Hospital. Again. To allay any doubts, not as a patient. I'm a visitor.

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I went to my very first fire circle last night! And implicit in the phrase very first is the implication that it won’t be the last. It was further away than I’d expected though not prohibitively so. I wasn’t driving which was both a blessing and a curse…

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I find myself sitting in what some may describe as the best cafe in Oswestry* and given that I'm comfortably nestled in the corner, sipping an excellent black Americano, that would include me.
The coffee was so good I bought it twice…

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“I don’t want a repeat of yesterday. Mind you, I’ve still got to get through to the insurers to sort out the hole in our dining room ceiling and not quite matching hole in the spare bedroom floor. At least there’s no water pouring through any more…”

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Day 10:
We’re into double digits day count and being a fan of the odd alliteration, that bodes well for me.
However, it’s later in the day, around 7.30pm and I’ve usually got my day’s writing done, dusted, edited and up on Substack. Not today though…

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OK, so I realise Sunday was in fact yesterday but then again today is a Bank Holiday here in the UK so it’s sort of like a Sunday…
This is the post I sent out to all my subscribers yesterday.
You might like it too 👍

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Burst Pipes are Very Good For Stress … NOT!
I was looking forward to a peaceful day…
Sadly, it was not to be.

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“ THERE’S WATER POURING DOWN THE DINING ROOM WALL! ” is not the most relaxing end to a quiet Saturday evening on a May Bank Holiday weekend...
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We’re off again into my daily scribings, except this time we’re into WEEK TWO! (Note the none too subtle overtones of self congratulation and slight disbelief that I’ve got this far without missing a day. Hooray!…

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Gyms, Workouts and Wellbeing
Day Seven and counting 👍

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