http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress Dr Tom's Healthy Thinking Institute Blog Fri, 30 Apr 2010 23:56:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Recently a colleague and International Expert on stress and performance arrived to join our department at the University. Keen to show him the pleasures of Waiheke Island where we live and catch some fish I had my boat serviced and awaited his arrival from the USA. The day dawned bright and ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=47 Its been a busy couple of weeks with multiple presentations to the Ministry of Health, Rodney Wayne Hairdressing in Queenstown and today I flew to Taupo to train some Real Estate agents courtesy of the Property Press. Lucky I bought shares in a plane based on Waiheke Island as there was ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=45 As I sit here watching the sun struggle up through a layer of cloud over the Coromandel Peninsula, I'm grateful to have the opportunities that lie ahead for the day. My kids are still asleep, ready to wake and get to school, my wife is working at NZ Fashion Week ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=44 Well sometimes you have to take a breath and take stock of what has happened. Just over a month ago I had never been to Kuala Lumpur. I am now on my third trip, speaking at the 14th International Conference on Thinking. Other speakers include Edward De Bono, Tony Buzan ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=43 If you havent read either of my books on Healthy Thinking, you may not know that on June 3rd 1994, I was asleep in a thatched hut, on the island of Java at a World famous Surfing Resort called Grajagan, the Pipeline of Indonesia. Now resort at the time was ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=42 Being both a doctor and a motivational speaker Swine Flu has affected both businesses in a different way. There has been an increase in requests for Anti Virals like Tamiflu, plus patients with mild symptoms worried about Swine Flu. My family have asked me to do less doctoring and more ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=41 Well I survived my spell of night shifts in the Emergency Department despite being viraemic (flash word for having a bit of a cold). More importantly, so did the patients. While Vitamin C, some anti cold remedies, paracetamol and coffee helped keep me awake and alert so did my COGNITHERAPEUTICALS. ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=40 I have just returned from a magnificent 5 days in Western Australia speaking at a Conference on Emergency medicine. I gave a keynote address to about 200 rural doctors on the importance of attitude and how it can affect our health. In the audience was the Deputy Premier for Western ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=39 Well its a been a VERY BIG WEEK. The infant that was Healthy Thinking has grown up. From the embryo that was an idea that became a book which became the child which was the keynote developed into an adolescent workshop and TV series. Like watching any child growing up ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=38 Well I have just returned from a stint as a Doctor on a Russian ship in New Zealands sub antarctic islands. It was part of a Heritage Expedition. What a buzz, albatross, penguins and sea lions as we visited Snares, Auckland and Campbell Island 700 kms south of the bottom ... http://www.healthythinking.biz/wordpress/?p=37