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		<title>Brain-Based Coaching</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:46:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Coaching is a process that helps people change. For changes to occur we need to change the way we think, what we attend to and how we see the world around us. Neuroscientist, Srinivasan Pillay remarks that coaching is the bridge between our imagination and action. Coaching clients are generally mentally healthy individuals who desire psychological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How I went from competing to experiencing</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Mar 2011 08:22:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Sports Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been highly competitive, especially in individual sports. Perhaps it is because I just love going fast, and nothing makes you feel as fast as when you come flying past your fellow competitors (the only thing that is comparable is racing downhill on my mountain bike). I was (am) a speed junkie (and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Your Mental Game Plan for the Argus Cycle Tour</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 19:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the time grows closer to the Argus Cycle Tour I see more and more cyclists on the road &#8220;miles in the legs&#8221; in preparation for the big day. As much as getting time in the saddle is important, consider spending some time preparing mentally for the race. Here are six things to consider when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness &#8211; Do we have a choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 11:52:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[genetics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The growth of neuroscience and genetics has seen an increasing number of articles stating that the part of the brain that does this or that, or the gene for this or that has been discovered. Happiness has not escaped these studies. Here is one such article I found in The Telegraph &#8220;Born miserable – some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the Pursuit of Happiness Contentment and Mindfulness Win</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Jan 2011 17:06:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[depression]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ask anyone if they want to be happy and they'll surely say yes. The pursuit of happiness has spurned a multi-million dollar business. But the relentless pursuit of happiness is unrealistic. No one is happy all of the time and when people expect to be happy all of the time, they are likely to find happiness an illusive state of mind.]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Should Be Mental About Sports</title>
		<link>http://www.brainsparks.co.za/sports-mental-coaching/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 18:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Sports Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[mental game]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You devote of hours and hours to training your body but how much to you spend training your mind? More and more, athletes and sports teams are turning to sports psychology and mental game coaching to give them the edge in training and competition. Sports psychology is a discipline within psychology that studies how mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perform Better and Have Fun Doing It</title>
		<link>http://www.brainsparks.co.za/achieve-better-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[peak experience]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether in business or in sports, we all want to perform at our best and have fun doing it. For many of us however, optimal or peak experiences do not happen frequently enough. There are three things that impact on peak performance: our thoughts about the past, our thoughts about the future, and what we think about in the moment.]]></description>
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		<title>Leonardo on taking action</title>
		<link>http://www.brainsparks.co.za/da_vinci_quote/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 15:15:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Random]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.” Leonardo Da Vinci]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing that state called &#8220;flow&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 12:10:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[mihaly csikszentmihalyi]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the psychology of optimal experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[the zone]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For a long time I have searched for a reason for our teleological nature that went beyond a simple evolutionary psychology explanation: our hard wired drive to perpetuate our gene pool, our need to satisfy basic needs (food, shelter, sex). Goal oriented humans would have had a better chance of survival. Without a goal oriented nature we would not hunt or gather. But in the developed world at least, those basic human needs are generally taken care of (at least basically). A simple evolutionary explanation does not suffice. In his book "Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience" Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ...]]></description>
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		<title>Points to ponder: success or meaning</title>
		<link>http://www.brainsparks.co.za/points-to-ponder-success-meaning/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brainsparks.co.za/points-to-ponder-success-meaning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Aug 2010 05:50:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Philip</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[meaning]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself." Victor Frankl (Man's Search for Meaning)]]></description>
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