Andrew Field Coaching & Psychotherapy

25/11/2025

For the day ahead

Wake up and smile.
Be grateful for life.
Be awake in every moment.
Experience each moment deeply and with appreciation.
Think positively about the day ahead.
Start with some mindfulness practice - even a minute of calm, stillness and relaxation is worthwhile.
Greet every person you meet with respect and happiness to see them - like an old friend.
Ask yourself what is the best that you can do with today?
Put energy into showing up as your best self.
Treat everyone as an enlightened being in training.
Treasure and be grateful for the food you eat and other gifts you receive.
Intercept negative thoughts and find positive ones instead.
Let go of resentment, bitterness, anger and hatred.

At the end of the day assess how well you have loved, how you showed compassion, how happy you were, and whether you achieved inner peace?
Reflect back with gratitude for the blessings and lessons of the day.

14/10/2025

The truth

"Working class people around the world have no innate desire to go to war with each other. They have to be conned into it by the sociopaths who will profit from it."
— John Lennon
🕊 Peace is natural. War is sold.

23/09/2025

Leaders
How can we be get the leaders that we, our children and their children in particular deserve?
It feels like there’s a crisis in leadership all over the planet at present.
Individualistic, egotistical and insecure men are playing pathetic point-scoring playground mentality games with power and others’ lives.
Toxic masculinity predominates.
Greed, contempt and dishonesty are the values driving these men to the top.
How can we break this cycle?
A wise man 2,600 years ago recognised that human suffering is created by greed, hatred and ignorance. He taught that the values of the awakened human heart and mind are love, compassion, joy and peace. Another man who died for his beliefs 2,000 years ago taught that love and compassion for others were the most important human values and that service and self-sacrifice led to ultimate happiness.
1,400 years ago another wise teacher emphasised generosity, tolerance and hospitality as keys to wisdom.
We have seen many others who have shown us the path of peace, integrity, respect and honesty.
Martin Luther King jr. said “We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
So how do we apply this to our assessment of potential leaders?
First and foremost I believe we must look at values in public life before we look at where anyone lies on the political spectrum.
Firstly is there greed?
Are they feathering their own nest or behaving like a pig with its snout in a trough? It’s all too common.
Then is there hatred?
Do they single some out for disdain and contemptuous treatment? Do they look for scapegoats to blame for problems?
And do they routinely use attacking language and vitriol?
Are they dishonest?
The distortion of truth or use of downright untruth to sow ignorance and division is a sure sign of trouble.
Is there corruption?
If so they are not worthy leaders. Corruption should be highlighted in its every detail.
Our leaders should not be getting away with it.
If they tick all of the above boxes surely alarm bells should ring loud?
We should be very sure to make every effort to reject them as leaders.
Values are everything.
We need people of integrity and honesty as leaders - people who understand that human happiness springs from peace, tolerance and compassion, from respect for fundamental human rights for all, and from an abundance mentality full of possibility - not from a poverty mentality, driven by fear-mongering and the scapegoating of easy targets to wrongly blame for our challenges.
The conversation about values in public life must be reignited and courageous people come forward under a banner of peace, love, tolerance and compassion for us to have a chance of getting the leaders we deserve.

26/08/2025

I believe that for humanity to survive and evolve men need to be open to the feminine principles of loving kindness, compassion for all beings, and peace.
This applies to all men, not just our leaders, but also the man in the street, in the car, the pub and the workplace.
Mothers can train their sons and teachers can educate their boys in this wisdom.
Partners and spouses can learn and practice this together, and men can help each other too.

Through those principles we can evolve by means of patience, generosity, gentle discipline, courage and peaceful wisdom.
This way we can evolve by working together towards being the best versions of ourselves.
Human masculinity can be liberated positively in all of us and we can become warriors for peace.
Too many people have died and are dying today because our feminine and masculine are out of balance. We are consequently spiralling out of control.
We all feel it and many of us feel powerless and confused regarding what to do about it.
But we can all do something and things can change through the timeless alchemy of the masculine and feminine principles working together in us all, no matter what race, creed, colour, gender, place, class or family we come from.
We need peace in order to find happiness and the love and care that exists in all of our hearts.
Then we can look forward to a healthy and happy future.
Peace can reign

19/08/2025

DSM-1 106 diagnoses.
DSM-5 297 diagnoses.
Is that progress or should we be enquiring into whether the APA (American Pharmacists Association) is operating in the interests of humanity?
Or maybe some profit motive is operating?