Are you one of life’s unsatisfied customers?

Published in Living Now Magazine March 2017

Time to fess up – are you one of life’s unsatisfied customers? Ouch – yes I know –  but be honest - are you disappointed with the hand you’ve been dealt? Feel like you’ve somehow missed out? Been left alone whilst your friends have hooked up? Haven’t got the job you believe you deserve? Not as rich as you feel you should be? Always seem to attract the wrong type of people into your life? Never seem to get the recognition you want whilst others seem to have the spotlight follow them?

Rest assured you are not alone, the dissatisfied club is a big one but – and yes this is a big but – membership of the club may trap you in a way of being that is not self-serving. Now before you arc up and reply that it’s just a bit of healthy venting let me share some research from the field of neuro-cognitive science. Spiritual teachers like the Buddha told us long ago that “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think.” But now we can see what happens inside the brain when we complain. Firstly…