Good Thinking: We chatted to Ireland’s leading health and performance coach, Gerry Hussey, about how we can build a more positive and vibrant life in the February issue of RSVP Magazine
Co-founder of Soul Space and best-selling author Gerry Hussey will be familiar to anyone who is on a self-improvement journey. The Galway native empowers people to reawaken their passion and energy so they can become their best self. RSVP had the pleasure of chatting to the father-of-two about the struggles we might face in life, techniques to overcome them and how he himself has low days but has the tools to get himself back on track.
Absolutely. There is a thing called neuroplasticity, and it is proven that our brain, until death, is capable of changing, it can build new neurological pathways. What’s a neurological pathway? It’s literally your brain patterns. The brain doesn’t know whether you’re thinking about something or doing something. It’s listening to every word you use. It’s listening to everything we talk about. It changes shape and structure. So of course we can build new habits.
Your brain is listening, similar to the way your phone is listening. If you have a golfer standing on the tee box saying, ‘Look how big that bunker is, don’t hit the bunker. Don’t hit the bunker’, you can give a guess where their ball is going to end up. The more you speak about the bunkers, the more you’re going to see it. I know great golfers who play really difficult shots down the fairway between three hard bunkers and they don’t even see the bunkers. They have magnified the fairway.
There’s no such thing as a negative emotion. We’ve labelled different emotions as positive and negative, which is chaos. All emotions are important. I myself, at times, feel anxious. I felt very anxious this Christmas. I will make no bones about it. Sometimes I feel angry. Sometimes I feel down, so feeling an emotion is neither right nor wrong. In fact, the only wrong is suppressing an emotion.
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