Michelle A. Hardwick of Release...Peace is a highly qualified Hypnotherapist, advanced Trainer and Practitioner of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and is qualified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). 

Listen to Michelle's Grounding Exercise or Relaxation audio here.

The focus of this blog is to introduce a variety of strategies to help deal with stress and create calmness in your life and career.

Managing Stress - creating calm in your career

Levels of stress are again peaking in the current business and economic climates. We all have personal experience of the cost of stress to our lives yet knowing how to deal with it, is ultimately the challenge.

Plus and Minus

Some stress is positive - we might feel a sense of excitement e.g. like the thrill of being on a rollercoaster ride, this type of stress keeps us on our toes and makes us feel alive (albeit temporarily).

Usually stress creates a host of negative experiences: e.g. feeling worried,...

Michelle A. Hardwick of Release...Peace is a highly qualified Hypnotherapist, advanced Trainer and Practitioner of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and is qualified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). 

Listen to Michelle's Grounding Exercise or Relaxation audio here.

Loving Ourselves
Loving our self is an essential and very important part of our healing and evolution. When we love ourselves we offer the gift of love to everyone around us as well. Self-love is the most compassionate, gentle, loving and kind thing we offer our Self.

Not Loving Ourselves
Most of us on the journey of life have invariably made a few mistakes along the way. If we judge ourselves for what we did/didn’t do – then it’s likely that we have feelings of shame/guilt. Holding onto these feelings prevent us from experiencing self-love, and keep us in a place of inner conflict or turmoil. When we are out of balance like this, we tend to hurt other people too.

Compassion: Loving...

With the success of five previous sell-out summits in Ireland transforming the lives of 16,000+ attendees, Pendulum Summit ‘Elevate to Excellence’ will take place in New York City on September 13th 2018. We are excited to partner with such a game-changing event.

Pendulum Summit New York Speakers: 
Jack Canfield – America’s #1 Success Coach
Suzy Welch – CNBC Correspondent, Leading Business and Life Strategist
Deepak Chopra MD – World Authority in Mindfulness for Leadership
Steve Forbes – CEO Forbes Magazine and Business Expert
Nataly Kogan – Tech Entrepreneur and Corporate Wellness Expert
Nick Santonastasso – Disabled Bodybuilder and Expert on Overcoming Adversity
More to be added!

Pendulum Summit has transformed the lives of 16,000+ attendees through consistently securing the greatest visionaries on earth to impart their game-changing insights. For information on partnership opportunities or ticket packages email ...

Michelle A. Hardwick of Release Peace is a highly qualified Hypnotherapist, advanced Trainer and Practitioner of the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT), and is qualified in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP).

Have you noticed recently how things really are changing?

For me it feels like I’ve walked through mud for the past few months (well let’s just say YEARS!), and now I am noticing that things are finally starting to get easier. Thankfully a LOT easier than they have ever been. (And about time too!)

It’s a feeling of ‘walking on air’ as well as being much more in tune with the Universe and the Divine.

Those hardships are now in the past, released, and all heaviness or ‘stuff’ that has blocked and limited us previously seems to have disappeared. We are now free to move on with our lives and our purpose.

How liberating is that?

Many of my clients are in a process of change too. They are leaving the safety and security of their...

Martyn Newman is a widely respected voice on emotional intelligence and leadership. Here is some of his presentation from day two of the 2018 Pendulum Summit. Hear more from Martyn on Pendulum Talks.

The problem in business and education is that we separate feeling from knowing. We teach about verbal intelligence, maths and performance IQ, but not about recognising the inner-life of experiences or managing surging emotions.

We’ve created environments of complete disengagement. We’ve created cultures of passive-aggressivity within our organisations, places where people resist change and making a contribution.

I’ve spent the last 20 years delving into the back-end of my profession to combat this error. I want to help people understand the importance of feelings and how they contribute to the cultivation of knowledge and problem-solving.

Inside of each intelligent creature, what Buddhists call ‘sentient beings’, is a remarkable capacity for curiosity. A...

Meditation can take many forms. Years ago (in my youth), I thought that there was just one style – like all the photos I’d seen – with people sitting cross-legged, wearing robes, chanting Om. I’d decided that that, wasn’t for me. To be honest, I was also constantly moving, running through my life, so I definitely wasn’t the type of person who could sit still for long periods of time, nor do that thing with my legs. Back then, I was terrified of anything remotely “woo-woo” i.e. weird/ religious/ or ‘out there’ – all of that stuff frightened me to death. I was sure I’d end up joining a cult, being whisked away and never seeing my family again. Those limiting beliefs stayed with me until…I had a marriage break-up. Oh boy. That was big.

After that experience, I knew I needed to change. I couldn’t continue living my life the way I had been. I knew I would have to do something completely different. I...

Marci Shimoff was speaking at the 2018 Pendulum Summit; she is one of the world's leading voices on happiness and a New York Times bestselling author. Hear more from her on Pendulum Talks.

Happiness is the one thing we have wanted from time immemorial.

How many of you would like to wake up in the morning that little bit happier? We all do. We have an epidemic of unhappiness in our society. One out of every four women are on antidepressants. We have more than we’ve ever had, yet we’re unhappier than we’ve ever been.

Thankfully, there’s good news. It’s that, for the first time in human history, science has cracked the happiness code. We now know exactly what it takes for people to become happier, and as far as I’m concerned, that should be headline news.

Some of you may dismiss this to be airy-fairy California fluff. I am indeed from California, but this is science and a major contributor to your bottom line. Happier companies outperform...

Most entrepreneurs get lost in the maze of figuring out what makes an investor bite and thus fund one business plan versus another. The people with the money have a set of rules and invest in things that the poor and middle class are not even aware of. To successfully raise money, you must understand the rules that the rich use to make their investment decisions.

If you wanted to find the formula or rules that the rich use, the best way to approach this problem is for you to write the following down on a piece of paper: “I have $10,000,000 to invest and I MUST invest it.” Now, suppose I bring you a deal and I want you to invest in my new company. What questions will you ask me? What specific issues will you want addressed? What are you looking for? What would be important for you to learn from me that will give you confidence that I have a shot at making this deal work?

The answer to these questions should be addressed in a well thought out, comprehensive business plan....

James Caan CBE is one of the most respected business titans in Britain. He was speaking at the 2018 Pendulum Summit. Hear his presentation in its entirety on Pendulum Talks.

Through life you must continually reinvent yourself.

It’s rare that your journey is one straight line. Life is full of twists and turns, and to be successful you must have have the ability to adapt and change course. The underlining ingredient in this journey is passion. Working hard for something we don’t care about is stress, but working hard for something we do care about is passion. This is an quality that I’ve held dear throughout my career.

I wasn’t born with a silver spoon in my mouth. I didn’t have a private education. When I left school and went out on my own at 16, I had no money in my pocket. What I did have was a great degree of ambition coupled with self-belief and a strong desire to achieve. I had a powerful work-ethic, too, something I believe imperative in any...

Joe Skoby lives in La Jolla, Southern California. Purchase his creations here.

I work enough so that I can pay my bills and feed my family, but what I truly find fulfilling is immersing myself in the creative process. For me, those two creative outlets are ceramics and surfing.

Pottery for me is like surfing. You’re hyper-focused on what’s in front of you. There’s no background noise and there’s nothing else that exists in your world besides that which is right in front of you. What I aim for in my pottery is tapping into that stripped-down simplicity - where you’re combining curves, texture and colour to create a form that’s considered beautiful.

Firing the krill is super intense. You have to be there for ten to 12 hours sometimes and it reaches up to 2,500 degrees. You have to decide on the correct amount of gas and oxygen and strike the correct combination of the two. This is in order to get the krill not only to temperature, but also to...