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    The Power of Healthy Thinking
    The Power of Healthy Thinking
    The Power of Healthy Thinking
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    The Power of Healthy Thinking

    By Tom Mulholland

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    The Power of Healthy Thinking. To change your attitude and your life.After many years as a medical doctor, then entrepreneur and global speaker on the subject of attitude and emotion management, I was intrigued by one particular question: why so many of the thoughts that determine our emotions and actions appear to be unhealthy? I wanted to find the answer..

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTom Mulholland
    Release dateJan 10, 2013
    ISBN9781301779413
    The Power of Healthy Thinking
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    Tom Mulholland

    Dr Tom Mulholland is an Emergency Department Physician at Auckland Hospital, a lecturer in Psychological Medicine at Auckland clinical school, teaching medical students, and founder of the Healthy Thinking Institute. His research interests include Workplace stress, Emotional Control, Productivity and Psychoneuroimmunology. The Healthy Thinking Institute developed the psychometric test for attitude profiling. His books on Healthy Thinking are translated into 12 languages and have made the best seller list in places like India. He consults on stress and attitude globally to some of the worlds largest corporates. He is passionate about Healthy Thinking and how to diagnose and treat attitude illness. When he is not working as a Doctor or on the speaking circuit Dr Mulholland enjoys extreme sport and expeditions. He was awarded a New Zealand Defence Force Special Services medal for his medical work in the Boxing Day Tsunami and had a stint as the doctor on a Russian Icebreaker in the Southern Ocean.

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      The Power of Healthy Thinking - Tom Mulholland

      THE POWER OF HEALTHY THINKING

      to change your attitude and your life

      DR TOM MULHOLLAND

      "The thing always happens that you really believe in;

      and the belief in a thing makes it happen." - Frank Lloyd Wright

      Healthy Thinking and Emotional Algebra

      are trademarks of The Healthy Thinking Institute Ltd

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy.

      Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      Copyright 2011 Dr Tom Mulholland

      of The Healthy Thinking Institute

      Smashwords Edition

      http://www.healthythinking.biz.

      Auckland, New Zealand

      The author asserts his moral rights in the work.

      Disclaimer

      This book is in no way a medical or psychological consultation. It is a guide on how to think in a healthy way to improve your performance. If you suffer any persisting unhealthy emotions or medical symptoms, you should seek professional help. This should be your family doctor or a psychologist, preferably one who practices cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT).

      Names have been changed in this book to protect the privacy of the individuals concerned.

      Contents

      Acknowledgements

      Prologue

      Introduction

      Chapter 1: The Fourth Tsunami

      Chapter 2: Different Types of Thinkers

      Chapter 3: Influencing Others

      Chapter 4: Working Attitude

      Chapter 5: Relationships

      Chapter 6: Innovation and What’s Important

      Chapter 7: How to Change Your Attitude

      Chapter 8: Workplace Frustration and Rejection

      Chapter 9: My Own TV Show

      Chapter 10: A Bad Day!

      Epilogue: A Really Bad Day!!

      Acknowledgements

      Thanks to Graeme Beals of Zenith Publishing for getting me started and helping with the manuscript.

      Top Shelf Productions, Television New Zealand and everyone that came on the TV show.

      Hugh Barnard for saving my butt on the volcanoes of Kamchatka.

      Associate Professor Marc Shaw, Mike Valintine and Vaughan Scott for the Tsunami Relief Mission.

      William and Jules Peters for being there.

      Debbie Tawse, Jim Hainey and Sherryl Hewlett and all my clients for arranging and being a part of so many wonderful keynote talks and seminars. I have learnt so much from you all.

      Thanks to all the people who helped me when I was unfortunate enough to be mugged and stabbed. I was fortunate to meet you, and you helped save my life.

      To everyone who read my first book Healthy Thinking and gave me feedback, I hope you enjoy this book as well.

      To my Mum, Dad, sister and children for their unswerving loyalty and honesty.

      To ‘Herb’, Allan George Eagle, 1915–2005. The most excellent Grandad a boy could ever have.

      To my grandmothers Eve and Nettie; I miss you every day.

      Prologue

      After many years as a medical doctor, then entrepreneur and global speaker on the subject of attitude and emotion management, I was intrigued by one particular question: why so many of the thoughts that determine our emotions and actions appear to be unhealthy. I wanted to find the answer so I went through the thousands of examples of ‘triggers’ from my health e-thinking software that people from all over the world contributed.

      What I discovered was quite remarkable. Each of us has 10 patterns of unhealthy thinking and healthy alternatives that I have characterized as individual pathways. I believe these pathways may connect different areas of the brain that produce protective neurotransmitters and also potentially harmful substances such as adrenaline and cortisol. It depends on which pathways you choose.

      After reading this book, you will be able to recognize these 10 pathways or characters of self-talk, and which type/s is/are predominant in you. It’s what you tell yourself about your situation and your life that is important so you can then switch to a healthy alternative that will give you positive results.

      Once you are able to recognize these 10 pathways of self-talk in yourself you will begin to see them in your family, your colleagues and your clients. By using the Power of Healthy Thinking, you can help other people to decrease stress and other unhealthy emotions so they can reach their goals. Your household, workplace and external environment will profit from you being able to identify and correct the potentially unhealthy environment between your ears.

      This book has the tools to help you achieve this. It also tells a story about how I – along with many others – have harnessed the Power of Healthy Thinking. I hope you enjoy the process and use it to make your world a better place.

      Dr Tom Mulholland

      New Zealand

      www.healthythinking.biz

      Introduction

      Many things have happened to me since I wrote my first book, Healthy Thinking: Turning Life’s Lemons into Lemonade, including an anxiety attack, a helicopter snowboarding experience atop a large Siberian volcano, helping with tsunami relief on the Indonesian island of Nias, and some rollercoaster rides with my children on Australia’s Gold Coast. Not to mention being mugged and stabbed in a random attack.

      I showed my first Healthy Thinking book to a few international publishers who all said it wouldn’t sell. I didn’t believe them and published it myself with the help of a local publisher and with the goal of helping at least one person. After selling 3000 copies, I approached Reed Publishing who took me to London to spread the gospel of Healthy Thinking. What a wonderful example of living my dream, not dreaming my life. But unhealthy thinking could have stopped me.

      At the London Book Fair where I was a guest speaker, I talked to one of the publishers who turned me down the first time around. He congratulated me on the success of my first book and told me that he didn’t turn it down because he didn’t like the book; it was just that he didn’t have the resources to properly promote it. He also told me that I had ended up with the best publisher. At the time, if I had thought he turned me down because he didn’t like the book, I may have given up. It just goes to show that sometimes not getting what you want, can be a good thing.

      Before I left London I received a phone call from a man in Brazil. He is translating Healthy Thinking into Portuguese as the book is being sold in Brazil. He told me he cried over the story of my reading to my son Thomas. It had helped him with his family.

      The last few years have involved listening, and talking to thousands of people about attitude, and utilizing my formula, Emotional Algebra. Each day I practice Healthy Thinking and each day I teach it. Each day I also learn from those that attend my seminars and lectures, learning, in the process, from my own mistakes and from my greatest teachers, my family. Each day is a gift that many of my terminally ill patients over the years would have loved to have experienced for themselves. Each day I get emails and letters to say how Healthy Thinking has changed readers’ lives for the better.

      I hope you, too, use The Power of Healthy Thinking to achieve whatever it is that you want and what is important to you.

      Dr Tom Mulholland BSc (Hons) MBChB Dip Sports Medicine

      35,000 feet above the Pacific Ocean

      Chapter 1

      The Fourth Tsunami

      Boxing Day, 2004. The day the world shook. The day a tsunami charged across the Indian Ocean with the speed of a jumbo jet. Ten years previously, I’d had first-hand experience of a tsunami. I had been asleep in my thatched hut in Grajagan, Java, when I heard the tsunami charging towards me at 2am. It was as loud as a jumbo jet. It smashed through the jungle, killing hundreds of people in the area.

      After Boxing Day 2004, not surprisingly, the pictures of the devastation in Asia looked familiar to me. A photo of a man who had lost his house, his wife and his youngest child was particularly chilling: ‘I have lost all this; when is someone coming to help me?’ he pleaded. I knew that feeling of aloneness well. I, too, had been stranded on the edge of the jungle for three days, feeling the aftershocks and the fear of more waves; making panicked retreats in the dead of night further into the jungle. Ten years ago I had just wanted to run home to New Zealand to see my family. Now I knew I had to return to Indonesia to help.

      It took me three phone calls and two days to organize the mission. We left New Zealand with over 300 kg of essential medical supplies along with the hopes of many people that we would be able to make a difference. Our small boat chugged from Padang in Sumatra, across the equator to the island of Nias, near the epicenter of the quake. It took three nights, travelling at 6 knots, for us to reach the people of Nias. It also took the Power of Healthy Thinking to get me there.

      It has always amazed me, ever since I was a child, how a thought can become a reality. Everything originates from a thought. And if you translate that thought into action, you will create your own reality. The secret is to eliminate unhealthy thoughts and choose the thoughts that will create the life you want. That’s the Power of Healthy Thinking.

      When I saw the photo of that man pleading for help, I could have thought, ‘Yes, I would like to go and help but I am too busy.’ I could have thought, ‘It will be too dangerous, there may be another tsunami; I could get cholera and not see my family again.’ Actually, I did think that. But I chose instead a thought that focused on all the people who needed help and how I could organize a team and go there. At the time I hoped we would make a difference for one person. We did make a difference — and it was for many more.

      Thoughts are the most powerful things we own. It’s a fact that many of us choose thoughts that inhibit our ability to succeed. Negative thoughts can trap us in a lifestyle we don’t want but which we are too scared to change. If you want to change your life, you need to change what you think because power comes from thinking. As you learn to control your thoughts you will gain control of your actions and your outcomes. You can then take control of your life.

      Think of your thoughts as your destiny — but only if you turn them into action.

      Our trip to Nias was recorded and reported by Television New Zealand. Mark Sainsbury, the news anchor, introduced the item like this:

      ‘None of us will ever forget those images of the Boxing Day tsunami and its aftermath: the bodies, the destruction and the hopelessness of it all, and I guess we all thought it would be great to do something. Well, while we were thinking about it, Taranaki’s Dr Tom Mulholland got off his butt and actually did it.’

      It wasn’t an easy call to make. Sacrificing a long-promised family summer holiday for a trip on a small boat, across the equator into an unknown arena of destruction and disease, can create a certain amount of anxiety and guilt.

      As it turned out I had plenty of time to get anxious on our boat. There was talk of a monsoon to the north, rough seas, giant swells and a predicted second quake. In fact, a second, more devastating quake for Nias would come, but not until some months later.

      En

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