Above all, I’m a thinker. 

 

Before I learnt how to use my brain more fully, it would quickly ‘tire’, as do flaccid, underused muscles. But the more I used it, the longer I was able to focus and live effortlessly in the present moment.

                                                                                   

By enabling me to think things through in ever-greater depth, my new-found analytical power also did wonders for my concentration. When completing my play, Commanding Voices, I recall getting a cup of coffee at 9am, only to find it half-drunk at 4am the next morning!  

 

I discovered that curiosity is a wonderful way to develop the power of thought. By asking endless questions, as children do, I found myself seeing things holistically and being interested in everything - in why the sky is blue or why we can’t see ourselves orbiting the sun at over a thousand miles a minute.  

 

I further sharpened my thinking by indulging, for the past twenty years, in my all-consuming hobby of coining original maxims. I get a huge buzz from condensing an often-complex thought into a single pithy line like: Denial is the mind’s preferred painkiller or: Failure to square up to Life can have us going around in circles. 

 

Honing the transformative power of thought has also enabled me to overcome stress, which can be so damaging to mind and body. Once the penny dropped, and I realised that we are brainwashed into responding to pressure with a stressed reaction, I began responding to it with a relaxed reaction – and have not had a single day off sick for eleven years.

 

Learning to relax automatically under extreme pressure takes time and involves a radical change of mindset, but persevere and you will reap rich rewards. The mind’s extraordinary power not only revolutionised my life, but also enabled me to master extreme shyness and crippling OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) in my earlier life. 

 

My core mission now is to inspire others to tap deeper into the mind’s firepower by breaking through their glass ceilings and enriching their lives. I established the publishing brand, Eddison Wordplay, to do just this.