what a blog used to be
a ‘moonthly’ journal of my creative outpourings, happenstances and explorations
published on each New Moon
Food for Thought
Research has shown that there is a connection between what we eat and how we feel. The biochemical basis of this food-mood link lies in the chemical messengers, called neurotransmitters, that relay thoughts and actions...
Mapping your Mind
Mind Maps are useful and elegantly simple devices. In essence, Mind Maps are simple drawings or sketches of associations you hold between things in your mind. They normally start with a central topic, either in words or...
Cross Crawling
Cross crawling is actually something we kind of do naturally when we go for a walk. This is why the simple act of a good brisk walk is such a great way to get inspiration - apart from anything else, it gets you...
The Inspirational Breath
Many people ask me how they can be more inspirational or can experience more inspirations. The answer is perhaps surprising as it doesn’t lie being more intelligent or studying. It involves doing something we all do...
How to Have A Great Week : part #002
So before the start of another week and, for me, another week of blogging as part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge ... how can you make it go much better than the last? Firstly, make sure you've filled in the audit of last...
How to Have A Great Week : part #001
So it's the end of another week and, for me, another week of blogging as part of the Ultimate Blog Challenge. Next week I am starting a mini-series on Whole Brain Thinking and I will end the month with a mini-series on...
Whole Brain Thinking
In the 1960's, Professor Roger Sperry was amongst the first scientists to discover the left and right sides of the brain performed different functions. His work was primarily based on studying people with mental illness...
The Golden Age of Self-publishing
It's simply never a better time to be an author. You can go from edited manuscript to publishing it globally as an ebook within a couple of days and in print within just a few days. My guest this week on the Barefoot...
Getting in the Zone
Over the course of a day, you breathe through different nostrils, The left nostril oxygenates the right brain and the right nostril the left. Neurons don't store oxygen, they need to be fed it. This visualisation is a...
Recipes for your Thoughts
Last year I uncovered, or rediscovered, the amazing toolset which has manifested itself in the form of the book Flavours of Thought and a gastronomic recipe called the Cube of Karma. I can think of no better way to...
ePublishing
So you’ve written your ebook but how do you get it out to the world and even start making money from it? Option 1: PDF Well the simplest way is as it has always been - to create a PDF file. This not only preserves the...
eWriting
... a fresh approach to creating an eBook Sales of ebooks are predicted to overtake paperback books by 2014. For authors especially, simply to bury your head in the sand by saying you prefer a printed book is not an...
eReading
If I was writing this article just five years ago, when asked what an ebook is, I would probably have said a PDF. Where PDF is an acronym for Portable Document Format which, unlike say an Word document, is read-only and...
Making Time
There are two really common reasons why authors and bloggers get writer's block. The first is a lack of inner confidence about their writing ability. The second is a belief that they simply don't have the time to write....
iPadivity
So I've had an iPad for the best part of a year now and loads of people have asked how I use it and what I'm using it for. Or if it's just a bit of a toy? Well I've discovered using this new type of tablet (and watch...
What do you know?
Writing an article on knowledge is potentially a difficult task. It makes you ask the question what do you know and even what qualifies the writer to write knowingly. You have to ask yourself questions like who is doing...
What is Love?
Rachel Willis, CEO and insightful editor of Lightworker Magazine posed a little problem for me recently to submit an article about a subject I realised I write little about. Namely Love ... I took the decision to...
The anatomy of a click through
When we click on a link, we don't give it a second thought - especially these days when we are presented with 100's if not 1000's of potential hyperlinks each day. Links nowadays are not limited to those on web sites or...
Inspiration in Business
I am thrilled and extremely honoured to be able to contribute to the 1st issue of Inspire - a new free magazine from of the amazing WeCollaborate community. My belief is that there is only a recession if you want there...
How to experience Moments of Light
When you experience a moment of light, it is quite simply magical. If you happened to have an Magnetic Resonance Imaging [MRI] scanner handy at the time, and you stuck your head in it, you would see every neuron in your...
Karmic Rights Management
I am often asked by both new and experienced authors how you go about protecting your books in the digital age. In these days when you can blog a story or submit an ebook direct to the Amazon Kindle Store, the Apple...
Soulwave – a future history
Soulwave is a short story extracted from my forthcoming novel. At only 7000 words long, you can read the whole book in a single commute on your iPhone or Kindle. Soulwave is a future-history - that is something that...
Writing a Trojan Horse
If you have an important message you want to share with the world, how do you go about it? The answer lies in writing a literary Trojan Horse using metaphor and story telling. The acknowledged masters in this art I...
Why Ideas Get Away
Have you ever had a brilliant idea, not acted upon it and found someone else doing it a year or so later? Have a listen to this chat I had with Manifest Genie, Susie Pearl, to find out why this happens and what you can...
The Art and Science of Light Bulb Moments
Available June 2011 Publishing details here ... Pre-order from Amazon UK here Pre-order from Amazon US here Pre-order from the Book Depository here The first review for this book from the editor at O-books said, "This...
Optimology
When I hear the word optimist, I am reminded of the phrase, "an optimist is a pessimist not in possession of all the facts." When I first heard this I laughed and have 'dined out' on it more than once when the word comes...
Flavours of Thought
"Truly, food for thought. I really enjoyed chewing over the contents." Flavours of Thought started as a chapter in the light bulb book and has spawned into a book in its own right. Not only that but the most amazing...
Finding Your Ooomph
Listen to the latest Moments of Light interview for Radio Lightworker with Sharon Eden - the author of WHACK Around the Head. ... Sharon has a insightful and healthy methodology for living your life to the full and...
Cooking the Books
Wearing my hat of the Bookwright, I have been talking for a while now about how a book becomes your best business card ... With my book Flavours of Thought, I have surpassed even my own expectations [and advice] and it...
Interview with a Shaman
Listen to the latest Moments of Light interview for Radio Lightworker with Judith Seelig - Shaman, Changmaker and a woman who is definitely on fire. ... and be sure to listen to the end for the wonderful example of...
Where do ideas come from?
Here's the latest in the series of chats between me and the Manifest Genie, Susie Pearl ... ... set your RSS reader to my AudioBoo stream to get notified of more gems coming up
What is the Cube of Karma?
In conversation with Rachel Willis, CEO of Lightworker Magazine ... So Tom, I’ve been hearing some glowing reports about the Cube but what in the world is it? Thanks Rachel, in short it’s a one-to-one mentoring programme...
Anatomy of a Light Bulb Moment
When we meet people we've not seen for a while, we often ask "What's new?". If you get confronted with this question when not expecting it, you can get caught of guard, end up scratching your head and might even feel...
Journey of the Slim Soul
Listen to the latest Moments of Light interview for Radio Lightworker with Anges de Lumiere. Discover how to get a new relationship with food and our bodies ... and how to get your mind, body and soul in true harmony....
Blocks
Blocks is an easy to follow guide to unlocking your true creative potential. This practical and comprehensive book takes you on a journey of the mind to help you banish your blocks forever and tap into an abundant flow...
Embedding Mind Maps in your Neurology
This visualisation started life as one of the components of the Unleash the Book Inside workshop and home study course. In the workshops, I found that the students started to get huge flashes of inspiration when I...
Where ideas come from?
Learn why we should learn to trust our guts? Did you know most thoughts aren't necessarily our own? Find out why taking 'me-time' actually makes time in our busy days ... ... all this an much more in this short interview...
The Idea of Momentum
In classical mechanics, momentum describes the product of mass times velocity. What this means is in practice is can be imagined like this. If a golf ball is hit at 100 miles an hour and hits a steam train travelling the...
This is 2011
2011 is destined to be an enlightening year for many of us as we move into the main transition phase of 2012. In 20:20 hindsight, I can see than 2010 was a year for laying foundations and clearing residual karma - see...
That was 2010
So another year is nearly behind us and what a year it's been. For me, much of the ground work I put in place in 2008 and 2009 came to fruition and I'd like to send a big thank you out to all that have helped and...
Find your inner goddess (or god)
Listen to the latest Moments of Light interview with Amy Palko. And discover why getting in touch with your god or goddess archetype gives so much insight as to why you are here and on the work you came to do ... ...
The Bookwright turns a new leaf
When working with clients with my hat of the Bookwright, it's been clear for some time that I have always been doing much more than helping them merely write a book. Along the creative path, if any barriers came up, I...
100 Years of Ermintrude
100 Years of Ermintrude is a book of meditative poetry and my first real foray into the world of publishing. It comprises three intertwining life stories and is told in just 99 stanzas. Although it can be read in...
A Cookbook for Your Mind?
Find out why words become thoughts and then why the thoughts generated change the world around you. Listen to this short conversation with newly qualified Master Chef Jackie Walker and me, Tom Evans author of Flavours of...
Time to wake up
In this enlightening interview, Liz Villani talks about how light bulb moments can be the seed of an awakening. Liz sheds more light and considerable insight on the awakening process as to how to go about it. This is a...
Goal Setting that works
If you are like me, you will have tried a few goal setting techniques. Some of them are good, some not so good. What many fail to mention though is that achievement of your goal has secondary importance to the learnings...
What are Floughts?
I coined the word flought as a contraction of Flavours of Thought. Retrospectively, I've made it a new noun and given it some definitions ... Flought : noun 1. the flavour of a thought 2. the flow of a thought 3. a flood...
How to drive a VAN
As soon as there was more than one computer, the need to join them together in a network so they could communicate became necessary. The LAN - or Local Area Network - came along. If you think about it though, Local Area...
Become a Master Chef
If you have read my new book Flavours of Thought and found it intriguing, you may be thinking a couple of things ... 1. Where did all that wisdom come from? 2. What else can you do with it? If you haven't read it, click...
