Tom Mulholland - Healthy Thinking

DR TOM MULHOLLAND

Healthy Thinking and Emotional Algebra
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The author asserts his moral rights in the work.

This book is dedicated to Dr Mike Cox,
friend, pilot and adventurer,
who took his own life
after years of battling his thoughts.

The ideas offered in this book are entirelythe opinions of the author, a registered medical practitioner, andin no way represent case-by-case advice. As such, neither theauthor nor the publishers accept any responsibility for thepersonal actions of any reader, or for the outcomes produced bythem, based on anything they read in this book. In cases ofdepression, it remains our view that you should always consult amedical practitioner.

My sincere thanks to:
My children Olivia, Thomas, Sammie and Auburne for teaching memany things and coming on many, many adventures.
Dr William Peters for being such a good friend.
Graeme Beals of Zenith Publishing Group for making the bookpossible and his editorial input.
My family for giving me the opportunity to achieve my goals.
Patients, colleagues and clients, who have taught me humility andhumor, and enabled me to be part of their lives.
Warwick Grey and the teams at Microsoft, Hewlett Packard, Telecomand the Chamber of Commerce for their support.
To all these people and everyone else, thanks. I couldnt have doneit without you and had so much fun at the same time.

Overthe years, as a professor of psychiatry, I have seen many peoplestruggle with their thoughts and emotions. Doctors face the samelife stressors and challenges as anyone else plus a few others thatcan influence their mental health and performance.

I know Dr Tom Mulholland as a friend andprofessional colleague. He is an enthusiastic, successful andintelligent doctor and entrepreneur one of those people who hasreal flair and charisma, and who is never forgotten.

Tom has written an inspirational book. It isa very readable guide to how to think in a healthy way. He draws onhis own experience of the highs and lows of business and personallife and how to turn an average day into a great day.

This book will be a useful guide for thosewho are successful but need a tune up as well as for those who arestruggling and need some guidance. It will provide motivation andinspiration in dealing with everyday activities. It will help youcope with the big challenges that life can throw at you. It has thepower to teach you how to be happy and to put you on the road tosuccess.

I commend Healthy Thinking to you.

Professor Peter Yellowlees
Australia

In seeking atitle for this book I did a publications database search. The womanwho searched for me said there were 3000 books with the wordhealthy and 2000 with the word thinking in the title but nonecalled healthy thinking.

You are an original! she said. People hadbeen telling me that for years.

After 15 years of seeing patients andteaching them about healthy eating, healthy lifestyles and healthyexercise the key thing missing was healthy thinking. From my ownpersonal experience I had discovered that unhealthy thinking causesunhealthy emotions and unhealthy attitudes, which can causeunhealthy behavior. The same applied to my patients.

I have developed and taught the HealthyThinking technique with amazing results. I have been practicinghealthy thinking for a number of years and thought it was time towrite a book. Im sure it will change your life as it has changedmine.

Healthy Thinking is like brain surgerywithout the blood. The more you practice it, the better you get.Its free, has no side effects and you dont need any medicationsor equipment. All you need are your thoughts and the tools I callEmotional Algebra.

You can change your attitude to suit andeliminate what I call the ten unhealthy emotions. These are stress,anger, anxiety, guilt, jealousy, resentment, rejection, sadness,frustration and disappointment. They are a waste of time andenergy, and dont get you any further ahead.

I hope you learn the skills outlined in thisbook, and use them to become happy and enjoy the great life you canhave. Its up to you. You cant change anyone else except yourself,though you will be surprised how people around you will change withyour new attitudes.

This book is not intended to be an in-depthpsychological or pharmacological textbook. There are plenty ofthose already. I hope it is an easy-to-read, how-to book on healthythinking using my personal experiences as a doctor, entrepreneur,comedian and patient.

Of all the things I have done in my life theability to think in a healthy way is the most powerful. HealthyThinking will enable you to reach your goals and to live yourdreams; not dream of the life you wish for but never create.

Dr Tom Mulholland
The Attitude Doctor

It was thefirst light Id seen at the end of the tunnel that wasnt a train.I had found that my thinking was causing my misery. I had decidedthat I was allergic to being miserable. I was thinking in anunhealthy way.

This is not some flippant comment made foreffect, but a conscious decision I made to avoid feeling awful.

I hated being miserable so much that I soughta cure, much like a rabid dog seeks water. That was once I got overthe paralysis stage.

Like having your neck broken, being miserablecan paralyze you. Fortunately, misery is a lot easier to cure, onceyou know how. My search for a cure for misery led me to discoverthe technique of Healthy Thinking.

Being miserable, unhappy, stressed ordepressed is a serious business. It can kill you and has killedsome of my friends, colleagues and patients as well as millions ofpeople I have never met. So I think it is perfectly reasonable andprotective to develop an allergy to such a condition.

Being miserable is not only unpleasant, it isa complete waste of time. You can feel sorry for yourself, but thatwont cure misery. Normally it just feeds it.

There are many treatments for misery. Somework and some dont. I know because I tried most of them. I triedcounseling, anti-depressants, alcohol and even overseas travel. Itook almost everything except datura, because I never found anyonethat had taken it twice. Anti-depressants helped but werent atotal answer. Some of the counseling was useful. Most of it wasnt.So I set off on a mission to find my own cure.

Until misery struck I had been a highachiever. I had gained a first-class honors degree in molecularbiology, a medical degree, a pilots license, a sports medicinediploma, founded successful start-up companies and won businessawards. I had been a forest ranger, survived a tidal wave whilesurfing in Java, and had doctored for the Fijian rugby team. I hadtravelled extensively and was an adrenalin junkie having leapt outof planes, climbed in New Zealands Southern Alps, been in theHimalayas, flown through a hurricane (Hugo) to Central America,trekked through jungles, slept by a lagoon of crocodiles, divedwith sharks in Tahiti, surfed huge waves and enough other exploitsas to make Indiana Jones look very sedate.