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Visualise: Think, Feel, Perform Like the Top 1% by Maya Raichoora

Do you know how to manage your emotions? Do you know how to rewire your brain to be more confident? Can you reach your goals without burning out? 

Visualisation is a neurological mental training technique that rewires the brain using your thoughts and imagination for a deliberate outcome. 

It has been used by elite athletes and performers for decades and now #1 visualisation expert Maya Raichoora will teach you the five visualisation techniques to retrain your brain.  In just 7-10 minutes a day, you can take control of the way you think, feel and perform.

Visualise

Think, Feel, Perform Like the Top 1%

by Maya Raichoora

Hardback non-fiction / Rider Books, Ebury / 27 March 2025 / £16.99

FIVE VISUALISATION TECHNIQUES TO MASTER YOUR MIND, BUILD CONFIDENCE AND ENHANCE PERFORMANCE

We all have habits, thoughts and behaviours that hold us back from reaching our fullest potential. In Visualise, Maya Raichoora shows you how to harness the power of visualisation to rewire and retrain your brain so you can take control of the way you think, feel and perform.

 Drawing on neuroscience, sports psychology, the author’s personal experience and compelling case studies, this book presents five tangible and easy-to-implement visualisation techniques that will help you boost your productivity, achieve your goals and create the best version of yourself. If the best athletes in the world can use it, why can’t we?

ABOUT Maya Raichoora

Maya Raichoora is one of the UK’s leading mental fitness and visualisation experts. She is an award-winning entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Remap Mental Fitness and host of monthly Mental Fitness Live.

 Maya has also just signed as Nike’s first ever mental fitness and visualisation trainer. Day to day she works with global companies like Amex, LEGO, PWC and Puig. Because of her unique expertise and experience, she is also a coach to elite athletes, executives and business owners. 

 Maya has a decade of experience mastering the technique of visualisation and is on a mission to share it with others. As a two-time TEDx speaker and public figure, her story and expertise has the power to inspire, empower and educate the masses. She currently reaches 10 million people online each month. Maya lives in London and is available for interview, features and events. Follow Maya on instagram at @maya.mental.fitness

Talking points / feature ideas:

  • Maya’s personal story – how her mindset and visualisation techniques helped her reframe the management of her chronic pain

  • From the changing rooms at Wimbledon to the sidelines of premier league football matches, how Maya coaches athletes to succeed

  • From Tiger Woods and Mo Salah to Walt Disney and Nikola Tesla - the science behind visualising your goals to achieve success – and how it will re-wire your brain

  • The potential power of Negative Visualisation and why ‘always think positive’ is a myth

  • How to build a visualisation habit

  • The scientific power of self-belief 

  • Why visualisation is the new manifesting

  • Visualisation versus meditation, mindfulness and manifestation

  • Mental health versus Mental Fitness, and why it’s crucial to train our minds as well as our bodies

  • Why high performance is not just about achieving extraordinary results, it is about process, sustainability and balance

  • How to use visualisation techniques in your relationships, to reduce stress and manage tricky conversations

The 5 Techniques:

  • Process: Mentally rehearsing a task to make it faster/easier/smarter. E.g. a golf swing, rehearsing your to-do list, public speaking.

  • Creative: Using visualisation to make an emotion/feeling/sensation tangible. This is extremely beneficial for managing emotions, reducing pain and working on a cellular level.

  • Negative: Visualising the worst-case scenario/challenges to help you feel more prepared and motivated. This one is used with caution. Included in this is the death bed visualisation which helps you to make life-changing decisions.

  • Explorative/Receptive: This is where there is no specific goal or outcome, you are using your mind like a whiteboard. Used by the likes of Walt Disney/Nikola Tesla – it is great for creating content, ideas and pursuing goals.

  • Outcome: Mentally rehearsing the results in advance. When repeated, this rewires the brain and increases motivation.

For further information please contact:

EMMA FINNIGAN PR

07870 210468 | emma@emmafinniganpr.co.uk | @emmafinnigan | www.emmafinniganpr.co.uk

Repotting Your Life by Frances Edmonds

“The ultimate handbook for anyone wanting to be challenged, fulfilled and stay young in mind and body.”
— Angela Rippon

Repotting Your Life: Reframe Your Thinking. Reset Your Purpose. Rejuvenate Yourself Time and Again

By Frances Edmonds
Elliott & Thompson / hardback / non-fiction / 13 May / £14.99 

Do you feel stuck or stifled, but struggle to know what to do next? It’s time to ‘repot’ your life.

“What I learnt along my journey of repotting – a journey that would take me to a whole new country and an undertaking full of possibility and growth – offers, I hope, a useful new model for navigating the increasing number of transitions that we are all called upon to make throughout life in the modern world. And so my gift to anyone embarking on a new stage in life would be an understanding of how best to master the challenging and often daunting process of moving on and branching out. My gift would be proficiency in the art of repotting.”
— Frances Edmonds
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In a world in which we’re living longer, and change is a necessary yet often uncomfortable process, Repotting Your Life offers a toolkit to revitalize your relationships, your passions or your career, whatever your age. It is for anyone who feels stuck or stifled, and is struggling to know what to do next.

There are four simple steps in the process of repotting:

Step 1 – Potbound: Know when you need to make a change.

Step 2 – Pots and Plans: Identify where you want to be. Understand what makes you feel fulfilled and matters most to you. Figure out a plan of action.

Step 3 – Pulling up the Roots: Prepare to end one phase of your life and commit to your repotted future.

Step 4 – Bedding In: Put down new roots and re-energize yourself for your next adventure.

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With verve, wit and wisdom, Repotting for Life offers the motivation to set aside what is no longer working and the tools required to design a thriving life full of fresh possibility. 

Frances Edmonds has had an extraordinary professional career full of transitions and transformation, latterly becoming a longevity and well-being fellow at Stanford University’s Distinguished Careers Institute in 2018, where her concept of ‘repotting’ was born. She is an inspirational keynote speaker, a cross-generational mentor and helped create the UK’s most prestigious business development network. Previously an international conference interpreter at the European Union, United Nations and World Economic Summits, she is also a bestselling author and broadcaster

Feature ideas / talking points

  • Intergenerational education, teamwork and cross-mentorship: a new model for the future: Frances took up her research fellowship at the Distinguished Careers Institute at Stanford (the epicentre of California’s Silicon Valley, innovation and high-tech) in her mid-60s at the same time as her 30-year old daughter who’d left a lucrative career in investment banking and was studying at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

    Independently, they navigated the challenges of their own new beginnings. Together they helped forge a powerful inter-generational community that combined the energy of thrusting young students with the wisdom of experienced elders - a model for tomorrow’s innovative, flexible and highly effective blended teams.

  • Ageism: We often talk about diversity and inclusivity – but these concepts rarely extend to “older” people who have enormous amounts of accumulated wisdom to share and are too often denied the appropriate opportunities. Reseach has demonstrated that in business a blended team of mixed ages achieves the best results.

  • Post Pandemic Priorities: The new work/life integration model: At a time of global change, more people than ever are being obliged to reassess their priorities. Even before the COVID pandemic, the classic 3-chapter model of Learn, Earn and Retire at 65 had become unrealistic for the vast majority of people. In a world of extended life expectancy, a new model of work/life integration is required that will involve constant oscillation in and out of work and in and out of continuous personal and professional development throughout a far longer life span.

  • The huge challenge is that society does not yet have the culture or the institutions to deal with the “30 extra gifted years” of life expectancy that a baby born today will have as compared to a baby born in 1900. What Mindset, Toolset and Skillset will be necessary to successfully navigate the expected “100 year life”?

  • How Frances conceived of the idea of ‘repotting’ whilst at Stanford: The plaque at the entrance to Stanford’s world famous Graduate School of Business: “Repotting - that’s how you get new bloom -  you should have a plan of accomplishment and when that is achieved, you should be willing to start off again.” (Ernest Arbuckle – former Dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business.)

  • Reframe Your Thinking: Techniques for dialing down the emotion, taking the heat out of negative thought patterns, and “turning the debacle into an earner.”

  • Reset Your Purpose:  What happens when you lose your sense of purpose?  The end of a relationship, an empty nest, a situation that’s no longer working… there are endless catalysts that precipitate loss of purpose. How do you identify and move on to the next organising principle in your life?

  • Rejuvenate Yourself Time and Again: “Repotting” is a process – and you are never, ever finished. It’s a journey, not a destination. It’s a system, not a goal. The better you understand the system, the more effectively you’ll be able to negotiate today’s increasingly frequent and radical changes.

  • Importance of wellness, purpose and community: The key pillars of a meaningful life well-lived.

For more information, please contact Emma Finnigan PR.

Why the F*ck Can’t I Change? by Gabija Toleikyte

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Why the F*ck Can’t I Change?
Insights from a neuroscientist to show that you can
By Gabija Toleikyte
21st January 2021

Most of us want to change something about ourselves. It might be our response to stress, our weight, patterns in our relationships or our performance at work. Change is hard, it’s emotional, but it’s not as impossible as you think…

In this ground-breaking book, neuroscientist and behavioural coach Dr. Gabija Toleikyte gets straight to the root cause of why we form certain habits and behaviours and shows how we can realistically stop ourselves repeating the same mistakes.

 Expertly researched, Gabija takes us on an eye-opening journey through the extraordinary human brain, exploring how it deals with the everyday changes that face us all. With relatable case studies and practical strategies and tools, Gabija demonstrates how you can rethink change.

TALKING POINTS

  • Why you shouldn’t suddenly stop bad habits.

  • How you can take control of your emotions.

  • The simple ways to improve your motivation and productivity at work.

  • How you can become a better communicator, decision-maker and leader.

  • The secret to strengthening your relationships, and the impact relationships have on our brains.

  • How to look after your brain health and why it’s so important.

  • Why ‘positive thinking’ can be a bad thing.

  • Why it’s physically impossible for us to truly multitask.

  • The science behind our gut instinct

  • The science behind bias.

This transformative, inspiring and empowering book will help you get unstuck and guide you through every step to achieving meaningful, lasting change in every aspect of your life.

ABOUT Gabija ToleikyteI

Dr. Gabija Toleikyte is a neuroscientist, lecturer, and performance and wellbeing coach. She is currently a lecturer in psychology at Sheffield Hallam University. Gabija completed her PhD at University College London on the neuronal basis of memory and navigation and her PhD findings were published in one of the highest impact research journals – Nature Neuroscience – in 2017. Prior to that, she undertook award-winning academic research on Parkinson’s disease at the University of Helsinki. 

During her PhD Gabija has also qualified as a business coach and coached UCL academics and administrative staff. Combing her neuroscience background with coaching experience Gabija has started her own consulting company, providing coaching and seminars for organizations and the general public on the subjects including changing habits, productivity, leadership, and decision-making.

Gabija is also a TEDx speaker and her work has been featured in the Guardian.

How to Be Hopeful by Bernadette Russell

How do we find hope? And how do we hold onto it?
This kind and compassionate book leads the way.

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How to Be Hopeful
Your Toolkit to Rediscover Hope and Help Create a Kinder World
By Bernadette Russell
Elliott & Thompson / £12.99 / 10 September 2020

How to be Hopeful is a celebration of hope: an essential and courageous thing to envisage, create and connect with in our everyday lives. It shows us the places we can look for hope – in ourselves, nature, art, the kindness of strangers, communities, science, technology, innovation, as well as our individual and collective actions – and ways to keep it alive through all the challenges life throws at us. It invites us to act on our hopes towards positive and real change and includes stories of seemingly impossible odds overcome by individuals and groups of people who dared to do so, and triumphed. Starting with how we find hope in ourselves, this book also offers practical and creative exercises and tips on how we can embrace and develop hope in our communities, the wider world and in our future, as we face the very real and complex challenges of our times.

Exploring scientific, philosophical and spiritual perspectives on hope throughout the centuries and today, How to Be Hopeful is the essential book for our times.

TALKING POINTS

  • Why we should try and find hope and how acting with hope can help us create positive change. How hope is different from wishful thinking or blind optimism, how hope can provide us with the fuel to transform our lives, our communities and the world.

  • How hope is connected with compassion - how compassionate practise - to ourselves, each other and to the whole world, can restore hope and increase happiness.

  • The ‘positivity bias’ of children - how understanding and being inspired by children and our younger selves can help us find and maintain hope as adults – bringing us joy and giving us courage to try things.

  • Why adults are prone to pessimism and how we can counter this? How cynicism and negativity can diminish our lives and how nurturing hope can help us live our lives more fully.

  • How hope can help us even when we’re faced with life’s big challenges, such as illness, grief, death and dying.

  • How to remain hopeful in the face of huge global problems such as the climate crisis, and how to stay informed yet not drift to despair. How to become an active part of the solution, and how to enjoy yourself whilst doing so! (activism for beginners!)

  • The neurological benefits of acts of kindness and self-care, and how they fortify hope - how being kind to yourself and others can and should co-exist and how compassionate practise makes you more resilient, hopeful and more able to recover from setbacks and disappointment.

  • How to grow your hope by connecting with your communities and your neighbours, and improve your own life and the area in which you live.

  • How science, tech and art can all provide us with hope for the future - and how we can support and join in with those who are working towards a brighter tomorrow.

  • How to find hope in the midst of a barrage of online negativity and relentless bad news - how to stay informed and engaged with the world whilst increasing your happiness and hope.

  • How sharing stories can help us regain hope when it is lost, those of triumph over adversity, succeeding despite the odds, and happy endings. Understanding the way we tell our own stories can affect how our hope and our happiness, and how to take charge of our own stories and our lives, to help us realise our dreams.

‘This book is an invitation to start your own journey towards hope. I believe that active hope increases the chances that our future can be better and our present lives happier.’

Bernadette Russell

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ABOUT Bernadette Russell

Bernadette Russell is an expert on hope and kindness, as well as a writer, performer and activist who plants a lot of trees – and helps others do the same. She is author of The Little Book of Kindness and The Little Book of Wonder, both published by Orion and in multiple foreign editions around the world. Since 2012, she has toured the US and UK speaking about the importance and life-changing experience of practicing kindness, including for BBC Radio 4 Saturday Live, Action for Happiness, Birmingham School of Philosophy, People United’s Kindness Symposium, The Roundhouse, Tate Britain, Turner Contemporary, Sunday Assembly and the Southbank Centre, where she was nominated as one of sixty-seven change makers for her project 366 Days of Kindness. Since 2018 she has worked with the Royal Albert Hall, producing performances with kindness and creativity at their heart. 

Bernadette presents the ‘How to be Hopeful’ podcast.

More information at: https://www.bernadetterussell.com/ Instagram: @bernadetterussell / Twitter: @betterussell / Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bernadetterussellwrites /

Bernadette is available for interviews, features and events.