ARISE – Start Your Day with This Simple Mindfulness Exercise
The transition from sleeping to full wakefulness should be neither a shock nor a struggle. Get it right and start with your mind in the right gear and things can flow more naturally and positively as you cruise through your day.
Tend To What You (And Others) Can’t See
We live in an appearance culture; how things seem is more important than how they are. Do we apply the same reasoning to our wellbeing? We lavish care and attention on our appearance, and spend too little time caring for how we are, on the inside.
How to Boost Confidence with a Vision Board
Personal change begins in the imagination. Visualisation uses imagination to influence our goals and successes. A vision board combines the two.
Lack of Confidence Is a Noisy Obstacle
Lack of confidence isn’t the absence of something, it’s the opposite, the presence of something. When we are about to try something new – or do anything that takes us out of our comfort zone – we can be assailed by unwanted and intrusive thoughts, feelings and images. We can ignore them, you know.
Positive Psychology Means Less Psychologizing
Favouring simplicity, self-awareness and personal strengths, positive psychology brings a greater sense of control for clients. In many cases, self-help techniques can be as effective as therapy. Its all a question of viewpoint.
Facts, Opinions and Assumptions – How Often Do You Check?
Fact checking is something we'd often prefer not to do. Even the best critical thinkers can be deluded, mistaken, or swayed, when it suits us.
5 Myths of Compatibility – Check Them Out
Myths about compatibility are common and damaging. You don't have to be compatible to live happily together, but you do need tolerance.
Brooding is Just Rehearsing Your Failures
Reflection is good, brooding is not. But how do you break the cycle of negative thinking? It is great that human beings can reflect and learn from experience, but that is not the same as destructively dwelling on things. Going over things again and again serves no useful purpose and may well reinforce the sense of failure. It's a habit worth breaking.
Resilience Tips – 3 Ideas to Get You Started
Increase your resilience with these three practical ideas. You'll have more control when you notice that pressure starts getting to you.
