Emails lower IQ
The distractions of constant emails, text and phone messages are ...
Relaxation Tips from MIND – Focus on Your Wellbeing
This brief video from MIND is a really valuable resource.
Grieving – A Journey Which Must Be Done Alone
Grieving can be triggered by more than many people realise. It doesn't only happen due to the loss of a loved one. It's a natural instinct to try and help someone who is suffering, but the pain and loneliness of grief is a very personal journey. There's no 'cure' for grief because it is not an illness, it's a natural process of adaptation to changed circumstances.
The Job of the Future
If you want to be secure in your life and career, then social skills come high on the list of must-have qualities.
Soulmates Are Forever, Right?
Adapting to change can be a shock to the system, and It takes time. You can't set a timetable – everyone adapts differently – but usually a few months or a couple of years are enough for someone to start living comfortably with 'the new reality', and re-building a life. In this case, it's a divorce, but whatever the change, we all manage the process in our own way. It helps to have insight, to be honest with oneself, and to accept. But occasionally people get stuck. It's a doubly...
Don’t Try to Stop Guilt and Shame – Just Free Yourself
Guilt can be perverse and insistent. Perverse because it can hang around long after it has done it's job, and insistent because it keeps knocking long after you've not only heard it, you've let it in and got the message. On occasions it also persuades you that we have to put up with it, but you don't.
You Can Say a Lot, But Is It Believable?
Making yourself understood is relatively easy, whether you are believeble or not is another matter. You communicate best when others trust and believe you.
Mid-Life Transitions – What Will You Become?
Change at any time can be tricky, especially in later life. Chip Conley says we need rituals for mid-life transitions to help us with change.
Honour the Past, Live in the Now…
Even the bad events in our lives are relevant. Things we'd rather forget can help us learn and grow, if we let them. The trick is to review them, not re-live them.
Inspiration Might Be Behind You
Common sense says that the crowd knows best, but is that so? Conformity is easy, but it can mean missed opportunities. Of course, doing the opposite of what is expected takes courage, but then so does fighting to be noticed among the crowd.
