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"When you care for others, you are also taking care of yourself". This may sound trite, but it is the quickest way I know to chase sour thoughts and difficult feelings away. It also hooks us into something that, I hear, many people say they cannot do: it calms the mind.
Maintaining your personal boundaries and understanding your values are crucial for a balanced life. Boundaries and values are linked. Our values define or boundaries, and maintaining boundaries reinforces our values. This post, explains how your values and boundaries interconnect to create a life of integrity and balance.
When you flourish, you don't just exist, you thrive. It includes physical, mental and emotional health, for sure, but to flourish has a wider meaning. Wellbeing is intimately linked to how we feel we are doing in life. It is subjective, related to belief and experience, rather than conforming to some objective, measurable criteria. So, for example, you can feel well even if you are suffering from an illness, or you can be satisfied with your life, even amid turmoil challenging conditions (both of these have been confirmed by studies)....
Paying attention to those small, often fleeting details acts as an antidote to the world we have created. Rather than the headlong rush towards an uncertain outcome, seeing the details enables us to draw energy along the way, and even find joy in the mundane details we'd otherwise overlook.
The thoughts and language we use are a major contributor to our experience and how we feel. A closer look at the sort of things we say when we feel depressed makes this clear.
Carol Dweck researches 'growth mindset' — the idea that we can grow our brain's capacity to learn and to solve problems.
How well do you understand how to protect your mental health? These are trying times, unless you take positive action to take care of your emotional and psychological wellbeing, you could be at risk.
Organisations play a vitally important role in encouraging a positive mental wellbeing culture in the workplace. Here are several key strategies that employers can implement.
Most depressions can be cured or substantially alleviated yet we still pretend that they can't. Hand-wringing and attempts at sympathy don't help, enlightenment and common understanding will. Treatment guidelines are explicit, brief problem-solving talk-therapy is a proven treatment. We should be accepting and treating depression as the common ailment it is, not shrouding it in mystery and pretending that we don't know what to do about it.
In a recent email I was asked "Do you think that people with mental illnesses are able to cope with life properly?" Here's my reply.
“A different approach to personal development”
“A different approach to personal development”
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