If you read my posts on mindfulness, habits and living in the present, read James Ward’s article ‘Who are you calling boring?’
Everything contains information so when we label something ‘boring’ we are giving ourselves permission to be unconcerned with it, to write it off. Bringing mundane things into the realm of ‘worth looking at’ opens up a whole new world of self awareness and discovery.
There are two types of people in the world, I’ve been told; those that can eat a bar of chocolate one piece at a time, and those who don’t even bother trying. The latter group have no brakes, and ‘sharing’ isn’t in their vocabulary (should that be vocadbury?*). There are two types when it comes […]
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Resisting change is not only a waste of time, it also makes it harder to deal with. Following advice from other people is probably not the right way to go either (you can still read this though).
Change can be difficult, but it needn’t be as big a problem as we often make it.
Continue readingMost 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.
