Whilst things are improving, there is still a stigma about talking about or admitting to having a mental health problem. The fact is that 1 in 4 of us will experience common problems such as stress and anxiety, or more serious problems, each year. So whatever your own inhibitions, we can help each other by …
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We keep ourselves so busy and distracted, and spend so much time thinking about things that have happened, or things that may happen in the future, that we are rarely living fully in the now. We do a lot on autopilot. For example, how often have you driven from A to B, but on the …
With today’s relentless workload, sometimes the best thing for your mental health and productivity, is to say no. Being assertive means standing up for yourself, or others, and communicating what you think and feel, in a calm and positive way, without aggression. If you develop these skills, you will be better able to get your …
Mindful listening is a key skill for coaches and other ‘listening’ professionals, but it’s also a core workplace skill for all of us. Mindful listening helps nurture better interactions and work relationships, and speeds up the process of understanding other points of view, which leads to more effective solutions and productivity. When we hold a …
To some degree, we’re always fighting with the present. This is not a good strategy for a fulfilled life. We spend pretty much every waking moment either striving, wanting, and holding on to what we have, or else fighting things we don’t like and avoiding what we don’t want. Almost every stimulus, external or internal, …
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Most of us know the feeling – there’s too much to do, we’re under pressure, and we feel like a rabbit frozen in the headlights. Things get cloudy, our normal capacity to function efficiently goes out the window, and we resort to doing what’s easy rather than what’s needed. Or if it gets worse, we’re …
Kindness is not a word we hear a lot in today’s over-busy workplaces. Wellbeing is up there as a concept, but I’m not sure it resonates with many people. It’s a word a bit like sustainability – easy to rattle on about but highly open to interpretation. So I wonder if ‘kindness’ is a simpler, …
The first moments of consciousness on waking follow a particular pattern. First of all, there’s a kind of innocent, open quality – this can be experienced when you’re staying away from home, and for a second or two you can’t think where you are. This is actually a great moment to tune in to our naturally ‘unformatted’ …
What we take to be real out there, is almost entirely created in here, in our minds, using a very small amount of live sense data. We’re not seeing infrared, magnetic fields, or gamma radiation, we’re picking up a fraction of a dog’s olfactory mapping of the world, and our hearing is limited in range. Our cone of …
Being happy is a goal most of us aspire to; but what does that really mean? Are we seeking a prolonged high, or does it just mean finding sustainable contentment? However we define it, happiness that lasts is not conditional on external factors. A myth permeates so much of what we do and think: that …
