Let’s celebrate World Sleep Day together!
We spend about a third of our lives asleep!! Sleep is essential……it is as important to our bodies as eating, drinking and breathing, and is vital for maintaining good mental and physical health.
Relentless Optimism
Are you a “glass half empty” or “a glass half full”? Some people spend their whole life regretting what could have been, what should have been, what went wrong, what bad luck they had – when the only person they have to blame is actually themselves and their negative attitude. You will all have heard …
Spring Clean Your Mind!
We all know what happens to our computer when its memory is full….it slows down. So it’s no wonder that our brain starts to creak when it’s overloaded. Mindfulness meditation and relaxation help memory maintenance…. Relaxation is your body’s way of rejuvenating. Relaxing allows time for your mind and body to repair. It has also …
New Year, New Me!
It’s time to take control of our wellbeing! A healthy mind helps us have a healthy body, which in turn gives us a healthy mind…..and repeat. This relationship goes hand in hand with a more positive outlook on life, being able to cope so much better with things and not allowing the little frustrations and …
Step into Christmas Cheer
Are you looking forward to Christmas or are you dreading it? Some people will be excitedly counting down the days, whilst others will be wishing it was all over. Christmas should be a time to relax and spend time with family and friends. But instead, for many people, it is a time of increased stress …
Are YOU standing in YOUR own way?
Short answer…there is NO such thing as self-sabotage. Your conscious and your unconscious minds simply have very different value systems. In other words, they prioritise differently. Your conscious mind is only interested in what you want whilst your unconscious is only interested in your needs. Let’s use public speaking as an example. You’re absolutely fine …
World Mental Health Day
Mental Health needs more sunlight, more candour and more unashamed conversation!! World Mental Health Day takes place on October 10th, with this year’s theme being “mental health in an unequal world“. 2020 has been a year like no other, and one hopefully not repeated! It has been a landmark year in terms of wellbeing. Most of …
Hold Onto Your Buts!
It’s time to use your wonderful imagination for a moment…. imagine you’re with a close friend and they say “I really like you as my best friend, then pauses and says……but…” What happens in your mind, even before they say anything else? Ideally your very sensible, logical, and rational conscious mind is thinking… “I’ll wait …
Use me or lose me…!
Do you know our brain is constantly changing? As you gain a new skill you create new neurological pathways in the brain and once you have used that new pathway often enough it becomes a neurological superhighway! Athletes refer to this as muscle memory – they are essentially referring to the phenomenon where, after an …
Choice, choice, CHOICES!
Life is a matter of choice, and every choice you make makes you – John C Maxwell So while you’re pondering this, let me ask you a question….how flexible are you? And I don’t mean this in a gymnastic kind of way! In other words, if we only have one choice how to react to …