Archive for 'General'
Just do it!
Are you wondering what happened to your New Year’s promises to yourself, your resolutions to change some of your bad habits and/or set up new, better ones? It’s not unusual if about now, you realise you’ve let things slip. Take heart. It’s definitely not too late to restart! Here’s how: Think back to the New […]
Posted: February 1st, 2018 under General.
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Mindfulness and memory
How often have you had trouble remembering something you think you should know? Although repeated, increasingly frequent bouts of memory loss can be the sign of something serious, thankfully this outcome is rare. Far more often, memory ‘loss’ is not a loss at all! Instead, it is because we fail to pay attention to what […]
Posted: September 22nd, 2014 under General.
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Giving Shape to Your Creative Powers: The Value of Writing
I realised recently that I’d not written a post for some time, and that I was missing it. It’s really important for us to write down our thoughts. Ideas that stay in the mind just fade away. When you write something down, you give it life, and you give it a shape and a form. […]
Posted: August 24th, 2014 under General.
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Mindfulness: Why happiness is not the best outcome
Researchers at University College London have come up with a formula that appears to predict happiness. At first glance, you would think that to achieve this, mindfulness would play a large part. You’re wrong. Here’s the gist of the happiness equation: Happiness can be determined by the size of the gap between some achievement or […]
Posted: August 5th, 2014 under General, Mindfulness.
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Psychology of winning: attitude plays a far greater role than many of us realise
Yesterday was a great day for British swimming, when 13 year old Erraid Davies won a bronze medal in the 100 m SB9 breaststroke in Glasgow. Listening to some of her interviews reminds us all of the power of a determined and positive attitude. I don’t know if Erraid fixed her mind on winning per […]
Posted: July 29th, 2014 under General.
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