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Resilience in times of crises
“Once more unto the breach dear friends” this is the rally cry from the play King Henry the Fifth, by William Shakespeare that has been rattling around in my head since the latest…
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Managing Stress
We are all dealing with some additional level of stress at the moment and I wanted to take a minute in today’s article to remind you that as Sydney J. Harris said “The…
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Resilience
There are many factors in building resilience. At the Happiness School we have created a number of courses to help individuals and companies (re)build their resilience. Developing resilience is a personal journey. People…
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What makes you happy?
Do you start each day with a smile? What can you do to improve your day to day happiness? Research shows that you can work on improving your happiness in tangible ways that…
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Values
As we are beginning to see and end to the restrictions that we have all been under I thought it might be a good time to put this article on values up again.…
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Meditation
Meditation has been around a long time but it can be misunderstood a lot of the time. Meditation is a practice meaning you get better over time, with practice. Starting off can be…
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The unsettled mind
“The simplest, most fundamental, most basic, and most important meditative skill of all is the ability to settle the mind” (Chade-Meng Tan, 2016). Sometimes our daily lives are just too high stress, to…
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Self Determination Theory
At the moment we are all being forced into a situation that most of us would not chose, Isolation. The lack of self determination we are currently feeling is adding to the stress…
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Self Compassion
Self-compassion entails being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or flagellating ourselves with self-criticism. (Dr. Kristen Neff, 2019) I have posted this…
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