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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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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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Hope
Hope can be a funny thing it is defined as a feeling of expectation and desire for a particular thing to happen, a feeling of trust or simply put when we want something…
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Resilience in times of crises
Resilience is important in our usual day to day world so in these changed times it is more important than ever. Any change is difficult but changes on the scale that Covid19 has…
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Core Values
What are your core values? Our core values influence everything about our lives and how we live, even if we are not consciously aware of them. Identifying which of our core values are…