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Draft Take The Steps
Take the Steps Mindfulness and Wellbeing is a structured six week program OR one day workshop based on up-to-the-minute research in neuroscience, psychology and meditation. The program combines relaxation and meditation with CBT, and positive psychology to rewire your …
The Myth of Perfection : a leading cause of unhappiness?
According to Professor Tal Ben-Shahar, who teaches the most popular course ever in Harvard history, perfectionism is a leading cause of unhappiness. The pursuit of perfection is a no-win situation.
You are your most valuable resource
The cornerstone for your future happiness and success is you-wherever you go, you bring yourself with you. How much is that bright spirit inside you up to the surface, or how much is it covered over by layers of overthinking that make it hard for that sun inside you to shine through the clouds?
IT’S OFFICIAL : Research shows overthinking causes depression and that Mindfulness lessens overthinking
In the counselling work I do with third-level students, I have yet to meet a student with serious depression or high anxiety levels , who does not consistently overthink almost everything going on in their lives.
Be grateful for the best bits of 2017
As 2017 fades into 2018, make sure you deepen all those good experiences you had in 2017. What were the situations which you are truly grateful to have in your life?
More on creating a positive launching pad
A little more about the science of what I called in my last post ” creating a positive launching pad”. According to psychologists we all have an internalised narrative about how we became the person we are to-day, and where we are heading tomorrow, much like a movie we run in our head.This is known as our Narrative Identity.
The stories we tell ourselves matter
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