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In Search Of Lost Time

What is mindfulness actually? More and more people are talking about it. They may even be able to trot out a definition of what it is, as there have been so many articles in the press about it recently. But what does it actually mean to be mindful? Why has it become so high profile? …

Courage

There’s an Arabic saying that goes: “All sunshine and no rain makes a desert”. When things go wrong in life, our automatic reaction tends to be,”Oh No!” Or “Why me?” Or “That’s not fair!”. Or we start scanning through our past actions and seeing this as some kind of divine punishment for the times our …

“Keep Calm And Carry On” – Sometimes Easier Said Than Done.

Panic attacks are scary. Your heart is thumping out of your chest. You can’t breathe. You feel nauseous, and have a huge sense of dread and disorientation. You may even feel that you’re having a heart attack and that you might die. And they are increasingly common, among increasingly younger people. One in 75 people …

The Revolution Will Be Televised! 10 Tips To Digitally Detox

Many of us are familiar with the notion of detoxing – taking time out to redress the balance of all the nasties we put in our bodies, breathe in, and apply onto our skin. Now, there is an urgent and increasing need for another kind of detoxing, without which research shows we risk rising levels …

How Eq Smart Is Your Boss?

Most of us instinctively know that the ability to handle feelings, both your own and other people’s, is a key life skill. One of the biggest sources of stress and ill health is, in my view, an inability to speak the language of emotions eloquently. This ability, let’s call it emotional literacy, is often spoken …