Meditation Training
Is self-care simply an indulgent buzz word, or is it perhaps the key to achieving success, whatever success, in fact, looks like to us as an individual? It is easy to forget to take care of ourselves in our busy lives. However, how much does this really matter? The truth is that self-care and learning […]
Like the Stoic philosophers of ancient Rome and Greece, Friedrich Nietzsche (the nineteenth-century German philosopher) believed that the path to happiness is in accepting life exactly the way it is. He thought that to be given any kind of hope is delusional as the uncomfortable truth is that life is hard. In fact, it’s often […]
Heraclitus of Ephesus, a Greek philosopher who lived between 530 and 470 BC, spoke about the importance of change. He stated that all things are in constant flux and in a state of “becoming”. He said: “We both step and do not step in the same rivers. We are and are not” – Heraclitus This […]
Self-help books tell us to ‘regulate’ our emotions, but what does this mean? ‘Regulate’ is a synonym for ‘control’, so does this mean we should filter our emotions? Perhaps we should cherry-pick the positive emotions and cast aside the uncomfortable ones? Not exactly. If someone is good at ‘emotion regulation’, this means they can […]
We cherish the people closest to us, so it seems strange that we’d try to hurt them. So, why do we hurt the ones we love? Often, it’s because we’re scared of losing them. Our bad behaviour is a desperate attempt to try and reconnect with them. But bad behaviour doesn’t forge connections; it weakens […]
WHY DO WE OFTEN FEEL DISSATISFIED? For many of us, it seems as though we exist in a state of dissatisfaction for much of the time. Not content with life’s simple pleasures, we are always reaching for something ‘over there’ which we believe will make us feel happier and more content. Yet every time we […]
Overthinking is exhausting. At times, we spend so much time worrying that we’re unable to focus on anything else. Life would be much easier if we had control over our thoughts, right? Funnily enough, overthinking is an attempt to gain control, but it does not work. Excessive worrying gives us the illusion of being in […]
Journaling is an incredible tool for your mental health and improving your emotional intelligence (EQ). It’s a simple yet powerful way to manage thoughts and feelings as you move from day to day and it’s far from a new invention. Journaling helps you gain clarity, problem solve and manage stressful events. Yet often people don’t […]
In the last few decades, ‘happiness’ has been promoted as the normal state of being to which we should all and always aspire. Furthermore, we have been encouraged to personally work on attaining contentment in all aspects of life and to conceal sorrow, or at the very least hastily alleviate it, rather than dwell on […]
As we move through the hustle and bustle of our frantic lives we may not have even asked ourselves if we are truly happy? Our long-term goal may well be to seek out the good life, but do we even know what that looks like? Do we already possess it? Or ironically, does constantly seeking […]
