Category Archives: Mindfulness

Visualisation is a self-reflective technique that’s become increasingly popular in the last few decades. The practice helps people clarify and visualise their goals, making them more visual and attainable. In this post, we’ll run through visualisation and its benefits. We’ll also offer a guide to starting our own visualisation practice from scratch. But first, let’s …

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Emile Coue was a French Psychologist in the early 20th century. He noticed that telling patients how effective their treatment was, helped them recover quicker. Coue is generally considered the father of the positive affirmation movement for this insight. In today’s post, we’ll discuss positive affirmations – what they are and why everyone should use …

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Journaling is great for many reasons. Above all, we can use it as a self-reflection practice. In this post, we’ll discuss some of the benefits of journaling and give a few examples of how we can pick up the practice. There’s no one-size-fits-all when it comes to journaling, so we’ll list out a few different approaches …

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Wilhelm Wundt originally developed the idea of self-reflection in the late 1800s, which focused on three functions of the mind: thoughts, feelings and images. His work eventually resulted in the development of cognitive psychology. This post starts by discussing the importance of self-reflection. Then we’ll offer a few simple methods and prompts to start reflecting …

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Today we’re discussing a very important topic – mental health. We’ll run through the core concepts of mental health and suggest mindfulness and Stoicism practices as potential solutions. What is Mental Health? What does mental health mean? The NHS’s definition of mental health is “a positive state of mind and body, feeling safe and able …

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The world changed in the beginning of 2020. By March, most countries had entered lockdowns and spent the spring in a sort of “new normal”, isolated from the rest of the world. I’m not sure I really needed to intro that. You probably noticed! But what happens to our well-being after our daily routines disappear? …

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Mindfulness has become a pretty hot topic over the past few decades. It’s a meditative practice that focuses on being aware of your senses and feelings in the moment. The purpose of mindfulness is to approach our senses and feelings without interpretation or judgment. We’ll start this post by discussing how mindfulness feels, before moving …

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