Merry Christmas to all of you celebrating today. For many, this day is about giving. Yesterday was about considering to take 5 minutes to think about what you can give yourself, both symbolically and as a promise of a new mindset and behavior to start make important changes in your life. It can…
This post continues on possible problems, bumps in the road, that can occur and how to try to avoid them when you have started to take your identified actions to move in your desired direction. Last week was about the critical importance of a fixed time of the week AND the month – potentially…
The main thesis of Csikszentmihalyi’s flow-concept is that happiness is not a state but can be developed through learning how to achieve flow in our lives. He describes it as: “…a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue…
Monday – Life goals: Now we have first during several sessions uncovered the way behind you that contributed to and affected the symptoms and related problems you have today as well as gone through how to create goals that are SMART to help you set and achieve motivating goals which can kick-start you towards your…
Remember from the last posts, mindfulness is the ability to be fully present in the current moment and activity, being aware of where we are and what we are doing, but not overly responsive or overwhelmed by what is going on around us. This post continues about being mindful with regard to thoughts, which…
Here comes the last of five parts of the breathing anchor, a seated exercise using the breath as an anchoring point of in total 5-10 minutes depending on pauses/pacing: …Notice when your mind has wandered. Observing the types of thoughts that distract you is an important part of the learning. Try to notice the content…
Last week we started to look at the SMART model, an acronym for the 5 important characteristics of effective goalsetting. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time Limited. The SMART-model is a tool to help you set and achieve motivating goals to kick-start you towards your desired direction: ACHIEVABLE: The goal should be…
This post continues on the last 5 happiness sources of 10 from happiness research according to wikiversity.org: 6. Too much TV can make you unhappy. Research has shown that for every hour of television the general quality of life can be lowered by 5%. According to David Niven, TV orients us towards superficial things and…
This post continues on the theme of self-efficacy, our beliefs about our capability to perform specific tasks or actions, which also has an important impact on our psychological wellbeing. As noted last week, much research has been conducted on the 4 major psychological processes through which self-efficacy affects human functioning and hence can be increased….
Here comes the fourth of five parts of the breathing anchor, an exercise using the breath as an anchoring point since our breath is always with us and hence can be used to anchor us in the present moment. This is a seated exercise of in total 5-10 minutes depending on pauses/pacing: …You may also…