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Feelings: How to Handle Feelings

If feelings are our compass needles, we need to take them seriously as information sources.The purpose of your feelings is to help you focus attention and action so that your brain will work out and carry out a plan of how to deal with the situation as adaptive as possible. As an example: If someone…

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Mindfulness: The Body Scan Exercise Part 2 of 4

Mindfulness can be used to strenghten the ability to remain calm. Here is the second part of the body scan, a continuation of the mindfulness exercise from last week that you can record and use: … Move your attention away from your breathing and instead pay attention to the inside of your left leg and…

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Stress: The Two Stress Scales

There are actually two stress levels that are important to keep track of: 1. One is the stress-scale that I explained in last week’s session, i.e. how the level of stress generally fluctuates in the human body during the day depending on activity level and intensity. 2. The other is your general baseline stress-level over…

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Celebration, Rest and Reflection: The Importance of Sleep

The best way for the body and brain to recover and rest is of course sleep. Research shows that sleep repairs the body, cleanses the brain but also processes information for learning and memory on a deeper level. Sleep is also vital for maintaining a good mental health. Optimal sleepers have in research (e.g. Hamilton…

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Feelings: Tomkin’s 9 Innate Core Affects

Feelings are very important since they are central both to human identity and to the experience of self. Feelings are also important messengers and guides of needs and desires, both for the individual and for communication among humans. Still, there is not a shared definition of feelings. The Tomkins Institute helps us with the following…

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Mindfulness – The Body Scan Exercise Part 1 of 4

One of the most important exercises within mindfulness is to learn to observe your breathing without necessarily altering it. This is one step in developing the ability to stay in the observant, non-judging position and postpone reactions, an ability that can be used in more stressful or distressing situations. Here comes one version of the…

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The Importance of Feelings – Feelings Diary

Feelings are innate with the purpose to be our best compass needles describing to us how we are doing and what we need/do not need. They can also be exaggerated when based on a somewhat distorted perspective of reality – such as fear in phobias. Many of us benefit from paying more attention to our…

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Mindfulness – What is it?

Mindfulness is often described as the ability to be attentive to the present moment as it unfolds in a curious, non-judgmental and accepting manner. Try it now: Use one minute to explore what you see around you: which colours, nuances, surfaces etc. Then alternate to describe the content of your thoughts: “Right now I am…