Healthy mindful criticism
How to criticise healthily “You are good for nothing, you can’t do a simple task.” “Your work @#$%, you are a donkey, you are pea brained.” Phrases we either hear or blurt out on a daily basis at home or at work, the collective noun for which is criticism. More often than not the intention […]
Slow Down – Take Notice – Practice Mindfulness
Mindfulness Helps Reduce Stress Over the past few days, I have been told to slow down on more than one occasion. Words like you are walking too fast or speak slowly you talk too fast to understand. You’ve finished eating did you just swallow your meal in one go. The last one that I heard […]
Take a vacation ‘professionally’
benefits of a vacation from work By denying our brains a vacation, we diminish our ability to think creatively and strategically. In an article Sandra Bond Chapman, Ph.D. reasons that when you’re under chronic stress, your body releases the stress hormone cortisol. High levels of cortisol damage the hippocampus, the area of the brain responsible […]
Writing A Way Back to Myself
Writing – A Journey in Self-Discovery As I hit the keys and black letters that they call words begin to line up to form sentences, I often wonder, what am I doing and where am I headed with this. Slowly thoughts give way to words and words fill in sentences. Sentences a paragraph and before […]