When did you last sit in complete quietness outside, and focus on the natural world around you? No technology, no distractions, no scrolling headlines, beeping notifications, phones ringing, and no screen? When did you last step away from the media and current global events to...
If you have already scrolled through any social media platform or read the headlines this morning you will be fully aware today is Blue Monday, allegedly THE most depressing day of the year. It comes on the third Monday of January every year so...
If we have had a poor night’s sleep, we can struggle to concentrate at work, make mistakes, have poorer exam or test results, and our response times can be slower. Insomnia problems are medically proven to have a significant effect on our mental and physical health, and...
Join our October BookFest to gain invaluable conversation skills, discover the five pillars to wake up, and know "It's OK" as over fifty public figures share their experiences on dealing with their mental health. How to Have Impossible Conversations: A Very Practical Guide by Peter Boghossian and James...
In 1943, Abraham Maslow, one of the foremost researchers in psychology, published his paper A Theory of Motivation in which he divided human needs into D (Deficit) Needs and B (Being) Needs. The D Needs are the categories when the need is missing and we require it...
"Life is the sum of all your choices." - Albert Camus When you are on a social media site or app, do you click to the suggested images and accounts to follow? Do you scroll through endless similar images, worded tweets, repeated regrams, retweets, and reblogs and wonder...
“This bad inner Chatter. We all know it has the power to overthrow gut instinct, shout us down when we are faced with fear and talk us out of new adventures – yet few of us have a grip on it.” - Fearne Cotton, Quiet: Silencing the...
Every day we wake up and have a choice on how we will think, react, behave – how we will BE that day. Every day, we are faced with many new opportunities to choose our attitude, our beliefs, and our behaviour. Every day, we wake...
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari Sapiens showed us where we came from. Homo Deus looked to the future. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari explores the present. How can we protect ourselves from nuclear war, ecological cataclysms and technological disruptions? What can we do about the epidemic...
We know there are numerous mental and physical benefits of taking a daily walk and partaking in regular exercise such as running. New research from Chih-Hsiang Yang at Penn State University, published in the journal of Psychology of Sport and Exercise, has discovered being mindful of your...