Posts tagged with 'wellbeing'
How to live well: 5th meeting - positivity, savouring & gratitude
2nd October 2018
"Ten thousand flowers in the spring; the moon in autumn; a cool breeze in summer; snow in winter. If your mind isn't clouded by unnecessary things, this is the best season of your life." Wu-wen "Thus weave for us a garment of brightness; that we may walk fittingly where birds …
Deepening our enjoyment & appreciation of life
1st October 2018
A sense of meaning, connection to our values and real engagement in what we do are crucial to nourish high wellbeing in our lives … and then high wellbeing feeds back to help us be more vital & effective in what we do. But it’s important too to ‘smell the …
How to live well: 4th meeting - coping with difficulties, the mindbus, compassion, mindfulness & reappraisal
25th September 2018
"You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done." Aldous Huxley "I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, …
How to live well: 3rd meeting - willpower, wooping, diet & dependencies
19th September 2018
"Be regular & orderly in your life so that you may be violent & original in your work." Gustave Flaubert "Fall down seven times. get up eight." Japanese proverb These are notes on the third evening of the ten-session "How to live well - a shared exploration" training. Notes on …
How to live well: 2nd meeting - mindset, motivation, positive emotions, exercise & sleep
8th September 2018
"Whether you think you can or you think you can't, you're right." Henry Ford "Knowledge is only rumour, until it is in the muscle." New Guinea proverb These are notes on the second evening of the ten-session "How to live well - a shared exploration" training. Comments on the first …
How to live well: 1st meeting - values, self-determination theory, roles & goals
4th September 2018
"When I get to heaven, they will not ask me 'Why were you not Moses?'. They will ask 'Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?'" Susya, a Hasidic rabbi "Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of …
How to live well - a shared exploration: course questionnaires
30th August 2018
I'm running a ten-session training, starting next week, called "How to live well - a shared exploration". Here's a link to a description of the first evening - "How to live well: 1st meeting - values, self-determination theory, roles & goals". Before, during & after the course, there's encouragement to …
Recent research: articles from spring journals
1st May 2018
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains well over 26,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant …
The surprising power of weak 'social ties'
31st March 2018
I’ve just been to the Farmer’s Market here in Edinburgh and I set myself the challenge of being more chatty than usual to the stallholders I was buying food from. I ‘pushed’ myself to be friendly & talk more than I’ve ever done before (and I’ve been going to the …
Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing training: 8th session, taking the learning on into our lives
29th March 2018
At our eighth & last session of the Compassion, wisdom & wellbeing training, we reviewed the journey we've been on together over the last couple of months. We looked at what each of us personally had found most interesting & valuable. The weekly reflection sheets that we'd filled in could …