Holistic Healing
Whether you think of happiness as a state of mind or something fleeting, we all have times when we feel down and might need a small push in order to get to our happy place again, without resorting to binging, addiction, spending money, or overeating.
In fact, according to Science Daily, encouraging your own positive emotions can put you in a happy state, and increase your overall life satisfaction.
Today, Saturday the 13th of May 2017 I attended Psychology Day at NUI Galway to celebrate #psychologymattersday. There were a number of speakers, speaking on diverse topics from mindfulness to the shadow man!
First up we had a wonderfully insightful talk on mindfulness by Chris Noone. I nodded in agreement several times with what Chris was saying.
“Getting older is inevitable, aging is optional”. I love this quote by Dr. Christiane Northrup, M.D., a visionary pioneer in women’s health.
Like everything in life, we can choose what mindset we want to adopt in relation to getting older!
Society bombards us with anti aging this and anti-aging that, and stories of pain, aches, wrinkles and endings. But we can choose instead to see aging as a new beginning. Merely a new stage of our life, an initiation into our wisdom years. Not that long ago elders were respected for their wisdom rather than disregarded and put out to pasture and, out of sight at times.
Learning to ask for help is one of the most courageous things a person can do. It takes courage.
I recently did a Clifton Strength Finder and, not surprisingly for myself empathic was one of my strengths.
Now this really bugged me in some ways!! Being empathic is something I had come to consider a weakness rather than a strength as I wasn't handling it very well!!!!
When we are empathic by nature, we are empathic. It is not, in my opinion and from my own experience something you can switch on and off. Rather it is something to learn to work with.
When it comes to maintaining emotional balance in our work place we are dealing with two different levels; external factors and internal factors.
Some aspects of our actual work environment may be stressful for us, maybe there is not enough light in the room we work in, possibly there is no air and we find it stuffy or maybe the air conditioning unit is straight over our head.
Quite simply because we ARE all different!
So here's a scenario and it's based upon what someone might say to another "Don't Take Things So Personally".
Karen and Joanne have become friends because they share a common interest.
The whole story of the Tuam Babies really makes my stomach churn. I read about the survivors and relatives "never having a voice" and so called "abuses perpetrated against women and children".
Yea, yea I know I talk about emotional stuff, like ALL the time but whether we like it or not, we are emotional beings and our emotions are motivating everything we do.
In business fear is one of the biggest emotions that keeps us where we are, even if we want to be somewhere else. Good Lordy me, I know all about that fear.
But and I say it again, we do have choices when it comes to our emotions; we always have choices and yes, if we stay where we are but want to be somewhere else then that is a choice we are making.