It’s easy to get caught up in the hustle and bustle of everyday life. But amidst the chaos, there are little moments of pure bliss that can uplift our spirits and bring a sense of peace and happiness. These moments may be fleeting, but their impact can be long-lasting. Tracking these moments of bliss is […]
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Sometimes, issues of mental health don’t just “go away” completely. For some of us, they can be the beast within for a whole lifetime — sometimes active, sometimes dormant — but always there as a potential experience. There are so many possible reasons for this. It could be DNA. Inherited predispositions. Childhood trauma. The influence
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Most of us have felt completely “stuck” in a low-feeling place at some time. It’s a pretty universal human experience, right? But can we rapidly re-boot our experience from this low state of being? … YES we can. Disclaimer: I’m not a qualified practitioner. These anecdotal ideas have worked for others but ultimately just represent
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Have you ever had an incredibly weird, violently abrupt or annoyingly repetitive dream, woken up, and then realised that you really need to go to the bathroom? Sometimes the dream is just there to wake us up. Sometimes the dream is just there to wake us up. Sometimes the dream is just there to wake
Avoiding Meaning, Releasing Ego, Finding Peace. Read More »
Mental suffering is caused by rejecting our interpretation of the events in our experience.* So we can ask: “How can I reinterpret these events to feel more at peace?” “How are these events helping me?”** “What can I learn from this?” For example, when we experience physical pain we sometimes focus on that as a
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Recently a thought occurred — what if I was to simply rely on the magic of gratitude to connect me to opportunities, rather than the myriad of overwhelming digital channels like FB, Google, Twitter, Linkedin, etc? As a result, my income more than doubled in the last month, I’ve had a lot more free time
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It must be something in the air right now, but I seem to have more than just a few friends going through incredibly challenging times at the moment… …And it breaks my heart to see people struggling with life in some way, so I find myself having many long conversations and writing just as many
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After my studies in functional nutrition and extended studies into the role of the microbiome and inflammation in depression, it all became very clear… *Eudaimonia (Greek: εὐδαιμονία), is a Greek word commonly translated as happiness or welfare; however, “human flourishing or prosperity” and “blessedness” have been proposed as a more accurate translations.Sure there are cognitive
Overcoming Depression: The Mediterranean Diet as a Path to Eudaimonia* Read More »
Today a friend came to me and mentioned they’d been ill and had given up alcohol and poor eating choices as a result (in order to get well). This was after a bout of depression and I’m sure you know of course that alcohol is a depressive — so this was, in a way, really
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Lately I\’ve had some truly distressing conversations with people very close and dear to me… Distressing because of the insane cyclic nature of their thoughts — thoughts that can only generate more and more suffering for them. Distressing because they seem so disconnected from the possibility of okay-ness, due to their absolute identification
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