How Mindfulness Can Improve Your Life — Practical Steps to Practising Mindfulness Meditation
The practice of mindfulness meditation and mindfulness has been part of human life for centuries. Its benefits have seen a rise in not just a person’s private life, but professional life as well. As it changes the wiring and makeup of your brain, the benefits become even clearer, the more you practice it. What are these benefits:
7 Things You Can Do to Avoid Coronavirus Social Distancing Depression
As the coronavirus spreads around the world and governments including the United Kingdom weigh more-restrictive measures to keep people at home, it could be a stressful time if you’re suffering from depression and believe that social distancing will make that worse.
Depression therapy London: When should you seek help?
Depression can take hold of your life and make you feel like there’s no escape. It impacts how you feel, think and act. From severe low moods to the inability to function in certain situations (such as at work or social events), it is a serious medical illness that needs treating. Read more to find out how counselling and psychotherapy can help.
Discover 5 ways CBT can help with anxiety & depression
Cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) is a therapy technique that aims to improve mental health by improving thought patterns. It focuses on changing destructive cognitive thought processes and behaviours.
How to deal with low mood
We all experience periods of low mood in our lifetime and feel sad sometimes about things that have happened. For some of us these moments don’t last for long and are manageable, but for
others these periods can become prolonged and can affect our day to day tasks and impair our functioning.
The connection between anxiety and neuroplasticity
Anxiety is something we all deal with from time to time. In an era where we are overstimulated with images, sounds and technology it is quite hard for your brain to be able to focus on everything.
Sometimes, this can create a sense of disconnection which in turn triggers a feeling on unease.
People with depression use language differently – here’s how to spot it
From the way you move and sleep, to how you interact with people around you, depression changes just about everything. It is even noticeable in the way you speak and express yourself in writing. Sometimes this “language of depression” can have a powerful effect on others. Just consider the impact of the poetry and song lyrics of Sylvia Plath and Kurt Cobain, who both killed themselves after suffering from depression.
Trauma recovery
Trauma disrupts the body’s natural equilibrium. The person that suffered a traumatic event gets stuck in a state of hyper-arousal and fear. Mainly, their nervous system gets stuck. What most professionals suggest is exercise and movement because these 2 actually help with the release of endorphin as well as ‘burning off’ adrenaline which can help […]
Stress and Anxiety
Stress is a big topic these days, and one way or another we all feel stressed and anxious on many different levels. Stress and anxiety are interlinked, an it’s not uncommon to feel anxious when you make an important decision or when you’re faced with a problem at work, when you have a test at school or when something out of the ordinary happens and you become nervous.
Complaining Is Terrible for You, According to Science
Steeping yourself in negativity has seriously terrible consequences for your mental and physical health. Why do people complain? Not to torture others with their negativity, surely. When most of us indulge in a bit of a moan, the idea is to “vent.” By getting our emotions out, we reason, we’ll feel better. But science suggests there […]