Using the Festive Season to Reset Your Nervous System

Using the Festive Season to Reset Your Nervous System

The festive season is is rarely a time you'd think of being used to reset your nervous system. Rather, it is usually framed as a time to do more: more socialising, more travelling, more spending, more celebrating, more reflecting, more planning. Even rest is sometimes...

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How to Strengthen Your Resolve

How to Strengthen Your Resolve

Strengthen your resolve, that is the topic today, it's a 'how-to' for building mental muscle that can lead to a happier life. I recently ran an online course about Acceptance and Commitment Therapy that included guidance on how to live a meaningful life according to...

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How to Use Personality Neuroscience to Be Happier

How to Use Personality Neuroscience to Be Happier

In recent years, the field of psychology has witnessed the rise of personality neuroscience — a fascinating field that explores how brain structures, networks, and neurochemical systems shape individual differences in personality traits, behaviour, and emotional...

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How to Stop Living on Autopilot

How to Stop Living on Autopilot

“My experience is what I agree to attend to.” — William James Being purposeful, thinking our own thoughts and stop living on autopilot is the focus of today's article. Modern living is very well engineered to move us into automatic routines: app notifications pinging,...

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How to Cool Down Using Psychology

How to Cool Down Using Psychology

Why might anyone want to learn how to cool down using psychology? ... Here in the UK, we are having our 4th official heatwave of the Summer. Summer heat can be tough to cope with if you are not used to dealing with it. When air conditioning isn’t available, many of us...

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Using ‘MicroActs’ of Joy to Boost Happiness

Using ‘MicroActs’ of Joy to Boost Happiness

Microacts of joy is my topic today. I have found in recent times both within my clinical practice, the classroom and as a parent and in life in general, people struggle more than ever to spend lengthy periods of time engaged in psychological exercises or skills that...

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