Category: Mind Your Head

Sunrise

If you feel overwhelmed or stressed by trauma or hyper-sensitivity – stop, sit and breath deeply and concentrate on the breath or focus on something nearby – a sound, a plant, a cloud, the wallpaper, or think of something that pleases you, some music, any positive distraction, whatever will help you calm your thoughts
Emotional Hygiene

How to practice emotional hygiene | Guy Winch | TEDxLinnaeusUniversity • This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. We have medicine cabinets for common physical injuries like cuts and colds but no toolkits for common psychological injuries such as failure, rejection, guilt, and loss. In his inspirational…
The Theory of Beauty

TED collaborates with animator Andrew Park to illustrate Denis Dutton’s provocative theory on beauty — that art, music and other beautiful things, far from being simply “in the eye of the beholder,” are a core part of human nature with deep evolutionary origins. • Uploaded on YouTube Nov 16, 2010
Play with Particles

Play with your particles – A wee distraction from the rigidity of life – http://particle-love.com
Bad Friends

French teenagers on a boat on the Seine river, Paris 1988 – Photo: David Alan Harvey / Magnum Think of a time when you sat across from a friend and felt truly understood. Deeply known. Maybe you sensed how she was bringing out your ‘best self’, your cleverest observations and wittiest jokes. She encouraged…
Not too Positive

Photo by Eve Arnold / Magnum Source: Thinking positive is a surprisingly risky manoeuvre | Aeon Essays • Do you believe that positive thinking can help you achieve your goals? Many people today do. Pop psychology and the $12 billion self-help industry reinforce a widespread belief that positive thinking can improve our moods and lead…
Designing Your Life

Designing Your LifeAuthors Bill Burnett and Dave Evans discuss their new book (Designing Your Life), which shows you how to build–design–a life you can thrive in, at any age or stage. For more information: http://bit.ly/2bAjI1FDesign thinking can help us create a life that is both meaningful and fulfilling, regardless of who or where we are, what…
Easy Joy

Happiness is habit-forming Chade-Meng Tan, a former engineer, joined Google in 2000 as employee number 107. Though he played an instrumental role in building Google’s mobile search function, among other technological feats, he’s better known for the mindfulness classes he later led for employees. The role earned him the job title of Jolly Good Fellow…
The Power of Forgiveness

This week on the Science of Happiness, Julian looks into the selfish side of forgiveness. What do you think is in it for you? Watch and find out: http://youtu.be/8o9_TlZyB_Y Watch more episodes of Science of Happiness! http://bit.ly/ScienceofHappiness Read the study here: http://bit.ly/16k3PnE ▃ ▅ ▆ SUBSCRIBE to SoulPancake ▆ ▅ ▃ http://bitly.com/SoulPancakeSubscribe Created by: Mike…
Accept It!

Everyone is insecure about something. It’s not just you. 2. You will never be 100% sure about decisions you made. But always make a decision because it’s better to go back and fix it than to never make it at all. 3. There is always someone better than you. So there’s no point to compare.…