SELF-REGULATION
Your Mind…Its Not Only What You Think!
A key aspect of better communication and relationships relies on developing a better understanding our mind. For hundreds of years we have been taught to value and focus on our brain, and in many cases to ignore our heart or gut. This has clearly not been effective,...
Grounding and Mindfulness
What’s the Link Between Grounding and Mindfulness? Last time I shared some information about 9 specific qualities that have been shown scientifically to be enhanced by mindfulness practice. Here they are again: 1. Emotional Balance 2. The ability to pause before you...
Letting Go
As humans, when we set ourselves a new goal, we generally begin that journey with great enthusiasm. Over time the enthusiasm can begin to wane, and in many cases after a month or two the goal seems nothing more than a distant memory that became too hard or...
How Do You Do Anger?
What’s your relationship to anger? Is it something to avoid? Discourage? Suppress? For most of us, anger has not traditionally been met with a whole lot of empathy. As children, our anger may well have been painful for our parents or those around us, and as a result,...
Body Focusing
Body Focussing is an excellent way to begin tapping into the unique intelligence that our bodies hold. Our Body is like the ultimate biofeedback device, if we learn to listen to it. As we feel into the wisdom of our Body, we can notice how we are feeling at any given...
Feelings and Needs
An interesting study, by UCLA’s Matthew Lieberman (Matthew Lieberman et al., “Putting Feelings into Words: Affect Labelling Disrupts Amygdala Activity in Response to Affective Stimuli”, 2007), found that decreased activation of the amygdala occurs when feelings are...
Say Hello And Let It Go Members Only
Process: Check in with something you are trying to achieve in your life that is causing you frustration or the feeling of it being a long way off. Hold the thought of what you are trying to create in your mind. Allow this thought to drop down into your body and see...
Empathy – Summary of Article Members Only
Article: Empathy Still Lacking in Leaders Who Need It Most This article, in the HBR by Ernest J. Wilson III, lists the five critical attributes leaders today must have in order to succeed. He makes the case that empathy is the “attribute-prime” or...
Group Coherence Members Only
Achieving Collective Coherence: Group Effects on Heart Rate Variability Coherence and Heart Rhythm Synchronization, Steven M. Morris, PhD, 2010. This is a research article that examines whether a group of participants in high HRVC could facilitate higher...
Why the Heart is More Than A Pump – Summary Members Only
Why the Heart is More Than a Pump, Dr. Paul J. Rosch This article traces human perceptions over time of what the heart is. From the view that the heart is just a circulatory pump we move through to the inseparable nature of Mind, Body and Heart. The 2nd brain of the...
A Healthy Heart is Not a Metronome – Summary Members Only
A Healthy Heart Is Not A Metronome, Schaffer et al., Sep, 2014 This article explores the anatomy and physiology of the heart and brain connection. It explains how the heart itself has a complex system of neurons that make up a little brain network. The heart...
How Does Presence Help Us to Respond, Rather Than React?
As leaders, it’s vital to align our words, actions and energy with our personal and organisational goals. We need to develop the capacity to respond to situations or people from a place of our highest values – whenever humanly possible. However, sometimes we find...
Do You Fear Change?
It has been said that change is the only constant in life. In fact, Buddhism holds at it’s foundation that all of existence, without exception, is transient or in a constant state of flux. In our personal and professional lives, change gives us an enormous opportunity...