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5 Performance Psychology Tips for Doctors, Nurses & Other Medical Professionals
What can medical professionals learn from Sport, or Performance, Psychology? Just like in medicine, athletes need to be able to perform in high-pressure, time-sensitive, and high stakes environments. Doctors, nurses, surgeons, & other medical professionals have...
Relaxation Practices help with coping with COVID-19
Feeling the effects of isolation? Try a targeted relaxation practice to help ease anxiety and improve sleep Like most, I have found the physical isolation and social distancing occurring in light of COVID-19 a significant challenge. I don’t know anyone who has...
Control the Things You can Control – A Stoic’s Guide to 2020
What You Can Control At the start of this year, I started reading Ryan Holiday’s book, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living, and soon started journaling in the accompanying Daily Stoic Journal. There’s so much wisdom in Stoic...
Unifying the Mind and the Body with Aerial Therapeutics
“The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.”Gautama Buddha Wellness means nurturing not just the mind, but also the body. Too often, our culture atomises health into two separate categories: the mental and the...
Focus to Flow: Learn how to hone your attention
“The skilful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience” Once flow has been experienced, there is generally a high level of motivation to return to this state. Not only because when...
How to Find Flow in Yoga & Meditation
Yoga and meditation are noteworthy activities if we are interested in unlocking the door to experiencing flow. And even if yoga and meditation are not go-to activities for us, we can learn about processes that lead to flow through examining the relationship of yoga...
Creating Meaningful Intentions
With a new year often comes new year’s resolutions. Perhaps you’ve engaged in a detailed process of resolution-making, or perhaps you’ve resolved to NOT make any resolutions! Either way, the choice was motivated, and will influence the pathway you take going forward....
Perth Mindfulness Conference Recap
At the recently held Perth Mindfulness Conference, there was a rich and diverse program of presentations and workshops on mindfulness in today’s world. Timothea Goddard, Director of Openground and Mindfulness Training Institute Australia and New...
By Quietening the Mind, We Can Find the ‘Flow’ of Peak Performance
Recently, I had the enjoyable experience of speaking with CNN reporter, Alexandra Pattillo, about flow. The resulting story can be found here: The Flow of Peak Performance. I like the way the story highlights both the amazing accomplishments of athletes...
With welcoming in another year, you may have found yourself setting some new year’s resolutions and perhaps these involved exercising more? To get off to a great start to exercising in a way that will help you to sustain it in the long term, try unplugging from...