The World Happiness Report 2024 and the Pursuit
In a world often measured by material wealth and economic prosperity, the pursuit of happiness stands as an enduring quest, transcending boundaries of geography and culture.
Easy ways to know about Financial Stress and Mental Health
Easy ways to know about Financial Stress and Mental Health are right here.
The 10 biggest barriers to peace of mind in 2021
Call it what you will, peace of mind, inner peace, sanity, contentment, serenity – that feeling of freedom from when your brain just won’t shut up and in bad moments you feel only marginally less negative about the world and others than you do about yourself. In a world full of fear about the pandemic, […]
Financial stress behind mental health insurance claim spikes
Financial stress behind mental health insurance claim spikes. New research reveals that financial stress is a hidden mental health trigger for Australians to submit insurance claims, part of a trend alarming the life insurance industry. The financial stress burden faced by Australians is, according to analysis by Rice Warner, a major factor in the escalating […]
Financial stress devastating Australians
Financial stress devastating Australians, close to 1 in 3 Australians suffer from significant financial stress, which has for the first time been comprehensively examined in new research by CoreData. The results show financial stress leads to anti-social behaviour, relationship conflict and breakdown, isolation, sleep loss and symptoms of depression. Most of us are aware of […]
Mindfulness practice reduces time off work for anxiety sufferers
Mindfulness practice reduces time off work for anxiety sufferers. Working with someone who is extremely anxious isn’t always fun, but it’s worth remembering stress hits everyone, including us. Anxiety disorders are by some measures the most common mental health issues in the western world, even more common than depression. Previously research has shown sufferers of […]
Mindfulness could complement CBT interventions for depression
Mindfulness could complement CBT interventions for depression. Anyone who has been truly depressed understands how vast the difference is between knowing it’s helpful to talk to people and regularly being able to connect with others. Depression, and its nagging stablemate, anxiety, often render a person so exhausted and full of self-doubt that it feels impossible to […]
How mindfulness helped a bunch of chronically anxious worriers
How mindfulness helped a bunch of chronically anxious worriers. Time magazine recently ran an article with the headline ‘how mindfulness helps you handle stress better’. So what you ask? Sounds like every second story spruiking mindfulness as a wonder cure these days, right? Except that the article is about research done by someone who wanted […]
Good mental health a much bigger factor in happiness than money
Good mental health a much bigger factor in happiness than money. Earlier this week Norway was named the happiest nation on earth, by the United Nations researchers, just ahead of Denmark. Northern European countries dominated, with Iceland, Finland, the Netherlands and Sweden also in the top 10; perhaps there really is something to the saying […]