Happy holidays: stress less with mindfulness this Christmas
Happy holidays: stress less with mindfulness this Christmas. Christmas and the holidays are mostly feelgood times. At least the ideas behind them are positive, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t stressful. Clinical Neuropsychologist Dr Michael Takagi, says there’s plenty of evidence to show stress comes from happy occasions too: “Planning a wedding is a joyful, […]
Mindfulness and the Sunk Cost Bias
Understanding the Sunk-Cost Fallacy If you’ve ever persisted with a dead-end job, loveless relationship, or regrettable university degree, hoping it will somehow improve, or ‘chased your losses’ by doubling down, this article is for you, Mindfulness and the Sunk Cost Bias.
Stressed about your finances or your mortgage
Stressed about your finances or your mortgage. Financial Mindfulness was covered in Yahoo Finance If you’re experiencing financial stress, you’re dealing with two distinct issues: the money problems, and then the stress itself. While Headspace has rolled out meditations specifically to help tackle financial stress, a new app has gone one step further to try and […]
Power of Mindfulness over bad financial decision making
Power of Mindfulness over bad financial decision making. If you’ve ever persisted with a dead-end job or loveless relationship or a university degree you regret starting in the hope it will somehow improve, or ‘chased your losses’ by doubling down, you might want to pay attention. Maybe you’ve endured reading a novel you hated from the […]
Financial stress is widespread for Australians
Financial stress is widespread for Australians. Financial Mindfulness released its latest Financial Stress Survey and the results showed just how much damage financial stress is causing. The Sydney Morning Herald covered the story. Nearly one in three Australians is feeling financially stressed, with damaging effects on mental and physical health and social relationships. The CoreData/Financial […]
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 […]
Send yourself a valuable gift: get mindful
Send yourself a valuable gift: get mindful. Why do we spend money to feel good now, even if it’s clearly going to have negative consequences later? And why do we seem to make better decisions if they are planned and not impulsive? The answers are complex, but just so you really get the idea, first imagine […]
Why isn’t mindfulness working for me
Why isn’t mindfulness working for me. Mindfulness, in theory, sounds great. The deal seems to be roughly this: if I sit still and listen to my breathing for 10 minutes each day I will be calmer, certainly cooler, possibly richer and definitely an all-round better person. So how come it’s not working, you might ask, […]
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 […]