Today’s post is about the driving forces behind these emotions and how they can contribute to stress and exhaustion. There are many factors that make exhausted persons easily become too active when they are trying to heal their stress injuries. This can delay the healing process and prolong the suffering. In earlier posts…
Last week’s post introduced the anxiety inducing pattern cognitive distortions, also called thought traps. These are ways of thinking that seem true but are in fact not reasonable, realistic or relevant to the situation. Noticing when we are using thought traps and countering them is an important part of traditional CBT-exercises that can reduce…
Merry Christmas to all of you celebrating today. For many, this day is about giving. Yesterday was about considering to take 5 minutes to think about what you can give yourself, both symbolically and as a promise of a new mindset and behavior to start make important changes in your life. It can…
It is important to give yourself a reward for each achieved interim goal and a big reward when the big goal is achieved. Often we forget to celebrate and acknowledge what we have achieved, especially if we have not yet completed every single dimension as we had imagined. Instead, we are often far too…
Here are some final comments before leaving the concept of flow, a key we can actively get more of in our daily life leading to more joy as well as increased self-esteem. Positive psychology is a direction within psychology that focuses on how we can stimulate the presence and frequency of positive emotions, such…
Self-efficacy, our beliefs about our capability to perform a specific activity, can be influenced and impacts our well-being and self-esteem. There are many adaptive benefits of optimistic self-beliefs of efficacy. When it comes to mental health, a study has shown that even those with no clinical level of symptoms and distress distorts reality, but…
This post continues on possible problems, bumps in the road, that can occur and how to try to avoid them when you have started to take your identified actions to move in your desired direction. Last week was about the critical importance of a fixed time of the week AND the month – potentially…
The main thesis of Csikszentmihalyi’s flow-concept is that happiness is not a state but can be developed through learning how to achieve flow in our lives. He describes it as: “…a state in which people are so involved in an activity that nothing else seems to matter; the experience is so enjoyable that people will continue…
Monday – Life goals: Now we have first during several sessions uncovered the way behind you that contributed to and affected the symptoms and related problems you have today as well as gone through how to create goals that are SMART to help you set and achieve motivating goals which can kick-start you towards your…
Remember from the last posts, mindfulness is the ability to be fully present in the current moment and activity, being aware of where we are and what we are doing, but not overly responsive or overwhelmed by what is going on around us. This post continues about being mindful with regard to thoughts, which…