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I will during August 2018 post a daily reflection and/or activity to inspire increased wellbeing:
Mondays: life goals and reflections
Tuesdays: performance, stress and exhaustion
Wednesdays: rest and mindfulness
Thursdays: anxiety and depressive mood – importance of thoughts and behaviours
Fridays: selfesteem and selfimage
Saturdays: Feelings
Sundays: rest and celebration
Another important part of this day is to access your creativity. Creativity feeds the feelings interest and joy and hence increase positive emotions which often also increase wellbeing. It is also a mindful activity where the essence is being in the here and now. Creative activities can also impact how you view yourself as well…
Another extremely important exercise to improve your self-worth and self-esteem is reading aloud your list of your 10 positive traits (see last week’s exercise) to yourself. In therapy, there are important healing phenomena such as mirroring and validation, when one is feeling understood and seen, e.g. by regard and affirmations from another human being. You…
This post is about the third of the 3 important building blocks of stress management: 1) regulate you stress level 2) handle stress sources and 3) use stress management habits. Stress Management Habits: 1) Stress-proof your daily life 1 Use the stress-scale, see separate post under stress on www.jennyrapp.com 2 Identify early warning signs such…
You have heard it before, but one of the absolute best way of handling stress short and long run in addition to recovery activities, see last week’s post, is exercise. Research has shown that both aerobic exercises, like walking, running, swimming and biking, and building muscles, as in strength training but also work around the…
This post “Increase your self-esteem by standing up against the inner critic” continues with how you can increase your self-esteem by listening to your feelings and heal self-destructive shame. Increase your self-esteem by standing up against the inner critic: One way of reducing self-critical shame is to become more self-compassionate. Last post was about…
Mindfulness is often described as the ability to be attentive to the present moment as it unfolds in a curious, non-judgmental and accepting manner. Try it now: Use one minute to explore what you see around you: which colours, nuances, surfaces etc. Then alternate to describe the content of your thoughts: “Right now I am…