Nov 29, 2016 Mental Health

A Quick Primer On Neurotransmitters

Using mindfulness and CBT, it's possible for us to change the way we react to stressful events and to essentially reprogram our stress response. Likewise, we can use this to improve our happiness, to get to sleep more easily and…

Nov 29, 2016 Mental Health

How Anxiolytics Work And Whether You Should Use Them

If you can control stress, calm your mind and avoid anxiety then you’ll find it has huge benefits for both your body and your mind. The stress response actually makes us stronger, faster and even smarter in the short term.…

Nov 28, 2016 Mental Health

The Basics Of CBT For Eliminating Stress

Whether you have normal levels of moderate anxiety, or you experience large amounts of stress leading to panic attacks and health problems, CBT is the number one tool for dealing with it. CBT stands for ‘cognitive behavioural therapy’ and is…

Nov 28, 2016 Mental Health

How To Control Anxiety During Stressful Moments

Imagine that you have an interview for a big job you want coming up. And imagine that said job interview is with someone very important and who has a reputation for being tough. In the build up to this event,…

Nov 27, 2016 Mental Health

What Is Meta Cognition

What is Meta Cognition? Meta cognition simply means thinking about thinking. This simply means being aware of how your thoughts work as well as being aware of what your thoughts are doing at any given time. This is split into…

Nov 27, 2016 Mental Health

What Is Mindfulness? And What It Is Not

Mindfulness is a tool that has become exceedingly popular recently. Only a few years ago the general public would not be familiar with the term, whereas today it's something we hear about all the time in a range of different…

Nov 26, 2016 Mental Health

Why Stress Is Really Bad For You

You’ve probably been told before that stress is really bad for you. It’s something that is constantly rammed down our throats and we’re constantly being reminded how stress can cause heart problems, cause weight gain and generally cause all manner…

Nov 26, 2016 Mental Health

Understanding How Stress Affects You And Why It Isn’t Always Bad

Most of us know it's no good to be stressed. We've heard that this is bad for our health and we know it can make us unhappy. But why exactly is this? What specifically is happening in the body and…

Nov 25, 2016 Mental Health

Why Stress Isn’t Always A Bad Thing

Why Stress Isn’t Always a Bad Thing – And How to Tap Into a Flow State Your brain releases a large number of hormones and neurotransmitters in response to your cognition. When you are in danger, this leads to the…

Nov 25, 2016 Mental Health

How To Use Mindfulness To Be Happier

Mindfulness can mean a great many things depending on who you ask. Essentially this is a tool and like any tool, it can be used in numerous different ways. Specifically, mindfulness can be used to change what we focus on…

Nov 24, 2016 Mental Health

How To Get Started With Meditation

Meditation has a huge number of incredible benefits – it decreases stress, it improves the memory, it aids mental calmness and much more. And on his podcast, author Tim Ferriss finds that the one thing that most of his high-performing…

Nov 24, 2016 Mental Health

How To Use CBT To Get To Sleep Easily

If you suffer with insomnia or otherwise find it hard to get to sleep, then you will find that this can have unpleasant and unwanted knock-on effects in every area of your life. Sleep is critical for our mood, our…

Nov 23, 2016 Mental Health

How To Use CBT To Change Your Life

Mindfulness is a type of meditation that encourages us to step back from what's going on in our minds and to learn to detach ourselves from it. We're not trying to silence our thoughts but rather we're trying to just…

Nov 23, 2016 Mental Health

How Martial Arts Use Mushin To Be At Peace And Unstoppable

If you’re looking to promote a calmer mind and a healthier body, then you could do a lot worse than trying martial arts. This might sound like a contradiction. After all, martial arts are all about fighting – and that…