The benefits of meditation
Meditation has so many benefits for mind, body and spirit – much more than stress relief. You can do it almost anywhere. It simply involves focusing your awareness on something. A sound, your breath, walking, a candle or even a mantra. Different types resonate with…
Digital wellbeing
The most important thing to remember about technology is that it is there to improve your life and not take away from it. Your life is at the centre. Technology has transformed all of our lives in so many positive ways but with that has…
How to take care of your wellbeing in times of uncertainty?
Uncertainty is in the air. So much of what is happening around us is unclear. Brexit has most of us confused. What happens after Brexit in Ireland, Britain and the EU? The nurses strike and where is that going? The next election ? So many…
The wellbeing wheel
Our wellbeing works likes a wheel with different areas of our life and the various wellbeing pillars acting as the spokes. If any area is out of balance, life won’t flow and we won’t feel right in ourselves. The different wellbeing pillars are: physical, mental,…
Bullying at work
Many things can deeply affect our wellbeing, our sense of self, freedom and who we are every day. Bullying is one of those things. It can affect anyone and happen almost anywhere – in the playground, at school, work, in your social or sports club,…
Technology and your wellbeing – Help or hindrance
‘A 2018 survey from the Chartered Institute for Personnel and Development found that 74% of HR professionals see the positives of technology because of the flexibility it provides staff. However, 87% said that this technology has created an environment where we struggle to switch off’….
The cost of procrastination
Procrastination is the action of avoiding delaying or postponing something that needs to be accomplished. It is a habitual and intentional delay of starting or completing a task despite negative consequences. So many of us are masters of it in at least some area (or areas) of our…
Building confidence
Confidence is defined as a feeling or belief that one can have faith in or rely on someone or something. When we have confidence in ourselves we can rely on ourselves to be who we want to be and be our best and true self…
Closing well prepares you to start well
It is four weeks to Christmas and five to New Year’s Day. For much of my life, I hit a major slump sometime between December 20th and January 1st for a few days. I would look back on my year and feel I should be…
Posture
When we are young we often get reminded by parents and teachers to ‘sit up straight’. While it can be irritating to hear, this is a very important message. The benefits of good posture are immense and the costs of bad posture are high. Having…