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Importance and Relevance of Zen Buddhism in Everyday Life

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Zen Buddhism – a school of Mahayana Buddhism – focuses on mindfulness, meditation, and direct experience to help individuals attain enlightenment or deep insight into the nature of reality. While its origins are rooted in ancient Asian traditions, Zen Buddhism holds considerable importance and relevance in everyday life for people worldwide. However, incorporating Zen principles …

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How Avoiding Emotions Effects Mental Wellbeing

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What is Experiential Avoidance Behaviour? Experiential avoidance is defined as when a person tries to escape the feelings of distress they experience through emotions, memories, thoughts, and physical sensations. The individual becomes resistant to staying with their feelings of discomfort and distress and will try to avoid their feelings of anxiety in an attempt to …

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Avoidant attachment and impact on relationships

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Understanding avoidant attachment: In an age when the value of human life is high, and humans are living longer than ever, afterwards, we find ourselves navigating the twist and certainly turns of long-term relationships never previously seen. Each relationship contains complex factors pertaining to and influencing communication, bringing together mini cultures, intergenerational experiences and individuality …

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Mental Fetigue

Mental Fatigue: Is your brain exhausted?

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Mental fatigue defined: Also known as mental exhaustion or burnout; it arises from prolonged stress – whether it comes from work, relationships, life events, or all of these. After you’ve been physically working for a while then your body may begin to feel tired and drained. Suppose you continually ignore the physical symptoms from overwork …

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Why is it so hard to talk about mental health issues? – Mental Health Stigma

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Mental health issues are very common in our modern-day society. Yet, many people are struggling to open up about their challenges and seek professional mental health support. One reason for this is the experience of toxic feelings such as guilt, shame, criticism, and self-blame for their symptoms. Other reasons are cultural and social beliefs and …

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Working with SOMATISATION in Arts Therapy

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What is SOMATISATION? Soma is a Greek word and means “the living body”. Integrating techniques on somatic awareness in Arts Therapy adds a significant dimension to verbal exploration. In the psychodynamic framework of Creative Arts Therapy, we explore somatisation to help enhance self-awareness, self-growth and develop insight. We gain greater insight into bodily experience as …

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Neuro-linguistic programming

Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP):  What is it?

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Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP): What is it? Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) was developed in the 1970s and even if you’re not familiar with the therapy itself, some of its practices have seeped into popular culture. Ever seen a TV show where the protagonist spots a liar because of their eye movements? Or when body-language experts advise you …

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The Unconscious Mind

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The Unconscious Mind   The Three Levels of Consciousness The concept of the three ‘levels’ of consciousness is attributed to Freud (1915) and is often depicted by an iceberg, with three layers representing each level, namely: The conscious mind, portrayed by the tip of the iceberg, the uppermost part above water that is easily visible …

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