Simple, incremental changes are far more likely to result in a tangible shift than those high-velocity leaps that didn’t stick for the long term.
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Have you made a mistake today? If so, welcome to being human. Mistakes are an inevitable part of life. But what is the secret to learning from them and moving on quickly? In our rather punitive culture, we often head straight for self-recrimination. We berate ourselves, magnify the meaning of the mistake, or get stuck in replaying it in our minds. Researchers at Duke and Wake Forest Universities suggest, however, that the opposite approach – self-compassion – may be much more effective.
Read More...Learn to Respond, Not React
Learning to respond, not react, starts with noticing your body’s tension when you’re in a stressful situation. This is your cue to calm down before reacting or engaging in a manner likely to make things worse. In this post, I’ll step you through an exercise for reprocessing past situations so that you can then approach future stress with the calm and clarity essential for a constructive response.
Read More...Release Stress and Tension Through Simple Awareness
If you’re like most people, muscular tension is your body’s first signal that you’re experiencing a stressful situation. Can interrupt the stress cycle through simple awareness. In this post, I’ll explain how this works. I’ll also share a Harvard study that explains why it works.
Read More...What Can You Count on In a Crisis?
In a crisis, it’s far too easy to jump to conclusions or otherwise react impulsively. But in order to make wise decisions, it’s essential to stabilize yourself on the objective ground of reality, or facts, so your fear of uncertainty can’t run away with you. In this post, you’ll practice identifying the facts of a situation as distinct from your uncertainties, as well as how to begin embracing them…just for now.
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