Wellbeing in lockdown
Everyday mental health is a more pressing issue than ever. Those of you who have been following Mindapples’ activities during the COVID-19 pandemic will know we’ve been putting more of our material into the public domain to get people talking about we can all do to look after our minds. (Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, […]
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How to recognise and manage our emotions.
Mindapples trainer Anna helps us all to notice when our emotions are getting in the way of us managing our responses and shares some top tips into how we can all keep our cool.
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Mindapple-a-day: Set personal goals
Mindapples trainer Amanda shares a mindapple about goal setting. Have you set yourself a target or a goal which helps you focus your mind?
Continue reading How to communicate with others whilst working remotely
Mindapples trainer Anna discusses how to communicate with others whilst working remotely. This video shares lots of top tips on how you can improve collaboration within a team and encourage better communication.
Continue reading Mindapple-a-day: Eating chocolate
Amanda shares one of Gitas five a day for her mind. Why is chocolate such a comfort? Robert Thayer talks about moods being a relationship between energy and tension, when we have high energy and low tension this is our ‘happy place’, or state of flow. Completing tasks feels easy, we’re motivated and in […]
Continue reading Mindapple-a-day: Calling friends on Zoom
Mindapples trainer Amanda shares Nigel’s mindapple, chatting to friends on zoom. Feeling related to other people is an important psychological need, the self-determination theory explains that relatedness is an absolute basic need in order to feel good. So although Nigel’s zoom call is ‘just for a chat’, he’s providing an absolute basic psychological need for […]
Continue reading Why we make mistakes under stress
Do you find yourself doing things when you’re stressed that you come to regret later? A 2012 study of behaviour under stress suggests that if we make decisions when we are stressed, we tend to focus on the rewards rather than the risks. This is because acute stress affects the way our brains consider pros […]
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One mind, two systems
In his award-winning 2011 book, Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman has popularised the ‘dual-systems’ theory of cognition, and we’ve found it a very useful concept for helping participants in our workplace training programmes to understand and manage their minds better. The central idea that we have two modes of cognitive thinking, an automatic, fast […]
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The surprising truth about what motivates us
What really motivates us? Employers have long assumed monetary rewards are key to incentivising their workforce, but the reality is more complex. Autonomy, mastery and a sense of purpose are often bigger motivators than simple financial incentives. In this RSA Animate, adapted from Dan Pink’s talk at the RSA (and his excellent book of the […]
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Other people actually reduce our stress levels
In an evolutionary context, stress can be crucial for survival, but in this day and age most humans get stressed for psychological reasons, that are often constant and lingering. When we’re stressed our body releases glucocortocoid hormones, which channel energy to our minds and take it away from basic maintenance functions. In the long term, […]
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