Learn how to ‘deal’ with our minds.

Although we ‘carry’ our minds everywhere with us, there is virtually no education on how to deal with it when it becomes negative, unhelpful or destructive.  Being told to ‘Focus on the Positives’ seems trite and doesn’t really help.  

Providing participants with a ‘Manual for the Mind’ and teaching them how to understand and improve what ‘goes on between their two ears’ will have a very significant and positive impact on their lives. It will provide skills they can apply anywhere.

Identify areas of concern

Many people would readily agree that they have at times ‘a monkey loose in the attic’. It seems free to create mayhem, whenever it likes. For many of us this can take the form of a busy mind that we find hard to calm. For others it can be persistent unhelpful or destructive self-talk, or a constant barrage of ‘problems’ that need to be solved. As a result, there is rarely any peace and fatigue, worry and insomnia are common.

Possible results: Anxiety, depression, stress, low energy, low self-esteem, self-harming, aggression, even suicide.

Common ‘solutions’:

1.       Take medication. For a rare few this works, for many it doesn’t. For nearly all, other solutions are co-required. Finding suitable solutions that ‘fit’ or actually help, seems difficult for many.
2.       Distract the mind by getting ‘lost’ in books, social media, gaming, shopping, movies, TV, etc.
3.       Make more noise than the mind (or drown it out) by: excessive alcohol consumption, drugs, gambling, base jumping, extreme sports, and other even more negative behaviours.

The real solution:

Understand the role current ‘solutions’ play. Then add other more helpful ones. For most this will include learning to actually understand and quieten the mind through some specifically adapted techniques of CBT, ACT and Mindfulness.

Focus our Mind

Much of the enjoyment, achievement and satisfaction we gain in life is determined by the state of our mind. The state of our minds often determines our how we feel, which in turn can drive our behaviour choices. For example, anger may drive poor choices. Depression makes positive choices more difficult. Anxiety often results in avoidance. Lack of energy makes life in general more challenging.  

Learning how to challenge, focus and calm the mind will easily be the most liberating tools everybody can learn to create a better life. Benefits will be obvious both at work and at home.