Using meditation to cultivate equanimity can enable one to manage unpleasant or unwanted emotions in a way that reduces their impact. Yesterday I recorded an episode of the podcast, Enhance Your Life with Nonie Carr, on this topic. Listen to the podcast on this topic on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Sticher or wherever you listen to …
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The elephant in the room… it’s that thing everyone knows is there but is ignoring. As we ignore the elephant it becomes more and more obvious. It starts to take up more room than you’d like it to. This metaphor has been going around my head since I used it with a client who has …
Enhance Life Psychology will be closed from 21 December. We will be reopening on Monday 7 January. The email and phone will not be attended in this time. You are welcome to leave a message, but emails are preferred. Emails will be monitored, but will be responded to when the practice reopens. To make an …
Yes, this post is a little late. But if you are following Enhance Life Psychology on Instagram (see the link at the bottom of the page) you would have seen that I was very active on October 10. I posted a series of 10 tips on how to enhance your mental health and how you …
Wasn’t the weekend wonderful? And isn’t next weekend going to just as good… especially given we get an extra day in Melbourne?! But what about now? What about this moment you’re living right now? Sometimes we get caught up in reminiscing, looking back or looking forward. We might sometimes forget to focus on what is …
This is a collection of videos from the Enhance Life Psychology Facebook and Instagram accounts. I thought I’d collect them here into one blog post for those who might have missed them on social media. A Little Gratitude… I spoke about gratitude and gave an example of how you could express gratitude by referring to …
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Mindfulness can be difficult sometimes, but know that you can find these moments anywhere. I needed to take a break from sitting at my desk so I took myself for an afternoon bike ride. I eventually found myself down at Princes Pier in Port Melbourne. I recorded a short video during a moment of mindfulness… …
Do you struggle with an unhelpful internal monologue? Do you often catch yourself telling yourself that you’re just not good enough, or can’t do ‘that’, or will never do ‘that’? I wonder if practising kindness and compassion towards others might help you to learn to be kind and compassionate with yourself. Kindness is an act …
What is mindfulness? A growing body of evidence suggests that the practice of mindfulness, which originates from Buddhist methodologies, may improve both mental and physical health, and could improve our overall state of mind and wellbeing when managing stressful situations. Here are 5 facts about mindfulness. (Click the link to see the infographic in PDF form.) …
Do you know what mindfulness is? Here’s a short video that explains what mindfulness is. I’ve also shared it on the Enhance Life Psychology Facebook page. I will post a transcription on the content over the next few days.