An offer from insium for your wellbeing! Newsletter January 2016 Featured
Written by geoff Wednesday, 27 January 2016 00:00
We're at the end of January and I hope you've had a great start to 2016 ... however you define great!
This great start may have been serendipitous for you or may have been planned. We know that if we plan and have goals, we are more likely to achieve these and celebrate success ... however success is defined for you.
So what plans and goals do you have for your success in 2016?
The start of a new year often sees people considering what lies ahead for the upcoming 12 months. At insium, we'd like to see people consider their own well-being and how they can look after "self" in 2016. With this in mind, we'd like to share some Wellbeing apps (available on both iOS and Android) that we find useful:
- Values Ink helps identify values; if we live to values we are more aligned, authentic and hence, more resilient
- Buddhify 2: this is a quite targeted mindfulness app
- Mood Meter: helps identify emotions, thereby building emotional vocabulary which helps in emotional management
- Smiling Mind: a meditation app
Check them out - we hope that they may be of use to you.
Santa's helpers are another twelve months older!
We wish you all the best for a successful and fun-filled 2016.
Dina & Geoff
This year, insium chooses to make a donation to the Lort Smith Animal Hospital. Lort Smith is the largest not-for-profit animal hospital in Australia with over 60 vets and 80 nurses. Built on its current site in North Melbourne in 1936, its founder Louisa Lort Smith was passionately committed to caring for the animals of poor and disadvantaged people. The hospital has 11 wards including an Exotic and Native Wildlife Unit. Its Adoption Centre cares for animals undergoing medical treatment and also provides shelter, adoption and fostering services for abandoned and relinquished animals.
Gratitude: What went well today …
Every night, for 1 week, before you go to sleep, write down 3 things that went well that day and why they went well (and the writing down is important; whether in a journal/on laptop/other). These things don't have to be earth-shattering - may be as simple as "my partner cooked my favourite meal tonight"; or may be as important as "my sister had a baby today." The writing of why the instances went well is important too and may be as simple as "I happened to be talking to my partner about dinner and my favourite food" or "my partner is thoughtful and looks out for me."
Writing about positive events will help maintain positive mood; it will make you happier ... and you might even like doing this exercise!
Adapted from “Flourish,” by Martin E.P. Seligman
Unconditional positive regard is primarily associated with Carl Rogers (1902 – 1987), American psychologist and one of the founders of the humanistic approach/client-centred approach to psychology. Rogers believed that unconditional positive regard is essential to healthy development.
It is:
About valuing a person as doing their best; about respecting that person
Basic acceptance and support of a person regardless of what he says or does (as long as it does not cause harm)
The belief that everyone has the potential to improve, to change
Consciously seeking to find the best in others
It does not mean:
You need to like the person nor approve of what they do
You just smile and nod
“Just putting up with him”
Unconditional positive regard:
Provides the best possible conditions for personal growth
Needs to be genuine … “if you are not genuine, your conditional regard will always leak out”
Brings out the best in others and the best in self
Adapted from the work of Carl Rogers, David Myers, Alex Lickerman, Stephen Joseph