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Is life really all that bad?

Today I'd like to talk about how our perspective on things influences our mood and vice versa.

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In his letter from Birmingham Jail in 1963, after being arrested on the rather trumped up charge of marching without a permit,  Martin luther king wrote, amongst other things, this quote. he said "There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love" in other words, if you feel disappointed it's only because you care about something. 

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A lot of stress comes down to perception.
Perception of our abilities compared to the perception of the problem. If we don't  perceive we have the resources to achieve something, then it hampers our ability to think and concentrate and we feel like we're drowning. 

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You probably don't remember it, but your teenage years were probably a bit rubbish a lot of the time. If you have children now yourself you might find that you need to work a bit harder at remembering what it was like in order to understand them.

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Myth busting today. 

Following on a little from the episode the other week on introversion. Today is about the opposite end of the scale.

Or is it?

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Psychometric tests like Myers-Briggs have been around for a hundred years, but are they actually of any use to us?
Do these labels actually offer any advice?
All these questions and more in today's instalment!

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Emotions are part of what it is to be human, but not everyone finds them safe or easy. Today I want to talk you through a simple technique that has been shown to help turn the volume down on the overwhelm that emotions can sometimes bring.

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Often people will talk about the need to disappear away for a bit to "find themselves" when actually they already knew where they were they just didn't "know" themselves.
Well, maybe we don't need to climb a mountain or hide in a retreat for a week to do this. Maybe we can get to really know ourselves a little bit more every day until we're fully clued up.

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Procrastination is both doing something and not doing something at the same time.

It's a voluntary, yet irrational, delay of an intended action and is a devil on many people's shoulders nudging them towards doing something else instead.

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Why, when we feel emotion, would we need to leak water out of our face?
It doesn't seem to be particularly beneficial does it?
Today I explore some of the research into it and share some techniques to help us gain some control over our leaky faces.

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