New Blogs Now on Life Mentoring Website
New Blogs Now on Life Mentoring Website From now the blogs will only be published on Life Mentoring website www.lifementoringnz.com
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Resilience - 5 steps to Building Resilience
5 Steps To Building Resilience What is resilience Resilience is our degree of flexibility - how adaptable we are and how much we can bounce back - recover from setbacks - to a balanced state. Our reaction in the face of difficulties or unexpected circumstances is what exposes how much we let things affect us adversely. Resilience is a skill we can learn, defined by our outlook and response, which enables us to develop it. There are three types of resilience: Psychological resilience - this is our combined mental and emotional resilience. Physical - the resilience of our body Community - the collective resilience. Why do we need resilience? Resilience can be said to be our preparation against overwhelm. If we have resilience we can develop protective mechanisms. This means we are prepared especially for stressful times. We can use it to assist with our creation of balance in our lives. When a situation arises we are able to quickly manage it, adapt, bounce back and then grow ...
Purpose and Passion. Do we need to know ours?
P urpose and P assion . Do we need to know ours? What is purpose A purpose gives meaning and a point. It is the reason behind something. To do something on purpose is to do it consciously. We can make a conscious decision to find our purpose. W hen we are wondering what we are doing, why we are running round and round in circles, or why we are sitting there feeling that life is pointless we may be having a philosophical moment and wonder what our purpose is . If we have found our purpose then we have found or made a meaning from our existence. B ecause then there is a point and a focus. As humans we like to have meaning and we create meaning - purpose is one such meaning. Do we need to find our purpose Some people believe there is a point and a meaning behind our existence and we must fulfill that in order to maybe justify our existence. On this basis then, if we haven't found the reason behind our existence and fulfilled it, we hav...
Pre-conceived ideas, beliefs and the 5 step process for changing them
Pre-conceived ideas and beliefs - the 5 step process to changing them What is a belief? A belief or pre-conceived idea is a collection of thoughts around a subject, an event, a fact, an opinion . It can become a belief when we have persistent thoughts, or set of thoughts, that we keep thinking. It is not just the thoughts alone - it is the meaning we have given to them. It has been backed up by experiences and often biases to reinforce it. Then it has become a habit. We create preconceived ideas and beliefs in and about almost everything and they can be conscious or sub conscious, so we may not realise it is our view of something. When we come to recognise one of our beliefs (and make them conscious) we may well think it is a recognition of the truth. It is therefore OUR truth; s omething we believe to be true based upon life experiences or our outlook of the world. The belief is the way in which we have experienced life and because we believe it...