Just five minutes of exercise in a “green space” such as a park can boost mental health, researchers claim.
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The creative imagination is a powerful tool for personal growth. It can be used to form an ideal model, concept, or image of oneself which provides energy and direction, and which is capable of being expressed outwardly in the world. Forming an ideal model means creating a realistic, and attainable self image which includes, or [...]
1. Close your eyes and become conscious of your physical sensations, the sounds you hear, your breathing, sensations of hot and cold, tension and relaxation. Notice that these sensations come and go in your awareness. Then ask yourself, “Who is aware? Who am I who remains among this change, who is somehow distinct-but-not-separate from this [...]
This exercise is best done as the last thing in the day. Just before going to sleep, review your day in your mind, playing it back like a movie, only backwards: begin with where you are right now, then the late evening, then the early evening, then the dinner hour, the afternoon, and so on [...]
First of all, as best you can, bring attention right into your hands, whatever position they are in at this moment, without looking at them. Allow your awareness to fill your hands from inside to outside, from the bones right out to the skin itself and the fingernails. Open in awareness to any and all [...]
This exercise is designed to help you develop self-awareness and to discover your true self. It is based on the assumption that each of us, like an onion, has various layers covering a central core. These layers of self perceptions may be positive or negative. They represent different aspects of our personality and of our [...]
Make yourself comfortable, take a few deep breaths and allow yourself to become as calm as possible. Imagine a single atom. See the nucleus and the electrons spinning around it. Take some time to really imagine this atom in your mind’s eye. Now imagine this atom combines with another atom, then several more atoms until [...]
I have a body and I am more than my body. I have feelings and I am more than my feelings. I have desires and I am more than my desires. I have a mind and I am more than my mind. I have roles and I am more than my roles. I am. I [...]
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