Mindset Transfomation
13
May
Mental Filtering – Are you “seeing” your glass half empty ?
Mental Filtering is a cognitive distortion that causes us to think negatively. Having a mental filter means appraising an experience by...
02
May
A Reactive Mindset is Dysfunctional
A person with a Reactive Mindset acts only as a response to other people’s actions, or in response to their environment and less from t...
29
Apr
Thinking In Grey – An Antidote to Black and White Thinking !
Thinking in “shades of grey” is a cognitive re-framing technique where we make a conscious effort to stop subscribing to black and whit...
25
Apr
Black & White Thinking – A Cognitive Distortion
What are the most common words that come up in your self-talk? Is it words like – never, everyone, nobody, everything that come up regu...
02
Apr
Catastrophizing – A Cognitive Distortion
Catastrophizing is a distortion in which the brain exaggerates the meaning, the importance or likelihood of negative life events. The s...
12
Mar
Negativity Bias – What is it ? How to Overcome it ?
In his book “Buddha’s brain”, neuroscientist and psychologist Rick Hanson details the origin of the negativity bias. He describes how o...
16
Jan
Uninvolved Parenting & Its Negative Impacts
Do you recall your parent not spending much time with you when you were a child?Do you have memories of your parent ignoring your attem...
16
Jan
Cognitive Distortions – Unhealthy Ways of Thinking
Your emotions, reactions and actions all reflect your thinking. Everything that you feel in any situation is an outcome of how you’re t...
05
Jan
The Detrimental Effects of Unhealthy Parenting
Do you struggle with Low self-esteem?Do you behave overly shy around others?Do you have difficulty in social settings due to a lack of ...
16
Nov
Burnout : What is it and how to identify the signs ?
Burnout can happen to anyone who is routinely exposed to high levels of stress whether work related or not. When experiencing Burnout p...