The Positive Habit Weekly Blog – 21st May, 2018 – Surrender to What Is

The Positive Habit Weekly Blog – 21st May, 2018 – Surrender to What Is

Dear Positive Habit People,

I hope as you read this you are fully present and give it your full attention.

“The secret of health for both body and mind is not to mourn the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live wisely and earnestly for the present.”

These are not my words, they are the Buddha’s but a lot of The Positive Habit online program focus on the ability to be present.

I am currently doing a series of free videos on mindfulness as part of my Positive Habit weekly video content and I encourage you to follow them for the coming weeks as they will form the central part of this blog. In this week’s video I look at  how mindfulness can lead to happiness even if it is not so easy for us to actually be mindful. I also touch on why being present is the springboard to self-generating positive emotions and how to cope with moments when we are challenged. In short, we need to learn to surrender to what is on our pathway to enlightenment.

Please do, as always, send me your feedback and questions; I am always happy to engage. 

I’m happy to report that these videos are really helping people so please do share with anyone you feel may benefit from some extra love and care.

The Positive Habit – Anxiety-Free, Stress-Free – Week 16
Surrender to What Is

Relax NOW Naturally: Easy Practices That Bring You Sanity, Calm and Less Stress in Minutes.

Relaxing the mind and body and finding true peace of mind as well as calmness in our hearts is so important for healing.

I’m participating in this and I’m excited to be able to invite you to join me and 20 other experts from all over the world for FREE!

In these interviews, you will:

 Breath easily & feel yourself relax immediately
 Be taken on a guided meditation
 Use 5 Steps every day for inner focusing
 Only you can say I AM
 Speak like a Buddha

And much, much more…..

Just click here to claim your FREE spot in Relax NOW Naturally!

surrender to what is

Social Anxiety affects 16.8% of Irish people. Social media is a place where people judge and compare themselves to others.

The Positive Habit self-therapy program builds true inner confidence and helps people to feel calm in any social situation whether at work or with friends.

This program helps people to face the world, both virtual and physical, with true self-belief. It costs €99.95 – a small investment in time and money given the true benefits it delivers.

Please take the Anxiety Test

To register for a 30-day, risk free, trial please click below. 30 Day Money Back Guarantee – 6 Months Access.

If you are in financial difficulties then please consider the bursary scheme. Our goal to help as many people as we can to feel calm,confident and in control.

Register Now!

The Positive Habit Weekly Blog – 14th May, 2018 – Darkness into Light

The Positive Habit Weekly Blog – 14th May, 2018 – Darkness into Light

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” 

Albert Einstein

Dear Positive Habit People,

I hope this email finds you well and happy.

On Saturday last over 200,000 people across Ireland and the world took part in the Pieta House “Darkness into the Light” 5k run/walk.  If you were one of these people, well done! The work Pieta house do for families affected by suicide and self-harm is so important that my heart lifted to see so many people take part.  My 10-year-old son, Luca was the first child to finish in our local event and I was so proud of him not just for his fitness levels but more for his desire to help those who suffer from severe mental health issues.

I believe we all have a duty to educate society and particularly our young people on the issue of mental health. Young people are among the most vulnerable and Ireland has the fourth highest rate of teenage suicide in the EU. The teenage years are a vulnerable time even for those with good mental health but if a young person suffers from depression or anxiety they are in a very high-risk group. On a neuroscientific level, the pre-frontal cortex, the part of the brain that is responsible for emotional intelligence and reasoning, isn’t fully developed until we reach the age of 25. In the teenage brain the connections between the emotional part of the brain and the decision-making centre are still developing but not necessarily at the same rate. That’s why when teenagers experience overwhelming emotions they often find it difficult to later express what they were thinking. The truth often is that they weren’t thinking as much as they were feeling. The problem with this is that when we feel too many negative emotions we will do anything we can to escape them.

On Saturday morning I came across a Tweet Bressie had posted of an interview on Today FM about a young girl, Milly Toumey, who at only 11 years old took her own life. This interview is heartbreaking to watch but the message of hope from Fiona, her mother, is one worth spreading. This harrowing interview also highlights that as a society we urgently need changes to the mental health system to be able to access the necessary services to help people before it is too late.

You can listen to the interview with Fiona Toumey here. I recommend you watch it – it is hard but really worth it.

Helping young people to release their feelings in a positive way is essential so take the opportunity to reach out and help in any way you can.

Please watch my latest video: “The Positive Habit, Stress-Free, Anxiety-Free – Week Fifteen – The Ark Technique for dealing with negative thoughts and anxiety. K is for Kindness.”

I’m happy to report that these videos are really helping people so please do share with anyone you feel may benefit from some extra love and care.

The Positive Habit – Anxiety-Free, Stress-Free – Week 15
The Ark Technique for dealing with negative thoughts and anxiety

darkness into light

Relax NOW Naturally: Easy Practices That Bring You Sanity, Calm and Less Stress in Minutes.

Relaxing the mind and body and finding true peace of mind as well as calmness in our hearts is so important for healing.

I’m participating in this and I’m excited to be able to invite you to join me and 20 other experts from all over the world for FREE!

In these interviews, you will:

 Breath easily & feel yourself relax immediately
 Be taken on a guided meditation
 Use 5 Steps every day for inner focusing
 Only you can say I AM
 Speak like a Buddha

And much, much more…..

Just click here to claim your FREE spot in Relax NOW Naturally!

darkness into light

Social Anxiety affects 16.8% of Irish people. Social media is a place where people judge and compare themselves to others.

The Positive Habit self-therapy program builds true inner confidence and helps people to feel calm in any social situation whether at work or with friends.

This program helps people to face the world, both virtual and physical, with true self-belief. It costs €99.95 – a small investment in time and money given the true benefits it delivers.

Please take the Anxiety Test

To register for a 30-day, risk free, trial please click below. 30 Day Money Back Guarantee – 6 Months Access.

If you are in financial difficulties then please consider the bursary scheme. Our goal to help as many people as we can to feel calm,confident and in control.

Register Now!

The Positive Habit Weekly Blog – 7th May, 2018 – a Walk Under the Blossom Trees

The Positive Habit Weekly Blog – 7th May, 2018 – a Walk Under the Blossom Trees

Dear Positive Habit People,

Happy bank holiday and I hope you are getting a chance to enjoy the glorious weather.

Last Thursday, having brought my son and his pals to the park and given that the weather was lovely, I decided to take a mindful walk under the many blossom trees. I gazed in awe at the beautiful cherry blossom which takes only one week to fully blossom after which it starts to shed and lasts only a few short weeks. Such beauty seems even more precious given its short life span.

As I walked, soaking in as much of the beauty as I could, I came across a young man, probably in his early twenties, poised at the side of the lake, shoes off, sitting underneath one of the magical trees, sitting upright with his legs crossed and deep in meditation. I could feel his calming energy radiate towards me so I decided to sit on a bench behind him and savour some peaceful moments for myself. As I opened my eyes a gentle gust of wind caused the tree to shed so many beautiful petals and my little buddha friend became surrounded by the gentle fall of pink and white leaves like confetti at a wedding. I spent the rest of the day radiating serenity although the best people to validate that are probably my family!

Today or one day this week, take a cherry blossom walk, appreciate and soak in their beauty while you can. Indeed your life is like the cherry blossom; it is precious and wonderful and in order to appreciate it you need to stop, take a moment and soak in all that you bring to the world.

Please watch my latest video: “The Positive Habit, Stress-Free, Anxiety-Free, Week Fourteen – The Ark Technique for dealing with negative thoughts and anxiety.” R is for Release

I’m happy to report that these videos are really helping people so please do share with anyone you feel may benefit from some extra love and care.

The Positive Habit – Anxiety-Free, Stress-Free – Week 14

“The Ark Technique for dealing with negative thoughts and anxiety.”

walk under the blossom trees

Social Anxiety affects 16.8% of Irish people. Social media is a place where people judge and compare themselves to others.

The Positive Habit self-therapy program builds true inner confidence and helps people to feel calm in any social situation whether at work or with friends.

This program helps people to face the world, both virtual and physical, with true self-belief. It costs €99.95 – a small investment in time and money given the true benefits it delivers.

Please take the Anxiety Test

To register for a 30-day, risk free, trial please click below. 30 Day Money Back Guarantee – 6 Months Access.

If you are in financial difficulties then please consider the bursary scheme. Our goal to help as many people as we can to feel calm,confident and in control.

Register Now!

The Positive Habit Weekly Blog – 30th April, 2018 – the Story of Things

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The Positive Habit Weekly Blog – 30th April, 2018 – the Story of Things

Dear Positive Habit People,

During the week I was in the bedroom of the 12-year-old daughter of one of my very good friends and I noticed these tiny dolls clothes that had been framed into three lovely pictures that hung on the wall.  When I asked my friend about their origin, she told me that her grandmother had made them for her dolls when she was a little girl. She had always treasured them and wanted her daughter to do the same, so for posterity, she framed them. Many years ago my mother did a similar thing and made me a toy dog from patches of old dresses she had made and no longer wore. Every time she looked at the toy dog she was reminded of the dresses and all of the memories associated with them.

I just love this, it is so ‘hygee‘, a Danish word that has no exact translation in English. This brings me to, ‘The Little Book of Hygee – The Danish way to Live Well,’ a book I have been dipping in and out of all week and can highly recommend as a way of injecting some simple, positive vibes into your life. One of hygee’s main principles is to connect with friends in an informal way, finding cosy spots in your life to enjoy the comforts of a warm blanket, a cup of tea and a good old natter.

The hygee manifesto, as outlined in the picture above, sums up both my friend’s lovely dolls’ clothes and my mum’s patchwork dog; both have a story to tell of loved ones and memories and remind us of what is truly important in life – the people we love and their stories.

“Hygge is about an atmosphere and an experience,” Wiking, the author explains, “it is about being with the people we love. A feeling of home. A feeling that we are safe.”

You know hygge when you feel it.

Have a lovely week and remember to spread some ‘hygge” by sharing this blog post.

Please watch my latest video: “The Positive Habit, Stress-Free, Anxiety-Free, Week Thirteen – The Ark Technique for dealing with negative thoughts and anxiety.”

I’m happy to report that these videos are really helping people so please do share with anyone you feel may benefit from some extra love and care.

The Positive Habit – Anxiety-Free, Stress-Free – Week 13

 

“The Ark Technique for dealing with negative thoughts and anxiety.”

The story of things

Social Anxiety affects 16.8% of Irish people. Social media is a place where people judge and compare themselves to others.

The Positive Habit self-therapy program builds true inner confidence and helps people to feel calm in any social situation whether at work or with friends.

This program helps people to face the world, both virtual and physical, with true self-belief. It takes 66 days and costs €99.95 – a small investment in time and money given the true benefits it delivers.

Please take the Anxiety Test

To register for a 30-day, risk free, trial please click below. 30 Day Money Back Guarantee – 6 Months Access.

If you are in financial difficulties then please consider the bursary scheme. Our goal to help as many people as we can to feel calm,confident and in control.

Register Now!

A Lust for Life – April 2018 – Social Anxiety

Social anxiety affects an estimated 16.8% of Irish people according to Social Anxiety Ireland. In my work, I see many clients who suffer from social anxiety. Often they appear to be ‘on the outside’, the most confident of people – yet they are crippled with the fear of ‘What will other people think?’

It is one of the most common phrases that I hear from all ages young to old, men and women. It could be a businesswoman with her own family, or a young guy just starting out in life. The outwardly confident clients that seem to have it all and by all accounts are ‘successful’ in the material world, in their work and social status can be crumbling behind the façade of a fake confidence. That is not to say you have to be seen as successful to experience social anxiety, but only to illustrate how it can affect even those we believe to be uber-confident….read more