Being Grateful: Counting Your Blessings

Do everything with your full attention, enjoy simple pleasures, make time for other people, count your blessings, nurture your dreams but don’t let them pull you out of the present, don’t let days slip by daydreaming about the future (appreciate the process as life unfolds), quit the ‘I’ll be happy whens. […]

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How to Appreciate: 6 Steps (learning a new language)

Count blessings: Be grateful for the things you DO have. Give thanks: Thank people for any small favours that they do for you. Look forward: No matter how bad things are today, life go on. Forgive: You can start by willing to forgive. “I’m not sure if I can, but I’m willing”. This can diffuse […]

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Morning Anxiety: 3 Step Solution

In the morning hormone cortisol levels are naturally highest. Cotisol is released in response to fear and stress by the adrenal glands. Also, low blood sugar levels can cause more symptoms of anxiety. Steps (2 minutes): 1. Negative log: get them out, release the fears. 2. Stretch and appreciation 3. Mirror questions Tip: Balancing – […]

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Mantra Meditation – The Why, the How, and the Methods | Live and Dare

“The mantra is like a password, a key, to a certain state of consciousness or universal principle you want to experience. Treat your mantra as sacred, as secret, and then its effects on your consciousness will go deeper.” Progress and Levels: Verbal recitation  Whispering Mental recitation Spontaneous listening Put cross hairs on the items of […]

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Resilience – 4 Stages

JCA Global has introduced a brand new set of tools to help your leaders and organisation become more resilient, all developed from our new model of resilience developed by Chief Psychologist, Jo Maddocks. JCA Global Resilience Model All too often individuals who perform effectively under normal circumstances will dramatically derail and underperform when outside of […]

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Mantra for Resiliency

“Whatever happens, I can deal with it.” When faced with unexpected adversity, changes and challenges, the conversation that you have with yourself calibrates your approach to dealing with the situation. A mantra is word, group of words, or sound believed to have psychological and spiritual powers. Mantra has been used for thousands of years. What […]

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Bad Habits – The Neuroscience

Learn to step into a powerful pause, and notice the sensation of the urge.  “Surf the urge, as it peaks, crests, and falls back down like a wave in the ocean.”  That good feeling from dopamine can unconsciously drives motivation to any bad habit.  It’s a conditioned response. One place to start is to just get […]

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System 1 – Decision Support

Unblock mind, like the river flows without hesitation. System 2 can reason out something with conscious verbal thinking, System 2, can handle variables, but world around us has infinite variables. Intuitive judgement. In the last you will go on hunch. System 1 can deliver you a descision without interrupting. Act without choosing. Can comprehend in […]

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