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How Good is Your Vagal Tone? 

How Good is Your Vagal Tone? 

Emotional regulation is often defined as your ability to modulate your experience and expression of positive and negative emotions in accordance with the ongoing situation. It’s key to healthy psychological functioning, as well as your ability to adapt to your...

What is the Point of Feeling Guilty?

What is the Point of Feeling Guilty?

The human psyche can experience a multitude of emotions. Some of these are those considered to be more basic, but others are more complex. Your basic emotions, such as fear or anger, carry messages, either for yourself or for other people. For example, fear tells you,...

Courage: Conquering Your Fear

Courage: Conquering Your Fear

“ Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear—not absence of fear, ” wrote Mark Twain in this novel Pudd’nhead Wilson. In other words, having courage isn’t about being fearless. It is about being able to overcome, control and manage your fear. What is fear?  Fear...

Stress and Memory

Stress and Memory

There you are, standing in front of the audience and you suddenly feel a wave of stress rise up inside you. An array of physiological sensations like a racing heart, sweaty palms and a churning in your stomach start to uncontrollably manifest themselves. And all...

Regret.  A Strategy for Change?

Regret. A Strategy for Change?

Regret. A strategy for change? If you look back over your life, do you have any regrets? Although many people try to leave their regrets behind, they often have a tendency to linger on. Maybe a decision you made which caused your life to temporarily take a turn for...

Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind

Can’t Get You Out Of My Mind

Last time, I reported research into resilience – what it is and what resilient people do in order to bounce back from adversity. On the one hand, it is about being able to accept failures, learn from them and try again. On the other it is about having a particular attitude that will allow perseverance even in the face of daunting challenges. Two specific examples from last time were that resilient individuals dealt with feedback in a certain way, and also that they interpret situations differently. Put together, resilience is a mind-set that shapes the way you see the world – it is full of achievable challenges that may take several attempts to overcome. (But they *will* be overcome…)

Climb Onto The Bandwagon! But Does It Have Wheels?

Climb Onto The Bandwagon! But Does It Have Wheels?

Resilience is a term that is used more and more these days. In these times of recession, stress and adversity we are told that we must develop resilience and that we must ‘future-proof’ our businesses to weather the storm.

Today and next time, I talk about future-proofing ourselves. But am I just peddling more snake-oil or is there truth (or *evidence*) that we can indeed develop resilience and be better able to deal with the slings and arrows that the world throws at us?

Emotional Intelligence; why all the fuss?

Emotional Intelligence; why all the fuss?

Popularised by Daniel Goleman Emotional Intelligence is continuing to take centre stage in many organisations. Goleman believes, based on much research, that EI is often the difference between a good leader and a great leader. Many organisations have, over the years,...

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