Immersion Days
I love immersion days. These are days when I focus on just one type of experience, project, or aspect of life for pretty much the whole day.
Immersion days can be personal or professional. Here are some examples:
A day of decluttering or cleaningA day at DisneylandA workshop day, either presenting one or attending oneA day outside in natureA day running errandsA day of studying, learning, reading, or taking online coursesA day of learning new recipes and cooking up a stormA day of changing a room’s configuration, like setting up a video studioA day of writing, editing, recording, and publishing new materialA da...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
Homeless health innovation funding programme: evaluation report
The Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) - The Homeless Health programme is a national network of nurses and allied health professionals focused on improving practice, developing guidance documents, and holding conferences and workshops. The QNI commissioned this evaluation to describe and analyse some of the key outcomes of the projects, during and after the project year, and to evaluate the role and impact of the QNI in supporting them to deliver on their specific objectives.ReportMore detail (Source: Health Management Specialist Library)
Source: Health Management Specialist Library - August 12, 2020 Category: UK Health Authors: The King ' s Fund Library Tags: Local authorities, public health and health inequalities Source Type: blogs
Training and Performance
In many jobs your working hours are performance hours. You’re expected to do the work that creates value. If you’re a programmer, you get paid to program. If you’re a lawyer, you get paid to help people solve legal problems.
But in some jobs, performance is just a small slice of paid time on the job.
Consider a professional basketball player, for instance. The performance time is during competitive games with other teams. Game time performance is what creates the value for the franchise, the fans, the sponsors, and the other stakeholders.
But for the athletes, most of the time on the job isn̵...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Source Type: blogs
Your #1 Priority May Lead You Astray
While it’s good to set goals and establish priorities, there’s a risk when you become myopically focused on a single outcome.
Single mindedness can be okay for a while if you’re progressing nicely, but if you’ve gotten stuck and the needle isn’t moving, this stuckness can prevent you from making progress in any area of life. And that can really make you feel trapped or stagnant.
Have you ever seen the following issues in yourself or someone else?
Still needing to lose weight being used as an excuse not to invest in social life or relationshipsLong-term troubles with financial scarcity...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - August 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Health Productivity Source Type: blogs
How Exercise Affects Your Mood?
"It is exercise alone that supports the spirits, and keeps the mind in vigour."- Marcus Tullius Cicero
What is wellbeing?
Wellbeing is defined as ‘a positive physical, social and mental state’.
In this article, we are focusing on mental wellbeing. Mental wellbeing does not have a single universal definition, but it does encompass several factors such as:
The sense of feeling good about ourselves and being able to function well individually and/or even in relationshipsThe ability to deal with the ups and downs of life, such as coping with various challenges and making the most of such opportunitiesThe feelin...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - August 5, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Trishna Patnaik Tags: featured health and fitness motivation philosophy self-improvement exercise improve your mood pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
I ’ve Kept an Expressive Writing Journal for 4 Decades — Here’s Why
This week, at the end of an online poetry class, our on-screen instructor asked, “Why do you write?” Then, she added: “In writing, what is your greater purpose?”
Now, I’ve been writing for myself and for publication since the mid 1970s. And, over the years, as I teach or lead narrative writing workshops, I’m sure I’ve posed that why-do-you-write question to my own writing students. But, shame on me, I had never really posed the question to myself.
Truthfully, for the rest of that day, as I tended to my usual work and deadlines, the instructor’s question niggled at me. Then, next morning, instead of penn...
Source: World of Psychology - July 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Aine Greaney Tags: Creativity Habits Personal Self-Help benefits of writing Journaling Source Type: blogs
When Reality Declines Your Offer
I made some offers to reality this year that it declined. My declined offers included planned trips to Portland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Milwaukee, Chicago, and Costa Rica. If the original plans held up, Rachelle and I would be embarking on about 30 days of travel starting later this month, including two wonderful multi-day events with different groups of friends, lots of touristy activities, probably an Irish excursion, and our first time at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Additionally I intended to do an all new public workshop in Las Vegas in October, perhaps even a Halloween-overlapping one like we did in 2010. And ...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - July 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Creating Reality Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Psych Central Turns 25 This Year
It’s Psych Central’s 25th anniversary! In today’s show, we celebrate the Internet’s largest and oldest independent mental health site with founder Dr. John Grohol. Just a few years after the World Wide Web became public domain, Dr. Grohol was inspired to create an online resource for everyone — a site where patients, clinicians and caregivers could come together to access and share valuable mental health and psychology information.
Join us as Gabe and Dr. Grohol talk about the past, present and future of Psych Central.
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Source: World of Psychology - July 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: The Psych Central Podcast Tags: General Interview Podcast The Psych Central Show Source Type: blogs
Milestones Of Digital Health: Infographic About Its Timeline
“If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going.” Maya Angelou is totally right. And exactly that is why we have created this timeline of digital health milestones. It contains the most important events from its history, coming to where we are at this very moment, and it aims to set ground for the next level of innovation.
Technological development, especially on the IT-side, has also launched a consumerist movement in healthcare in the late 20th century. Then, as tech became more user-friendly, it fell into the hands of the average patient. It is now amaz...
Source: The Medical Futurist - July 9, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: Judit Kuszkó Tags: Artificial Intelligence E-Patients Future of Pharma Healthcare Design Healthcare Policy Medical Education fda infographics AMA Tom Ferguson PatientsIncluded Lucien Engelen BMJ Patient Panel Source Type: blogs
Podcast: Religion ’ s Role in Mental Illness Treatment
Does religion help or harm people with severe mental illness? In today’s Not Crazy podcast, Gabe and Lisa welcome Rachel Star Wither, host of the Inside Schizophrenia podcast, to discuss religion’s role (or lack thereof) in treating those struggling with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder. Rachel relates her personal experiences of mixing religion with her illness and shares how she currently manages to believe in God while keeping her faith “separate” from her symptoms.
Tune in for a deep discussion on religion and severe mental illness, including Rachel’s 3-day exorcism experience at age 17.
(Transcript Ava...
Source: World of Psychology - July 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: Disorders General Interview Not Crazy Podcast Schizophrenia Spirituality Source Type: blogs
Rise of the Introvert and Fall of the Extrovert in the current COVID ’ 19 crisis
How many times have you felt the need, the urge, and the desire to just sleep on your bed and keep looking at the ceiling? Then stare at the fan while working through your nails.
Just stay indoors for hours with the TV remote in your hand and keep glancing at the TV screen as you flip through channels without a rational reason as if something will magically emerge from it.
Have only one or two people to confide to and discuss your problems as that is how you see life as a problem and others should solve that problem for you….
When have you last had a conversation with a stranger without putting your head down an...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - July 3, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Trishna Patnaik Tags: featured psychology relationships self-improvement covid covid_19 extrovert introvert pickthebrain Source Type: blogs
Help Us Strengthen Rigor of Animal Research: Public Feedback Requested
Ever figured out a clever solution to a vexing challenge that affected
the rigor of your work with laboratory animals, and then thought that those solutions
could improve the quality and transparency of animal research supported across
NIH? Recently found yourself at virtual lab meetings brainstorming ways to
facilitate translating the findings from your animal study to human biology and
disease? Questioned the status quo on how the research culture drives the
choice of animal models and the design of experiments? Well, we want to know
more.
We recently released a Request for Information (RFI) aimed at enhancing rigor, ...
Source: NIH Extramural Nexus: Rock Talk Blog - June 23, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Mike Lauer Tags: blog Open Mike Animal Welfare Request For Information (RFI) Source Type: blogs
Tears and Growth — in Feldenkrais and Psychotherapy
Nothing is permanent about our behavior patterns except our belief that they are so. – Moshé Feldenkrais
I learned about the Feldenkrais method at a two-day workshop at the Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California, in the mid-1970s. A hot spot for the human potential movement, Esalen featured nude soaking in co-ed hot tubs near a row of outdoor massage tables at which naked masseuses kneaded naked bodies. Also, mixed-gender volleyball games where everyone was, yes, naked.
In this seemingly “anything goes” environment, about twenty-five of us spent the better part of two days in comfortable clothes, lying...
Source: World of Psychology - June 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Marcia Naomi Berger, MSW, LCSW Tags: Personal Treatment Feldenkrais method Source Type: blogs
Socially Dominant Narratives
Probably because of my past, I tend to be suspicious of socially dominant narratives. When I see popular stories telling me how life is or how it’s supposed to be, I often question them.
I’m sure this is because I’ve been badly duped by such narratives before. Being raised inside a religion was a real ringer, and it took a serious effort to escape that bubble of falsehoods. Then there were false beliefs about how the world of business is supposed to work (not the same as how it actually does work). And there were more belief traps about relationships.
Sometimes I feel like my life has been a process...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - June 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Emotions Values Source Type: blogs
How Texas Medical Center Accelerates Medtech: Interview with Tom Luby, Director of TMC Innovation
Walk around the city-like campus of Texas Medical Center (TMC), and you might find it hard to picture the bootstrapped, garage-like digs that one associates with startup companies. But on the eastern edge of the sprawling complex in a former Nabisco cookie factory, TMC has set up the Innovation Institute for these types of ventures.
During our recent visit to TMC, we had the opportunity to tour the Innovation Institute and learn how they’re supporting innovative and promising medtech and healthcare startups. TMC currently offers seven different resources which include accelerators programs, coworking spaces, inter...
Source: Medgadget - June 4, 2020 Category: Medical Devices Authors: Scott Jung Tags: Exclusive Source Type: blogs
