5 Tips to Humanize Your Workspace
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Do you work in an office? If so, here are some ways to personalize and add life to your workspace:
- Display photographs of yourself and your loved ones
- Print out and display quotes or sayings which can uplift you almost instantaneously
- Display your cetificates and qualifications - this is to remind yourself of your abilities at times when you doubt your abilities to complete the task at hand
- Soften your workspace with garments like sweaters or with scented candles
- Share any special stationery (like some gigantic stapler or a cutting board) which you may own with the other cubicles (let it be known that they can use it)
You’ll spend quite a considerable amount of time seated at your workspace. Make it enjoyable.
August 17th, 2008 - Posted in Calmness | | 0 Comments
How to Forgive Those Who Have Hurt You
Letting go. It’s hard when someone has caused you injustice. You feel pain, and deep unfairness. You ask questions about their actions, about what you did to cause such harm to yourself.
Why the lack of compassion.
Then it turns to anger. You slowly hate the person. The person stands for all things unfair. You cannot understand how they live their lives knowing they’re hurting you.
Then you suffer. You soon realize that whether they care doesn’t matter. The silence is real, and you are feeding it. You slowly think of other options. You know your body is aching. You know you should move on.
One day you decide to try. You try moving on. You open the windows once again. You breathe new light into your world. Your viewpoints of people slowly change. Friends become enemies. Enemies emerge as saviours. You carry on, you live well, yet you remember.
Time passes. You’re better off now. The pain is there, but you understand that you don’t have to take it in. You have a choice. Yes you remember, but you can press buttons now. You are doing well. You read literature that tells you about ultimate freedom, about forgiving those who have hurt you.
What do you do.
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Here is my advice:
- What you do to forgive depends on how well you are, in what stage you’re in. The first step is to forgive your enemy with your heart. You don’t have to talk to the person, you don’t have to tell anyone anything. You tell yourself, that you forgive them.
- The next stage is to slowly have the person’s good will in your thoughts. You pray for your enemies’ well being. You say that yes, they hurt me, but you can hurt others too. You grow.
- As time passes, you can move on to the final step: direct contact with the person. You apologize to the person for what you have done. You mention nothing of what they have done. You have arrived. You are wiser. If they start apologizing, you nod, accept and smile. You avoid being all philosophical. You know that sincerity sometimes is felt from the heart.
Forgive according to your capacity. If you can’t, take your time. There is no compulsion in step 3. If you can do step 1, and say it in your heart, then smile, for you have character many can only imagine.
When it comes to forgiveness, time is on your side.
August 8th, 2008 - Posted in Calmness, Forgiveness, Freedom, Recovery | | 0 Comments
Pills versus Talk Therapy
Do you prefer popping pills over consultation? A recent CNN article highlights the advantages of psychotherapy (talk therapy) over drugs:
- Talk therapy can be done by psychiatrists less expensively than split treatment, where a patient sees a doctor for pills and a counselor for talk therapy.
- Talk therapy works better than drugs for patients such as those with chronic major depression and a history of childhood trauma.
Psychotherapy - using verbal methods to get patients to explore their emotional life, thoughts or behavior, with the goal of easing symptoms. The body heals itself by changing thoughts and behaviorial patterns. Sounds like a better option to try first than immediately seeking for drug treatment.
August 5th, 2008 - Posted in Calmness, Fitness, Mindset, Recovery | | 0 Comments
Read and Surf to Combat Mr Sleepy
I’ve recently discovered a way to help combat the sleepiness when you’ve just woken up. Traditionally the advice is to go take a shower, but I’ll find it hard to even make it pass my room without retreating back to sleep.
The current answer to my woes? Reading and blogging. I’d wake up, turn on my computer and engage my brain muscles in alittle intellectual stimuli. This method was stumbled upon by accident really, but I’ve noticed that 10 minutes of brain gymnastics with words and news can really fire up your brain fresh from bed.
Do you use the same technique? Share with me your thoughts.
August 1st, 2008 - Posted in Calmness, Fitness, Management | | 2 Comments
The Glass of Milk
Having trouble sleeping? Drink warm milk.
Peter Lemon, protein expert and professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada explains that milk has an amino acid which boosts production of a neurotransmitter that helps you sleep. The warmth of the milk too helps comfort the body.
August 1st, 2008 - Posted in Calmness, Fitness | | 0 Comments
