Mental Wellness Blog & News
Nature supports mental health, but intrapersonal skills secure mental wellness
13.05.2021How is your mental health? How has your mental health been during the lockdown? Let's look at it a bit closer. After all, it is #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek in the UK and also #EuropeanMentalHealthWeek.
From a mental health perspective, many people and workplaces have experienced the last 14 months to be the most difficult period. The first lockdowns started more than a year ago and have skyr...
Read more To prevent burnout and secure your mental wellness stop blaming others
04.05.2021This week it is Mental Health Week in Canada and next week it is Mental Health Awareness Week in the UK and European Mental Health Week within the EU countries. May is also Mental Health Month in the U.S.*
All those mental health campaigns focus on how to support those who suffer and acknowledge the problem. That is great and much needed.
However, if you want to prevent suffering, you need t...
Read more Are you aware that employers win the most from stress reduction?
28.04.2021We have published several blogs and articles that open up the signs of stress and shine a light on the burnout symptoms and early warning signs of burnout. Our focus is on stress reduction as we want you to keep your brightest minds to remain productive and healthy.
While investing in mental wellness training allows you to reduce stress and prevent burnout, we see that most companies remain una...
Read more Are you aware of how work stress influences you?
12.04.2021April is known as Stress Awareness Month. Are you aware of the negative effects of stress? What steps do you plan for preventing stress and burnout for yourself and your team?
In our previous blogs, we have written about work related stress in the United Kingdom. Now MHA’s third annual Work Health Survey measured the perceptions of over 5,000 employees across 17 industries in the United S...
Read more Mental wellness revolution
23.03.2021Back in 2015, we executed an inventory on the Internet and found out that an easily accessible and fairly priced proactive mental wellness approach was unavailable. That led us to start working on the new and revolutionary mental wellness path that focused on preventing mental health issues.
The need for such an approach was and still is huge, as for multiple decades mental health approach main...
Read more The mental wellness story of one of our founders
09.03.2021Our Managing Director and one of our founders, Kaur Lass, often hears the question: What is your mental health story?
Kaur has kindly written down his mental wellness story and now shares it with you. He shares his discovery on how to stay well and healthy even while working with mentally demanding tasks.
We hope this positive wellbeing story inspires you to stay well!
TO STAY MENTA...
Read more We accept local payments for the mental wellness e-trainings in the UK
25.02.2021One of our main target markets for mental wellness e-trainings is the UK. As the United Kingdom left the European Union on January 1st, 2021, we lacked a simple solution for accepting payments for few weeks of this year. Now we have solved this, and the good news to all our UK customers and prospects is that we can again accept the local payments the way that is easy for you.
We can now submit ...
Read more Focus on the solution, not on the problem
10.02.2021Often our problems consume our time and (mental) health. By the definition of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary problem is a "thing that is difficult to deal with or to understand."
So, by definition of a problem, it isn't the real problem. Your difficulty is the one aspect of the problem. When you would know how to deal with it, it would no longer be ex...
Read more Change as an opportunity and ally
12.01.2021We all love to be smart because it enables us to get things done efficiently. When we use our inner mental functions purposefully, we can get impeccable work results.
Strangely, the currently dominating approach to keeping our minds well is mostly failing to be proactive – focused on how to stay fit and well.
Instead, our approach to mental health in workplaces and society is domi...
Read more Reactivity versus aware response and proactivity
21.12.2020Proactively maintaining our internal health or mental fitness is the new effective pattern and it starts from letting go of our old inner automatic reactions.
Our society and the nature of our work have changed over the last year more than during the first 19 years of this century. The restrictions that we all face due to lockdowns have made us notice that most of today’s office work isn&...
Read more Efficient stress relief starts from training your mind(s)
04.11.2020Stress Awareness Day every year on the first Wednesday in November aims to point out the importance of stress relief and offer solutions on how to reduce the stress levels in your life and work situations efficiently. Stress Awareness Day was established by the International Stress Management Association (ISMA) to provide information on stress and strategies on how to address it for both work...
Read more How to implement a proactive mental wellness program for stress relief?
23.09.2020Offering a proactive workplace wellness program for employees is now a must if you want to see personal initiative and personal responsibility. Without those two qualities, people fail to perform efficiently. Including, when they work remotely and take long Zoom or Teams calls and need to keep their focus on the tasks at hand.
The Global Wellness Institute stated back in 2015 that only 9% of th...
Read more Multitasking is an illusion that kills your productivity
06.08.2020Living with technology at our desks and in our pockets has caused us to think that we are capable of running multiple ‘apps’ in the background as our computers do. Sadly, this isn't the case with the human mind. Therefore, multitasking has had an adverse effect on all working environments.
Working from our homes and remotely has proved that multitasking effectively is a mis...
Read more How to integrate your work and life?
18.06.2020The old concept of work-life balance is now totally outdated. Working from home, remotely, or as a contract worker is now the new norm. The technology that we carry with us almost 24/7 means there is no longer a clear distinction between work and life. What was left of it became history with the global lockdown.
So, how do we adapt?
How do we find efficient ways for our work-life integratio...
Read more How to be a mental wellness hero who can lead others?
19.05.2020The stress, anxiousness, and burnout risk that comes from the isolation and uncertainty of the pandemic, as well as the current problematic economic situation, leaves many workplaces and employees paralyzed. Instead of taking action, people wait.
The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing us to notice the shortcomings of our own mental health — especially when it comes to dealing with inner pressur...
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