Your Weekly Dose of Mental Sunshine

The mind works best when it is in a state of mental sunshine.

“… no mental growth can take place without mental sunshine. Accordingly, we should resolve to be happy no matter what may transpire. We cannot afford to be otherwise. Sunshine will melt the most massive iceberg if the rays are direct and the clouds are kept away; and it is the same in daily life. No matter how cold, disagreeable and uncongenial your present environment may be, plenty of mental sunshine can change it all.” Christian D Larson

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Consistency

For this week’s Mental Sunshine, I want to talk to you about the concept of “forced consistency” I know that doesn’t sound very “sunshiny” but bear with me! I saw someone on social media the other day say that when you’re consistent, your days all look the same – but if you’re not consistent, your […]

Learn

September can feel like “back to school” time – even if your kids have grown up and left school Shops and businesses everywhere are promoting “back to school” or “back to uni” deals and there’s a buzz of people going back to a new school, new uni, new year of study. For this week’s Mental […]

Sighing

For this week’s Mental Sunshine I want to suggest something else that sounds a bit silly. And feels a bit silly the first time you try it… But it’s super quick and there is some science behind it, so bear with me! This week we’re going to try cyclic sighing. Cyclic sighing is a specific breathing […]

Read

Can you believe we’re in September already? It’s “back to school” season – I often find that even people who don’t have children heading back to school or university this month still feel that “fresh start” feeling as the season begins to change. For this week’s Mental Sunshine, I want to make what might seem […]

Water

Each week my aim is to provide you with a simple tip Something small you can do that will hopefully bring some more sunshine into your day. I can’t decide if this week’s tip is a really obvious one, or a really not-obvious one… Let me know what you think! This week’s tip is to […]

Backwards

For this week’s Mental Sunshine, I want to suggest something that will probably sound absolutely bonkers. I love the tips that sound ridiculous, because often even just the thought of them makes me smile! This week’s tip is to try walking backwards. I don’t mean you should attempt to do your morning commute backwards; that […]

Breathing

Whether you’re having a great week, or a less-than-great one – let’s see if we can improve on that shall we! That’s what these weekly emails are about – just increasing the level of Mental Sunshine in your life where we can. This week I want to talk about morning breathwork, after hearing Julia Bradbury […]

Grounding

The UK appears to be having a record breaking summer, with large parts of England in drought. We’ve just had our third or fourth heatwave and I think a lot of people are looking forward to going back to moaning about the rain! Why am I talking about the weather in an email about Mental […]

Bucket List

For this week’s Mental Sunshine, I want to talk about bucket lists. The term “bucket list” was popularised by a 2007 film starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman. It comes from the old idiom “kick the bucket” Essentially, a list of things you want to do before you kick the bucket! I’m willing to bet […]

The Arts

When was the last time you engaged with the arts? That sounds rather la-di-da, doesn’t it? “The Arts” sounds like going to the opera or a West End show – so in that case, it may have been a while! A recent book by researcher Daisy Fancourt, called Art Cure, takes a wider view of […]

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