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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Awareness
How are you feeling right NOW? When you think of your answer to that question, don’t do the usual Oh yeah, fine thanks – and don’t do the usual listing off of things you have to do today… Really stop for a moment and consider how you are feeling in your body. This week’s mental […]
Bake a Cake
This week’s mental sunshine is something I hope will improve your mood fairly simply. The tip is to bake a cake – either for yourself or someone else. Yes, I know that sounds a bit strange, but hear me out. Firstly, you don’t need to be great at baking. Giving someone a cake you’ve baked […]
Notifications
This week’s tip is to switch off non-urgent notifications on your phone. These days our phones can do so much for us – not just phone calls and messages, but the numerous different messaging apps we use, social media, banking and all sorts. We’ve had a few tips about mobile devices before, and some of […]
Snail Mail
This week’s Mental Sunshine is really simple, and something I think will brighten your day as well as someone else’s. I tend to find the best tips are the one where you make someone else smile – because then that just makes your own mental sunshine that much brighter. To know you’ve brightened someone else’s […]
Talk Old
How are you today? The other day I was in a cafe and I saw that one of the tables had a sign on it… I was curious, so took a look: A Chatter & Natter table… What a great idea! It got me thinking about talking to strangers – and particularly to older people, […]
Phones 2
Are you reading this on your phone? We seem to do everything on our phones these days don’t we? Gone are the days when a mobile phone was just for making calls – or even just calls and text messaging! Nowadays our phone holds our email, social media, camera, banking app, fitness tracker, alarm… I’ve […]
Routines
This week’s suggestion is something that could be a tiny change – or a really big one. It’s about breaking your usual routine. That could mean cleaning your teeth with your brush in the other hand. It could mean taking a different route to work. Have something different for dinner. You could change your routine […]
Print Your Photos
I love this time of year; the beautiful autumn colours will soon be upon us and it feels like there’s always something new to see and explore. This week’s Mental Sunshine is all about capturing that beauty – and then doing something with it. I don’t know about you, but I take hundreds of photos… […]
Pot Plant
This week feels a little strange, doesn’t it? Not quite “back to normal” after the Queen’s funeral, but also feeling like we probably should be. The perfect time then, to think about some mental sunshine – and ways to lift your mood a little. This week’s tip you may have already tried – I know […]
Reflect
With the sad passing of our Queen last week, the media has been filled with features and articles looking back over her reign. This got me to thinking about this week’s mental sunshine. It doesn’t feel right to be recommending that we all do something frivolous and cheerful when the nation is in the middle […]