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  • 4 Easy Ways to Feel More Positive

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    Positive emotions such as joy, love, amusement, gratitude and pride are the foundations of a flourishing life. Experiencing positive emotions not only makes us feel good but encourages creativity and social interaction. Positive emotions also broaden our perspective. Think about a time when you last felt inspired – did anything seem possible? Or a time when you felt deep awe – did your personal...

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    Creativity, emotional intelligence, happiness, interventions, positive emotion, positive psychology, wisdom
  • Be happy. Be productive. Build PERMA.

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    We all want to be happy. When we’re happy we look on the bright side of life, take ourselves less seriously, become more motivated, loving, and are generally better people. Scientist know our genes and upbringing influence around 50% of the variation in our personal levels of happiness.  Our circumstances 10%, e.g our income and external environment. Which leaves as much as 40% accounted for by our daily activities –...

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  • The Art of Resilience

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    We will all experience suffering at some point in our lives. Perhaps through illness, heartbreak or death. Difficult times are inevitable, often hitting us some idle Wednesday afternoon, unexplained and unexpected. No matter how careful we are, how honorable a life we lead or how hard we try to avoid pain, in the words of Buddha, life is suffering so it’s inevitable it will affect us...

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October 3, 2019

This five step assessment will help break your low mood

Most of us will go through times of low mood at some point in our lives. Perhaps sparked by...

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September 17, 2019

Ecophilia – a Sprinkle of Wellbeing Magic

Ecophilia is the suggestion that humans possess an innate tendency, in fact an innate desire to connect with nature....

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August 18, 2019

4 Easy Ways to Feel More Positive

Positive emotions such as joy, love, amusement, gratitude and pride are the foundations of a flourishing life. Experiencing positive...

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June 25, 2019

Ditch Those Toxic Tech Habits and Become a Better Version of You! 

Care to admit it or not, we’ve become a nation of tech addicts who spend more time looking at...

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April 1, 2019

Mindfulness and the Entrepreneur

This article was written by Lucy Faulks, the Founder of Technotox and originally featured on MindSpace on 1st June...

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March 8, 2019

Poetry Friday

When I ask you to listen to me and you start giving advice, you have not done what I...

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January 2, 2019

How to Master the Art of Being Alone

Are you scared to be alone? Do you only spend time by yourself when you’re forced to? Why is...

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December 13, 2017

A Wise Cherokee Tale

The Tale of Two Wolves An old Cherokee chief was teaching his grandson about life… 

”A fight is going...

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November 8, 2017

10 Ways to Outsmart your Smartphone

Keep your phone on charge away from your bed It’s so tempting to check emails just that one last...

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October 16, 2017

9 Signs you Might be Depressed

Do you know the main signs of depression? Could you spot them in others? Feelings of inescapable sadness, emptiness...

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September 19, 2017

Alphabet of the Heart

For those meditators amongst you, you’ll be interested to hear about the Alphabet of the Heart – a mnemonic...

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August 8, 2017

How the Body Scan Gives us the Power of Choice

Technotox was asked to write an article for Everyday Mindfulness about the power of the body scan… I used to...

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June 21, 2017

Want to Feel More Fulfilled? Go Find your Flow!

Time stands still, oblivious to your surroundings, the world is set to pause, fully absorbed on your task at hand, focused...

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May 8, 2017

Are you Surviving or Thriving?

This week is Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme is Surviving or Thriving?  A surprising 1 in 6 people interviewed...

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May 2, 2017

How Green are your Fingers? Our Top 5 Gardening Health Benefits

Not only has the weather been glorious of late, but it’s officially National Gardening Week so what better excuse to don your wellies...

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April 7, 2017

Poetry Friday

The Summer Day by Mary Oliver Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made...

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February 2, 2017

It’s Time to Talk!

Today is Time to Talk Day. A day to break the silence around mental health and get people talking about their...

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January 12, 2017

What Makes you Happy?

Last night my co-leader Andy and I hosted week one of the Action for Happiness course Exploring What Matters.  An eight...

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December 2, 2016

Reflect, Recharge & Redefine for 2017

On Saturday 7th January 2017, Technotox is delighted to be hosting a one day urban retreat to get your mind,...

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November 10, 2016

Mindfulness + Kindness = Kindfulness

After yesterday’s result, we felt a big dose of Kindfulness was needed today. So we’re delighted to share with...

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November 4, 2016

Poetry Friday

Self-Observation Without Judgement  Release the harsh and pointed inner voice. It’s just a throwback to the past, and holds...

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October 27, 2016

10 Keys to Happier Living

To celebrate World Mental Health Day earlier this month, Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) collaborated with Action for Happiness to produce...

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October 7, 2016

Improve your Focus, Reduce Stress and Boost Creativity

Can you find 10 minutes this weekend to begin your meditation journey? Scientists have proved that meditation enhances mental...

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September 29, 2016

A Letter of Self-Compassion

Are there elements about yourself that you dislike? Things that make you feel frustrated, angry, anxious or embarrassed? We all...

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September 2, 2016

Poetry Friday

It’s that time of the week – Happy Friday! Here’s a beauty from The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran; And...

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August 4, 2016

What’s the Big Fuss about Meditation?

Evidence suggests meditation has been around since 1500 BCE, making it well over 3500 years old. But what is...

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July 30, 2016

Happy International Day of Friendship!

Today is the UN’s International Day of Friendship. It’s annually held on 30 July to celebrate friendships worldwide. To mark...

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July 8, 2016

12 Ways to Nourish Yourself

A reoccurring theme I hear throughout my coaching sessions, is an ongoing struggle with nourishment and clients who just don’t know how...

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July 1, 2016

Poetry Friday

The Guest House This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression,...

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June 30, 2016

Why Should We Turn Towards Difficulty?

We all come up against difficulty in our lives. In various forms and guises we’re met with grief, rejection,...

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June 23, 2016

How the Danish ‘Hygge’ can help us through a Stormy Summer

In the United Nation’s World Happiness Report for 2013, 2014 and 2016, Denmark took the hot spot (and came...

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June 16, 2016

5 ways to limit the Stress of always being on call

1 in 4 adults in the UK in any given year will suffer from stress, anxiety, depression or another...

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March 18, 2016

How Smooth is your Wheel of Life?

There’s a very useful coaching tool called the Wheel of Life, used to take a snap shot of our lives at...

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March 11, 2016

Poetry Friday

If I Had My Life to Live Over By Nadine Stair – aged 85 If I had my life...

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March 3, 2016

25 ways to Unplug

The weekend provides an ideal opportunity to put our digital devices down and reconnect with this wondrous world around us!...

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February 12, 2016

Be happy. Be productive. Build PERMA.

We all want to be happy. When we’re happy we look on the bright side of life, take ourselves...

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February 11, 2016

The Art of Resilience

We will all experience suffering at some point in our lives. Perhaps through illness, heartbreak or death. Difficult times...

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January 15, 2016

Why do Digital Devices Affect our Happiness?

Scientists know 40% of our personal happiness levels are accounted for by our daily activities (50% genes & upbringing, 10% income &...

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December 19, 2015

Reset, Connect and Create for 2016

Introducing Reset, Connect & Create – Technotox’s inaugural urban retreat to nourish the mind, body and soul at the start...

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November 6, 2015

Poetry Friday

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage,...

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