by MAI Team | Anxiety, Changing our Minds, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Flourish, Happiness, High Performance, Inner Strength, Meditation, Mind/Body Connection, Resilience, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries, The Mind
What if I told you it was possible to reduce anxiety and stress, improve attention, calmness and reactivity without medication or leaving the comfort of your own home? Sounds too good to be true? It isn’t. Those who practice meditation, particularly with a focus on...
by MAI Team | Coaching, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Happiness, Intelligence & Abilities, Meditation, Mindfulness, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
Emotions are such messy things. Like subterranean springs, they can thwart the best-laid plans of our rational minds, sap our motivation, send us off into paroxysms of rage and fuel many an “over-served” evening of excess bonhomie. Until fairly recently,...
by MAI Team | Anxiety, Finance, Meditation, Memory, Mind/Body Connection, Mindfulness, Physical Health, Relationship with Money, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
Question: “Why do we worry so much about money?” The most common response is “Because there is never enough”, usually delivered with a strange look, as though the answer should be self-evident. I used to believe that, too, but after a thirty-year career of working...
by Helen Kain | Meditation, Mental Fitness, Mindfulness, Optimism, Pessimism, The Brain Diaries, The Brain Diaries
My aunt Pat was something of a dish. Lively and humorous, with a caustic wit that rarely failed to entertain, she augmented the very restrictive rations available to Britons during WWII with “two shilling teas” to which she was escorted by a bevy of besotted...
by MAI Team | Changing our Minds, High Performance, Meditation, Mindfulness, Positive Psychology, Positivity, Team Performance
Positivity is great for individuals, but has no place in business. It’s a dog-eat-dog world. If you want to get ahead, keep your head down, remain focused on your goals, figure out what’s likely to go wrong and prevent that from happening. Get clear on your...
