Rumination

15 articles

Taking a Chance

  • Derek Roger

Evolution is often thought to be a process of trial and error. In fact, it’s the other way round: evolution proceeds by error and trial.

Who is in charge of your house?

  • Cynthia Johnson

What is controlling your responses - your thinking or you, the thinker?

The 4th Dimension - 7 Ways to Let Go

  • Cynthia Johnson

How to let go and find freedom from rumination and upset

Resilire et Robur

  • Derek Roger

Resilience is both the ability to adapt to changes, and to stand firm when change is happening around you. We can practice how to do both.

The F-words

  • Derek Roger

Fight, flight, flail or freeze. How we respond to perceived threat, the physiology behind our response, and how rumination can prolong it.

Something Mything

  • Derek Roger

​The field of stress and stress management has more myths than the traditions of ancient Greece and Rome together.

Why do we do it?

  • Derek Roger

Why do we ruminate?

Don't worry, be happy

  • Cynthia Johnson

A few months ago I attended the 13th annual conference on Happiness and Its Causes in Sydney.

Lizards and Leaders

  • Derek Roger

Robert Ardrey claimed in The Territorial Imperative that a human being is 'as much a territorial animal as is a mockingbird singing in the clear California night'.

Mind Full of What?

  • Derek Roger

The new buzz-word is 'mindfulness'.

Another day, another myth

  • Derek Roger

During the 1950s and 60s two US Naval surgeons noticed a relationship between the number of things that had happened to people and their tendency to become ill.

To sleep, perchance to dream?

  • Derek Roger

Participants in the Challenge of Change Resilience training sessions spend time at the beginning generating objectives for the day, and a common theme that emerges from the exercise is about sleep.

The Challenge of Change: A New Zealand case study

  • Derek Roger

One of the consequences of a recession is a greater need for evidence when making decisions about how to spend a diminishing budget.

Resolutions

  • Derek Roger

New Year is the time for resolutions: a new year, a new opportunity, a celebration to mark the occasion.

Being Well

  • Derek Roger

‘Well-being’ and ‘wellness’ are increasingly popular phrases in the training world, but what do they actually mean?