Podcast #29: Winter Blues: Positive Psychology Toolbox to Deal with It
Happiness Academy - A podcast by Mirna Smidt
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Winter blues - that mild feeling of being down with your energy and mood, all due to cold and dark days. How can we deal with the “winter blues” more effectively? To deal with the winter blues (or with any other kind of blues), we have three powerful toolboxes: 🫀emotions, 🤸 body, and 🧠 mind. In this episode, I am sharing 5 practical tips to leverage the 3 to mitigate that “dark winter feeling”. 📅 Is you inner Dreamer a bit stuck and without ideas? Join me at the Life Design online workshop: https://happiness-academy.eu/life-design-create-a-life-you-love-online-workshop/ 💌 Looking for more tools and ideas on how to work on your wellbeing? Make sure to join us at Happiness Academy weekly newsletter. https://happiness-academy.eu/newsletter 📖 If you struggle with finding more positive emotions these days, here are two blog posts to give you ideas: 📖 How to have more of positive emotions? https://happiness-academy.eu/how-to-have-more-of-positive-emotions/ 📖 5 tips to feel fully alive https://happiness-academy.eu/5-tips-to-feel-fully-alive/ 🧠 Now, there is one more tool - and that is your mind and your mindset. When I say mindset, I mean how your thoughts work: what your brain chooses to focus on, how it chooses to understand the world around you, and how that impacts your emotions and energy. Our thinking patterns are the most impactful force that shapes our happiness and wellbeing - but they do require a bit of training to get them in the optimal place. If you feel that that might be the resource that you could leverage more, consider joining me at Build Powerful Mindset online course to learn and train a set of amazing tools to work with your thoughts, energy, motivation. https://happiness-academy.eu/mindset-online-course/