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I think Magnus has it right for today. We are all absolutely beat, but I have had a fairly productive morning of "admin" stuff, mostly sorting out various insurances and the drone upgrade after one of the packages got lost causing a whole load of drama and confusion!
So we are into September, and this month I really want to put some extra effort into creativity, health and mental wellbeing - because all have suffered of late, and this month is going to be kinda psychologically tough - because at the end of the month I become older than my big brother and that is a tough one.
Wellbeing Beacon by Emily Harper
We aim to encourage people to take steps to improve their wellbeing in their daily lives. When this isn’t enough, the University of Southampton’s Biomedical Engineering programme is training future leaders in how technology can be used to support better health and wellness. Together we can change lives.
Wellbeing Beacon is sponsored by University of Southampton‘s Digital Health and Biomedical Engineering research Group, Electronics and Computer Science.
Over the summer of 2024, Southampton Hospitals Charity will be lighting up the South with a large-scale public art event that promises to captivate your senses and ignite your imagination.
There will be 40 8ft magnificent lighthouse sculptures on display through the streets and public spaces of Southampton and Cowes, each one a unique masterpiece designed by artists both local and well renowned, plus 40 mini lighthouses designed by local education groups, creating a family-friendly trail of discovery for visitors and residents to enjoy and explore.
The lighthouses will then be displayed together for a Farewell event in September 2024 which will be a chance to see all lighthouses gathered in one place, a truly unique sight. The sculptures will then go into auction to raise vital funds for Southampton Children’s Hospital.
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Going back to my roots.
Nikon z6 / Sigma 50mm @ f3.2 / 1/1250th / ISO 100
Neweer Vision 5 camera right through brolly at full power
youtu.be/EmY0Dm4967s - for a little bit of video, and some thoughts on trying to create GIFs
My perfect summer song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6ZwcJTHCpg
With thanks to Helen. The funniest thing about this shoot. My wife was perched under Helen trying to make sure she felt safe and then a wave came and got her! And she was laughing like an idiot. Earlier, Helen had been right by the water's edge and also got 'got' by a wave, and I also got 'got'. So, we all got 'got'. :) What a lovely day in amongst the middle of this madness.
Tranquil sunset on the basin estuary with sunset reflections, the sound of gentle ripples and fish jumping
Health and wellbeing are both determinants and consequences of economic progress. What are the challenges international companies are facing to keep their workforces healthy and engaged? What can companies do to nurture and support their science talent to develop solutions in this area?
Moderator : Eleanor Tabi Haller-Jorden
Speakers : Ana Margarida Setas-ferreira & Christine Schmatz
A yoga exercise will be beneficial after indulging ourselves too much over Christmas.
Edited cover of current edition of Well Being magazine.
Sydney
My friend, Evelyn and I went on a photo shoot yesterday n the Humber Bay Park. Some areas had a lot of ice still. Today the wind chill is -19 C so Spring has not fully arrived although I enjoy the sunshine:)
"Humber Bay Park is a waterfront park located in Etobicoke, part of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The park consists of two landspits situated at the mouth of Mimico Creek." Wikipedia
Thanks for your comments, faves and visits:)
The theme this year was ' Health and Wellbeing ' which meant all aspects of the pageant in Liverpool City Centre on June 5th was for a much healthier emphasis on lifestyles as hundreds took to the streets for a vibrant and colourful pageant with a difference !
(Still no PC, be using my Lil' Sis's when I visit her every couple of days to either upload or comment, no time for both)
There wasn’t a petrol powered vehicle in sight – everything was to be run by foot, solar, battery or pedal power making this the most environmentally and fitness friendly Lord Mayors Pageant ever !
The parade made its way through the city centre on a loop circuit for about 100mins and the delightful dancers never stopped once despite it being an extremely hot day, a pleasant change to last year when it rained non stop during the pageant !
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The theme this year was ' Health and Wellbeing ' which meant all aspects of the pageant in Liverpool City Centre on June 5th was for a much healthier emphasis on lifestyles as hundreds took to the streets for a vibrant and colourful pageant with a difference !
(Still no PC, be using my Lil' Sis's when I visit her every couple of days to either upload or comment, no time for both)
There wasn’t a petrol powered vehicle in sight – everything was to be run by foot, solar, battery or pedal power making this the most environmentally and fitness friendly Lord Mayors Pageant ever !
The parade made its way through the city centre on a loop circuit for about 100mins and the delightful dancers never stopped once despite it being an extremely hot day, a pleasant change to last year when it rained non stop during the pageant !
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All My Photographic Images Are Subject To Copyright ! Each Of My Photographs Remain My Intellectual Property ! All Rights Are Reserved And As Such, Do Not Use, Modify, Copy, Edit, Distribute Or Publish Any Of My Photographs ! If You Wish To Use Any Of My Photographs For Any Reproductive Purposes, Or Other Uses, My Written Permission Is Specifically Required, Contact Me Via Flickr Mail !
Katie Hoeflinger, Specialist, North America and Caribbean, Global Shapers Community, World Economic Forum, Fatima Muneer, Advisory Council, Ottawa Hub, Canada speaking Impact Workshop: Creating Inclusive Communities at the Global Shapers Annual Summit 2022 in Geneva, Switzerland, 4 September, Copyright: World Economic Forum/Pascal Bitz
Mental Constructs: the cornerstone of self-improvement
Think about what moved you to self-improvement in the first place.
I guess that it probably was some frustration or some obstacle on the pursuit of an objective, which made you stop, step back, and think that maybe it was your own behavior or attitude which needed to change, rather than external circumstances.
Hopefully you solved your problem.
Nonetheless, the assumption you made — that you could change your own point of view and beliefs — would have not been possible for normal people before some centuries ago.
Before the birth of Kantian philosophy and then psychology, people could not even imagine that they had an inner life, that their psychology was separate from external reality, and that the former was viable to errors, and to be even doubted and changed. Your banal assumption is then the product of centuries of philosophical speculation by the finest minds humans have ever known.
What’s truly interesting about that idea though, is that its explicit content — that we can change our way of seeing things — is at once the application of such content to yourself. By thinking that maybe your way of seeing things can be modified, you are indeed already influencing your though patterns. You are moving your focus on different elements, from external elements, to your own thought process.
The consequences are real: your actions might change, your empathy towards others might too — maybe you’ll stop thinking you are right, and you might start thinking that your opinion is one among many. You might experiment with new ways to deal with people, or do things.
There nowadays exist entire professions devoted to studying and influencing our perceptions of things: psychologists, psychiatrists, marketers, politicians, philosophers, journalists. The common thread is the basic, uninteresting idea that our ideas, feelings and reality might not coincide. That we might be wrong.
Welcome to mental constructs.
The anatomy of Mental constructs
The example above is the father of mental constructs, while being a mental construct itself.
Mental constructs are simply the set of ideas and beliefs that we hold. While this seems easy on the surface, truth is that most mental constructs are so deeply ingrained in us, and backed up by so many experiences and emotional baggage, that we fail to see them as opinion, not facts.
Furthermore, I like referencing to them as constructs, rather than only beliefs, because they they indeed possess entire scaffolds to back them up, and we mostly experience them as entire world views, rather than individual ideas. This makes it even harder to separate them from facts.
Mental constructs literally form the structure of our world. This is because they orient our attention, and therefore actions in the World. They give meaning to our experiences. They are meaning itself. Experience without it would be raw data, as much as a foreign language is just mere sound before you know not only its words, but its rules as well.
The very idea of “World” is a mental construct.
We can’t ever really escape mental constructs, nor should we. The very beliefs which might not be fully accurate are the same ones that allow us to feel emotions and give richness to experiences.
The power of Mental Constructs
Mental constructs are power itself, as philosopher Michel Foucault held. They are since power itself is the desire to influence the world, and we define what is the world, and how to influence it, by mental constructs.
Mental constructs form the invisible net through which you live your life, the maze which you try to navigate and which determines which choices you’re allowed to take, and which ones seem inaccessible to you.
Your emotions are products of them, since emotions are our reaction to our perception of events. Between events and feeling stand the transparent world of ideas and beliefs, which determine if we feel sadness or joy, anger or calm.
We like to think that events are reality: we do since events are tangible, and therefore more readily available. Thoughts are not. We also do since most of our mental constructs are strongly backed up by hard emotions, since they constitute our most fundamental mean of power and security in life.
Mental constructs are the fabric of our worlds, and this is not going to change.
What can we do about it?
Some practical tips to use mental models
1)Discerning emotions, thoughts and facts
The basic tip is one from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
When living an experience, learn to discern between emotions and thought, and thought and facts.
You do this by questioning “is this an emotion, a thought, or a fact?”. Everyone gets this wrong from time to time. “I feel you are right” is actually an opinion, and should say “I think you are right, therefore I feel secure”.
The above tool is useful, and is taught in CBT sessions to patients, because emotions, thoughts and facts need to be dealt with differently.
Emotions need to be accepted as they are and experienced. They cannot be directly changed.
Facts must be accepted, but can be influenced with action.
Opinions can be seen, accepted but also questioned. “How much is this opinion realistic, and useful?”. This is the question to apply to opinions, after you’ve spotted it out.
Problems start when:
you treat emotions as facts, so you try to force them to change, you deny them, or you apply judgement (so called secondary beliefs) to them, thus making the feeling usually worse
you treat thoughts as facts or emotions, therefore forgetting that they can be questioned in their usefulness
It’s usually hard to treat emotions as thoughts since emotions are more direct and hardly get mistaken for something colder like a thought.
It is usually helpful to start from emotions, as they are directly noticeable due to their physical quality, then discern the event or fact associated to it, and last individuate the thought which stands in the middle. Thoughts are more elusive and usually taken for granted, so they are harder to pinpoint at first.
2)Finding alternatives to thoughts
Try it now. Pick a thought you had recently, maybe about an argument you had. Try for a moment to imagine an alternative explanation to it. Maybe you thought “they’ve been really rude to me”. Try to think “they behaved rudely, but maybe I need to understand their reasons”. Now check your emotions. Do you feel a difference? At first you felt resentful, annoyed. Now you feel calmer.
This brief experiment is simply to show you how experimenting with different perspectives can truly shift our feelings about a situation, and it also show how two different opinions are not more or less real, as they both feel true when you hold them.
It is not “lying to ourselves” as we do this all the times, albeit unknowingly.
The knowledge of mental models hopefully give you the tool to be more in control of your inner state in a conscious way.
A core idea is that of experimenting with new perspective after you’ve spotted an opinion. This is since we all hold our opinions very dearly and trying to force them to change can actually work against us, causing negative emotions and self-judgement to take place.
3)Accept your emotions, be compassionate of your mental constructs
Emotions are experientially closer to facts than opinions, because they are experienced in the body. Emotions cannot really be influenced directly (without the use of substances) but can be influenced modifying opinions and facts (although the latter are always filtered by mental constructs).
We often feel bad for some emotions we experience, or some thoughts we entertain. You might feel shame, or guilt. These are usually the consequence of secondary thoughts which we formulate about our own emotions.
Fact is, our mental construct were mostly there before we even noticed them. We are not to be held responsible for their creation (nor are our parents). Most importantly, we can put them in perspective and even experiment with alternative ones.
We can react to our own mental constructs, and work on building more useful ones.
An useful mental construct is to see them as something we were endowed with during our growth, but which are passible of change, and improvement.
4)In every situation, know a mental construct is in action
We often get stuck in life and feel there is no way out of situation when we forget that we are employing a mental construct to interpret it.
We see reality and our emotions so tied that we deduce they must be one.
The knowledge of mental constructs lets you now that the key to your wellbeing is really inside of you, not in some deep way but simply in your possibility to choose the mental construct which you live by.
Often facts need to change to make us finally well-off, but cannot influence facts until we come to see them as passible of being acted upon, and that comes through a change of mental construct.
Change comes after we decide we can change, or something makes us realize that we can do it.
The way you see and approach a situation determines the elements you’ll pay attention to, and the action you will take.
By knowing this and reminding yourself of it, you will hopefully feel more empowered and less victim to circumstances.
To conclude
Mental constructs are at work continuously in our lived. There is no escape from them.
While this might seem a prison, and we might never come to see reality as it is, it actually is the source of great power. The power to, literally, choose the form of the world we live in.
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Health and wellbeing are both determinants and consequences of economic progress. What are the challenges international companies are facing to keep their workforces healthy and engaged? What can companies do to nurture and support their science talent to develop solutions in this area?
Moderator : Eleanor Tabi Haller-Jorden
Speakers : Ana Margarida Setas-ferreira & Christine Schmatz
the exposure has been gained three and a half stop in post :-)
105mm ƒ/2, ISO1250 1/60th of a second exposure.
i think i set the defocus control to R/2.8 or R/4, not sure though.
i would do that, to make the golden and orange leafs,
in the foreground blend in with the tree and the background better.
Health & Wellbeing
One of the saddest reasons some people give when giving up their dream of a new life in the Spice Island is health and wellbeing, the problem is the price, availability and quality of health care in their new country, you also need to consider the health care facilities; long term and respite care for all your family and just don't bury your head in the sand! If you consider the worst case scenario and plan against it, chances are you will be prepared for everything and will survive.
Photos from the Macmillan Information and Support Centre Health and Wellbeing Event at the Southport Convention Centre on Thursday 30th June 2016.
Aarden wordt ook wel gronden genoemd. Aarding helpt je om stress en spanning los te laten. Door contact te maken met de aarde, kun je alle indrukken die zijn binnengekomen achter je laten en je naar binnen richten. Contact met de aarde geeft je stevigheid en rust. We staan weer met beide benen op de grond, zowel letterlijk als figuurlijk. We zijn minder in onze gedachten en emoties vloeien van ons af.
I'm only posting and running....I'm not much up for commenting at the moment I'm afraid - but I want to share some photos.
"gender is performative, brunch is genetic fact, doped up on joe biden "me too" immunity vaccine, individuals drawing are a greater threat to personal wellbeing than tech media platforms, industry and nationalist propaganda, titling art for the lowest common denominator audience is harder than making them look at it", mechanical pencil on bfk, 15inx11in, 2020
The term “Health and Wellbeing Coach” refers to a fitness expert who helps people develop positive, lasting lifestyle changes. Health coaches work to build confidence and self-awareness, cope with stress and relieve it, and establish healthy sleeping patterns while also improving nutrition and establishing healthy routines.
If you’re determined to change your lifestyle and habits, a health coach will help you develop the skills to stick with it and enhance your diet and sleep patterns control, stress reduction, and physical exercise.
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Spirituality for me is like feeling alive in the moment.
I am where I am supposed to be,
I am what I am supposed to be,
I dont have to judge it,
I just need to let the energy flow through me and
try to be a positive force in the world.
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I'm only posting and running....I'm not much up for commenting at the moment I'm afraid - but I want to share some photos.
Television series and social media significantly raise public awareness that health and well-being are essential. In Burkina Faso, as elsewhere in Africa, various sports, mainly walking, are very popular, particularly among women. Thus, some spaces have been transformed to accommodate these activities, as many fitness coaches offer weightlifting or aerobics sessions in the street after dark.
Well-being is also characterized by consuming healthy food and drinks, primarily sourced from local products (leaves, fruits, etc.). The photo shows an advertisement for a local product at a fair organized around organic food. Despite their incredible benefits, these products unfortunately remain out of reach for most of the population. Fortunately, a parallel sector has developed, thanks in part to women's creativity, with the sale of fruit and freshly squeezed juices. Their presence in the evenings on sports fields contributes significantly to the well-being of athletes who appreciate their products.
Les séries télévisées tout comme les réseaux sociaux contribuent très largement a faire prendre conscience à la population que la santé et le bien-être sont essentiels. Au Burkina Faso, comme ailleurs en Afrique, la pratique de différents soprts et surtout de la marche connaît un grand succès tout particulièrement chez les femmes. Ainsi, certains espaces se sont métamorphosée pour accueillir ces activités tout comme de nombreux coach sportifs proposent des séances d'haltérophilie ou d'aérobic en pleine rue le soir une fois la nuit tombée.
Le bien-être se caractérise également par la consommation de nourriture et de boissons sains très largement issus des produits locaux (feuilles, fruits...). La photo présente une publicité pour un produit local dans le cadre d'une foire organisée autour de la nourriture bio. Malgré leurs grandes vertus, ces produits restent malheureusement hors de portée de la nette majorité de la population. Heureusement, toute une filière parallèle s'est développé notamment grâce à la créativité des femmes avec la vente de fruits ainsi que de jus frais pressés sur place. Leur présence les soirs sur les terrains de sports contribuent très largement au bien-être des sportifs qui apprécient leurs produits.
The participatory installation of 'Watching and being watched' by Rory Randall and Indigo Daya exhibit at the ArtScience Museum during Mental : Colours of Wellbeing.