by Leigh Tremaine | Mindfulness, Self-Development, Wellness
Metacognition is a key component of mindfulness. It is the awareness, established from your observer self, of your thought processes and emotions, and the patterns behind them. But what if I told you that metacognition is more than this? It is the most powerful tool...
by Leigh Tremaine | Self-Development, Wellness
Cognitive dissonance was coined by social psychologist Leon Festinger in 1957. It refers to a state of inconsistency between our thoughts or inner experience that generates discomfort and stress. To reduce this discomfort and stress, we will often distort our thinking...
by Leigh Tremaine | Self-Development, Wellness
Critical thinking is essential for freedom of thought and effective reasoning and decision-making. It’s required to attain higher degrees of awareness, truth, and wisdom, helping you spot faulty thinking that could hold you back and sabotage your development and...
by Leigh Tremaine | Mindfulness, Wellness
Comfort eating or emotional eating is the automatic compulsion or craving to eat in order to relieve stress, emotional difficulties, emptiness, and boredom. This is a maladaptive, avoidant strategy and is often unconsciously driven. Many people try to stop comfort...
by Leigh Tremaine | Wellness
For those of you who practise yoga, you will know that pranayama is a powerful, focused breathing technique used to direct the energy flow of the subtle body to promote healing, vitality, and spiritual self-realisation. It is one of the more esoteric practices of...
by Leigh Tremaine | Wellness
Anxiety is a state in which you find it difficult to control your emotional responses to perceived threats. While your ‘flight or fight’ response is a natural response to stress or danger, when that response is out of proportion to the actual danger of the situation,...
