by Jo Permaul | Jun 2, 2017 | Developing Resilience
Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water....
by Jo Permaul | Jun 2, 2017 | Developing Resilience
EXCERPT FROM EVERYDAY CALM: 365 WAYS TO A BETTER YOU, LAUREL ALEXANDER, PUBLISHED BY SPRUCE (DIVISION OF OCTOPUS), 2009 DAY 267 – CALMING HEART MUDRA Here’s a simple way to get out of your head and back into your body. Push both palms of your hands together and...
by Jo Permaul | Jun 2, 2017 | Developing Resilience
Clients and students often ask me if it isn’t better to be a stress manager generalist and widen the market rather than be a niche specialist and shrink the market. There’s something to be said for both approaches. The generalist stress manager could scoop...
by Jo Permaul | Jun 2, 2017 | Developing Resilience
(By Caroline McGarvie, Certificate in Stress Management student) I found this an interesting topic to tackle, as it led me to reframe activities as creative which I had not previously looked at in that way. The Chambers Dictionary (2010) defines creativity as the...