Insight International Newsletter April 2023
“When you direct your consciousness, you harness the power ...
Christmas 2022
Greetings, to friends of Insight International, where-ever this finds you! ...
A very Merry Christmas from the South Pacific!
We were sorry to not be able to hold our ...
What really matters?
When anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what ...
Love, Actually. Part one.
“Love doesn’t just sit there, like a stone; It has ...
The oak and the willow
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow ...
Reaching out from lockdown in New Zealand
Covid-19 has landed on our doorsteps and forced us collectively ...
Loving Kindness Opens Your Heart
Have you ever wished you could be a more “open-hearted”, ...
Meeting Ourselves with Self-Compassion
Have you ever looked at your calendar for the week ...
Think you can berate yourself into doing better? Think again!
The great news, though, is that transformation can be achieved ...
Stressing out…? You may have caught your breath…
Shallow breathing is both a symptom and a cause of ...
Mindful Communicating: The Intention in mindful attention that engenders trust.
Mindful reflective listening is very effective, but how many of ...
Amygdala Hijack: Getting Back into the Driver’s Seat
Question… “Have you ever felt like you are unable to ...
Self-compassion Diminishes Fear
There is one person that you wake up to every ...
5 Keys to Finding Balance in Your Life
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within ...
Letting go to Grow: One clever mindset that successful people know and apply…
Letting go to Grow… letting go of comparing ‘Comparison’ is ...
Mindfulness – The New Buzz Word!
‘Mindfulness’ has become a buzz word in the last few ...
Facing the ‘what-if’s’ – contending with anticipatory anxiety and the fear of failure.
I remember waking up some mornings or perhaps during the ...
Healing Our Inner Child
“Picking Up the Pieces” – Inner-child Work< Have you ever ...
Why generosity leads to greater well-being: Reduce the effects of stress… by having a generous attitude towards others.
Christmas is traditionally a time when we will be selecting ...
Compassionate Adaptation: Re-orienting after a life transition
“The only thing that is constant is change” Heraclitus (Greek ...
Happiness and Mindfulness Practice
The pursuit of happiness has been identified as the number ...
The September Happiness Calendar
A month’s worth of articles and activities designed to help ...
The Happiness Prescription
A handy guide to happiness for busy stressed out people ...
How to significantly improve your heart-health: mindfulness meditation
Interested in having a healthy heart? The research shows us:< ...
Ikagai – your reason to get up in the morning
Do you find it hard to get up in the ...
What is so great about art?
Have you scratched or painted images on walls, carved initials ...
Excessive Screen Time Linked to Increased Suicide Risk
New research presents compelling evidence that the more time teenagers ...
Overcoming overwhelm: 4 ways to re-establish your equilibrium.
Have you ever heard the expression, “That was the straw ...
Fun Facts About Mindfuless
The news is out! There are many great reasons to ...
About Insight Focused Therapy
Insight Focused Therapy has been developed by Pauline Skeates, a ...
Online Mental Health Resources – Aps, e-Therapy and Guided Self-Help.
The Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand has put together ...
Mastering Mindfulness in Your Relationship with Dan Siegel
A brilliant discussion with Dan Siegel on mastering mindfulness in ...
So Lonely I Could Die: Social Isolation Greater Public Health Threat Than Obesity
Loneliness and social isolation may represent a greater public health ...
Parenting – life stages
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Epigenetics and Self-Care
It is July! We are over half-way through 2017 and ...
The exciting field of “epigenetics” is a branch of science investigating how the epigenetic mark impacts the expression of our DNA and consequentially, our experience of life.
Our inherited DNA does not alter over our lifetime but, ...
Are you suffering from tight genes? Epigenetics the new science of gene expression
“You are what your grandmother ate!” “The trauma your grandparents ...
Epigenetics; The relatively new branch of genetics
Epigenetics is a relatively new branch of genetics that has ...
Four Ways That Fleeting Experiences of Awe Can Change Your Life
Awe is awesome! The evidence is overwhelming! When we face ...
Insight Focused Therapy – IFT
Many people have heard of the proven benefits of mindfulness ...
Resetting Your Epigenetic Inheritance
Have you ever inherited someone else’s smart phone and activated ...
Merry Christmas – A Year in Review
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Gratitude and Happiness
In this age of the pursuit of happiness, we are ...
Daydreaming, Embracing Your Creative Potential
Apparently, you daydream a lot less as you get older, ...
The Powerful Potential of Awe
In our modern world full of time saving gadgets most ...
USING MINDFULNESS TO SILENCE OUR INNER CRITIC
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MINDFULNESS AND DEPRESSION
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MINDFULNESS AND DEFAULT MODE NETWORK
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IN AWE OF AWE
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Mindfulness Quiz – How mindful are you?
Do you savor life or let everyday stresses control you? ...
Default Mode Network
DMN – Brain’s attention system The Default Mode Network is ...
Battling the physical symptoms of stress
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8 Things Happy People Do
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How nature makes you kinder and happier
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Don’t Fall into the Self-Esteem Trap: Try a Little Self-Kindness
Striving for self-esteem is about trying hard to feel special, ...
Mindfulness Principles – how to ‘let go and let be’.
A key principle of Mindfulness is ‘letting go’. Learning how ...
What does work-life balance mean in the age of the Internet?
For many, the New Year period brings with it renewed ...
Wellbeing – It’s a Learned Skill
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Mindfulness of Anger
Take three minutes and try this mindfulness practice for dealing ...
What is Mindfulness? (Video)
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Jon Kabat-Zin on the Science of Identity – video
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How Being Grateful Makes Us Happy
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How to be self-compassionate and why you should bother
Self-compassion – the anti-depressant of choice – free, affective and ...
How to be happy – kindness makes you happy, and happiness makes you kind!
“Kindness is a language that the deaf can hear and ...
How Being Kind Makes Us Happy
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How Stress Affects the Brain (Animation)
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Self Compassion Cultivates Happiness
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Three Benefits of Mindfulness at work
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Using Mindfulness to Cultivate Happiness
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What Exactly Is Happiness?
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Can kindness define who you are?
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Facing the ‘what-if’s’ – contending with anticipatory anxiety and the fear of failure.
OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA by Sandy Fabrin I remember ...
Self-compassion or Self Critique
According to self-compassion researcher and expert Dr Kristin Neff, we ...
Why mindfulness is effective – what does the research show?
A report on Mindfulness from Insight International.< What’s the science ...
Rising Anxiety – Signs of the Times
Research indicates that mental health issues are on the rise. ...
Mindful Eating – how to become more aware about your eating habits.
Many of us have a complicated relationship with food. In ...
How Stressed Are You?
Is your health at risk – Stress self assessment Chronically ...
What is your Stress Response?
Think of the latest situation where you felt stressed. Any ...
Social Media, and the importance of being authentic
Using social media we have the ability to promote ourselves ...
Neuroscience of mindfulness and anxiety
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Mindfulness Meditation and the Brain
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Executive function and mindfulness
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What is the brain’s default mode network?
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Three Minute Mindfulness Meditation
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The Neuroscience of Mindfulness
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