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THOUGHTS ON LIFE, LOSS AND STAYING GRATEFUL

Posted on 09/07/201821/09/2018 by AmyRach

Hello and welcome to the second of my new regular Monday blog spots. If you are a follower of my blogging friend Toni, a.k.a This Mama Blogs, you may have seen that I wrote a guest post for her blog a while back. This, of course, I would recommend reading. The title of the post was ‘staying grateful in a busy world’. It reflected a personal journey of my own, very relevant to what I have to say today. However, once you understand and, hopefully, experience how gratitude can support happy living, you find it doesn’t stop there, does it?

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HAPPINESS IS… RELAXING. 10 WAYS TO RELAX

Posted on 15/11/201706/09/2018 by AmyRach

Hello everyone and welcome to another instalment of my Happiness is… series. Stress is such a big part of our lives these days, with so many priorities and responsibilities and so relaxation can take a back seat. Even when people try to relax, they can feel lazy, guilty and/or selfish for taking time for themselves. If you are anything like me, you need a measure of both pressure and chill time, and with stress also being such a widespread health concern, we need to forget the negative thoughts about relaxing and accept that we need to achieve some balance.

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HAPPINESS IS… LOVING THE LITTLE THINGS

Posted on 23/09/201728/03/2018 by AmyRach

In my last video called ‘being mindful‘, I talked about mindfulness, and how being mindful is a way to train our emotional resilience. This, in turn, helps us to stay happy. One of the tips I mentioned was to notice the little things and as for me, happiness is… loving the little things, here are some of the little things that I love.

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HAPPINESS IS… BEING MINDFUL

Posted on 22/07/201708/07/2018 by AmyRach

Having introduced my Happiness is… series, and touched the surface of some of the things that can feed into unhappiness, I am beginning my Happiness is… journey with mindfulness. Not all of the content in this series will be about mindfulness, but it certainly has such strong links to practices that can work to increase our happiness.

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HAPPINESS IS… UNDERSTANDING STRESS, ANXIETY AND DEPRESSION

Posted on 23/04/201724/04/2018 by AmyRach

Having introduced my happiness is… series recently, I thought that it would be sensible to discuss Stress, Anxiety and Depression as issues that contribute to unhappiness.

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AN INTRODUCTION TO ‘HAPPINESS IS…’

Posted on 20/03/201728/03/2018 by AmyRach

First off, it is purely a happy coincidence that on the day of publishing this post, it happens to be International Day of Happiness. I didn’t know that there was a day allocated to celebrating happiness, but what a fantastically relevant start to a series!