A collection of the articles included in the Mind Yourself section are now available here for future reference. They range from how to improve your self-care, how to focus and reduce stress, to creating good habits by setting yourself up for success.
When is your attention at its best?
Turns out that there might be times of the day that are better in terms of being able to pay attention and concentrate. Check out the blog post from Health, Counselling and Disability Services.
PhD Mental Health: The importance of self-care during the writing process
This article at the PhD Proofreaders offers some ideas for self-care to help get your through the writing process. Triggers include ‘Am I doing it right’ or feeling anxious, panicked or paralysed, echoing your expectations and those imposed on you. The article provides some basic steps you can take to help.
How to manage your time
Managing your time is all about juggling the many priorities in your life. But when they pile up it can be hard to get anything done. Luckily, our friends at Health Counselling and Disability Services have put together an awesome blog post on how to manage all you keep on your plate
How to get better at receiving feedback
Feedback is an important part of learning and growing, but sometimes it can be hard to take in. This article is from TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series and contains advice how to receive and react to feedback and how to apply those changes
How to keep imposter syndrome under control during your PhD
Imposter syndrome is a psychological phenomenon that refers to the general feeling of doubting your abilities and feeling like a fraud. This article from a PhD Student provides a list of helpful techniques to overcome it.
How to get your mojo back
Do you feel blah, lacking interest and excitement? Are you unable to find motivation to do the activities that used to give you joy? If this describes your experience, then you may be going through a period of languishing. This article from Psyche provides strategies to give yourself a boost.
Head to Health relaunches to provide better mental health support
The fully re-launched Head to Health website in Australia aims to provide information, support, and personalized resources for individuals struggling with mental health, offering a variety of tools, services, and recommendations based on a user’s quiz answers and needs.
Self Care Mega Guide
The self care mega guide is a collection of strategies for looking after your physical, mental, intellectual, social, spiritual, financial and environmental wellbeing.
The wellbeing Thesis
An online resource for postgraduate research students to support your wellbeing, learning and research. Explore the website and find; research, top tips, videos and downloadable action plans. Whether at the beginning, middle or end of your research, there will be something here for you
9 simple habits to improve your writing skills
In this article from The Writing Cooperative, you’ll learn 9 simple microhabits to rewire your brain and automatically improve your writing skills
How to feel more alert in the mornings
A new study, published in Nature Communications, finds that there are a number of factors that impact both how we wake up and how alert we feel for the rest of the morning – and the good news is that they are almost all things we can control.
Self-guided workbook for tackling procrastination
The Procrastination Workbook will help you understand why you procrastinate, and give you the tools to change it. It contains 7 chapters that build on each other to create a powerful program to beat procrastination in your life.
Stuck in a loop of worrying thoughts? Here’s how to stop it?
Have you ever been stuck on a single thought, a string of thoughts, or a topic that you keep returning to in your mind over and over again? Mental rehearsal is a normal and universal experience. However, if you find that you tend to dwell excessively on certain experiences – especially negative ones – you may be engaging in rumination
Breaking up sitting time whilst stuyding
Sitting down for extended periods of time isn’t good for our health. But the research suggests we might need to be taking more regular breaks, every 30 minutes. Read about how we need to rethink our workflows and study/work practices and what changes to consider.
Actions you can take to improve your self-care
Much of what happens to us in life isn’t within our control. But our decisions, choices, actions, attitudes and thoughts do matter and can change how we cope, adapt, grow and even thrive in the face of the challenges we face. Self-care is to take responsibility for the things you can change in order to achieve the outcomes you want.
Create your own self-compassion script
Failure and setbacks are inevitable. How we talk to ourselves in those moments can influence how we cope with them. Developing a self-compassion script can assist us in talking to ourselves in a kinder and more helpful way. In this post, learn how to write your own self-compassion script.
What if my self-care routine isn’t working?
The idea of self-care seems simple on the surface. Do things to be healthier and happier. But its more complex than that and in this post, Dr Gareth Furber from Health Counselling and Disability Services explores some of the nuances of what to do when our self-care routines don’t seem to be working well.
How to stop worrying
It’s time to balance the chaos of life. Worrying about everything can be exhausting, but it’s also natural. When we worry unnecessarily, we find ourselves focusing on one thing after another — which leads to stress and anxiety, which then causes us to worry even more. Here are 5 ways to help you.
How to reduce anxiety
Anxiety can be both a challenging and crippling condition. But with the right skills and lifestyle changes, we can better regulate our emotions and train our brain to avoid panic attacks, overthinking, and other symptoms that leave us feeling overwhelmed. From mindfulness techniques to relaxation techniques and more, here is an overview of how we can relieve anxiety naturally.
x Illustrated Stress Management Guide
x Finding good self-help materials written in multiple languages can be a challenge. This illustrated guide from the World Health Organisation on managing stress is available in 24 languages and is free. In it you’ll learn evidence-based stress management tools and provides some really actionable and evidence-based stress management strategies: grounding, values, kindness, acceptance and defusion.
Building new habits
Developing new habits can be difficult, but they’re also an important part of making progress towards any of your goals. This post and handout outlines 50+ self reflection questions and recommendations for what you could do to improve habit formation.
Good Goal, Bad Plan
When working towards our goals, it is important to have plans in place. But often our plans aren’t robust enough to move us meaningfully towards our goals. In this post by Health, Counselling and Disability Services, there are a number of questions you can ask yourself about your plans to help improve them.
12 habits to balance study and work
There are a lot of habits that those of us at University might need to develop to balance these pressures. Dr Gareth Furber explores the 12 habit areas that are worth developing to build a better study/work experience
Dealing with negative self talk
Let’s face it – these days, we all have a little voice inside our head that tells us all sorts of negative things. In this article by Health, Counselling and Disability, there are two methods for dealing with this negative self-talk, and help you from feeling demotivated.
Tackling procrastination
Introducing a workbook that provides students with a range of interesting ideas and strategies for tackling procrastination. The workbook is based on principles that are commonly used in counselling services, and aims to provide you with some simple ideas about tackling procrastination.
How to manage your time
Managing your time is all about juggling the many priorities in your life. But when they pile up it can be hard to get anything done. Luckily, our friends at Health Counselling and Disability Services have put together an awesome blog post on how to manage all you keep on your plate.
How to get better at receiving feedback
Feedback is an important part of learning and growing, but sometimes it can be hard to take in. This article is from TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series and contains advice how to receive and react to feedback and how to apply those changes