What is included?

Mind Chi Party Time!

• A magic Mind Chi Stress board
• An opportunity to whine with a glass of wine
• Take the Mind Chi Breath check
• Make your BEAT a happy, high energy one!
• Meet and befriend ‘Chi’ – your new best friend and supporter
• Take-away 3 – 8 practical steps to grab the reins of control
• Have some special pampering so your whining becomes a whimper!
• Make a Mind Chi Mapplan to care for YOU!

Where does your Mind Chi Party take place, for how long and what cost?

Your Mind Chi Party can take place in your own home (as long as there is a Mind Chi Mentor in your area), or a local room (the hire cost would be your responsibility).
Please invite a minimum of 10 people. Your Mind Chi Whine with Wine party will last for 2 hours (of course you may continue!)
You – the host – may provide ‘nibbles’ or Mind Chi will do that for the cost. Mind Chi will provide up to 2 glasses of wine / juice per person. The Mind Chi Whine with Wine party costs from £26.00 per person (10 – 20 people) – the price ranges for bespoke parties to suit your celebration we may bring additional guests for entertainment. (Such as a massage therapist; drum leader or saucy wine server!)

What is included?

• Personal Mind Chi Stress & Resilience Questionnaire pre-assessment
• Mind Chi Mapplan created for your assessment
• Individual instruction on the Mind Chi 8 steps and application to your MC Mapplan
• Weekly monitoring during your initial Mind Chi month
• Personal Mind Chi Stress & Resilience Questionnaire post-assessment at the 28 day stage
• Crafting your Mind Chi in Action Plan
• Selecting specific Mind Chi Strategies to assist your situation
• Personal Mind Chi Stress & Resilience Questionnaire post-assessment at the four month stage

Where does the 1:1 Mind Chi Mentoring take place? What are the costs and time?

The Mind Chi Mentors will conduct the 1:1 sessions either in their office or an agreed, quiet room in a public place (such as a hotel or library). It is preferable to be away from your office or home, but that can also be arranged if it suits you better. (This may occur additional traveling charges.)

The Mind Chi Mentor will arrange their charges with you, approximate charges would be £45.00  - £100.00 per session for an individual session, or £350.00 – £700.00 for the block of 8 Mind Chi Mentoring sessions.

After the initial free 20 minutes, each Mind Chi Mentoring session lasts approximately 45 – 55 minutes.

STOP Multi-tasking!

Do YOU multi-task?

The pressure is ON to do so, people proudly wear their ‘I’m a multi-tasker’ badge. The trouble is that on the other side of that badge it says ‘And I do NOTHING well’!

That is a provocative statement and done to remind you that your brain canNOT do two things in the same band width at the same time – one or the other will suffer. Have you ever been speaking to someone on the phone and  know that they are doing their emails at the same time? Yes, you do know! And you also know that they are only paying partial attention to what you are saying, which is actually rude. Better to say ‘I just have a few minutes, how can I help you?’ And then concentrate afterwards on the email, so you don’t push send before you have double checked it.

It IS possible to do several tasks at the same time that operate in different parts of your brain, so cooking a dish that you know well while talking on the phone are ok – as long as you don’t need to concentrate.

Multi-tasking is the source of that constant stressed feeling, it is what tires you so, it doubles the pressure on you, whilst diminishing your effectiveness.

You also miss out on the beautiful feeling of concentrating on just one thing – the joy of losing yourself in an activity – of truly being ‘in the flow’. These are the moments that re-fuel your brain, stimulate your creativity, energise you and make you feel life and work are worthwhile. Further, you will be quite amazed at what you can achieve in even a 15 minute time of uninterrupted thought, better than in a whole day sometimes.

So fight back! Take care of your brain, let it work well for you and enjoy the benefits.

Mind Chi – easy 1
DECIDE you wish less stress and more energy in just 8 minutes a day and take the Mind Chi Stress & Resilient Questionnaires.
Complete the NOW column so you can see how you are functioning at this time.

Mind Chi – easy 2 
Sign up  for a Mind Chi Basic (2 hour) session. These may be conducted in your workplace or with any group you may belong to or create. There may be some public Mind Chi sessions too.

Mind Chi – easy 3
Perform your Mind Chi 8 minute routine for 28 days, meeting once a week with your Mind Chi Mentor. At the end of your Mind Chi month take the Mind Chi Stress & Resilience Questionnaires again, putting your scores in the ’28 days later’ column. Then look at the difference Mind Chi has made in YOUR life.

Mind Chi – easy continued
From now on meet with your Mind Chi Mentor once a month. When you are ready start Mind Chi in Action, where you apply Mind Chi to solve your problems and achieve your goals (There are also 50 Mind Chi Strategies to get you started).  Live a resilient and Mind Chi marvelous life. EnJOY!

Let's get started!

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The strain suffered from stress takes many forms and could have many effects on your body and mind. Please consult a doctor.

Ali Carter gives Vanda North the 'Entrepreneur of the month' award

It was the Mind Chi Business Mapplan that was the cause of Vanda receiving the ‘Entrepreneur of the Month’ award from the Business Growth Advisers group in Dorset.
Working from the book ‘It’s all changed’ by Nigel Botterill and Ali Carter, Vanda first mapped all the key elements from the book that would apply to the Mind Chi company. Then she started to work through them! Slowly smiley faces and completion ticks started to appear as she focused and finalised each item.  Although there is still a way to go, the momentum of what has already been achieved pushes Vanda on to do more. Putting a copy of the Mapplan on the wall creates a positive vortex of energy to complete more – most satisfying!

Here is a happy Vanda receiving the award from Ali Carter who is the Business Growth Adviser for the Entrepreneurs Circle in Dorset.

Please scan our topics for this Mind Chi-Chat and click through for more information.

In this season of spring and LOVE, Mind Chi shares 8 Ways to have Contentment and Joy!
Rather than those New Year Resolutions (remember them!?) it is nicer to go towards something than away, so here are 8 simple things that will increase the contentment and joy in your life.

Still haven’t done your 2012 business plans?
With each passing day it seems more difficult, ‘Well, I’ll just live each day as it comes!’ you may say, or, ‘Why plan? Whatever, will happen anyway!’ And in your heart you crave an easy, inviting way which powerfully carries you forward, here it is – the Mind Chi Business Mapplan!

Free – sign up for Chi-chats!
Here comes Chi, to be there for you, to listen, respond, question and assist. It is easier to tell your problems to a stranger isn’t it? So Chi is that special unknown and caring being that has your best interests at heart.

It all began in 1970!
When ‘stress’ was first named and came of age! Vanda taught some of the first ‘stress management’ courses and was intrigued by the fact that some people, although scoring as very highly stressed, managed to flourish. This began her 42 year quest to build the resilience of all people, the outcome of which is…

Stress changes how you make decisions
Trying to make a big decision while you’re also preparing for a scary presentation? You might want to hold off on that. Feeling stressed changes how you weigh risk and reward.

A new article published in Current Directions in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, reviews how, under stress, people pay more attention to the upside of a possible outcome. READ MORE ….

Your chance to be a Mind Chi statistic!
We are setting up groups of women (because research shows that you are the most strained by all the life stresses you face – however, men are not excluded!)
NEEDED: groups in Dorset who are already meeting and could add Mind Chi as an extra hour per week; groups of ladies in companies, who would meet an hour before or after work or during lunch and who are STRESSED!
Anyone…. anyone? Please email Vanda@MindChi.com

This is YOUR Mind Chi-Chat
So please let us know what you would like more (or less) of and we will happily respond in the next quarters edition!

Mind Chi SPRING Dates
Lots of opportunities to experience moving from stressed to energised – please check here

The Mind Chi Edge

Mind Chi – Creativity on Demand

Mind Chi -PowerThink

Mind Chi – InfoManage & SpeedyReading

Here are the Mind Chi Sessions for you to try us out! Or contact Vanda@MindChi.com to discuss your training needs.

It’s a bit surprising that stress makes people focus on the way things could go right, says Mara Mather of the University of Southern California, who co-wrote the new review paper with Nichole R. Lighthall. “This is sort of not what people would think right off the bat,” Mather says. “Stress is usually associated with negative experiences, so you’d think, maybe I’m going to be more focused on the negative outcomes.”

But researchers have found that when people are put under stress—by being told to hold their hand in ice water for a few minutes, for example, or give a speech—they start paying more attention to positive information and discounting negative information. “Stress seems to help people learn from positive feedback and impairs their learning from negative feedback,” Mather says.

This means when people under stress are making a difficult decision, they may pay more attention to the upsides of the alternatives they’re considering and less to the downsides. So someone who’s deciding whether to take a new job and is feeling stressed by the decision might weigh the increase in salary more heavily than the worse commute.

The increased focus on the positive also helps explain why stress plays a role in addictions, and people under stress have a harder time controlling their urges. “The compulsion to get that reward comes stronger and they’re less able to resist it,” Mather says. So a person who’s under stress might think only about the good feelings they’ll get from a drug, while the downsides shrink into the distance.

Stress also increases the differences in how men and women think about risk. When men are under stress, they become even more willing to take risks; when women are stressed, they get more conservative about risk. Mather links this to other research that finds, at difficult times, men are inclined toward fight-or-flight responses, while women try to bond more and improve their relationships.

“We make all sorts of decisions under stress,” Mather says. “If your kid has an accident and ends up in the hospital, that’s a very stressful situation and decisions need to be made quickly.” And, of course, big decisions can be sources of stress all by themselves and just make the situation worse. “It seems likely that how much stress you’re experiencing will affect the way you’re making the decision.”
For more information about this study, please contact: Mara Mather at E-mail: mara.mather@usc.edu.

SPRING into a month of Mind Chi Sessions – experience the difference!
Get together a group of your friends, (this can be before or after work; during lunch time; at your home; at your health club, religious or other group) and book a Mind Chi Month (four meetings over the 28 days to launch you into a new you!)   Special 20% disc.for Spring £40.00  Mind Chi more….

Mind Chi gift of SPRING LOVE!
For the next month, buy ‘Mind Chi’ on sale AND receive a copy of ‘Get Ahead – map your way to success’ – FREE!    Total value = £21.00      (AND a four-colour pen for the first 100 gifts)
YOUR cost only £12.00  (+ p&p)

Have the Mind Chi Edge – less stress, more energy in just 8 minutes a day
Attend a 2-hour introductory Mind Chi Edge Session if you sign up NOW (or very nearly now!) for a whopping 50% discount!    Total value = £30.00      YOUR cost only £15.00    Mind Chi more…

Business Mind Chi Wellbeing spring lunch-time showcase
Mind Chi would like to extend an invitation to businesses who would appreciate a free mini-wellbeing showcase in their cafeterias or communal rooms over the lunch time. This would involve a number—selected by the business—of  wellbeing specialists having tables or providing sessions. Mind Chi more…

To discuss any of these wonderful Mind Chi-easy options, please contact Vanda@MindChi.com