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Help your teen develop resilience

What to do for the back to school wobbles

Yes, school has started again, and although there is much Covid still about, for most young ones it is much like a cold. This means that students and teachers are returning to the classrooms – after there has been the best part of a 2 year disruption!

If you are 10 years old, that is a whopping 20% or 1/5th of your life!
If you were my age, 1/5th would mean a 15 year hiatus from a ‘normal’ life.

Therefore it is quite likely that people of all ages are feeling a little wobbly as you start to go back to what you used to do.

What to do about it?

A short while back I had the pleasure of making a video series to go with a new book, ‘The unfair student advantage’ with Michael Tipper. Realising that the strains from school related stressors are a major issue, Michael asked me to share some tips for students, parents and teachers.

Michael Tipper author of ‘The unfair student advantage’

Here is the first of these in ‘Help your teen develop resilience’, this is an overview and there are a further nine videos going into depth.

As a launch special it is £8.00 and it is available in the Mind Chi shop now!

Please let me know if you think this may help you, your teen or teachers.

Chi & I look forward to seeing / hearing from YOU!!!

To book a 15 minute Mind Chi Chat with Vanda to explore how Mind Chi might assist you, your group, team or company build resilience and joy!

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Mind Chi Basic 8-minute routine

Mind Chi Chat – good gracious gratitude!

That phrase, ‘Good gracious gratitude’ could be read several ways.
Gratitude is indeed good and gracious.
As a grateful person, you will usually feel more ‘gracious’, tolerant and forgiving of any acts of indiscretion from others.
And there is increasing scientific and phycological research speaking of how ‘good’ it is for you.
There are benefits to your body, brain and general wellbeing.
Finally, if you decide to really try gratitude on, you may exclaim ‘Good gracious gratitude!’ when you experience the difference it can make in your life.

Mind Chi Step 8 – gratitude

In the final step of the 8-step/minute Mind Chi routine, we close with a minute of thinking about all the things / people / experiences / times for which you are or will be grateful. Just 1-minute. Performed every day as a part of your 8-minute Mind Chi daily routine, accumulates your benefits.

Gratitude, the 8th step of Mind Chi
Gratitude, the 8th step of Mind Chi

What is gratitude?

Gratitude is an emotion, a readiness to show your appreciation. For that to happen, you need to re-visit our friend ‘awareness’. Put out your gratitude antennae, be tuned to the chances to see and express your gratitude.

Gratitude is also a trait, you can grow the habit of gratitude. It becomes how you see the world. How you judge other’s actions. How you feel inside.

8 ways gratitude improves your life, it can:

  1. improve your physical health – you want to take care of yourself
  2. make you sleep better
  3. raise your psychological wellbeing – if you are grateful, it is difficult to be depressed!
  4. increase your self esteem, building self confidence and self concept
  5. enhance empathy whilst reducing anger and aggression
  6. extend your relationships, people like to be around grateful people
  7. boost your resilience, your ‘bounceability’ increases and
  8. IT FEELS GOOD!

Please let us know the difference it has made for YOU!

Chi and I are standing by on the ready to take your calls and emails! 

Showing how memory and positive success associations link in your brain
Chi & I look forward to seeing / hearing from YOU!!! 

To book a 15 minute Mind Chi Chat with Vanda to explore how Mind Chi might assist you, your group, team or company build resilience and joy! 

For more wonderful Mind Chi blogs:

Want more resilience for your organisation, here:

Here is a short cartoon about ‘Resilience for Change’