Mental Health and Well-Being with Delphi Ellis – Helping You Sparkle™
Talking Therapies and Wellbeing Workshops in Milton Keynes for Private and Corporate Clients
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Have you ever noticed how sometimes the smallest objects can lift your mood? Things like:• a splash of perfume• your favourite lippy• a quote that inspires In my car, I have a little bag of lavender. It’s been there for years, but if I give it a gentle squeeze it still gives off a wonderful …
What colour matches your mood today? Colours mean different things to people across cultures and traditions: some people associate red with love, others see it as a signal for danger or passion. Blue might be an indicator of calm or for sadness. The latter is one reason today has been labelled “Blue” Monday, when some …
Blue Monday is the name given to a day in January (typically the third Monday of the month) which is claimed to be the most depressing day of the year. The concept was first publicised as part of a 2005 press release from holiday company Sky Travel, which claimed to have calculated the date using …
Is it just me, or has the world got more noisy lately? I don’t mean the normal background noise that’s present in modern every day life, like the hum of your central heating, the clicking of keyboards, or the sound of traffic outside your window. I don’t even mean the sirens in urban areas (day …
How are you feeling? It’s been a tense week for some, and in the next couple of days we will say goodbye not just to another year – but an entire decade; and wow, what a decade it’s been right? In some ways, 2019 has been a year of national positives that we can all be …
How do you cope with not knowing? In a digital age where we can have answers at our finger tips, there’s something unsettling about situations where we just. don’t. know. 21st century living has been described as VUCA:• Volatile• Uncertain• Complex• Ambiguous. One of the reasons, Margriet Sitskoorn explains, may be that on a daily basis, we …
How balanced does life feel right now? When we think about feeling centred, we might align this with feeling happy.When all our ducks are in a rowWhen life is ticking along nicelyWhen we feel a sense of peace. If life feels like it’s where it needs to be for you right now, that’s genuinely awesome. But …
If you had to take the temperature of your life right now, what would it be? Whether it feels nice and pleasant, or cloudy with a chance of meatballs, sometimes it’s good to stop and take a measure of your environment. When we are struggling with something difficult it might be because our confidence …
What does it actually mean to be happy? We’ve literally been exploring the subject of happiness for thousands of years. Around 2500 years ago, the Buddha saw happiness as freedom from craving (e.g. it’s healthier to focus on being, rather than doing or having). A little while later, Zhuangzi introduced the idea of “going with the flow”. In more …
When will you show the world what you have to offer? The insights and offerings that the world needs to know right now – more than ever – and that only you can offer. Your passion for things that: • get your motor running • put fire in your belly • make you let out a little …