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The Mind Room is a health, wellbeing and performance psychology community based in Melbourne.

We provide individual consultations, workshops and programs with a focus on ACT, CBT, performance psychology, mindfulness and wellbeing science, to help you live a healthy and fulfilling life.

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Have you caught up with your friends lately? A 2019 study, titled 'Social network structure is predictive of health and wellness', found that the strength of a person’s social circle was a better predictor of stress, happiness and well-being levels than fitness tracker data on physical activity, heart rate and sleep. The study showed that social support, whether it comes from friends, family members or a partner, was strongly associated with better mental and physical health. A healthy social life can: - lower stress levels - improve mood - encourage positive health behaviors and discourage damaging ones - boost cardiovascular health, and - improve illness recovery rates. Conversely, the study found that social isolation is linked to higher rates of chronic diseases and mental health conditions, and has even been likened to smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Time to call your friends and arrange that catch up. . . . #friends #callyourfriends #socialisolation #socialgroup #friendships #positivitiesoffriendships #themindroom #socialcircle #conversationswithfriends #socialnetwork #wellbeing #psychologystudy
Have you ever been told, "If there's a will, there's a way"? Perhaps you have had a goal, or are presently working towards one, and have the absolute conviction that you will succeed, based on willpower alone. According to psychological research ('Willpower, Choice, and Self-control', published by the American Psychological Association), your willpower is like a muscle. It's a finite resource that depletes with use. As a result, by the end of your strenuous days, your willpower muscles are exhausted. An article in @IncMagazine explains, "If your life requires willpower, you haven't fully determined what you want. Because once you make a decision, the internal debate is over. As Michael Jordan has said, 'Once I made a decision, I never thought about it again.' After you decide what you want, the decision is made. Thus, all future decisions regarding that matter have also been made. No questions." However, the greatest resistance to any goal, according to @IncMagazine, is your environment. "No matter how much internal resolve you have, you will fail to change your life if you don't change your environment. This is where willpower fails. The willpower approach doesn't focus on changing the environment, but instead, on increasing personal efforts to overcome the current environment. What ends up happening? Eventually you succumb to your environment despite your greatest efforts to resist." Achieving your goal therefore comes back to being committed. This involves an investment upfront, making it public, setting a timeline, installing several forms of feedback/accountability, and removing or altering everything in your environment that opposes your commitment. As a whole, if your goal requires you to use willpower, research suggests that you haven't actually made up your mind, or you haven't fully committed to what you're going to do. Your environment opposes your goals. Thus, you haven't created an environment that makes your goals inevitable. . . . #goalsetting #willpower #goalsetting #settinggoals #achievinggoals #psychology #selfcontrol #knowyourdestination #themindroom #themindroomworkshops #environmentalfactors #melbournepsychologist
@TheGuardian calls it, 'The Age of Envy'. Career envy, kitchen envy, children envy, food envy, upper arm envy, holiday envy. Ethan Kross, Professor of psychology at the University of Michigan, says, envy is being taken to an extreme. "We are constantly bombarded by 'Photoshopped lives'”, he says, “and that exerts a toll on us the likes of which we have never experienced in the history of our species. And it is not particularly pleasant.” . Clinical psychologist Rachel Andrew has observed among her patients that knowing they are looking at an edited version of reality, the awareness that #nofilter is a deceitful hashtag, is no defence against the emotional force of envy. . “What I notice is that most of us can intellectualise what we see on social media platforms – we know that these images and narratives that are presented aren’t real, we can talk about it and rationalise it – but on an emotional level, it’s still pushing buttons. If those images or narratives tap into what we aspire to, but what we don’t have, then it becomes very powerful”. . Recently, a @VanityFair article about influencers who live in and around the Byron Bay area has received some backlash. The article calls out the subjects for selling a consumer-free, care-free life via sponsored posts and paid collaborations: . “In just a few years, (instagram) has turned making your life look like a vacation into an actual job for some (yes, there really are all kinds) and, for others, has become a constant reminder that watching people live as though on vacation is the only vacation most people can afford. Instagram makes us sad now. Surveys have found it to be the worst social media platform for mental health”. Do you follow social media accounts that make you envious? Does this have a positive or negative impact for you?
Medicare Rebate. Did you know that you may be eligible for a Medicare rebate for some of The Mind Room workshops and courses, as part of your mental health care plan? This would be in addition to your individual sessions. There is a variety of newly-released workshops on our website, such as Love & Connection, Understanding Emotion and Made to Thrive: Urban Retreat. Visit the link in our bio to view all the workshops, or get in touch to check your eligibility for a rebate. . . . #medicare #medicarerebate #melbourneworkshops #melbournecourses #adulteducation #adultlearning #themindroom #mentalhealth #knowyourmind #selfcare #wellbeing #melbournerpsychology #melbournepsychologist #wellbeingclasses #gettoknowyou

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