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Welcome to our space dedicated to well-being news! Here, you will find enriching articles, well-being advice and the latest scientific research to improve your daily life.
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Sleep
Nearly 15% of the French population believes that sleeping is a waste of time. However, one in three people suffer from sleep disorders. And yet, sleep plays a major role in all areas of our lives. Indeed, good sleep is essential in learning and memorization (particularly long-term memory), in the development of metabolism (very favorable to good growth in young people) and in many cognitive and biological functions. This will help improve your general health and reduce the risk of depression, certain pathologies (such as cancer, obesity, stroke, etc.) or even accidents (car accidents, among others).
Slogans: Positive self-instructions
Slogans are short, punchy, understandable and clear sentences that are repeated. But what exactly are slogans for? This is a good introductory question to ask your patients.
Somatic origins of psychiatric illnesses
This article will be dedicated to evaluation and especially to the fact that you need to think carefully, when you have a patient who comes to you, about the organic origins of a psychiatric or psychological pathology. It is the idea that, behind a patient who is depressed, who is anxious, who has mood instability, there may be a somatic disorder, an organic disorder. That is to say a medical, medico-surgical pathology to be treated.
Sophrology
Reducing your anxiety by being completely in control of your body and your thoughts is the very principle of sophrology. This therapeutic technique is based on various methods of relaxation, breathing, and imagery which bring rapid and long-term relief. Sophrology has also proven itself when used accompanied by virtual reality.
The mental load
You've probably already heard about mental load. But do you really know what that represents?
The savior syndrome
Among us there are saviors. These people who are very, even too, empathetic, who want to help everyone in every situation. These are people who will give everything for others, even if it means forgetting themselves. We call it savior syndrome.
The TIPI method
Anxiety, sadness, anger are all negative emotions that can be difficult to manage and can impact our personal and professional lives. However, there are simple and quick methods that allow you to accept and deal with your emotions, so that they no longer impact our daily lives. Among them, the TIPI method.
Therapy ACT
In mental health and in the context of psychotherapy, one element often comes up as a source of suffering: the need for control, and the distress it brings when, inevitably, certain elements escape this control, which can lead to a feeling of helplessness. The ACT is one of the tools to overcome this difficulty.
Toltec agreements
The Toltec agreements aim to rediscover freedom and personal well-being, present in ancestral Mexican culture. It was Don Miguel, in 1997, who shared this precious information with us in order to help us feel more in harmony with ourselves.
Understanding CBT: an effective and concrete approach to get better
Cognitive-behavioral therapies, or CBT, are today among the most used psychotherapeutic approaches and the best validated by scientific research. Recommended by many health authorities, they are aimed at people who wish to better understand their psychological difficulties and learn how to overcome them in a concrete way.
Understanding your stress
It is not always easy to understand your stress in a situation and recognize it. It is sometimes difficult to know what this anxiety refers to. And yet this is necessary to reduce this anxiety, its symptoms and regain daily serenity.
Vicarious learning
The other has an impact on us, and we have an impact on him. Vicarious learning, or modeling, refers to the imitation of behavior observed in our peers, without going through trial and error. Theorized by Albert Bandura, this mechanism shapes our acquisitions since childhood and plays a key role in education as well as in reducing anxiety. Deciphering this essential driving force of social interactions.