Greenacres Health Blog

Box Breathing: A Simple Breathing Technique to Reduce Stress and Calm Your Nervous System

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Many of us underestimate the incredible power of our breath.

Breathing is something we do automatically every day, yet it has a direct and constant connection with our nervous system. In fact, when we experience stress, anxiety, or overwhelm, Read more

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Why Change Feels Uncomfortable: Understanding the Psychology of Growth

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There’s a Fault in Our Nature

All of us, at some point, want change.

We want healthier habits, stronger relationships, greater confidence, improved wellbeing, or simply a different direction in life. Yet despite wanting these things, Read more

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Language and Health: How the Words You Use Affect Wellbeing

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Most of us rarely stop to think about how the words we use – both aloud and in our minds – affect our health. Yet language plays a powerful role in shaping our mindset, emotions, and overall wellbeing.

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Progress Over Perfection: Building Healthier Habits

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Back in the late 1980s, I worked in a duty-free fashion buying office as a merchandiser. It was a busy, buzzing environment where the buying team and we merchandisers worked closely together to make sure each shop had the Read more

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So what is mindset?

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Mindset is defined as – ‘the established set of attitudes held by someone’

We use many phrases that in truth are referring to our mindset:

  • Being in the right frame of mind.
  • Having the right mentality.
  • It’s not in Read more
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Finding opportunity in adversity – the power of reframing

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Life is full of unexpected twists and turns. No matter how much we plan, things don’t always go the way we want them to. However, the key to happiness and success often lies not in what happens to us Read more

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Lethargy or Procrastination – The stealer of time and dreams!

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Lethargy or Procrastination? The two often get muddled up in our minds as the outcomes are often very similar.

Lethargy is more of a medical condition which is characterised by feelings of fatigue as well as a lack of Read more

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Health Is Wealth: Why Your Wellbeing Matters

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In a world where success is often measured by material wealth, it’s easy to ignore the most fundamental asset we possess… our health: an important and overlooked wealth.

Money can buy us many things, but it cannot buy good Read more

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What if you do nothing to improve poor health?

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I want you to just take a moment to consider the significant implications of not addressing poor health choices.

Would you invest in a car without ensuring that the engine is running well? Your body is that vehicle that Read more

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Good self-talk to instill resilience in your Teen

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It is important to good self-talk to instill resilience in your teen. The teen years are full of challenging experiences and changes and it is easy to become anxious or overwhelmed with feelings and succumb to nerves. Mantras are Read more

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Dressing to Impress and it’s importance

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Do you ever think why dressing to impress is important? This can be especially true when working from home. Today, more people have been put in a position where working from home has now become the norm.

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Positive Health Benefits of Gardening

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Getting out into the garden can mean hard physical work at times, but the benefits and positive health implications of gardening are many. Though not always obvious at first glance, gardening is said to be good for the soul!

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Exam stress… now they’re finished, what happens?

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At some point in our lives, we all have to go through exam stress and exams. Whether taking them in your younger years or as a mature student, many of us have negative feelings toward them. Believing we will Read more

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