Meditation combined with art therapy can change your brain and lower anxiety

Meditation combined with art therapy can change your brain and lower anxiety

Issues with Hoarding?

Issues with Hoarding?
If you would be interested in a support group for people suffering from compulsive hoarding, please contact our office (377 9665) to register your interest.
For more about hoarding click on the link below...
About hoarding

Take charge of your energy level and depression with movement and posture.

Full article here....Posture and Depression

Topic Meeting: Happiness is…what exactly…?

 

Tuesday December 4^th, Clem McGrath, Life Coach Associates

Our speaker has co-authored 2 books, ‘Real Life: Living Skills for the Living,’ and ‘The Way to Freedom.’
Christmas is the time of ‘good will,’ ‘good cheer’ and the expectation is that we will be happy.  These messages are promoted in a variety of ways, most of them with commercial attachments.  You will be happy because of what you receive from others and they will be happy because of what they receive from you. The more expensive the gifts the happier you’ll all be. Yet for many people Christmas is a difficult time, it doesn’t meet our inflated expectations and no amount of ‘getting’ seems to make for lasting happiness.  Perhaps however Christmas is symptomatic of something else, unease.  Clem McGrath’s colleague, Anne Harvey wrote in an article titled ‘What Are We Waiting For’ that ‘….we spend our entire day torturing ourselves, trying to make ourselves fit a story.’  Clem will address these questions: -

• What is happiness exactly?
• Is happiness overrated or an unreasonable ask?
• Can we be happy, even though we’re anxious?
• How do we ‘become happy’, or is it some else’s job to ‘make’ us happy?
• Do we need to go looking for happiness and if so where is it?
• Or, does happiness happen whilst we’re busy doing something else?

Phone our office  (03) 377 9665 for more info.

Forum Meeting: Anxiety and Mental Illness

Wednesday November 21st: Maxwell Pankhurst, clinician, Anxiety Disorders Unit

Anxiety can be a significant mental health issues in its own right, especially for those whose anxiety is high, chronic or both.  Anxiety is frequently ‘comorbid’ with other mental illnesses, depression is a good example.  Managing or treating a specific anxiety can be exacting enough but how is anxiety treated in the presence of other mental health and related issues.  Maxwell will discuss: -

• What is the overall approach to the treatment of anxiety?
• How does this approach change if other mental health issues are also present?
• Are all mental health issues managed collectively or can treatment of one take priority over others?
• Is it important to understand which mental health issue may have been a precursor to another?
• When does it become compelling to involve a psychiatrist in comorbid treatment?

For more info phone our office (03) 377 9665.

Wellness Workshop

Wellness Workshops are an opportunity for you to try out different ways of managing your wellness. There are many ways in which people gain benefits for their mental and physical wellbeing. Workshops are one off sessions for you to come along and give something a go.
Laughter, Tuesday December 4th

“Your sense of humor is one of the most powerful tools you have to make certain that your daily mood and emotional state support good health.” ~ Paul E. McGhee, Ph.D.

Wellness Workshops are open for anyone to attend subject to availability of places. If you would like to register please contact our office on (03) 377 9665 or email info@anxietysupport.org.nz

Our Wellness Workshops programme for the first quarter of 2013 will be published in mid-January.

Wellness Workshop: Tues Nov 6th -  Aromatherapy
Ph 377 9665 for more info/register.

Topic Meeting: "Sleep, sleep, my kingdom for a good night’s sleep!" 
Tuesday November 6th: Dr. Alex Bartle, Sleepwell Clinic
For those of us who struggle to get a good night’s sleep (and for some it seems they never do) a restful and full night’s sleep is an ideal of bliss! 
Dr. Alex Bartle is one of New Zealand’s leading authorities on sleep and how to create the circumstances that lead to good, sound sleep.  You’ll probably learn more from him than reading any number of books and advice columns. 
This Topic could be standing room only: -
Why do we need sleep?
Why can it be so difficult, or even impossible to get good sleep?
What can we do to help ourselves to sleep soundly?
What about sleeping pills, herbs and other remedies?
Please phone our office for more info on 377 9665.

 Sleep Disorders Overview video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2yfUL8uct0

Breathe your stress away and enjoy a better quality of life!

The Art of Living Foundation is offering two more FREE De-Stress courses during November:
8 – 11 November and 22 – 25 November
Thurs & Fri – 6:30pm – 8:45 pm  Sat & Sun 10am – 2:45 pm

Benefits:

Increased personal power
Tension-free body
Anxiety-free mind
Emotional stability
Heightened mental clarity
Increased energy levels
...and a good night’s sleep!
Registrations essential – free call: 0508 Artofliving or
Ph. 0508 2786 354
canterbury@artofliving.org.nz
http://www.artofliving.org/