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Illustration of a person taking a brisk ten-minute walk outdoors to boost mood through light movement

Psychology

November 21, 2025

The ten-minute walk that boosts mood: how light movement triggers feel-good brain chemistry

Discover how a brisk 10‑minute walk lifts mood by triggering endorphins, dopamine and serotonin, with simple tips to make movement a reliable feel‑good habit.

Illustration of a person writing a two-minute gratitude note to reduce anxiety and shift emotional focus through reflective thinking

Psychology

November 21, 2025

The two-minute gratitude note that reduces anxiety: how reflective thinking shifts emotional focus

Discover how a two-minute gratitude note calms anxiety. Learn a simple method for reflective thinking that shifts emotional focus toward support.

Illustration of a person practising a deep-breath pause to calm the nervous system and reduce stress hormones

Psychology

November 21, 2025

The deep-breath pause that calms your mind: how short oxygen resets reduce stress hormones

Discover how a 60-second deep-breath pause—oxygen resets like the physiological sigh—calms the nervous system, steadies heart rate, and lowers stress hormones.

Illustration of two people in a tense conversation taking a brief pause before responding to reduce emotional intensity

Psychology

November 20, 2025

The delayed-response rule prevents arguments: how brief pauses lower emotional intensity

Learn how brief pauses lower emotional intensity: the science of the delayed-response rule, tactics for speech and digital, and habits for home and work.

Illustration of a person standing tall with an upright, aligned posture that boosts confidence by signaling strength to the mind

Psychology

November 20, 2025

The posture-correction trick boosts confidence: how upright stance signals strength to the mind

Discover how an upright stance can boost confidence, sharpen speech, and calm nerves. Practical, science-backed posture cues for work, interviews and beyond.

Illustration of a person practising attention anchoring by focusing on a single object to break worry cycles and ground the mind

Psychology

November 20, 2025

The attention-anchoring habit breaks worry cycles: how fixed focus grounds the mind

Discover how attention-anchoring disrupts worry cycles, grounds the mind, and builds resilience with science-backed techniques and one-minute practices.

Illustration of the planned-worry window technique for scheduling concerns to reduce anxiety

Psychology

November 20, 2025

The planned-worry window reduces anxiety: how scheduling concerns gives you control

Discover how a planned-worry window, a CBT-backed method, reduces anxiety by scheduling concerns, boosting control, and turning rumination into action.

Illustration of a person placing a hand over their heart while lengthening the exhale to calm panic

Psychology

November 20, 2025

The grounding-touch trick eases panic: how one physical cue calms the nervous system

Learn how the grounding-touch trick—hand to heart with longer exhales—calms panic, activates the vagus nerve, and restores steady focus discreetly anywhere.

Illustration of a person pausing to write three verifiable truths—facts, personal control, and options—to calm self-doubt and stabilise thinking

Psychology

November 20, 2025

The “three truths” exercise eases self-doubt: how quick reality checks stabilise thinking

Discover the three truths exercise: a fast, factual reality check that calms self-doubt, restores agency, clarifies next steps at work, home, under pressure.

Illustration of a person holding a pocket-sized handwritten compassion note and reading it to soften self-talk

Psychology

November 20, 2025

The compassion-note exercise softens self-talk: how a written line rewires inner dialogue

Discover how a one-line compassion-note can soften self-talk, retrain your inner critic, and boost calm focus with a five‑minute routine and why it works.

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