Mind

Needing help is not a weakness. Learn how to step beyond society’s love affair with self-reliance and embrace your vulnerabilities.

We’d all like our children to be brave, try new things and accept failure — but how can we nurture this? Here’s the advice of some of Australia’s top adventurers (and one of their mums!)

Hooked on a negative thought? Find out how yoga can help break unsupportive thought patterns, reroute mental circuits and change the way you think.

By medicalising your emotions, you reduce or minimise your true self and look to problem solve rather than to understand what is really going on for you. Learn how to stop fixing and start feeling again.

By quieting the mind, yoga can help you better hear and follow your inner voice, connect with your authentic self and reach your full potential.

By learning to surrender, one reader discovered he could transmute his darkness into creativity and peace.

Oscar Wilde is credited with saying, “Be yourself. Everyone else is taken.” Easier said than done, perhaps. In a world where we are expected to look and act in a certain way, we end up pleasing everyone but ourselves. In order to belong we bury our true selves and this can lead to despair. So how would it feel if the only role you play this lifetime is to just be yourself?

FOCUS promotes mental functioning and thought, to help you ‘switch on’, naturally. Crammed with powerful herbs, including: Amla, Gotu Kola, Gingko Biloba, Green Tea and Vitamins B3, B9, B12, C and E.

A good book can be an absolute pleasure but research shows that the right book can also be a healing tool.

To be spiritually toxic is to be disconnected from your spirit. You don’t have to detox your spirit but you do need to clear away the clutter that has caused your disconnection.

In the endless quest to be your best self, is it possible that you are missing some of the best parts of life? Are you missing out on the beauty and strength of imperfection?

If you view the notion of discipline in a positive light, it can become an ally to help you to live your best life.