Fig 4 Edinburgh Royal Infirmary – Gormenghast As with so many people in life, who research specific topics, their interest comes from personal experience I qualified as a medical doctor in 1980, just before my 23rd birthday. I had raced through A’levels, med school, and the age of 25 was only the third woman to … [Read more…]
Fig 3 – Moody skies Our Mood is our internal background. It influences everything we say and do – a good mood helps towards a wonderful and exciting day,, a bad mood contributes makes us gloomy and encourages negative emotions, such as frustration, anger and jealousy By contrast, we use emotions to express how we feel. Unlike … [Read more…]
A MoodMap describes your mood, visually and at the moment, You can use MoodMaps to track how you feel over time, to track what makes things better and what makes things worse. Most importantly, you do not need to be able to describe how you feel in words, you use a picture, which is your … [Read more…]
Fig 2 World’s strongest man pulling a truck Because hell is no place to stop. Widely attributed, this is one of the themes of MoodMapping. Whatever happens, keep trucking, never give up, persistence pays and remember to remind yourself ‘This too will pass’. And if this sounds a bit deep for you, we all have hidden … [Read more…]
Fig 1. The MoodMap Understanding how you feel and how your mood impacts your health and wellbeing is an essential life skill. It is a skill as basic as driving. It is the start of self-knowledge It begins with understanding how you feel, and why you feel that way. MoodMapping is a way to … [Read more…]