Mental wealth: a strategy for our times
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by Helen Ball
2y ago
It was world mental health day on Sunday 10th October last month. That day on social media the message was clear, mental health is important. Now more than a month on I wanted to check back in to talk to you about something that’s related. Something that I’ve been working on for nearly a year. MENTAL WEALTH. To me, mental wealth means learning how to invest in yourself.  How comes I’m working on this?  Well – I have been studying economics on and off for the last few years.  Through the lens of what would economics in a just world look like. Here’s a link if you’d like to see t ..read more
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Mental Wealth Strategy Workbook
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by Helen Ball
2y ago
Once you’ve started to think about mental wealth it’s time to create your own strategy. Download this FREE resource to help you get started, I designed it to help you write your own strategy in 20 minutes or less. Download your FREE Workbook The post Mental Wealth Strategy Workbook appeared first on AT Your Best Move ..read more
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The anti-ageing benefits of the Alexander Technique
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by Helen Ball
2y ago
I had 2 motives in my 30s for learning the Alexander Technique: To get rid of or at least reduce my sciatica and lower back pain. To be able to move in my 70’s like the teacher stood in front of me.  There’s something about having experienced pain that makes you able to see ahead.  I had already hit some sort of alert in my brain about ageing in my thirties because my late twenties had been bloody painful in terms of my back and sciatic pain.  I have an incredibly logical brain and to me, it was clear as day that ageing wasn’t going to be a walk in the park given what had alre ..read more
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Read this if your adult life has got kind of boring
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by Helen Ball
2y ago
I was ‘out out’ on Sunday with my partner Dan and our new puppy Roo having a pub lunch when we got talking to some people sitting nearby us.  It turned out we had a lot in common around music and places we used to go to in London.  It was a fun reminisce; you could see us all transported back to memories of lots of great times.  Luckily for me, Dan still makes music (you can listen here if you like) so I don’t feel like I’ve lost that side of my life so much but it got us thinking and talking on the way home.   Why is i ..read more
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We need to talk about driving
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by Helen Ball
2y ago
So it’s summer and while I’m encouraging you to get breezy and relax and get outside some more, I’m also about to get serious about something on here. Last month I saw a horrible thing happen on the motorway. I’m not going to ruin your day by going into the details but it really got me thinking about the power we have in unexpected situations to take action. And particularly how we hone that power so we have more of it. I started to realise that that commonly used phrase ‘just do the best you can’ that gets applied to all sorts of situations could actually do with a bit of pulling apart. Are w ..read more
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Try some Alexander Technique for FREE
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by Helen Ball
2y ago
Sometimes you have just got to say it like it is. Most people who have an interest in the Alexander Technique will never try it. This is partly cos they’re not totally clear what it is or how it can help them. This is how it is in a busy world, we don’t always get time to follow up on the ‘sort of interesting’, ‘maybe this could be good’ type of things because we have a list of stuff as long as our arm that we actually need to do. I know this, I see this and now it’s high time I respond to it in my work as my mission is to help more people access Alexander Technique and reap its rewards. The ..read more
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Benefits of the Alexander Technique
AT Your Best Move Blog
by Helen Ball
2y ago
A lot of people have heard of The Alexander Technique but are less sure what it is or what it can do for you. The Alexander Technique is a natural physical practice that you can learn to get the best out of your body.   It has 3 broad benefits.   1. Relieves pain or injury  You learn – how to reduce muscular tension throughout your body and increase your own co-ordination, alignment and balance. You can expect to: Reduce and free yourself of muscular pain, most commonly back, neck, shoulder, sciatica, RSI. Get better results from physical activity but actually feel like you’re ..read more
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5-minute desk refresh
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by Helen Ball
2y ago
Here is a practical set of tips that will refresh you at your desk.  I recommend you work through each stage of the 5 points as you read them and take a few breaths in between. This should feel like a calming process. 1) First of all, find your sitting bones. These are your good friends. Move the fleshy bit of your bum out the way (with your hands if you need to) and really find them. They feel like two solid entities and you can rock backwards and forwards easily if you are really sitting on them. These are your very cool inbuilt rocking chairs, and if you sit on them, you will instantly ..read more
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What I know about change
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by Helen Ball
2y ago
I am into change in a big way.  I absolutely believe that most things in life could be improved, from my own behaviour, to systems at work, to the education system to pretty much the whole global order. I could not get up every day and be happy if I didn’t believe this, it’s a big part of who I am, what I think us humans are here for and how I see the world. So you’d be forgiven for thinking I am one of those people that just finds change easy. But the reality is different, it’s more like some things are, some things aren’t and some are deeply difficult even though I really want them. I t ..read more
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So many ways to begin…but first,
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by Helen Ball
2y ago
It’s a new year at a time when nothing is as expected. We have not as yet ‘unlearnt’ our normal habits though. We feel loss for what isn’t happening that used to, seeing friends, routine, planning an outing. We feel anxiety for what we have to do as a result; anti-bac’ing, home-schooling, zoom meetings that we have a feeling are bad for our eyes.   Where are we, how did we end up here? What is the right approach at this time? Allow ourselves to pause? Write off this time as something to ‘get through’ Put lots of attention into our home environment? Buy a big 2021 planner and go hard on t ..read more
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