Mental Health - Balancing the Mind - Worksop Library - Adult Learning

This interactive course explores practical strategies for achieving mental balance by understanding and improving how the mind works. You will gain insights into the brain's hemispheres, eliminate distractions, practice self-reflection, nurture a healthy mind, and explore neuroplasticity.

By the end of the course, you will develop tools to enhance mental well-being and resilience in daily life. This course is designed for any level of experience and any age group. Uses Interaction through You Tube and Includes the Tutor Guided Meditations Live. This course will help you to understand the roles of the brain's hemispheres in mental balance. You will identify personal tendencies toward analytical or creative thinking, investigate external and internal distractions that impact focus, and complete techniques such as mindfulness and digital detoxing. We will delve into self-awareness through mindfulness practices, emotional intelligence exercises, and guided meditation reflections.

Exploring the connection between mental and physical health, we will explore building positive habits like exercise, balanced nutrition, and gratitude journaling to support a healthy mind. You will understand the basic workings of neuroplasticity and how habits reshape neural pathways in the brain, and work with techniques for replacing negative thought patterns with positive ones. Reflecting on course learnings, you will be equipped with a toolbox for long-term wellbeing and be able to set sustainable goals for mental balance.

This course will include tutor led meditations around:-

• Integrating the left/right brain strengths.

• Exercise for non-attachment.

• Gratitude.

• Practice for the mind.

• Goal setting.

Please bring to the course with you:-

• It is advisable to bring a bottle of water to keep you hydrated. Along with pen and paper for notes/journal purposes.