Sunday, September 15, 2019

Food for Thought: Managing our Minds

Continuing with our links to Global Be Well day this week's Food for Thought links to our mind and how our thinking works, how we react and how this impacts us.

"Learning to manage your mind is crucial to both happiness and success. In this week’s episode of Don’t Tell Me The Score, Simon Mundie sits down with Professor Steve Peters, the English psychiatrist best known for his work in elite sport. He was integral in helping British Cycling become world beaters, has worked with Liverpool FC and the England football team- and has been credited with making arguably the greatest snooker player ever Ronnie O’Sullivan ‘the player he is today’. Steve famously created a model of the mind that was the subject of his first book ‘the Chimp Paradox’. Learning how to manage your inner chimp is the key to peace of mind, and getting ahead in sport and in life. In this episode, Steve explains what the inner chimp is and why we have to nurture it. He also reveals how negative self-beliefs are formed, and what to do about them, as well as the importance of establishing what your values are. He talks about working with kids – the subject of his new book ‘my hidden chimp’- and the importance of basing your self-esteem on the ‘human’ part of your mind. Crucially, he explains why working on your psychological health is one of the most important things you can do."


Although this podcast is 50 minutes long, and you may not be a professional athlete, it has lots of very important information that can help us all better understand ourselves and our children. The first part of the conversation outlines how our minds work and what is the Chimp Paradox. 





In the second half of the conversation, there are very good insights into why we think the way we do, and how we can approach situations differently by controlling our own minds.

Enjoy,
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p072qx55

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