Blue Wolf Reviews

Tag: mindset

  • Fertility: Mindset & Meltdowns: How to Manage Your Emotions While Trying to Conceive

    Fertility: Mindset & Meltdowns: How to Manage Your Emotions While Trying to Conceive

    For you it is time to begin to have a family, something you have wanted to do for many years, but for one reason or another the timing has not been right. But falling pregnant has not been easy, it has been challenging, distressing and devastating.

    The years have moved along with no or little change; you have been medically assessed, tried IVF, studied to the minutest degree all forms of helping to conceive from Chinese medicine, acupuncture, diet, phases of the moon and herbal remedies.  So far nothing has worked, or if it has the fledgling embryo has failed to develop.

    Your mental and emotional health has taken a battering, your loving relationship with your partner has faced serious stress issues and your entire life, in-between your career responsibilities, is focused on falling pregnant. Your bank balance is suffering from the cost of the IVF attempts. The emotional pain is unbearable at times and a brave face is becoming harder to wear.

    Lisa Ashworth, a woman who faced all the many issues of trying and failing to fall pregnant for ten, long painful years, finally discovered what she believes makes all the difference – Mindset, a simple and yet complicated component of ensuring that you are always at your positive ultimate, no matter what.

     Fertility Mindset and Meltdown is her journey towards motherhood, written in a warm and caring style that reaches out with love and understanding, to share the many things she eventually discovered made the final difference to falling pregnant.

    In this book, which is in the nature of a coaching course, diary and hand of friendship, she details how to go about making small but significant changes in the way you live your life, believe in yourself and begin to finally truly take care of yourself, the all-important person who is on a life changing journey.

    She looks at the issues of mental and emotional health, your relationship with your partner, stress in your life, taking back control of what is happening and most importantly and significantly, being honest with yourself!

    If you are on this emotional rollercoaster ride, Fertility Mindset and Meltdown could be exactly what you are looking for; a breath of fresh air, gentle understanding and a beacon of hope that eventually you will fall pregnant and the baby you so desire will be yours.

  • Mindset Mastery

    Mindset Mastery

    Behavioral Scientist Darren Fleming, in this relatively brief, for this style of book, addresses the issue of habit; how a habit is formed, how it affects our life, what can be done to change the habit from negative to positive and lead a happier, far more productive life.

    The Preface of Mindset Mastery is worth the read as it is filled with so many ‘hooks’ it is almost impossible not to read on to discover what, once you emerge from a sea of self-help, you can actually do to improve matters; the ‘matters’ being the way you live your life currently as well as the simple but hard to digest truth that change often needs to happen and if you don’t make it happen, something else will.

    Truthfully speaking, the mind is a complicated component of our make-up and once it gets an idea it becomes extremely attached to this idea. It really does not like having to let go of an idea and make change, therefor a habit is born.

    Mindset Mastery is about understanding what the triggers are, what we react to in our society, then how to train our brain to non-react, which in turn deactivates the habit and accompanying sensations so they do not return. Basically as Fleming states, ‘Mind Mastery is the ability to maintain mental stability and equanimity, regardless of what is happening’.

    How to go about this is established throughout the book, which while Fleming has detailed much about our reactions to the lifestyle today and the effect it has on us in a holistic sense, it is also a very excellent course in doing less to achieve more.

    He has used examples that everyone can relate to – a mid-life crisis, cold calling, sales targets and more, what are the key drivers and what can be done in a number of simple steps to make the changes sought or required.

    Set out in two parts the first is about Understanding, the second is based in taking Action and like most things, it is fun to play with the techniques as you work your way through the book. Should you make the decision to change you have already been given the keys, if you revert to ‘habit’ at the end of the book and choose to do nothing, that is then your choice.

    Well set out, easy to read, fun to work with and if you are serious about making a change in how you live your life, view your world and have the genuine desire to do less and achieve more, Mindset Mastery is definitely the way forward.

    Highly recommended.

    A free copy of the book can be found by going to www.mindsetMastery.online courtesy of Darren Fleming.

  • The Noom Mindset: Learn the Science, Lose the Weight 

    The Noom Mindset: Learn the Science, Lose the Weight 

    Noom’s mission is to help as many people as possible live healthier lives through behavioural change; it is not a diet. For many the Noom app has become a tool to help them master stress, anxiety, confidence and self-care, in addition to their health.

    In order to support those who prefer to access information via the written word, the authors of “The Noom Mindset”, have converted this digital platform into text.  This book aims to complement the interactive and coach-supported Noom digital course.  

    Although for many readers, there is nothing ground- breaking in this book, it does provide helpful reminders of techniques for achieving set goals. It expands upon the science and psychology behind the concepts promoted in their app.

    Of all the behavioural strategies, the authors consider mindfulness to be the most powerful. They recommend the readers develop a food philosophy which they explain is different from a diet.

    This user friendly guide to the psychology behind unwanted weight gain, contains a comprehensive index and end notes for those readers, who want to undertake further investigation. It also includes quizzes, questions upon which to reflect, and perceptive advice.

    The language is both motivational and easily understood; terms and concepts are clearly explained in the all-inclusive glossary.