The weekend’s newspapers are always a little different, a little more opportunity to diverge away from the working week stories that dominate the press and take a moment to look at lifestyle and consider how to deal with the day to day. Following the excesses of the Festive Season, the first full weekend of New Year magazines and supplements often brings ideas and thoughts on how to improve or maintain a healthy lifestyle.
The Guardian this weekend offers up a selection of ways that you can look to expand and uphold your state of wellbeing with the ‘rise of the holistic wellness makeover’. The link below will take you to a whole range of articles and commentary that look at how to reboot the mind, body and soul as we get ready for the first full working week / back to school moments of the New Year.
As one of the only remaining media outlets that offers free access to online content, here is as good a place as any to start in finding a little support and guidance in getting yourself off in the right direction in 2019.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/find-your-balance—fitness-special
Still available on the Newsstands today or accessible online for a small charge (£1 for four weeks) – The Financial Times Weekend Edition offers an interesting approach to wellbeing with a piece by their ‘Wealth Man’, Jason Butler, ‘Find Joy in 2019 by Rejecting Materialism’.
Noting that at this time of year ‘we are susceptible to a higher focus on materialism and associated overspending when we feel sad or depressed’ Butler reflects and builds on an extensive body of research that ‘shows that, beyond meeting basic lifestyle needs, people who have a highly materialistic orientation and lifestyle generally have a lower level of wellbeing than people who do not’ and asks us to consider two questions to drive deliberations:
Do I really want and need this thing for this amount of money?
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What can I not now do as a result of spending this money on this thing?
https://www.ft.com/search?q=find+joy+in+rejecting+materialism
AcademyCP supporting your mind, body and soul throughout the year, not just in January. A Happy and prosperous New Year to one and all.