Be your best emotional self
Published on 20th April 2020
Many of us are dealing with a rollercoaster of difficult emotions in the midst of this new reality. For the majority, this is the biggest collective curve ball we have experienced in our lifetimes. Now is the perfect opportunity to discover how best to boost mental agility and take care of our inner wellbeing. Check out our range of online mental wellness courses below and practice self-help at your own pace. Learn directly from the experts about the best ways of coping with your fears and worries and get top tips for achieving rest and relaxation. FREE and available with your Dublin City Libraries card.
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Universal Class
Universal Class provides access to over 500+ online courses including the wide range of courses on mental wellbeing. To access online, register with your library card number and email address.
Anxiety Therapy: in this course, you will gain a thorough understanding of anxiety in all of its manifestations, as well as learn proven therapies from both traditional and alternative medicine.
Stress management - When we are faced with an incidence that we feel we cannot handle, we may feel our stress mounting. Depression management - This online class provides an uplifting, upbeat and realistic approach to depression which is intended to energize and encourage learners to face their problems head-on.
Meditation is about being comfortable and at peace. As we explore the several techniques of practicing meditation, you can pick and choose those practices that make you most comfortable.This Lifetime Wellness course will give you a blueprint to help you feel alive, vital and confident and experience a state of well-being. Can you actually exercise your mind back to wellness? Why not? Healing affirmations -this course provides an in-depth guide to healing many common physical, emotional and mental ailments through conscious thought correction and healing affirmations.
The Art of Breathing is a course on utilizing your full breathing abilities in order to improve your day-to-day life. Chakras. How can understanding chakras help to illuminate alternative ways of remedying stress and ailments, and how are chakras integrated into other fields of study? Yoga. Emphasis is on the latest methods to slow and calm your mind, release stress and purge your thoughts of the worries and stresses of the day.
The Great Courses
Or would you prefer not to have to do ‘homework’? Then The Great Courses Library Collection may be more to your liking. The Great Courses Library Collection Is a series of thought-provoking half-hour video lectures. You can play, pause, and review information as often as you like. Each course is taught by experts in their field, and includes a supplementary guide book. You can access as many courses as you want to for 7 days. After 7 days, simply log in again and get another 7 day’s access. Register for the Great Courses Library Collection. See the fabulous range of courses below:
Boosting your emotional intelligence - Learn how to control your emotions and use them to help you achieve your goals with an awarding-winner professor. How to Boost Your Physical and Mental Energy. Boost your sense of vitality by learning simple strategies and practical exercises that will help you make the most of your energy.
How to Make Stress Work for You
Join a fitness consultant and popular instructor for a fascinating look at how to finally control your stress.
Practicing Mindfulness: An Introduction to Meditation
Learn the principles and techniques of meditation and enjoy the deep and lasting benefits of this ancient practice on your mind and body.
Masters of Mindfulness: Transforming Your Mind and Body
Learn how to master your own mind and change your life with guidance from 11 mindfulness specialists.
Mind-Body Philosophy
Explore how the brain creates your experience of reality with an award-winning Professor of Philosophy.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy: Techniques for Retraining Your Brain - Discover practical techniques for modifying undesirable behaviour and managing your moods with this course that explains how and why cognitive behavioural therapy works.
I really hope you have found some useful content here that will help you stay well at this very challenging time!