Dear students, how are you?
I hope you could rest and enjoy your holidays. I did it the best I could.
I´ve been thinking a lot about the way to continue with our lessons, so very soon we´ll have to try new methods. I´ll let you know.
For the time being, we´ll continue with the help of the blog.
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👉 Let´s start with a review of what we did before Easter.
Page 66 Review and extension: Exercises 1& 2.
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👉 Vocabulary: Emotions
Please, do exercise 1 (a, b), page 71.
Key answers b: 1d, 2b, 3g, 4f, 5e, 6a, 7c, 8h
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Think about the following questions:
• What does 'emotional hygiene' mean to you?
• What's more important: body or mind?
• How should we handle such states as loneliness, failure
or rejection?
👉Open the link below and please do exercises 2, 3
Key answers: exercise 2: Shake off, called names
exercise 3: a. splurge, b. battle, c. trigger, d. resilience, e. ruminate ,f suppress, g. upscale.
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Answer the questions. Write your answers.
• What was the most upscale restaurant you have ever been to?
• What situations make you ruminate a lot?
• Have you ever battled with some bad habits?
• What would you like to splurge on?
👉After checking your exercises (above) with very useful language, we are going to listen to a TED talk on the topic of emotional hygiene and send a comment in the blog either on one of Guy Winch's statements below or about some of the pieces of advice mentioned on the reading Coping emotionally with coronavirus . Do you agree/disagree?
- "Loneliness creates a deep psychological wound, one that distorts our perceptions and scrambles our thinking. It makes us believe that those around us care much less than they actually do."
• "In fact, we all have a default set of feelings and beliefs that gets triggered whenever we
encounter frustrations and setbacks."
• "(...) that's why so many people function below their actual potential. Because somewhere
along the way, sometimes a single failure convinced them that they couldn't succeed, and
they believed it."
• "Once we become convinced of something, it's very difficult to change our mind."
• "We have to catch our unhealthy psychological habits and change them. And one of
unhealthiest and most common is called rumination. "
8 comments:
"(...) that's why so many people function below their actual potential. Because somewhere along the way, sometimes a single failure convinced them that they couldn't succeed, and they believed it."
I don't agree with the idea that we have to be succeed in life. Or, at least, I think we should reconsider the idea that we usually have of "success". Because... what is success? Having a convertible car in the garage? Being a wealthy business owner? Being happy, and not successful, that's the cornerstone of my thinking. Nevertheless, I consider, as it was said in the video, that it's essential to have a positive mind in order to achieve your goals, but we have to reconsider our aims.
I strongly agree with Dr. Guy W. when he claims that loneliness may clutters our minds and creates misunderstandings among others. I remember when my best friend moved to Seattle, at the very beginning she used to tell me that the city was gray and boring, that people were cold and that she didn't like the place. Some time after, she enrolled in the local gym and started to make acquaintances, so she gradually changed her mind and ended up loving the city and when it came the time to quit that place she suffered. Loneliness made her see other reality but she could overcome the situation.
We have to catch our unhealthy psychological habits and change them. And one of unhealthiest and most common is called rumination
Rumination , specially at this times, is the worst thing we can do for our emotional hygiene, and I talk about my own experience.Rumination involves dwelling repetitively and at length on negative thoughts, often related to failure, rejection, humiliation, loss or retaliation,"loneliness etc..Indeed, research has linked this tendency toward overthinking with numerous harmfuleople use to practice rumination in every fields of the life so It can make us to fall in a deep loop of bad hygiene habits , what is more , It can make us fall into chronic depression as Mr Guy said.
"We have to catch our unhealthy psychological habits and change them. And one of unhealthiest and most common is called rumination."
I agree with the Dr. Guy Winch's idea that we should try to identify our unhealthy psychological habits and change them because, they affect our mental health in a really bad way. They make us vulnerable to the unknown, the enviroment o even ourselves because, many times there is no worse enemy than ourselves. Rumination is one of the unhealthiest because maybe it makes us punish ourselves most of the times with things that don't really matter and overthinking about anything can never be healthy, this problem can cause depression, anxiety, eating disorder or even cardiovascular disseases
Eradicate unhealthy psychological habits I think is the first step of a healthy mind and a happier life.
Coping emotionally with coronavirus: Advice from psychotherapist Julia Samuel
I agree with Julia Samuel in the most of her advices to support ourselves in the difficult and strange situation that we are living with the coronavirus. From my point of view, it is essential to have some advice to help us to be emotionally strong and do not do things might be wrong for our mental health. Apart from the seven tips that Julia gives, it is necessary to have a timetable to create a routine and we should fulfil it. In my case, it helps me a lot and makes me feel strong in these circumstances.
Once we become convinced of something, it´s very difficult to change our mind...
I disagree with Guy Winch because you can be convinced during a period of time but not all the time if circunstances change. if circunstances change, Why are not you going to change your mind?
In a nutshel: When facts change I change my mind and it is not difficult for me even if i had been convinced before.
After watching the video and reading the article, some very useful tricks can be taken into account and settled into our daily routine. I am utterly agree with Dr. Guy Winch, whose theories make us to think that phsycological wounds, as rejection, loneliness or rumination, could trigger more dangerous illnesses than the physical ones. To avoid these sadly consequences, the advices given by Julia Samuel should be implemented in our lifes. Advices which are simple, cheap and, overall, self-gratifying.
To sum up, the best way to have a healthy life is to look after both our body and our mind and even more in these difficult times.
"Loneliness creates a deep psychological wound, one that distorts our perceptions and scrambles our thinking. It makes us believe that those around us care much less than they actually do."
I totally agree with this statemen. In my opinion, when we feel alone we also feel frustrated, insecure or helpless. I mean, we don't really feel the affection of those around us. A clear example is the situation we are living now. We are at home with our family (in my case), but sometimes I feel lonely... that haunts me and also make me evade the reality and in that moment, loneliness appears.
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