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Activate your Genes

We have all heard of exercise is important and that a sedentary lifestyle has been linked to diseases. Recent evidence has shown that an active lifestyle can increase your life by up to 9 years. The World Health Organisation offer guidelines…

Employee Engagement, Health, Health and Wellbeing, Mindset

Acts of Kindness

When you do something nice for someone else, it can actually make you feel better too. This isn’t just something that happens coincidentally - it has to do with the pleasure centres in your brain. Doing nice things for others boosts your serotonin,…

Exercise, Mindset, Stress

Cold Shower Therapy

One of the Rituals many of our Ritualize members have on their Ritual board, is to take a cold shower a few times a week. If this brings feelings of dread into your stomach, don't stop here .... keep reading!

Employee health, Health, Health and Wellbeing, Mindset, Workplace health and safety

Finding the Silver Lining

We all react to different problems in different ways. Ever noticed that some people can stay calm under adversity while others are obviously stressed out? One of the best ways to help change your emotional response to a bad situation is something…

Employee health, Health, Health and Wellbeing, Mindset

Get Your Game Face On

Athletes regularly practise mental rehearsal, or what we like to call mental sculpting before a competition, and in little breaks during a competition. The top tennis players in the world use their mental strength to help them succeed. In fact,…

Employee health, Health, Health and Wellbeing, Hydration, Nutrition

Alcohol Free Days - Why Do It?

It’s very common for people to wind down after work with a drink. This may seem harmless enough, but the reality is that half of that bottle of wine or those few bottles of beer could be causing silent damage to your liver, with serious…

Employee health, Health, Health and Wellbeing, Mindset, Sleep, Stress, Workplace health and safety

Box breathing: The Military Secret

In 2012, the New York Times wrote an article, called “The ‘Busy’ Trap”, about how so many of us over-schedule ourselves in order to feel more important or to avoid being alone with our thoughts but our busyness can be self-inflicted.…

Exercise

From Blue to Green

Why 'Green Time' is important for wellbeing Many of us will have memories of being told to play outside when we were kids. Our parents motive was most likely to get us out of the house, but chances are they weren’t aware of the full benefits…

Health and Wellbeing, Mindset, Sleep

Blue light casts a new light on sleep deficiency

Sleep is affected by many things. When you think of what affects your sleep, the usual suspects are things like caffeine, alcohol, stress, noise. What has come to light (pun intended) is our increased use of artificial light which is affecting…