31/1/2014 5 Comments Do visit Dr. Feelgood![]() HI AND WELCOME TO THE MOODLAB! Let me ask you a question: When was the last time you visited a hospital? I heard the song "dr Feelgood" the other day which made me wonder... Can an environment like a hospital make you feel good? The answer: yes it can! Actually, that's what it was supposed to do in the first place, right? Be a place of comfort, healing, making you feel good again. When I received an email about a dear friend who is very ill indeed it made me sad. Having a serious disease like hers is bad enough as it is, but this also means she has to visit hospitals regularly. Experiencing not too pleasant treatments. Her association of the hospital will most likely be effected by those not so feel good experiences. In fact: there are many people like her who have a bad association with hospitals. They have to go there often to undergo not so pleasant things. Hospitals don't make them feel so good. To them hospitals mean pain, fear, stress, insecurity etc. All stress inducing feelings. But like I just mentioned: stress does not improve healing. So a building can actually make you feel more sick. Quite the opposite of what a hospital was designed to do. How you feel can make you heal. Since there is such a vast demand for healthcare, we have a problem with our current systems. They are not sustainable. Too costly and too many people need them. We simply cannot afford to continue providing healthcare the way we've grown accustomed to. Changes have to be made. Luckily many doctors choose their health trade because they seriously want to make you feel good. They have invested a lot in research, trying to find out what they can do to help you release stress. One very important thing they have found is this: comfort + beauty + luxury = well-being a.k.a. less stress a.k.a. faster healing a.k.a. less medication a.k.a. easier to treat patients a.k.a. staff with less sick leave. Imagine the cost that could safe longterm in our society! Imagine what it would mean to you as a patient if you'd feel better faster! Isn't it a shame how things like beauty, comfort and luxury, the things that have proven to make us feel good, are often exactly the things we use to cut costs? Isn't that a missed opportunity? Can you see how budgeting on beauty, luxury & comfort is actually costing us more in the long haul? How it should our 'business' to add more of those three, to create an environment that promotes health and feeling good? Adding beauty -art- can reduce stress. Art can make you heal faster. Art can have healing properties. Research has shown us that it doesn't matter whether you see a real plant or a representation of a plant, like a plant on a photo: they both calm us, reduce stress and improve your well-being. Why not use that given? More and more hospitals and other healthcare institutions are waking up to this option, improving their spaces, adding in more beauty comfort and luxury so their environment really supports healing. These environments are called 'Healing environments' Often they have art that is made based on evidence found in research. Proven to support healing; evidence based art. There are also the option of art projects that help patients change their perception of a hospital environment, 'cause what you CHOOSE to SEE, determines HOW you FEEL. The Moodlab has gotten excellent results with patients by organising Moodwalks in healthcare environments. Of course the primary idea is to make sure you don't get sick in the first place.. But if you do need care: we all want you to feel good as soon as possible. And if that means adding more beauty, comfort & luxury to your environment, I'd say: 'Go for it!' So make sure you get your visit of dr. Feelgood to visit you, ;) ,add in beauty and create the space to be, heal & feel good. Next time : let's go home! See you then! Niene.nu ![]() You may absolutely share this article with people you think may enjoy it. When doing so, please forward it in its entirety, including our contact and copyright information. Thanks and enjoy! The Appetite for light article is written by Niene.nu andwww.nienesmoodlab.nu If you have any questions or comments, please send them to:mail[@]niene.nu If you'd like to see more moods: feel free to take a look around in the MoodLab while you're here and see if Niene.nu can help you raise your 'Appetite for life"! Buy the song in the iTunes store And yes, you can get the photo at the top as a print here or as a gift card here. Note: if you work in a hospital and you'd like to alter the perception of your hospital by your patient: Niene.nu has gotten some fantastic results with patients, bringing her inspiring Moodwalks to hospitals. Please check this page to learn more or send an email
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31/1/2014 4 Comments Come on' home baby![]() HI AND WELCOME TO THE MOODLAB! Today I'd like to talk to you about 'coming home'. To get in the mood, let's ask Mel to join us, shall we? Press 'play' on the YouTube video and start reading! When returning from a Summer holiday: don't you love the feeling of coming home? Opening the door, that familiar squeek, finding all the mail on the doormat, greeting your pet? How green your garden, how much mail! Reuniting with friends sharing stories? But how much 'home' can you actually get? Many people can't truly come 'home' cause they have no 'home'... Not that they're homeless; they might very well have the most beautiful house, no, I'm talking about their true 'home': the body/mind/soul that they do not inhabit. Not connected with their inner world, many people have 'signed out'. They go through life numbing themselves. Numbing to not have to feel. Not really knowing what lies deep within them. Denying their natural state of well-being, they go through like a phantom. Phantoms have voids that need to be filled. And the ego mind will come up with very clever ways to do just that. Basically it could be anything from serious addictions like smoking, alcohol, drugs to shopping, watching TV, eating, gaming, gossiping, there are so many an subtle ways. Anything will do. It brings in clutter & noise and prohibits you to connect with your inner world. It's a downward facing very addictive spiral. I think many 'phantom people', on a subconscious level, 'know' their true state. Filling voids leaves you with nasty nagging sensation. A feeling, fear, an urge, a call to action, like background music repeated over and over again. "come on home, baby now come on home now, right away I'm coming home baby real soon" Feel good? SO HOW CAN THIS BE? We are bombarded by imput in the external world: Cell phones ringing, checking your last Facebook messages, Neon signs along the road, TV: All screaming for our attention. Our modern society is built to pull us outwards. It's very tempting to 'sign out' and lean back and just slide on out. But what will you pay? Well: you! When you're not at home, you can easily become a puppet for others, loosing the steer in your own life, not knowing what it is that you really want.
WHY DOES THIS MATTER? I agree with Sir Ken Robinson when he states that the future of our world depends on what is going on within us and that we need to reconnect ourselves with our inner selves. influences the quality of our lives and with that it has a great impact on the quality of our communities. Think about the health care costs, sick leaves, the penalty system, all this numbing implies. no conformity/standardising Our world is changing so quickly, I don't think there is any more room for signing out. But change evokes fear. It is a mechanism of our subconscious mind to keep us safe. However: if we are to face and solve our problems, I think these changes have to come from within every single individual. It's time to come home to ourselves. You can do it. You are a unique person. Did you know there has never been and will never be anyone on the planet throughout history that is exactly like you. That's right. You are unique and special and the world needs to see you. "Our differences are to be celebrated" "It's such a shame you ever went away..." How about you? On the 'phantom-scale' from 1 to 10 how would you score? How do you -even if it is subtly- numb yourself? I believe in a way everybody does, even if you're not fully aware... WHAT TO DO? What helps me to get grounded & 'come home' is: SImplify, Declutter, Get creative by letting your imagination run. Move. Sit still. Eat well. Drink water. Do things that make you feel good. There's so many things you can do Changes are best made in small increments by adding in the good stuff. 'WHAT GOOD COULD YOU ADD IN TODAY'? Seek the silence so you can hear the you in you There are many modalities that can help you with that. I personally love Moodwalks. It quits my mind and visualises my thoughts. See what's really going on inside you and take charge from there. The slightest change is perception can alter your life. Take personal responsibility, open your mind, get out of phantom mode and put life back in your hand It's time to get grounded and come home. Come on' home baby, now Do do do Next time: creative ideas and the jungle See you then! ~Niene.nu ![]() You may absolutely share this article with people you think may enjoy it. When doing so, please forward it in its entirety, including our contact and copyright information. Thanks and enjoy! V The Appetite for light article is written by Niene.nu and www.nienesmoodlab.nu If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: mail[@]niene.nu If you'd like to see more moods: feel free to take a look around in the MoodLab while you're here and see if Niene.nu can help you raise your 'Appetite for life"! Buy the song in the iTunes store And yes, the photo at the top is available as a print here or as a gift card here. HI AND WELCOME TO THE MOODLAB! I like kids in the age between 4-6 years old. Why? Because they're curious. They will ask you tons of questions. They love to play and explore and are highly creative. Innate 'Appetite for life'! CREATIVITY? According to professor Paul Iske, creativity is being able to have a multi-paradigmatic view; i.e. 'being able to see different perspectives'. This is how you get creative ideas. The trick is to integrate all these ideas (Provocative Operation) and generate new patterns. We can increase the number of new patterns by asking questions. Not just any question but questions like: ~ What would happen if...? ~ Suppose if... ~ Why is it that...? These kind of questions will trigger your brain and allow you to absorb new patterns. 'Lateral thinking, the making of new combinations, will too. A good way to do this is via humor. THE BENEFITS OF ENHANCED CREATIVITY ARE: ~ Creative activities will yield significant cognisant gains; creativity makes you smarter! ~ Creativity also makes you more flexible, and therefor ... lessss prone to stressss ... ~ Being able to think creatively is placing yourself in option-mode. It creates space. A global study by Adobe showed that 80% of those were surveyed said that creativity is important to economic growth. Just a few evidence based facts. NOW THE THINGS IS... The older we get, the less questions we pose & less we laugh, the more prone we are to what Professor Iske refferres to as: 'terminal seriousness' Terminal... As in 'no turning back..? He demonstrates in this graph: WHY IS THIS DROP TO "TERMINAL SERIOUSNESS" TO BE TAKEN SERIOUS? * it's a drop in quality of life: * less laughter... less good for your health * less questions = less new experiences = more grey in your life * being less creative = being less adaptive to change * not open for new things = less flexibility of mind If you want to create value, you have to be creative. Think about the costs and state of society.. Plus: in this rapidly changing world we HAVE to be creative. 'Terminal seriousness'. What a phenomenan... YOUR ANTIDOTE? * laugh * ask lots of questions YOU ARE BORN A CREATIVE HUMAN BEING. You don't have to wait for creativity to appear, it's a natural part of who you are. Yet it ís through deliberate practice, you can enhance your creative thinking. Creativity has always been important for human evolution yet today creativity has never been more important. We can't wait for the creativity muse to give you the breakthroughs. "We have to be 'deliberate creative' to accelerate what nature has given us". says Gerard Puccio at TEDxGramercy So don't be to serious, laugh! Ask questions! Play! Do! Let your hair down and get creative! And if you're not sure how to shake the condition of 'terminal seriousness' and train your creative mind? Come have fun and join me for a Moodwalk! It'll make you question and give you new, fresh perspectives and raise your 'Appetite for life'. Or you could watch the video below... MnahMnah! Niene.nu ![]() You may absolutely share this article with people you think may enjoy it. When doing so, please forward it in its entirety, including our contact and copyright information. Thanks and enjoy! The Appetite for light article is written by Niene.nu and www.nienesmoodlab.nu If you have any questions or comments, please send them to: mail[@]niene.nu If you'd like to see more moods: feel free to take a look around in the MoodLab while you're here. 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