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18 wellbeing hacks for students : using psychology's secrets to survive and thrive / Aidan Harvey-Craig.

By: Harvey-Craig, Aidan [author.]Publisher: London : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2020Description: 240 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: 21865738ISBN: 9781787752801; 1787752801Other title: 18 well being hacks for students | Eighteen wellbeing hacks for studentsSubject(s): Self-actualization (Psychology) | Well-being | Students -- Psychology | Students -- Mental health | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Students -- Mental health | Students -- Psychology | Well-beingAdditional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification: 158.1 LOC classification: BF637.S4 | H365 2020Summary: "Through 18 short chapters, this book offers insights to help improve your wellbeing. Based on the latest psychology research, each chapter teaches you a new hack to see your world in a new way and offers surprising and simple ways to influence and improve your wellbeing."--Back cover.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

How can the desk in front of you reveal a whole new perspective on your life?
What's so important about refusing to board the catastrophe train?
Why does the anti-rotting agent given off by plants make you feel great?

Through 18 short chapters, Aidan Harvey-Craig scours every corner of psychology - from neuroscience to psychodynamics - to uncover the unexpected secrets of hacking your wellbeing. Based on the latest research, each chapter takes you on a journey of surprises, guiding you through an abundance of deceptively simple ideas which will help you to see your world in a new light and improve your wellbeing.

Organised into three sections - 'Notice', 'Energise' and 'Connect' - each hack addresses issues that affect us all, including our sleep, relationships, stress, identity, and our dependence on smartphones. Intertwining the latest insights in psychology with practical and easy-to-use advice, this book offers new ways to empower yourself and tackle the challenges of growing up and studying in the 21st Century.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-240).

"Through 18 short chapters, this book offers insights to help improve your wellbeing. Based on the latest psychology research, each chapter teaches you a new hack to see your world in a new way and offers surprising and simple ways to influence and improve your wellbeing."--Back cover.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Introduction (p. 9)
  • Notice: Verb / n&rmcgreve;&upsilonipa;.t&alphaIipa;s - to see or become aware of something
  • Wellbeing Hack i: Name Your Emotions (p. 19)
  • Find out about the universal and compound emotions. Develop your emodiversity.
  • Wellbeing Hack 2: Eat Something You're Looking At (p. 33)
  • Forget diets and thoughtless snacking. Find out how to bring back the joy of food.
  • Wellbeing Hack 3: Watch Your Thoughts (p. 49)
  • Find the links between your thoughts, behaviours and emotions. And refuse to board the catastrophe train.
  • Wellbeing Hack 4: Write Yourself a Lifeline (p. 63)
  • Discover the three layers of you. Find out how to be yourself through writing your life story.
  • Wellbeing Hack 5: Use Music on Purpose (p. 77)
  • Treat music like fire, not like a drug. Use it for emotion and identity development.
  • Wellbeing Hack 6: Stop Dating People Like Your Parents (p. 87)
  • Look back at your first intimate relationship and decide what you need to unlearn.
  • Energize: Verb / &rmcgepsilon;n&rmcgreve;d&rmcgz;&rmcgrevv;&rmcgI;z - to boost energy and enthusiasm
  • Wellbeing Hack 7: Paint Your Broken Edges Gold (p. 101)
  • Beware of perfectionism. Embrace your own imperfection with the ancient art of Kintsugi.
  • Wellbeing Hack 8: Sleep for Eight Hours (p. 111)
  • Discover how to use your own superpower for emotion regulation, creativity...and fabulous looks.
  • Wellbeing Hack 9: Stand on a Desk (p. 119)
  • Change your personality. Become more flextrovert. Beware of the narcissists.
  • Wellbeing Hack 10: Take a Forest Bath (p. 131)
  • Find out how nature's own anti-rotting agent is the antidote to stress.
  • Wellbeing Hack 11: Do (Almost) Nothing (p. 139)
  • Give your brain's default mode a chance to be creative and to discover who you are.
  • Wellbeing Hack 12: Take an Exercise Snack (p. 147)
  • Discover how sitting down can make you more creative. And how to get more BDNF mechanics to fine-tune your brain.
  • Wellbeing Hack 13: Breathe Tactically (p. 155)
  • Find out how combat breathing calms you down. And coffee breathing speeds you up.
  • Connect: Verb / k&reveipa;'nekt - to bring people together
  • Wellbeing Hack 14: Stop Liking People (p. 167)
  • They're using conditioning to make your phone addictive. Fight back with analogue experiences.
  • Wellbeing Hack 15: Join (or Leave) a Group (p. 177)
  • You have multiple social identities. Make sure you're listening to the right ones.
  • Wellbeing Hack 16: Ask Someone If They're Okay - Twice (p. 187)
  • Find out why kindness really does take courage. Be vulnerable - because you're worth it.
  • Wellbeing Hack 17: Thank Your Way Out of Chaos (p. 195)
  • Get past guilt, familiarity and victimhood. Use gratitude for healing, clarity, confidence, happiness, contentment, friendship and achievement.
  • Wellbeing Hack 18: Hug Someone Real (p. 203)
  • Discover how human touch is dangerously powerful. But don't play it safe with virtual touch.
  • Thank you... (p. 215)
  • About the Author (p. 217)
  • Notes (p. 219)

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