Research indicates that having a sense of meaning is very important for highly sensitive people’s wellbeing. This is a wonderful interview with Professor Peggy Kern (from the Centre for Wellbeing Science, University of Melbourne) and Nina Mapson Bone (managing director of recruitment agency Beaumont People) where they explore and discuss meaningful work and job crafting […]
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Having a clear ‘sense of self’ is important for musicians’ wellbeing
Although music-making is associated with enhanced wellbeing in several contexts – for example, everyday, community, clinical, and educational settings – at the professional level making music is frequently considered a threat to wellbeing. Professional musicians often experience performance-related injuries, musculoskeletal pain during performance, and psychological demands (e.g. performance anxiety, general stress, mental fatigue). In a […]
Continue readingDoes your ‘true self’ actually exist?
Is there such a thing as a ‘true self’? Nick Haslam, University of Melbourne “To thine own self be true”, the saying goes. It is often taken as sage advice, a remnant scrap of Elizabethan life coaching, but Shakespeare may have meant it to be heard as a stale platitude. He puts it in the […]
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