Are your moods holding you back? Do you have days when you feel you can conquer the world, followed by days when you hardly want to get out of bed? Are there days when you have so much to do that you are overwhelmed, and other days when you can calmly work and nothing is too much trouble?
What is going on? In one sentence - your moods are getting in your way! The difference between those days, that are in all other ways the same, is not what is going on in your outside life, but what is going on inside you. And it is also probably true for you, that this has been going on for a while. And the problem is more likely getting worse than not, as the pressures around us increases, the pressure to perform, the pressure to keep your job and keep everyone happy around you increases year by year and even month by month.
This is the Miller moodmap.
How does that help?
The Miller moodmap forms the foundation of the moodmapping training. We believe that once you understand your moods once you know what is causing them, you can start to manage them. There are four basic moods,Action, Stressed, Depressed and Calm. These moods affect how you feel, how you think and how you behave. If you wake up in a good mood you know it is going to be a good day, equally if you wake up feeling anxious to know that the rest of the day may be difficult.
This is not rocket science! For the most part you already know everything you need to know and you already know what you should do. If only it was that easy! Moodmapping takes what you already know, looks at it in a different way and helps you make use of it in a practical everyday sort of way. For example, feeling anxious makes people look at life in a negative way. On the other hand if you were suddenly to wake up in a calm relaxed state, you could look at problems in a calm relaxed way and in that state of mind work out the best way to solve your problems, and do it.
Mood mapping helps you get to that calm relaxed state into the mood for action that helps you to sort out your problems. It helps get you out of the anxiety depression loop that traps so many people in permanently negative state of mind. Above all it helps you understand how you feel and why you feel that way and what you can do about it. It also helps you know what works. There is no point persisting in doing something if it isn't helping! Moodmapping helps you work out whether or not something is working for you and helps you find something different if that's what you need. There are five keys to mood, your surroundings, your physical health, your relationships, your strategies and what you know and your personality. These five keys help you manage your mood and keep ahead of your game.
This Saturday you will learn how to moodmap and how to use this technique to help yourself and the people around you feel better.
Most of us do not have the time or money to see a therapist will personal coach regularly, we have to manage ourselves. If you are a manager in the business, you have to help manage your staff, if you are a therapist your clients want therapies they can manage themselves.
Moodmapping is new and it is different. It is about helping yourself and helping the people around you. You start by learning exactly how you feel now, recording it, making a change and then working out whether you feel better or whether you need to do something different. Because unless you measure how you feel you can't be sure that you really feel better and that what you have done has made a difference.
You can give someone a fish and you feed them for a day. You can have therapy and feel better for a week. On the other hand, you can teach someone to fish and they can feed themselves. You learn moodmapping and help yourself feel better more energetic for the rest of your life. Even more exciting, you can teach moodmapping to the people around you, and they too can start to feel better.
This Saturday, you will spend the day with people like you want to learn something new and want to help themselves. You will do different exercises that help you understand how you feel now and where you are now. You get a workbook that can form the beginning of your own personal journal of self-management.
By the end of the day you will
- Know how to Mood Map
- Understand what causes Mood
- Learn strategies to change your mood
- Understand the effect of moods on the people around you
- Understand a little about extreme moods
- A brief introduction to personality
The workshop runs from 10 AM until 5 PM ,
The price is £80 and there are concessions available.
Please e-mail me at Liz@lizmiller.co.uk if you think you can be helped by a concession.
All you need to book your place is to reply to this e-mail and I look forward to seeing you on Saturday
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and best of all see you this weekend!
With best wishes
Liz
Dr Liz Miller
Mood Mapping workshop in Fulham this Saturday 5th June
Location: Fulham - 38 Harwood Rd, Fulham London SW6 4PH
Telephone 020 7736 6924 or 07957 489961
The nearest tube station is Fulham Broadway - (Wimbledon Branch of the District Line)
come out of the Mall, turn Right then left down Harwood Rd - half way down on your right
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Hello Liz
ReplyDeleteI am in Spain for the most part and have only just seen your website and workshop. I have been struggling for many years - it is difficult to know where to start! I know I need to be able to explain myself in a better way about things I did 5 years ago - no that is not a typo they are still biting me on the bum! I do not go for self pity and prefer self help - hence my interest in your site, however I feel trapped and powerless as no one seems to really listen to a Bp no matter her level of intelligence.
Thanks for your time - info/feedback would be appreciated.
Wendy Daley
bonsfeather@hotmail.com
Hi Wendy
ReplyDeletethank you for your comment. Apologise for the delay in getting back to you. Have just been finishing a job in occupational health.
It is a perennial problem of people with mental health particularly bipolar disorder symptoms find that everything they say is put down to their disorder. For me, the answer has been to learn to be as rational and calm about what I say to people as possible. It's important to make them where they are not, where we think we are. I have friends who are spiritual and who are practising astrologists. I joke with them that I could not afford to have the beliefs that they do, because of the men in white coats would come and take me away.
Once one has been labelled with bipolar, it becomes doubly important to appear as boring and rational normal as possible. It is important to places where you can be yourself and where you can expression creativity, but most people have not been on the kind of journey that someone with bipolar has been on and because of that it is easy to get little strange.
I'm looking forward today where we appreciate each other's diversity without constantly trying to put people in boxes and writing people off because they have had a set of experiences that are different from other peoples.
On a more mundane level, I try to get to know people before they know I have had bipolar disorder. I also try to get to know people before they find out I'm a doctor. Because that too carries with it stigma, immediately it puts a gap between you and the people around you, because they expect doctors to be different from ordinary humans. And first and foremost, we are ordinary humans.
Thank you for making contact. I hope that sooner rather than later we will have workshops in Spain. Because I think that it is often easier to learn things from a discussion, than from a book.
Best wishes
Liz