Emotions Matter. Really‪!‬ 5th Place

Smiling makes us feel better. It’s a scientific fact. Chantal and Matthew explore the subject and science of smiles, how they make us feel better and how smiling more can support our emotional fitness and mental health.

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an online free mental health class:
https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

Build your emotional fitness by taking our mini audio-course: How to Master Your Emotions.
https://courses.5th.place/courses/how-to-master-your-emotions

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Music - Corporate Happy (Long) - Daddy’s Music
https://pixabay.com/music/corporate-corporate-happy-long-9348/

After introducing the five pillars of emotional fitness a few weeks ago, Matthew and Chantal delve deeper into the second pillar of Emotional Fitness, Moving. Humans tend to be very sedentary beings when they were built to move! Everyone knows that exercise is important for physical fitness but did you know that movement is vital for ongoing emotional fitness too? This episode explores why.

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an online free mental health class:
https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

Build your emotional fitness by taking our mini audio-course: How to Master Your Emotions.
https://courses.5th.place/courses/how-to-master-your-emotions

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Swinging Web by SergeQuadrado
https://pixabay.com/music/main-title-swinging-web-20926/

Workplace bullying can be difficult to deal with while it has serious long reaching health and wellbeing consequences. It often flies under the radar because of its verbal and psychological tactics. In this podcast, the first of Season 3, Chantal and Matthew explore what workplace bullying can look like, who bullies and who gets bullied and what to do about it.

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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending a **FREE** Emotional Fitness Class:
https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

Learn more about Shape of Emotion, our tool for emotion regulation, on our Master your Emotions mini audio-course: https://courses.5th.place/courses/how-to-master-your-emotionsns

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Summer Surf by AudioCoffee
https://pixabay.com/id/music/pukulan-yg-tdk-keras-summer-surf-120252/

Who hasn’t wanted more peace in their lives? Matthew and Chantal explore how driven to aggression and division we tend to be, and how Hollywood seems to seed a heavily conflict oriented approach to solving problems. The place to start is always with ourselves, finding more peace in ourselves is the first step to finding more peace out in the world.

**[ Links of interest

Imagine - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkgkThdzX-8

Man in the Mirror - Michael Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PivWY9wn5ps

Give Peace a Chance - John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3_0GqPvr4U

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To stay connected and up to date about our work, join our 5th Place community:
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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an Emotional Fitness Class:
https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

Learn more about Shape of Emotion, our tool for emotion regulation, on our Master your Emotions mini audio-course: https://courses.5th.place/courses/how-to-master-your-emotionsns

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Motivational Day by AudioCoffee
https://pixabay.com/id/music/perusahaan-motivational-day-112790/

After introducing the five pillars of emotional fitness a few weeks ago, Matthew and Chantal delve deeper into the first pillar of Emotional Fitness, Thinking. They explore the pillar and what it means in the context of building emotional fitness and why it is important for our overall wellbeing.

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To stay connected and up to date about our work, join our 5th Place community:
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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an Emotional Fitness Class:
https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

Build your emotional fitness by taking our mini audio-course: How to Master Your Emotions.
https://courses.5th.place/courses/how-to-master-your-emotions

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Music: Save Me by Liborio Conti
https://www.no-copyright-music.com/

With World Suicide Prevention Day coming up on 10 September, Chantal and Matthew talk about the subject that no-one wants to really talk about - Suicide. A hard subject to deal with but that makes it all the more necessary to face it and talk about it. Matthew shares his lived experience of suicide ideation and attempts and the learning that has come out of that very dark time in his past.

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To stay connected and up to date about our work, join our 5th Place community:
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Being emotionally fit positively impacts your mental alertness, decision making ability, leadership capability and relational competence. Become emotionally fitter by regularly attending an Emotional Fitness Class:
https://emotionalfitnessclass.com/

Build your emotional fitness by taking our mini audio-course: How to Master Your Emotions.
https://courses.5th.place/courses/how-to-master-your-emotions

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**[ Global suicide and crisis hotlines

If you or someone you know is suicidal, please use one of the numbers for your country in the link below. If someone is in immediate danger, please call your local emergency number (e.g. 911 in the US, 999 in the UK and 10111 in South Africa).
https://5th.place/contact-us/who-to-call-for-emergency-mental-health/

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Music: Music by DaddysMusic from Pixabay
https://pixabay.com/id/users/daddysmusic-22836301