Tag: Resilience

Personal self-care includes activities that are part of the self exploration journey that aims to find our personal identity and enjoy every moment in our lives. If we don’t know ourselves, we cannot practice self-care; it is easy to focus on external things instead of going deep within ourselves. As such, taking the time to learn ourselves, can change how we perceive ourselves and the world around us.

Lloyd's Register Foundation wanted to understand how safety is currently valued across different industries and sectors. For this reason, it commissioned Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) to undertake assess the status and effectiveness of current methods to value safety and explored opportunities to make improvements where needed.

Focusing on our spiritual self-care is equally important to other types of self-care. It involves activities that nurture our spirit and allow ourselves to reconnect with our higher self and raise awareness of who we truly are.

The times when we are truly happy or joyful often involve other people. Socializing is important for our mental health; positive social connections help reduce stress, which negatively impacts our immune system.

The global nature of shipping industry means that any disruption to maritime transportation networks can have far-reaching implications for world economy. A great recent example is the deep disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic to ports, shipping, and supply chains. In this context, building resilience in maritime transport and economy is a key way forward for a post-pandemic world.

All of our emotions are necessary; even if one day you wake up with negative feelings, just allow yourself to accept them. Nonetheless, it’s ok not to feel ok. We are human beings and not robots; as such, we cannot be in exciting mood at all times. Life is like a cardiogram, with its ups and downs.

In an exclusive interview to SAFETY4SEA, Mrs. Katie Higginbottom, Head of ITF Seafarers’ Trust says that seafarers’ welfare remains a top priority for 2022; in particular, the organization will continue working towards facilitating seafarers’ access to shore leave and providing decent means of communication onboard along with cooperation with the frontline welfare charities.

The metaphor that refers to the body as our “real home" or “temple” comes to highlight that our body is the only one we have throughout our entire life and thus, it is vital to fuel it properly and keep it well-nourished and happy.

People are often reluctant to prioritize their self-care because it is in their nature to put others first. Here is a way to re-frame this: it’s not about you. You need to prioritize self-care because you have people depending on you. Meaningful self-care includes making mindful changes in patterns of thoughts and behaviours that do not contribute to your wellbeing.

Just as physical fitness provides us with an increased ability to respond to life in all its richness, mental fitness helps in the same way. Mental fitness can be defined as having and maintaining a state of well-being and cultivating awareness of how we think, behave and feel.