Episodes

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Welcome to Aalto! Orientation podcast

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Welcome to Aalto! Orientation podcast
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As a master’s student at Aalto University, there are many opportunities to build one’s own life out of student life. How is it done? In this podcast episode, you can hear the experiences of Maria Karesoja, a master’s student in economics, and maybe even small tips are promised. Host: study psychologist Paula Sjöblom.

Concentration 2

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Concentration 2
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In the sequel episode study psychologists Meeri and Henna go through questions about concentration that they collected during Aalto Wellbeing week from Aalto students and staff. So if you have wondered which brain part is the most active while you concentrate, how social media and concentration are connected or how deadline anxiety, light or architecture …

Concentration

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Concentration
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Aalto study psychologists Henna and Meeri discuss what concentration actually means, what factors may affect your concentration and explain how you can start improving your ability to concentrate!

Dealing With Your Anger: a self-compassion excercise

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Dealing With Your Anger: a self-compassion excercise
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The purpose of this exercise is to help you get along with your anger. Easily we strive to keep anger out of our consciousness or supress it . We have learned that it is not really appropriate to be cranky and if we express direct, unhandled anger, we get into conflicts with other people. Working …

Dealing With Difficult Feelings. Excercise

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Dealing With Difficult Feelings. Excercise
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After identifying the needs, it is easier to correct our own activities or we can try to express our needs to others and then the likelihood of meeting needs increases. Facing and accepting negative feelings and working with them increases one’s well-being in the long run.

How to use music as a wellbeing tool?

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How to use music as a wellbeing tool?
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Music is a way to convey certain kinds of emotional states and experiences through sounds. Hence, music can be used to aim for suitable states. Why and how can music be used to improve e.g. concentration or time management? Aalto university psychology group intern Meeri Anttila offers practical tips on how you can get started …

Mindfulness: Scanning your body movement (with music)

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Mindfulness: Scanning your body movement (with music)
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A mindfulness practice by psychologist Sanni Saarimäki and Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University. Music: Serena (Longer Version) by Spheriá | https://soundcloud.com/spheriamusicCreative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Mindfulness: Scanning your body movement

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Mindfulness: Scanning your body movement
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A mindfulness practice by psychologist Sanni Saarimäki and Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University.

Mindfulness: Grounding yourself

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Mindfulness: Grounding yourself
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A mindfulness practice by psychologist Sanni Saarimäki and Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University.

Mindfulness: Grounding yourself (with music)

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Mindfulness: Grounding yourself (with music)
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A mindfulness practice by psychologist Sanni Saarimäki and Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University. Music: Serena (Longer Version) by Spheriá | https://soundcloud.com/spheriamusicCreative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Mindfulness: Noticing Your Own Thoughts by Using the Metaphor of a Stage (with music)

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Mindfulness: Noticing Your Own Thoughts by Using the Metaphor of a Stage (with music)
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A mindfulness practice by psychologist Sanni Saarimäki and Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University. Music: Serena (Longer Version) by Spheriá | https://soundcloud.com/spheriamusicCreative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Mindfulness: Leave It At the Door

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Mindfulness: Leave It At the Door
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Mindfulness practice by psychologist Merita Petäjä, from Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University.

Mindfulness: Leave It At the Door (with music)

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Mindfulness: Leave It At the Door (with music)
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Mindfulness practice by psychologist Merita Petäjä, from Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University. Music: Serena (Longer Version) by Spheriá | https://soundcloud.com/spheriamusicCreative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Mindfulness: “Listening Me”

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Mindfulness: “Listening Me”
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Mindfulness practice by psychologist Merita Petäjä, from Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University.

Mindfulness: “Listening Me” (with music)

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Mindfulness: “Listening Me” (with music)
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Mindfulness practice by psychologist Merita Petäjä, from Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University. Music: Serena (Longer Version) by Spheriá | https://soundcloud.com/spheriamusicCreative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Mindfulness: Counting Your Breathing in and Out by Using Numbers (with music)

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Mindfulness: Counting Your Breathing in and Out by Using Numbers (with music)
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A mindfulness practice by psychologist Sanni Saarimäki and Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University. Music: Serena (Longer Version) by Spheriá | https://soundcloud.com/spheriamusicCreative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/

Mindfulness: Counting your Breathing by Using the Metaphor of the Slide (with music)

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Mindfulness: Counting your Breathing by Using the Metaphor of the Slide (with music)
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A mindfulness practice by psychologist Sanni Saarimäki and Oasis of Radical Wellbeing, Aalto University. Music: Serena (Longer Version) by Spheriá | https://soundcloud.com/spheriamusicCreative Commons CC BY-SA 3.0https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/