Got a problem?

Need to lighten up and solve it? Mystic mug will ask you some thought-provoking questions to help you laugh your way forward…

This isn’t therapy!...but if you have an issue you feel stuck with or a problem you can’t figure out how to tackle, Mystic Mug is here to help. Simply click on Mystic Mug to reveal a question…

Mystic Mug's question for you is:

Why does Mystic Mug help?

There’s method in the madness. Research suggests that (in laymen’s terms) when we are in a playful mood we have easier access to the creative bits of our brain, or the parts that help us form new habits. For example, when babies giggle at a game of “peekabo” they are learning the serious business of the permanence of objects. Because it’s fun they are happy to repeat it over, and over and - god help us parents - over again.

Worry and fear can be extremely useful when we are faced with a threat. These emotions helped our ancestors whose “problems” were man-eating beasties and “answers” needed to be along the lines of run as fast as you can. Sadly our brains put an annoying boss or a computer crashing in the same category as man-eating beasties, so we need the help of things like Mystic Mug to snap out of our caveman heads and lighten up

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