How May We Help You? Discover Our New Platform – Anderson Connect

We hope you and your loved ones are safe and well. We will be sharing the following:

• How May We Help You?
• Keep Me Safe – Reminder to download mySSP app
• Mind-Body Connection

We hope you enjoy!

How May We Help You?

We recognize that times have changed, you may have difficulty reaching us by phone in the virtual world. To make it easier for you, we have created a “How May We Help You” platform, please follow the 3 quick steps, we will be just as quick to respond.

• Go to this link, https://andersoncollege.com/help/
• Select your campus
• Submit any questions and concerns

Keep Me Safe – Reminder to download mySSP app

At Anderson, we care about you and your wellbeing. We know that many people face personal difficulties, which may have led to additional hardships due to COVID. We have partnered with keep.meSAFE to provide our students with a free Mental Wellness Student Support Program (SSP). We have put this initiative in place to take care of YOU and we remind you to download the mySSP app immediately so that you can take advantage of the service. Please visit https://www.keepmesafe.org/ for further information.

For starters, the ‘Explore’ page is a cool feature! When you open the app, it is the second button from the left. Under the Explore page, check out this article called Planning for Your Future in 2021. It discusses goal planning for relationships and family, health, and finances.

Mind-Body Connection

Are you aware of your mind-body connection while you focus on school, family, and adapting to the lockdown?

Knowledge is powerful. We hope this section gives you some insight into how our minds can affect the health of our bodies. Our thoughts, behaviours, and actions are interconnected and have an impact on one another. We can learn to become more aware of our thoughts and behaviours to better ourselves.

Short Stories

Sometimes Just Let It Be

Once Buddha was walking from one town to another town with a few of his followers. This was in the initial days. While they were traveling, they happened to pass a lake. They stopped there and Buddha told one of his disciples, “I am thirsty. Please get me some water from that lake there”.

The disciple walked up to the lake. When he reached it, he noticed that some people were washing clothes in the water and, right at that moment, a bullock cart started crossing the lake right at the edge of it. As a result, the water became very muddy, very turbid. The disciple thought, “How can I give this muddy water to Buddha to drink?!” So, he came back and told the Buddha, “The water in there is very muddy. I don’t think it is fit to drink”.

So, the Buddha said, let us take a little rest here by the tree. After about half an hour, again Buddha asked the same disciple to go back to the lake and get him some water to drink. The disciple obediently went back to the lake. This time he found that the lake had absolutely clear water in it. The mud had settled down and the water above it looked fit to be had. So, he collected some water in a pot and brought it to the Buddha.

The Buddha looked at the water, and then he looked up at the disciple and said, “See, you let the water be and the mud settled down on its own. You got clear water. It didn’t require any effort”.

Moral of the Story:

Your mind is also like that. When it is disturbed, just let it be. Give it a little time. It will settle down on its own. You do not have to put in any effort to calm it down. We can judge and take best decisions of our life when we stay calm.

The False Human Belief

As a man was passing the elephants, he suddenly stopped, confused by the fact that these huge creatures were being held by only a small rope tied to their front leg. No chains, no cages. It was obvious that the elephants could, at any time break away from their bonds but for some reason, they did not.

He saw a trainer nearby and asked why these animals just stood there and made no attempt to get away. “Well,” trainer said, “when they are very young and much smaller, we use the same size rope to tie them and, at that age, it’s enough to hold them. As they grow up, they are conditioned to believe they cannot break away. They believe the rope can still hold them, so they never try to break free.”
The man was amazed. These animals could at any time break free from their bonds but because they believed they could not, they were stuck right where they were.

Like the elephants, how many of us go through life hanging onto a belief that we cannot do something, simply because we failed at it once before?

Moral of the Story:

Failure is a part of learning. We should never give up the struggle in life. You fail not because you are destined to fail, but because there are lessons which you need to learn as you move on with your life.