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Immunity and the Mind: 7 Steps
What can both help your immune system and your mood? Your mind allows you to be aware of the world around you—it forms your perception of the world. Your mind and your thoughts help you decide whether the world is safe, or is a place of distress. As a result, perception helps you decide if …
Nutrition and Mental Health: The Physiology of Well-Being
You are what you eat! This holds true in the most literal and specific senses. What you nourish yourself with not only affects whether you get heart disease or not, but also whether you feel good each day. Imagine that—you actually have a significant influence on your mental health day to day, despite your genetic …
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10 Steps to Make Yourself a Priority !
10 Steps to Make Yourself a Priority When is the last time you did something nice for yourself? Has it been months, possibly years? For you to love others, you must first love yourself. A way to increase your self-worth is to make yourself a priority. This may seem foreign to some people. Many of …
6 Ways Music Can Reduce Your Stress
KEY POINTS Music interventions are very easy and inexpensive to integrate in both our daily lives and in medical settings. Research shows that listening to music can have a significant effect on alleviating anxiety and stress. Non-lyrical music with a slow tempo is one of the most effective music interventions for stress reduction. Listening to …
How to Make a Self-Care Checklist That Actually Works for You
Life doesn’t always proceed smoothly, to put it mildly. When challenges you face prove difficult to handle, it can tax your emotional health, especially if your overall well-being already has some room for improvement. When you feel physically and emotionally well, it’s often easier to navigate stressors in healthy and productive ways. That’s what makes self-care — …
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The Gut-Brain Connection
How gut microbes can influence mental health and what you can do about it. Over the last decade, scientists have been learning about how the communities of microorganisms that live in our gut, called the gut microbiome, can influence human health and well-being. What is the microbiome? The human body is one big ecosystem, home to …
The Psychology of Success
Certain traits and ways of thinking are relevant to how much financial success a person achieves. Here is a brief guide to seven of them: Openness A key factor in success is being open to new experiences. Are you open to new ideas or do you think you’ve already got it all figured out? Are …
Everything to Know About Your Circadian Rhythm-What is it; How does it work, etc
What are Circadian Rhythms? Your circadian rhythm is your sleep-wake pattern over the course of a 24-hour day. It helps control your daily schedule for sleep and wakefulness. Most living things have one. Circadian rhythm is influenced by light and dark, as well as other factors. Your brain receives signals based on your environment and …
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To Fix Your Problems, Find the Root Cause
It’s much too easy to deflect responsibility Do you play pool? I sure don’t. But I know enough about the game to use it as a metaphor for the hidden reasons we don’t do what we say we will. The object is to get balls into pockets using a big stick. However, you can’t just …
Control: The problem and the solution for all sickness and ill-health
Homeostasis, that process of keeping things in balance, is a process that is essential for life itself. In fact, Jason Fung (2016) describes homeostasis as the defining characteristic of life on earth. There’s a good reason for this: Homeostasis is one example of the more general principle of control. Control is exactly what it sounds …
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