All Stories Tagged With: "mind"
Scientists Prove You Can Think Your Way to Wellness
Sometimes it really is the thinking that makes it so. Spend your days focusing on your vibrant health and you will be vibrantly healthy. In contrast you could make it known that you lack a healthy lifestyle, and as a result you will continue to live an unhealthy lifestyle. While this belief is held by many, a recent study has come out with even mainstream scientists proclaiming the very real power of thought.
Mindful Breathing a Great Tool for Achieving Your Mind and Body Connection
While seldom consciously recognized, most people truly do lack self-connectedness. This can be exemplified through a mere observation of how most people breath every day. Breaths are usually taken in short bouts which ultimately bring about some degree of stress, rather than deeper breaths that are subsequently more relaxing. These short breaths are almost always taken with a breath through the chest instead of the proper body area – your stomach.
How the Modern Lifestyle Breeds Depression and Distress
Mental illness is a steadily rising epidemic. With nearly half of all Americans set to receive some form of diagnosis for a mental disorder, it’s hardly something that can be glossed over. Mental health however, is in a highly compromised state due to all forms of societal changes and technological advances over the last century. In this modern age, many simple truths about human nature are overshadowed by our demanding lifestyle, and our attunement to forms of instant cures and gratification.
Unplug Yourself: How Advertising and Entertainment Shape Your Subconscious
They say the subconscious is more powerful than the conscious. Usually, people are more influenced by their innate subconscious desires or intent than a rational and planned decision. This aspect of human nature is heavily influenced by your daily activity. In western society, the subconscious mind of the individual is often subject to a number of heavy influences, through entertainment mediums especially.
Proof that Your Own Thoughts and Beliefs Can Cause Self-Healing
If you are struggling with any major health concern, it is important to realize that your mind can sometimes be your own worse enemy, or it could be the main reason for treating a problem. Increasingly, it is being recognized that a ‘mind over matter’ approach can actually produce noticeable results in your health. The power of the mind is immense. Its influence can literally bend reality to match its perspective.
Taking the Elevator Saves Time | A Widely Held Misconception
Convenience has certainly made it’s impression on the world we live in today. It seems that at the thought of saving time or even skipping a thinking process people are more than willing to choose the convenience factor over anything else. This is especially true with the invent of elevators and escalators, so that people no longer need to walk up and down stairs. But a new study shows that people are giving up the extra movement and taking extra time doing so.
Enhance Your Health by Overcoming Stress, Negative Influences
With the world in the state it is, becoming overwhelmed and distressed is less than a steep leap. Simple situations can quickly transform into emotionally agony and psychological stress; sometimes they happen in a heartbeat. Stress is arguably one of the greatest threat to an individual’s health and wellness, and it must be dealt with.
9 Strange But True Health Tips
Did you know that you can recover more quickly from a fever by using your armpits? How about the fact that “positive” initials (initials that spell out words like J.O.Y. or W.O.W.) live nearly 4 1/2 years longer.
Thinking Your Way to Healthy Eating
Thinking about your health before picking a food may make you more likely to make a healthy choice even if you don’t think it’s tasty, a new study shows. Researchers from the California Institute of Technology conducted a brain-imaging
Why We Eat When We’re Not Hungry
Forget physical hunger — sometimes we reach for food to soothe our emotional cravings. When we’re anxious, angry, fatigued, overwhelmed or otherwise under stress, a seemingly hard-wired desire to overeat can take over.
A Positive Attitude is Essential When Negative Things Happen
Critical, and sometimes life-altering, situations can happen that throw us totally off kilter: losing one’s job, developing a serious illness (oneself or a loved one), or natural disasters such as floods, paralyzing snow and/or ice storms, hurricanes or tornadoes.
How to Transform Negative Emotions
It was a cold night in a wooded area, extremely dark, with no moon in the sky. I must’ve strayed off of the path at some point. I shuffled my feet around, trying to feel for the smoothness of the trail. But there was just wet grass. The moment I realized I was lost, there was an immediate surge of fear. In situations like these, where we suddenly experience an intense emotion, we often find ourselves facing a storm of “what-if” scenarios: “What if I don’t find the trail? What if I can’t find my way back?
Could You Be Overlooking Spirituality?
The world we all live in today is experiencing a period of monumental change. Yet this is not a time for fear. Wth preparation and certitude the times ahead can be navigated. The keys to growth and renewal have been planted within each person. Much will be expected from people in the coming years as they face increased fears and challenges; challenges for which history holds few guidelines. Such challenges, whilst resonating within the heart of each person, need to be grounded within a very real physical context.
Try this Widely Used Practice to Overcome Grief or Loss
Why are we roaring though space on this mud ball, and what is life all about anyway? I was seven years old when I came across a deer that had just died in a wooded area not far from my house. It was the unfamiliar stillness that stopped me first. I was walking into a foreign atmosphere, a pocket of life, or rather lack of it, which felt so apart from school, and home and friends. What is it in me that knew instantly, viscerally, that the boldly silent body was more than just a deer at rest?
Emotional Abuse in Childhood May Disrupt Sleep Decades Later
Emotional abuse in childhood can lead to sleep disruption in old age, a new study finds. In analyzing nearly 900 adults aged 60 and older, researchers found that seniors who were emotionally abused by their parents decades earlier were at greater risk for poor sleep quality years later. “A negative early attachment continues to exert an influence on our well-being decades later through an accumulation of stressful interpersonal experiences across our lives,” study author Cecilia Y. M. Poon, said in a news release from the Gerontological Society of America.
Emotional Health: How to Block Negative Thoughts
Every one of us knows what it’s like to be plagued by an unpleasant or unwanted thought. It could be a nagging self-doubt, a disturbing story from the evening news or the humiliation of being recently rejected by a potential love interest. Try as you might to block it out, the image or feeling pops up over and over again. It makes you miserable and leaves you feeling very much a virtual prisoner of your own cruel mind.
Preschoolers Taught to Think Thin is Beautiful
The findings, published in March in the journal Body Image, aren’t the first to show that kids develop opinions on body weight early. One study, published in 2010 in the journal Sex Roles, found that kids between the ages of 3 and 5 favor thinness. Young kids also consume lots of media: A 2010 study published in the Journal of Pediatrics found that 70 percent of preschoolers watch more TV and play more video and computer games than recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Brain Foods That Help You Concentrate
There’s no denying that as we age chronologically, our body ages right along with us. The good news is that you can increase your chances of maintaining a healthy brain — if you add “smart” foods and beverages to your diet. There’s no magic bullet to boost IQ or make you smarter — but certain substances, like caffeine, can energize and help you focus and concentrate. Found in coffee, chocolate, energy drinks, and some medications, caffeine gives you that unmistakable wake-up buzz — though the effects are short term.
Children Feeding from Mother are Better Behaved
Researchers have found that those who are breastfed for at least four months as babies are 30 per cent less likely to exhibit a range of behavioural problems when they start school. Such problems include anxiety, clinginess, bad behaviour such as lying and stealing, as well as being hyperactive. Critics of such studies, which many fear stigmatise those who do not breastfeed, say that mothers that do tend to be older, better educated and better off.
Improving Memory | Utilizing the Benefits of Antioxidants
While the benefits of antioxidants and a solid nutritional base in general are rather self evident, two new studies highlight how antioxidants are fantastic for improving memory function. Although antioxidants positively impact everyone, the study examined adults aged 50-74 who were given a proficient blend of antioxidants over the course of four months.
