Boost Your Brain: 7 Tips For Restorative Sleep
In the hustle and bustle of our daily lives, sleep often takes a backseat to other priorities. Yet, sleep is […]
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How To Cope Better With Stress In 3 Meaningful Steps
Is that you? Feeling pressured about your work, family commitments, relationships, financial uncertainty? Telling yourself that the one glass of wine at night will help you to fall asleep easier, and that second cup of coffee in the morning will give you the energy you need for the day.
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3 Small Changes You Can Make To Feel More Energised
Life can be overwhelming and sometimes it is hard to know where to begin when it comes to regaining your energy, reducing stress and just feeling more like yourself. To make the journey towards feeling energised more simple, we have broken it down into three small things you can do without taking big leaps or dramatically changing everything all in one go. These are things you can gradually build up to, without the need for stress.
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How To Help Your Child’s Anxiety
With so many unknowns in the world today, you might be feeling at a loss when it comes to soothing your children’s anxieties.
You can’t just tell them that everything will be all right.
However, you can help them to manage their anxiety so they can live happier lives in the here and now. If your child’s worries are affecting their daily life and well-being, here are some ways you can help.
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The Stress Response System & Adrenal Fatigue
Do you feel exhausted most times, even though you are getting adequate amounts of sleep? Adrenal fatigue is a very
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6 Ways To Create Change By Working With Your BodyMind
Most people find change hard, particularly without any support or guidance.
The greatest difficulty about change is when you’re not taking the right action to help yourself create the change, either because there’s a part of you not willing to let go of the old, or some kind of lingering resistance in your subconscious, also known as your bodymind.
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The Science And Power Of Gratitude
Neuroscience and the study of gratitude, shows us how the brain can respond and adapt to a grateful mind by gradually integrating new neural pathways with intentional practice.
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Practice self-Care the Right Way
When you think about self-care, what comes to mind: brushing your hair, having a facial, getting a manicure? Or, I
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6 Positive Thinking Tools You Can Use Now
What are you thinking right now? Stop for a moment and consciously listen to the thoughts inside your head… What
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Mind-Body Practices Best At Reducing Stress
Ever watched someone practising meditation and thought: I wish I could do that but I couldn’t sit still or stop thinking
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What Causes Anxiety And What You Can Do About It
In the simplest terms, anxiety is caused by an overload of fear and doubt in the thinking mind, which in turn neuro-chemically and physically activates the autonomic nervous system’s ‘fight, flight, freeze’ response in response to certain triggers i.e. sensations, perceptions, meanings, memories.
Our fears drive our thoughts, and our thoughts and behaviours create our emotions. Through repetitive stimulus, certain thoughts, feelings and behaviours condition the nervous system to become overstimulated and stuck in the ‘ON’ switch.
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Is Chronic Stress Taking Over Your Life? 10 Ways To Activate Your Relaxation Response
Stress: A pesky little word that gets tossed around a great deal in modern day life. We stress about things; we feel stressed by commitments; and people or situations stress us out! So do you understand stress, and more importantly, how it affects your body?
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How Meditation Changed My Life
For 18 years as I struggled through Bulimia Nervosa, meditation proved useful in picking up the pieces. It gave me hope and confidence that one day I would make it through and be living the life I was creating in my mind – once I overcame the underlying beliefs that kept me stuck.It took many years to challenge and change the negative mental programming and take responsibility for my own thoughts, but meditation was instrumental in giving me the time and space I needed to explore, sit, breathe and listen – to find my own authentic voice. Meditation comforted me through many dark times of feeling rejected, vulnerable, struggling with self-worth and losing my identity in the desire to please others.
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Why Meditation Is An Antidote To Stress
Now over 30 years ago I discovered meditation, originally to aid in the stress and struggles of being a sensitive
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What Is Mind-Body Medicine?
Mind–body Medicine uses the power of thoughts and emotions to influence physical and neurological health. The study, based at MGH’s Institute for Technology Assessment and the Benson-Henry Institute (BHI) for Mind Body Medicine, found that individuals in the relaxation-response program used fewer health care services in the year after their participation than in the preceding year. The program combined elicitation of the relaxation response with social support, cognitive-skills training, and positive psychology designed to build resiliency.Studies like this one have a huge potential to reduce not only the extreme pressure on the healthcare system, but also improve the personal wellbeing of each individual who can learn and apply these simple techniques into their daily lives.
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