In addition to working as a mental immune system, research has shown that humor can actually improve your physical immune system. Laughter can also improve cardiovascular health and lowers heart rates, blood pressure, and muscular tension.
Across trust research, frequently mentioned reasons for distrust at work include unmet expectations, lack of transparency, weak communication and misunderstandings, and micromanagement and unfair treatment.
Practice these simple mindfulness exercises — some that you can do anytime, anywhere — to help ground you in the present moment when you feel yourself losing your grip. They also hone each sense ability, making your perceptions more accurate and skillful over time.
With its focus on controlling breath, holding postures and meditation, yoga increases how much a person pays attention to the sensations of their body and the present moment. This mindfulness leads to many benefits not found from other forms of exercise.
A master’s degree in applied psychology opens up several job options that involve working with individuals in various fields, including government, business, medical care, and education.
Most people worry on a regular basis, as a natural part of life. However, the worry habit can become problematic when it becomes too intense and chronic. The good news is that worrying is a mental habit that can be broken.
During this virtual event, we will be awarding the inaugural Linda G. O’Bryant Noetic Sciences Research Prize to an individual or team whose research helps extend the science of consciousness.
The 5th chakra is commonly associated with self-expression, finding your own voice, and being heard. Often, people with 5th chakra issues are repressing their voices, unable to speak their minds or make themselves heard.
The near-death experience (NDE) may turn out to be the starting-point of a new science of super mind. The NDE itself provides a vivid example of high order creativity.
Forgiveness is calling out our own ability to get out of ourselves and feel the other’s humanity and vulnerability, as well as their weakness and lack. It’s asking us to gently hold these in the palms of our hands, just as we do with our own vulnerabilities.
Grounding yourself is the perfect way to refresh a mindset infiltrated by negative emotions or memories. Using mental, physical and soothing grounding techniques will change your cognitive abilities for unparalleled emotional resilience for healing and optimism for life.
My greatest learning of all is: You are in charge of yourself — every word you say, every thought you think, every interaction you have (with whom, when and where), and how you react to everyone and everything.
Exposure therapy is a mainstay of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) but newer work has shown that exposure may help treat a much wider range of health problems — everything from chronic pain conditions to gut disorders.
Our sacred core of worthiness is implanted and embedded in our very DNA, which gives us a sense of complete assurance and belonging. Collectively and individually, we know we are continuously sustained by an ever-present force undergirding our entire existence.
The “dangers” of social media lend themselves to alarmist headlines, especially when there are high-profile cases of abuse or violence with a social media component but studies that examine social media impacts in a nuanced fashion have found the large majority of teens benefit.
There is a process that can bridge the gap between where you are, and where you are going. That process is gratitude. Make a conscious effort to attach gratitude to everything that you see, hear, feel, and do. When you do, you will be surprised at how much there is to be grateful for.
Who among us hasn’t heard that inner voice gaslighting us by reinforcing the mantra “You are not good enough”? Comparing ourselves to others can compress our possibilities for potential growth in all areas of our lives. When you're on the right path, things just magically seem to fall into place.
Various myths still persist about hypnosis, such as your mind will be controlled by the hypnotist, or you will come forth with your deepest darkest secrets. A professional hypnotist’s goal is not to control your mind, but to guide you in the direction you desire to go that is pertinent to your goal.
There are severe traumas that people suffer, but finding the silver lining and any positive lesson amidst the trauma is a helpful start to healing. Ask yourself, “How has this trauma helped to guide my life or made it richer?”
A negative belief story about yourself is the most damaging component in the creation of trauma. When the negative beliefs no longer have a hold on you, a new set of positive beliefs can take hold efficiently and stick.
The astrological new year and season of rebirth is here! Get ready for action. Big astrological changes are reverberating across our world. As Saturn, Pluto and Mars move into new signs, life stories turn a page.
By identifying and understanding traumas, you take the first steps in starting to become all you can be without the blockage trauma causes to your body, mind, and spirit. And when you heal, you contribute health to the surrounding community.
Mother Nature’s rocks and gems elicit awe, stimulate the imagination, and please the eye of anyone who takes notice of them. To understand how crystals work, we must first understand what crystals are.
There were times when I lost focus. When life seemed without meaning. A senseless miasma of pain and misery. And every time the following quotes restored in me the will to fight, to keep going.
As even the largest tree ends in twigs, your fingers are the smallest appendages branching from your body. Our hands and fingers have been our main tools for survival, gesturing, making things, using those things, counting, writing, and now typing.
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