Mental Health
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Living Free: Finding Freedom from the Habits that Hurt
Habits---we all have them. American author Elbert Hubbard said, “Habit is the great economizer of energy.” He was exactly right. Habits are our friends—when they’re good ones. Habits are routines that help us perform multiple tasks with minimal mental effort. They help us repeat safe…
Read MoreOvercoming Anxiety: Try Natural Remedies
31% of Americans will experience an anxiety disorder sometimes during their lives. This blog addresses what you can do physically to reduce anxiety. Get a Good Medical Evaluation Physical problems like overactive thyroid activity, other hormonal imbalances, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, heart valve…
Read MoreDoes Your Gut Shape Your Mood?
The myriads of bacteria in the gut help the body digest food and stimulate the immune system, and they also impact your mood. Seriously, your intestines host 2000 different known species of bacteria. Each person has a different proportion of bacterial species and strains in…
Read MoreImprove Your Mood With Food
Do you wake up on an installment plan? Do you really not surface until you have another coffee break? Are you out of sorts? Downright grumpy? You can improve your mood by changing the foods you eat. How does this work?
Read MoreFree At Last! The Healing Process of Forgiveness
Forgiveness Promotes Health Studies show that people who forgive, as contrasted to those who harbor grudges and anger, have slower heart rates, lower blood pressures, improved sleep, and less stress and depression. They have less somatic complaints like headaches and muscle pains. They generally have…
Read MoreCould Optimism Improve Your Health?
Optimism leads to a hardiness that prolongs health. The Universities of Helsinki and Turku along with the University College of London, did a large observational study assessing the protective effects of an optimistic outlook on health. They found that individuals who scored high on optimism…
Read MoreSelf-Control Increases Your Happiness
“Self-control is the capacity to alter and regulate predominant response tendencies resulting in the inhibition of undesirable behaviors while promoting desirable ones to support the pursuit of long-term goals.”…
Read MoreCitrus: Brain Boosters and Mood Enhancers
Flavonoids, such as those found in citrus and kiwi, have been shown to be highly effective in preventing age-related cognitive decline in both animals and humans.Besides protecting brain cells from free radical damage, they provide multiple ways of protecting brain cells from inflammatory assaults commonly…
Read MoreFive Physical Strategies For Stress Relief
Cultivate regularity in eating times, retiring, and waking. Melatonin, thyroid stimulating hormone, and the stress hormone cortisol run largely on a circadian (daily) rhythm. Normally, in women, the menstrual cycle interacts with circadian processes to help control the expression of hormonal rhythms and sleep organization…
Read MoreAre You Lonely Tonight?
Loneliness raises levels of circulating stress hormones and levels of blood pressure. It can gradually undermine regulation of the circulatory system so that the heart muscle works harder and the blood vessels are subject to damage by blood flow turbulence.
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