Category: The Body/Mind Connection
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Stress And Your Immune System
Running Yourself Ragged When you’re stressed, you’re tired right? But it’s more than the temporary tiredness of a long day or a short night of sleep. When you get worn down from stress, it taxes your immune system and compromises your body’s ability to heal and rebuild. This can have an effect on seemingly small…
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Is Prevention The Key To Reducing Migraines?
Preventing Migraines Is The New Approach To Treatment For many years people who suffered from migraines had few choices of medications to take after the migraine began and often dealt with difficult side effects from those medications. For those with frequent migraines these complications were particularly difficult. Recent medical research encourages a new approach where…
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Science Shows Prayer Heals
Science Confirms Prayer Heals and Lengthens Life Modern research confirms that having a peaceful mind and a life full of joy improves our body’s ability to fight off disease and actually heal itself. What you may not know is that there is growing scientific evidence that prayer heals and faith in God, actually does protect…
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Are You Getting Too Much Screen Time?
Is Too Much Screen Time Interfering With Your Sleep? Good sleep is vital to good health. Good, deep sleep allows our bodies to regulate all of the many hormones that create the balance and rhythm in our systems that produce life! We literally cannot live without sleep and unfortunately most of us know from experience that…
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Is All Sleep Created Equal?
Go Toward The Light! At The Right Times. Do you know the impact light exposure has on your ability to sleep? Our bodies create melatonin naturally, but the way you interact with light throughout the day and night will change the balance of chemicals in your body, potentially robbing you of the ability to sleep…
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Don’t Let Stress Ruin Your Health
Does Stress Have To Make You Sick? We all know stress can make you feel bad – but it doesn’t have to make you sick. It’s easy for highly stressful situations to trigger health issues – like heart issues, anxiety, or IBS. But learning how to control your reaction to stress, even when you can’t…
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Caring For Your Soul Is Caring For Your Body
Your Soul Needs Care, Too To be healthy, you have to look after your mind and soul, just like you look after your body. The more you value yourself and your emotions, the easier and easier it will be to live a happy, positive, less-stressed life. For each person, this will look different. But here…
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Stress Can Make You Lose Hair
What Is Normal When You Lose Hair? We lose hair every day. Some more than others. Then there are those days when after taking a shower you dry your hair with a towel and it looks like most of your hair is in the towel! That’s frightening but there can be a simple explanation. It’s…
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How A Little Self Care Could Go A Long Way
Are you kind enough to yourself? That might seem like a silly question, but when you dig down and really think about it, you might realize that you treat others with more care, concern, and kindness than you’ve ever treated yourself. There’s a concept called “self care” that’s become more and more popular over the…
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The Link Between Chronic Pain And Stress
What Causes Chronic Pain? From time to time, everyone experiences pain of one kind or another. Pain lets us know that something is wrong and we need to take some kind of action to protect our bodies. Chronic pain is different because it doesn’t stop. It persists when you expect it to leave. Today we want to…