Category: The Body/Mind Connection
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How Can You Create A More Holistic Lifestyle?
What Does It Mean To Live Holistically? We throw a lot of terms around, and one of the best ones to know, understand, remember, and truly implement is “holistic.” What does this mean? To live a holistic life means to approach yourself as an entire, interconnected system. It means recognizing that your health doesn’t just…
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Mindfulness Starts In The Lungs
Do You Know How You Breathe? Breathing is a natural, unconscious part of our daily life – to live, you breathe in and out without giving it a second thought. That’s what your nervous system is there for! But if you watch how you breathe, paying close attention in certain moments to the pattern and…
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Relieve Sore Muscles From Anxiety
Natural Ways To Relieve Muscle Tension Dealing with stress almost always means dealing with muscle tension. While you work on lowering your stress level and increasing your healthy coping mechanisms, you might need some simple help for the most annoying symptoms – like a stiff neck or sore back. These are a few great places…
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Breathing Exercises To Improve IBS
Reduce Stress With Breathing Exercises and Improve IBS Everyone with IBS knows that stress can aggravate the symptoms. Reducing stress over time really can improve IBS symptoms. Fewer IBS symptoms mean a better quality of life! The best methods for reducing stress to improve IBS long term are those that can become a part of your…
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Why Posture Matters For Stress Reducing Meditation
Grounding Yourself Like A Tree The posture you take when meditating is a vital part of the practice – both to keep your mind alert, and also to put your body back in alignment. Whether you come into a meditative practice for the emotional benefit of increased mindfulness or the physical benefit of counteracting the…
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Herbal Help For Your Depression
Two Supplements To Help Depression So many people take supplements these days that it’s become so common place you can find at least some kind of vitamin in nearly every grocer or corner store. But some supplements are more important – and more potent – than others, and the two below area prime example of…
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The Key – Inflammation and Depression
The Link Between Inflammation And Depression Knowing the cause is often the first step to correcting any health problem. For example treating a person with a serious headache as if they have a blocked sinus passage, when they actually are suffering from extremely high blood pressure is a real mistake. Clearing an already clear sinus…
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Is Your Skin Showing Signs Of Stress?
Erase Signs Of Stress From Your Skin When you look in the mirror do you see signs of stress on your skin? If you have been living with ongoing or high levels of stress and not taking steps to help your body deal with it, you can be sure it is having an effect on…
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Calm Anxiety On The Go
Help Starts In Your Head Anyone who struggles with anxiety knows about the internal monologue that can start to spiral downward when you get stressed. Questions, fears, uncertainty, confusion – that little voice in your head can get out of control and make you lose focus, or even fall into the beginning of a panic…
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Self Care Helps Combat Stress
Self Care Is Vital To Reduce Stress Life in the twenty-first century is demanding and complicated. People have demands coming from many places at the same time. Work demands, family demands, financial demands, social demands only to name a few. Many of us have been taught and rightly believe that hard work pays off. As…