Deciding Against Depression
The fog of depression often includes not being able to make even small, everyday decisions — much less big ones — because every option seems wrong, and you feel paralyzed. In fact, indecisiveness is...
View ArticleThe Link Between Sleep And Depression
Every aspect of your life is impacted by sleep, from your appearance and health to relationships to success at work, but it hits your brain the hardest. Your brain’s entire electrical and chemical...
View ArticleHow Your Neurons Make You A Nervous Wreck (and how to rewire them)
For far too many people, being anxious, nervous, and worried, has become a way of life. It’s just the norm. Anxiety disorders are chronic, disabling conditions that are seen across the world in...
View ArticleHow To Manage Anxiety with Mindfulness
This is a guest post by Paige Burkes of Simple Mindfulness. The mere thought of a stressful event sends your heart racing. Your boss wants to “speak with you.” You had an argument with your partner....
View ArticleThe Quickest Way To Change How You Feel Is To Change How You Think
Science has confirmed, without a doubt, that your brain is shaped by your life. Your experiences, behaviors, thoughts, and feelings literally, physically change the form and function of your brain, a...
View ArticleHow The Chemicals In Your Head Contribute To Depression
Depression isn’t clearly understood in the same way as many other brain disorders. We know what the symptoms are, and a diagnosis is made based on a person displaying a collection of these. There’s no...
View ArticleHow To Turn Down Your Brain’s Fear Alarm
Fear can be a predominant motivating factor behind much of our lives. Instead of having a clear idea of what we want and making decisions that move us in that direction, which will most likely involve...
View ArticleCalming Your Brain And Body
When we feel physical discomfort, it’s a signal to our bodies to take action, like when you touch a hot stove and quickly pull your hand back. While an immediate reaction to emotional discomfort may...
View ArticleHow To Calm Your Wired-To-Worry Brain
Worrying has become the norm these days. We worry about paying the bills. We nervously read up on and monitor our health. We fret about our kids getting into college. And when they do, we worry about...
View ArticleHow To Declutter Your Mind
Your mind has a mind of its own and races around at one hundred miles an hour jumping from one thing to the next. Sometimes, the random thoughts that pop into your head are quite amusing. Sometimes,...
View ArticleHow to Rewire Your Anxious Brain to be Calmer and Happier
Your brain is neuroplastic which means it changes its physical form and function based on the input it receives over your lifetime. Your experiences, behaviors and even thoughts literally shape your...
View ArticleHow To Banish Negativity With This Simple Mind Tool
You get a glowing performance review from your boss, but you replay the few constructive criticisms over and over in your head. Even though a first date was pretty awesome, you can’t stop thinking...
View ArticleHow to Use Mindfulness as a Mental Health Tool to Decrease Depression and...
If there was a free pill you could take daily that would make you happier, healthier, and permanently change your brain for the better, you’d be crazy not to take it, right? Well, there’s something...
View ArticleWhat’s the Difference Between Anxiety and Worry?
Anxiety is now the leading mental health epidemic. Surpassing even depression, anxiety has become the most prevalent mental condition in the United States. It’s estimated that approximately 10 percent...
View ArticleSlow Breathing Is the Fastest Way To Calm Your Brain and Body
With anxiety recently surpassing depression as the top mental health condition, a lot of people are looking for ways to calm their brains and bodies – and fast. Sure, there are medications that can do...
View ArticleHow To Declutter Your Mind
Your mind has a mind of its own and races around at one hundred miles an hour jumping from one thing to the next. Sometimes, the random thoughts that pop into your head are quite amusing. Sometimes,...
View ArticleHow To Banish Negativity With This Simple Mind Tool
You get a glowing performance review from your boss, but you replay the few constructive criticisms over and over in your head. Even though a first date was pretty awesome, you can’t stop thinking...
View Article5 Things to Quit For a Happier New Year
1. Trying to please everyone When you try to please everyone else, you will fail because it’s impossible. The person who ends up the most unhappy is you. I used to be an Olympic-level people...
View Article3 Ways to Use the Power of Sound to Soothe Your Brain & Body
Whether it’s the whisper of leaves blowing in the wind, the light tapping of raindrops, or the moving melodies of music, sounds can soothe and relax you. People have known this for a long time....
View Article5 Ways to Work With Your Mind to Stop Negative Thoughts
Everyone has pesky, negative, worrisome thoughts. That’s normal. If you’re lucky, it’s less often than all the time. Why You Have A Negative Brain I’ve seen estimates that somewhere around 60 to 80...
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