Eating more vitamin D may boost your immunity in winter. ♠ If you’re dreading the approach of cold and flu season, you might want to boost your vitamin D. This micronutrient is known for its role in human bone growth, but a recent study suggests that it...
Read More♠ Discover common and harmful cognitive distortions, how they work, and why they are misleading. Sometimes, we think about ourselves and our lives in ways that are pretty illogical and even unfair to ourselves. We make interpretations about what’s happening that are twisted and misleading, but we...
Read MoreAnxious? Have you tried hypnotism? Hypnotherapist David R. Wright uses hypnotherapy for anxiety relief by tapping into the subconscious and diminishing anxious triggers. When you think of hypnotherapy, what comes to mind? Maybe it’s a devious villain attempting to mind control a victim, or maybe a...
Read More♠ Something joyful, beautiful, pleasurable, or delicious is happening: Notice moments of sweetness. There’s no shortage of difficult times in our world. Even the richest, healthiest, and most fortunate of us suffer in body and mind from time to time. That was true before the global pandemic...
Read More♠ Meditation can assist us with depression by reminding us to tune into a higher energy. “Move back to Source, pick up the larger signal, and live with that energy for a greater portion of our lives.” Q: I’ve been meditating for years, but I still live...
Read More♠ Three months of practicing the Chinese martial art of tai chi led to significantly reduced symptoms of depression in Chinese Americans. According to the American Tai Chi and Qigong Association, tai chi developed in 12th-century China. Practitioners incorporate motion, meditation, and deep breathing; the simplest forms...
Read More↓ Three months of practicing the Chinese martial art of tai chi led to significantly reduced symptoms of depression in Chinese-Americans. According to the American Tai Chi and Qigong Association, tai chi developed in 12th-century China. Practitioners incorporate motion, meditation, and deep breathing; the simplest forms have...
Read MoreThis year is bluer than most—and this may be the bluest winter on record. Fight the winter blues in five ways. Winter can be hard, mentally and emotionally, in a good year, let alone in a pandemic. This year the winter bluesmight hit many of us...
Read More↓ What should we do when we’re upset or depressed? Should we analyze our feelings to figure out what’s wrong, or should we just forget about them and move on? Opinions differ, but new research suggests a solution to these questions: taking a more Buddhist or...
Read MoreThis week we present good reasons to stock up on avocadoes, an intriguing link between depression and constipation, and people wigging out while meditating. Intrigued? Read to learn more. The Moody Gut: Constipation and Depression I’ve heard of moody cats and moody teens, but “moody gut” was...
Read MoreDepression is a leading cause of poor health, affecting an estimated 350 million people worldwide. In the U.S., nearly 7 percent of the population has had at least one major depressive episode, defined as lasting more than two weeks, according to the National Institute of...
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