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By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Michael Mantell on Beach Body Madness in March

It’s that time of the year. It all starts popping up in the – often nonsense – media stirring headlines in late March, early April. “Get Flat Abs in 5 Minutes.” Yeah, right. “Get Your Beach Body Now!” Dream on. If you type “bikini body” or “beach body” into your Google search engine, you will come up with more than 39,000,000 “hits.” Why are these terms so popular and what in the world was I even doing looking up these terms? The answer is simple.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,470 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Eat My "Can't" and Succeed, Feed Your "Can't" and Recede

“Why can’t things ever go right, just once in my life?” “I’m such a ________.” “I’ll never be as good as ___________.” “Why do things never go my way?” “Why can’t I ever succeed, just once?” Sound familiar? Perhaps you’ve tried behavior and habit change methods to help you overcome these types of thoughts. Diets, exercise programs, the newest habit change systems, meditation – guided and not, gratitude jou als, medication, the latest therapy techniques, vacations and even drugs and/or alcohol. Nothing helps.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,442 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Michael Mantell's Food Craving Antidotes

Between L’Espalier in Boston Le Cirque, Eleven Madison Park and Bouley in NY, Restaurant August in New Orleans, Mélisse in LA, and Lulu in Palm Srings – I admit I’m having major food “cravings” just thinking about them as I write this article. These are the best in their respective cities in our opinion and our absolute all-time favorites.r

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,433 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

What to Ask If You Meet Your True Love in 2015

With all of the resolutions, intentions, goals and wishes you’ve considered for the new year, 2015, if one of them is to finally meet your true love, your “soulmate,” the person of your dreams, then be sure you take some notes on this article. You may just need them if walking down the aisle during the next 12 months is in your plan. In most Western cultures, close to 100% of people marry by age 50. Marriage has been shown to be healthy for your emotional and physical wellbeing. Still, about half of those that do marry, divorce. And that rate goes up for subsequent marriages.r

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,433 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Michael Mantell Claims "Gratitude is Medicine"

Hey Dr Mantell, this may be the latest "health supplement" on the block but it's been around for thousands of years, hasn't it? You bet it's been around for thousands of years. In Psalm 100-4, we read, “Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise. Give thanks to Him, bless His name.”

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,419 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

F.A.M.I.L.Y.: Father and Mother I Love You

A recent Pew Research Center study of modern parenthood found that more than half of parents say they find it very or somewhat difficult to juggle work and family life. Dad are doing more housework and more moms are being are being paid for working out of the home. And the public is conflicted about what’s best for children. Despite the stresses of family life, today’s parents generally rate themselves well in how they raise their children. And many are looking for additional tools to improve family life.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,415 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Catching Your Eye is One Thing, Catching Your Heart is Another

Valentine’s Day may well have started as the Roman version of “match.com.” Young single men and women placed their names in a box, names were drawn randomly and couples were put together as partners for a year. After that it was up to them. Robert Browning pointed to the essence of the foundation of Valentine’s Day when he said, “Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.” And as my teacher and mentor, Albert Ellis, Ph.D. liked to say, “The art of love is largely the art of persistence.”r

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,410 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Michael Mantell's "WAM" Will Increase Your Self-Compassion

“If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.” ~Jack Kornfieldr Ads by ZINC

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,398 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Your lbs May Prevent Stress and Negativity

Did you know that most of the people you know, including yourself very likely, find it easier to work than to enjoy free time? Becoming successful, it seems, trumps developing happiness. This is what Shawn Achor relies on when he writes about the “Happiness Myth,” namely the myth that hard work leads to success, and when people become successful, then they’ll be happy. Nonsense.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,398 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

February 7th Uh Oh!

Recent research has discovered that February 7th is a date in history that goes typically unnoticed by most, but is also “celebrated” by most as well. Huh? What’s that mean? It means that research on when most people stop honoring their New Year’s resolution to participate regularly in exercise at the gym, says that it happens 38 days after January 1, thus, February 7th. How are you dealing with this apocalyptic fitness nightmare? I’d like to suggest 5 sure-fire ways to make sure February 7th was just another day on your path to health, wellbeing and happiness.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,387 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Unlikeable? You May be Breathing But Aren't Living

Life, to many, seems like it is a series of popularity contests. The only people who don’t like popularity contests are those that either believe they will lose them, or worse, do lose them. They hold their breath each time they walk into a room, get up to speak, raise their hand in class or go to a party. They believe they have finite skills and abilities and are always trying to prove they are ok from the perspective that they aren’t ok. They barely breath, and barely live.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,386 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Prevent Temper Don't Manage It

From simple annoyance to fiery rage, loss of temper, with its emotional and physiological mayhem, so mess with your life that it’s time to prevent, not just manage the thunder. Lashing out in anger over even the smallest slights or obstacles only makes sense if your goal is to strip yourself of peace and inflame your bitte ess and indignation.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,380 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Ready To Say Good Morning To Standard Time on Monday?

Ready to say goodnight to Daylight Savings Time and good morning to Standard Time? We’ve enjoyed Standard Time in different time zones in the United States of America and Canada since November, 1883 when the railroads adopted the practice of standardized times in established time zones. It wasn’t until 1918 however that the Standard Time Act was established and everyday people began using these standards in their communication and travel.r

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,361 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Why a "C" is better than an "A"

“Mrs. Mantell, your son Michael is not college material. He should definitely consider a vocational high school path.” That’s what Mrs. McCaffery, my 8th grade teacher at Chancellor Ave. Elementary School in Newark, N.J., told my mother with me sitting there…trembling, My mother, then president of the PTA, looked at her, offered her a few “choice words” and we left. I have no tools in my garage now, maybe a hammer or a screwdriver, maybe, but I do hold a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,356 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

How To Create the Inner Happiness of Work-Life Balance

Remember when the technology experts tried to sell us on the notion that all of their gadgets would free us up, give us more leisure time and make life so much more enjoyable? We've been fooled into thinking that being offered the opportunity to “telecommute,” or work from anywhere we choose, with cloud-based infrastructures allowing us to move where and when we want results in work-life balance. It doesn’t.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,341 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Who's Your BFF?

Here’s a wonderful poem on friendship I came across, written by David Leonhardt. Choose friends wisely, the portrait they paintr Is who you are and who you ain't. Friendship is life's great supportr When friends are of the right sort. For all your dreams do they make room, Or bring you down with doom and gloom? You will know a friendship is truer When it brings out the best in you.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,321 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

The ABCs of a Healthy Mindset

Ever since the 1950’s when Albert Ellis, Ph.D., my teacher and mentor, developed Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy/Coaching, the mental health field has not been the same. Instead of spending months and years gazing inward and backward with no real behavior change, folks experiencing emotional distress and day-to-day unhappiness, fear and worry, finally had a way to move forward and stop upsetting themselves. REBT/C is built on the idea that events, conditions, people, circumstances, situations, and places do not cause people to become upset. Then, what does?

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,316 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

SAD? Lighten Up

It is the time of year when people, especially it seems, millennials, report feeling depressed and unhappy. The less sunshine we see, the more dreary, blue, grumpy, low and unhappy people feel. What’s worse, these negative emotions lead to eating more carbs, weight gain, increased sleep and difficulty concentrating. And this is the holiday season????r

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,314 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Don't Exercise Without Rolling the DICE

Your health, wellbeing and fitness are more than a roll of the dice. Or are they? According to three business gurus that’s exactly what it is, a roll of the dice. But in this instance, the DICE to which they are referring are based on a carefully done and well-respected study dating back to 1992 in which they looked at 225 companies over a two-year period of time and learned that DICE are exactly what distinguishes successful and unsuccessful change efforts in businesses.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,309 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Holiday Stress? Get Real

In .28 seconds I found 18,900,000 results on Bing, and 61,500,000 results in 0.46 seconds—honestly—on Google on how to “survive the holidays.” MILLIONS of tips on how to “survive” the holidays! What in the world has happened to us? Have we gone mad? C’mon now. We need more than these many MILLIONS of tips on how to “survive” the holidays? When did the media create this insanity? Holiday stress? Seriously! What holiday stress?

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,305 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Make it Your Lifestyle, Not Just a Season

It’s starting in only a couple of weeks. You’ve starved yourself to fit into the outrageous Halloween costume you’ve chosen this year, your Thanksgiving plans are set, the talk in your office is already about plans for the end of the year celebration, and before you know it, it’ll be time once again for you to make those New Year’s Resolutions that you never keep. Fear not, friends. Almost nobody really keeps them.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,302 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

The Most Important Minute and a Half of Your Month (Not Meant for Children)

Alan and Donna Brauer wrote a very fascinating book, “Better, Safer Sexual Intimacy and Extended Orgasmic Response.” Here’s what they found and reported: • The average human orgasm (not lovemaking) lasts only ten seconds • The average frequency of sexual intercourse for most couples is once or twice a weekr At the same time, sex researchers Cauthery and Cole, authors of "The Fundamentals Of Sex," report that it's possible for some women to orgasm up to 100 times in an hour.r

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,285 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

The Healthy Uprising

Here’s the choice we all have. We can either be a part of the 80% of Americans who don’t eat properly, sleep enough, make time for healthy relaxation, don’t spend quality and quantity time with friends and loved ones, and simply live in the illusion of health. This group is likely ill, overweight, emotionally stretched, take an overwhelming amount of daily medication, sit and watch their blood pressure and cholesterol levels soar while their energy plummets.r

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,274 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Thanksgiving: What's It All For?

Don’t tell me you actually believe that Pilgrims, dressed in black, sat down with Indians, wearing feathers and colorful beads, for a big meal of turkey, cornbread, cranberries and pumpkin pie and created what we know as Thanksgiving? If you do, we need to talk. Fast. It’s almost Thanksgiving! Thanksgiving myths persist, largely due to our schools passing down pure nonsense about this holiday from one generation to another. Bet you didn’t know that “Pilgrims” weren’t even introduced as part of the holiday until the late 19th century!

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,261 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Michael Mantell's 3 Rules for Summer Fitness

It’s that time of the year again when we begin to think of warmer weather, and that means trips to the beach. And that means, bathing suits. And that means others seeing our bodies. And that means, uh oh. For some, it also means. “twice-a-days.” You know, working out twice daily. For others, it also means going on “DIEt’s,” and for some, even beginning some sort of an eating disorder that includes near starvation. But all of this does not have to be. Here are three “rules” to consider as you look forward to warmer weather and maybe even trips to the beach.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,258 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

What Millennials Can Teach Us About Positivity

How can a group of 80 million young Americans suffering from mind-bogglingly high unemployment rates still be positive, buoyant and survive? Leave it to Millennials to do exactly that. With $200 billion in buying power, they are optimistic, confident, self-expressive, liberal, upbeat and open to change—according to research from the Pew Research Center. Once you “get” the importance of positivity for these young men and women, you have the key to effectively connect with them. Simply put, they have little or no room for negativity in their lives.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,226 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Sweating the Small Stuff Over the Holidays?

"I'm so hurried at this time of the year, I don't have time to breathe,"my Caffeinated Corner buddy spouted on and on. What's a Caffeinated Corner? Oh, that's the group I see nearly every morning at the local Starbucks where we sit and over coffee and a muffin solve the problems of the world. One recent study of over 2,000 men and women by Lante found that women will be 11% more stressed than men this holiday season.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,190 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Secrets to Living Well: Victory Not Mediocrity

When it comes to living really well, many confuse doing so with looking good, feeling good, or having the goods. This leads people to chase after such goods as fake tans, plastic surgery, feel good drugs, virtual friendships, the mansion on the hill—preferably overlooking the water, making and spending as much as they possibly can, and erroneously and irrationally believing that they can and, worse, must have it all. We gullibly, foolishly and unquestionably believe the ads designed to sell us this nonsense.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,186 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

What's Eating You May Be Why You Are Eating

Ever notice how many diet books there are? That’s because diets don’t commonly work. Think about it. How many people do you know who have dieted and actually maintained their weight loss? Only 3 percent to 5 percent of dieters who lose weight maintain significant weight loss. And have you noticed the word “die” is in diet? Doesn’t sound too good to me, especially with what DIEting can do to, not for, your health. Dieting can make emotional eating–a common problem–even more difficult to overcome.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,181 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

What to Ask If You Meet Your True Love in 2015

With all of the resolutions, intentions, goals and wishes you’ve considered for the new year, 2015, if one of them is to finally meet your true love, your “soulmate,” the person of your dreams, then be sure you take some notes on this article. You may just need them if walking down the aisle during the next 12 months is in your plan. In most Western cultures, close to 100% of people marry by age 50. Marriage has been shown to be healthy for your emotional and physical wellbeing. Still, about half of those that do marry, divorce. And that rate goes up for subsequent marriages.r

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,061 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

Secrets to Living Well: Victory Not Mediocrity

When it comes to living really well, many confuse doing so with looking good, feeling good, or having the goods. This leads people to chase after such goods as fake tans, plastic surgery, feel good drugs, virtual friendships, the mansion on the hill—preferably overlooking the water, making and spending as much as they possibly can, and erroneously and irrationally believing that they can and, worse, must have it all. We gullibly, foolishly and unquestionably believe the ads designed to sell us this nonsense.

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,019 views

By Michael MantellRecently published1 topic

The Most Important Minute and a Half of Your Month (Not Meant for Children)

Alan and Donna Brauer wrote a very fascinating book, “Better, Safer Sexual Intimacy and Extended Orgasmic Response.” Here’s what they found and reported: • The average human orgasm (not lovemaking) lasts only ten seconds • The average frequency of sexual intercourse for most couples is once or twice a weekr At the same time, sex researchers Cauthery and Cole, authors of "The Fundamentals Of Sex," report that it's possible for some women to orgasm up to 100 times in an hour.r

Primary topic: Health Coach and Health Coaching

Health Coach and Health Coaching

1,019 views

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