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As many of you probably know, cannabidiol (CBD) is the ‘other’ cannabinoid in cannabis that confers immense therapeutic benefits without imparting any sort of ‘high’ to the user.
The implications of this are monumental (hence the current and ongoing explosion in CBD’s popularity with people ... Views: 1049
I’m not dead.
At least when I wrote that; I wasn’t. Being the intelligent reader of this column, you put two and two together and surmised that in a flash. Hopefully, as you read this, I am still in the not-dead state of being — and shall remain so for decades yet to come.
Having proven ... Views: 1048
Confidence. Self-worth. Who doesn’t want those things? Yet, they can be oh so elusive. I’m in the middle of creating all kinds of new material to help others gain confidence, because I know what it feels like to not like myself, or to like myself and still not feel totally confident.
So ... Views: 1047
A good night sleep is vital for health and alertness especially when you need to focus and be mentally active the next day at work. However, you may want to look at your bedroom and its surrounding features to make sure that it is conducive for a peaceful slumber.
This is both practical and ... Views: 1047
Ah! The glory of childhood; when the brain worked at its full capacity and there were no traces of what we call brain fog. Uninterrupted mental clarity, complete focus, and the ability to put your mind to work on multiple things simultaneously are just some of the things we desire for our now ... Views: 1045
No matter what end of the therapy spectrum you are, it might do you well to learn about EFT. EFT refers to a new way to release repressed feelings known as Emotional Freedom Technique, and can revolutionize your therapy techniques. EFT Creation and Development EFT Therapy was created by Gary ... Views: 1045
What is the correlation between your thoughts and illness? There are good thoughts and bad thoughts or good feelings and bad feelings. Where are you most often?
Law of attraction is like gravity. It is everywhere. Gravity is so basic , so important that life as we know it would not exist ... Views: 1044
Have you ever woken up to your to-do list and found yourself dragging your feet?
Have you ever felt like your body was filled with lead and actually doing the items on your list was harder than pushing a boulder uphill?
Have you ever forced yourself to do them all anyway, and ended up ... Views: 1042
Your symptoms are flaring. You are in full panic mode, and you want out. Your chest is tight, your muscles tense, your breathing shallow. You would do anything to escape this feeling, and you're even realize the feeling is just as awful as the actual physical pain. You want relief.
Here's ... Views: 1042
Transcranial magnetic stimulation or TMS is a noninvasive process applied to cure depression. This process involves the use of magnetic fields to excite nerve cells in the patient’s brain to cure the causes of depression. This cure is chosen when other treatments do not work to cure the problem. ... Views: 1041
Mindfulness is the act of bringing your awareness to whatever you're experiencing in the present moment. A common definition of mindfulness used in counselling and therapy is: The awareness that emerges through paying attention on purpose, in the present moment, and non-judgementally to things ... Views: 1040
A recent study from Harvard University shows the health benefits of tai chi, especially for those with heart conditions that prevent them from engaging in rigorous physical exercise.
Tai chi is a Chinese form of martial arts that focuses on soft, slow movements and requires concentration on ... Views: 1039
Self-growth requires the energy our focus creates. How we focus our awareness is how we activate our inner resources. When we focus on our thoughts, we activate more thinking. When we focus beyond thinking, we activate the Wisdom of our Body. In sports, that places us in the Zone. In healing, ... Views: 1039
One of the most popular subjects today is about developing Positive Relationships. In order to develop a Positive Relationship, it is important to identify the boundaries of relationships.
So what I think is important is to identify what is a toxic relationship. Because this will be the ... Views: 1039
This question gets asked very often, and there is nearly just as many different
answers. The term Meditation gets Google 1,800,000 times a month, that's over 60,000 times every single day, not including all the different languages. If you Google the question, you will get many different ... Views: 1039
Sometimes people lose a body part due to an accident and other times they are just born without it. They struggle their best to be normal and taken like that by those around them too – but are they? You know the answer just as much as I do. They are either bullied at schools or kicked out of ... Views: 1038
Whenever our body experiences any health disorder then we need to rectify this body dysfunction by the application of a proper medicament therapy. There are many fatal syndromes exist that can infect our body system at any time. Among them hypertension can be a serious malfunction the mechanism ... Views: 1038
PERMANENCE
OUR STORY OF WHO WE ARE
THE ILLUSION
Yesterday opportunities came to visit- opportunities to embrace the ways in which I was introduced to my own assumptions of what would always be? Intellectually, should I be asked-does anything last forever, I would have said no. ... Views: 1036
One moment you can be completely fine, carrying on with your day, and in a split second it can all change. You convulse, you lose control and you begin to act quite differently.
If this scenario only occurred to you once, you've likely experienced a seizure. But if it becomes a reoccurring ... Views: 1036
What does a typical morning look like for you? Do you have a habit of pressing the “snooze” button one-too-many times, then scrambling to get cleaned up and dressed before dashing out the door to work?
You may have noticed that, when you rush out the door without giving yourself a moment to ... Views: 1034
MEDITATION BRINGS
MANY BENEFITS
Most people are astounded to discover the many benefits of practising
meditation every day. Before embarking on this journey of discovery,
the practice can be viewed as a waste of time. However, as you read
this article you will begin to understand why ... Views: 1034
Now you know why investigating your emotions can help you heal, and you've done some work to find the main culprits. Negative emotions, besides hindering your healing, just aren't much fun. It's not exactly something you've dreamed of - feeling fear, panic, anger, or despair (to name a few of ... Views: 1032
You may follow many supposedly healthy diets, but still suffer from serious health problems. This happens because what really provokes health problems depends on what you think, and on what you do in your life. Your health is regulated by the unconscious mind that also produces your dreams. This ... Views: 1031
Gutter guards the best answer to keeping your gutters clean of twigs and dead wet leaves that make it extremely hard for them to complete the task and make it possible for the spring rain to run off your roof. Gutter guards give protection to those individuals who should not climb on ladders ... Views: 1029
Many researches have proven now that people with eating disorders derive a lot of benefits from doing meditation. Eating disorder sufferers have disturbances in autonomic nervous system, problems with impulse control and many emotional problems. All these can be improved with regular ... Views: 1028
Meditation is very fashionable today, when our stressful life is taking its toll on our existence. We receive information, advice and directions on all levels, telling us what to do, how and when to do it. The biggest problem with all this good advice is that every person is different and what ... Views: 1028
At our recent retreat in Assisi, Italy, besides visiting powerful spiritual places, our group entered into an atmosphere of deep healing. Sometimes Joyce and I have the opportunity not only to lead the retreat, but also to participate in some of the exercises for our own continual healing, which ... Views: 1027
We hear a lot about the importance of loving ourselves these days, and how we can't love someone else until we truly love ourselves. While I don't entirely agree with that statement (adult attachment theory shows that it's through secure attachment to loving others that we feel loved and, ... Views: 1026
Imagine for a moment that you are holding your arm out to the side and you just hold it there. No big deal, right? But keep holding it there, and keep holding it there, and keep holding it there. With time your arm will begin to ache and become painful. Unless you do something, you will have ... Views: 1026
One of the delightful elements of coaching (and there are many) is getting to meet so many different women. Every week, I talk to women from different walks of life and different parts of the country and world. Though no two women are the same, there is one thing they seem to have in common: ... Views: 1025
Rest is one of those topics that we frequently forget to consider, and yet it is possibly the most important thing we can do for our souls and our bodies alike.
If you’re anything like me, you have often waited until your body crashed and your mind blew several fuses before you actually ... Views: 1024
As the summer nears its end, our relaxing days of leisure start to become hectic and stressful. Coordinating pickups to and from school, being on time for afterschool sports, or occasionally being summoned to chaperone a field trip can be taxing on your body. Add those things and more to your ... Views: 1023
Balance your emotions and feelings of anxiety, sadness and remove blockages throughout the day by implementing some or all of these tips.
When you are feeling out of sorts or even just to maintain feelings of balance, you can choose from the list what you can incorporate throughout your day ... Views: 1023
Nootropics - Are they really magical?
People often ask these types of questions and they are bound to. The reason is that there is so much of hype about Nootropics. Certainly Nootropics are not wonder drugs or supplement.
Let me introduce Nootropics (obviously this introduction is not for ... Views: 1021
It turns out that what we put into our mouth is not nearly as important as what we believe about what we put into our mouth. It works like this.
If we truly believe that a food or food group is good for us (i.e., important to maintaining robust health), but we seldom eat it, for whatever ... Views: 1021
Chronic stress and elevated cortisol levels also increase risk for depression, mental illness, and lower life expectancy.
Science has linked elevated cortisol levels as a potential trigger for mental illness and decreased resilience —especially in adolescence.
Massage decreases Cortisol ... Views: 1020
Your body responds to everything you think, feel, and do. You and your body are so intimately connected that you cannot make a move without hearing your body’s opinion. There is no time during the day in which you and your body are not living the same life. Think about that – with everyone ... Views: 1020
We’re in uncertain times which means our minds can easily start thinking about scary things. Not necessarily the stuff of horror movies but certainly things that worry us more than we’d like.
Fortunately, our minds are easily distracted which is just what we need to do to get our mind to stop ... Views: 1019
Everyday in your life you experience things that may either give you a happy or sad feeling. Stressors are always present in the environment and within you but it’s your own ability to cope with it that makes you conform to the norms. There are instances that the feeling of happiness is ... Views: 1017
Most people that try to stop panic attacks fail. The episodes of apprehension and intense fear come back along with all the associated symptoms. Elevated heart rates, profuse sweating, hyperventilation and the sense of "dying" or "losing one's mind" always come back. Repeated failures lead to a ... Views: 1017
Anorexia nervosa is an illness that usually occurs in teenage girls, but also in theenage boys, and adult women and men. People with anorexia are obsessed with being thin. they lose a lot of weight and are terrified of gaining weight. They believe they are fat even though they are very thin. ... Views: 1012
Schizophrenia risk may be revealed by face reading and finger length according to research. The findings uncovered that deficits in emotional recognition may be a precursor to schizophrenia symptoms and may help identify those at highest risk to develop the mental disorder.
There are criteria ... Views: 1011
The medical profession today is an amazing resource in healing. I define a victim as the person who only looks outside for the solutions to their problem. If a person gets excellent medical care and they only look outside, they can become a victim. The empowered patient actively participates ... Views: 1010
There are those of us who suffer from daily back pain simply because we do not know how to relax. Relaxation is soothing to the soul and good for us. In today’s world with all of its stresses, it seems every now and then we have to learn how to relax all over again. We’re so busy with our jobs, ... Views: 1009
For me, meditation is one of the most effective, simple and inexpensive ways to calm the body and the mind, to gain insight about oneself and to feel more open, loving and grounded. There are probably thousands of articles, books and research studies about the positive effects of meditation at ... Views: 1005
I get emails from clients like the sample below pretty much every week:
Agh! I think something is terribly wrong with me! Oh no! I am crying a lot! I feel terrible! What should I do? I can’t live like this! What if I’m never happy again!
To which I usually reply something like ... Views: 1003
Are you overworked?
Are you feeling drained all the time?
Are you desperately waiting for your next vacation?
Do you simply wish to feel fresh?
We lead busy lives. Most of us find ourselves overworked, leaving us tired or exhausted. Chronic tiredness leads to fatigue. When fatigue enters ... Views: 1000
What do Meryl Streep, Orlando Bloom, Cher, Lee Iacocca, Sasha Cohen, Margaret Thatcher, Miro, Willie Nelson, Sting, Travis Rice, John Travolta, John McEnroe and Madonna all have in common? They, like so many others, are involved in some form of bodywork or somatic therapy. Why? Because the ... Views: 998
The human brain weighs a mere 3 pounds, but is the most complex organ in the body. The brain controls voluntary and involuntary motor activity, language production and comprehension, visual reception and interpretation, personality, judgment, emotions, memory, and so much more. The brain is the ... Views: 997
The study of mental events, mental functions, mental consciousness, mental prosperities and the nature of mind is referred to as Philosophy of mind. It is branched out from modern analytic philosophy. The philosophy of mind mainly deals with the relation of the mind to the physical body. Though ... Views: 997