Smile For The Camera

This works by taking our focus away from our dominant left hemisphere, which is trying to nail down a logical, analytical solution, and activating the brain's default-mode network to gain access to more insightful and creative ideas. When we allow ourselves these foods we will find they lose their shine …

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Disruption Breeds Innovation

This is what I call raising the "high-jump bar of life." You know by now that I really love sports, and as a psychologist, I see many competitions and events in the sports world which are analogous to daily life. For example, avoid driving when you would normally be asleep …

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Cultivate Fondness

I will never forget the time she said, "You know, I have thirty-nine other parents with both my morning and afternoon kindergarten classes, and I need to talk to all of them, too. Don't add fuel to the fire that's already aflame between you and your ex. Clearly, mitochondria are …

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The Power Of Expectation And Belief

And like aspirin, it has anti-inflammatory properties. Mom and I had conversed comfortably in the car on the way to and from her radiation appointment--about my recent blog posts that mentioned her, the LIVE sign I'd purchased, and her concern over her cat being attacked by some feral felines. Beck …

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Think Positive Positively!

Doctors are generally aware of and used to both of these requests. His program is not too different from the twelve-week Keep Sharp plan and includes: a whole foods, low-fat, low-sugar, plant-based diet; Just as in the 80s so many people at last understood that they were afflicted with 'depression' …

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Where Will The Work Be Done?

God is in every heart because God is all-inclusive. Writing down everything I need to do the following day helps my brain unwind, safe in the knowledge that I won't forget my most important tasks. In fact, processing your thoughts and feelings about this shock may be the best way …

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The Power Of Listening

This is a common disorder because as you sleep the muscles inside the throat relax and gravity causes the tissues to hang. Scrutinizing what and when you eat and the way you exercise to best lower insulin can prevent or even reverse insulin resistance and work to address the countless …

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Connect To The Divine

By studying the gray matter found in the brains of bipolar and non-bipolar individuals, scientists hope to correlate the volume of gray matter with the duration of bipolar illness and the number of episodes. Most of the time, when we say that a person has died of old age, it's …

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Repair Your Accord

That is tremendously empowering for you, because now, with the new picture and positive and powerful emotions that only support you in your goals and dreams, you'll be able to have the kind of life you truly want to have and do it much faster than you may have imagined …

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Is Bargaining Worth The Effort?

The results showed that Henry produced no more errors or unusual pauses than control participants when reading familiar phrases. When you offer to help a stranger, friend, and/or an organization, you never know what doors will open for you. This is where my creative imagination sparks and I get …

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The Summer Of 1989

These three steps are the basic philosophy that I follow whenever I start a new project or set out to make any kind of major change. Gravity is the force that allows us to stay upright and centered and relaxed at the same time. It will also give you insight …

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You Roam From Your Retreat And View

The incidence of hormone-dependent cancers -- breast, uterine, and prostate -- has been increasing at startling rates. This form of memory is highly independent of the hippocampus. Setting aside the symbolic and strategic significance of a wall and what it represents to both parties, what would you like to see changed in …

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Behavioral Activation

The business of perception is fundamental to countless cognitive functions, and offers a prism for investigating the mechanics of how the brain produces consciousness and personality. Remind yourself that you are responsible for your health, and you are not to blame for any illnesses you may get. So between the …

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Respect The Power Of Words

From a distance your face looks calm enough, but up close I can see minuscule spasming in the palatal muscles, hear a new nasal timbre in your voice caused by lower motor lesions in the medulla oblongata, I imagine. He repeats the action along the musculus sacrospinalis fiber (located close …

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Are You

The following list covers many of the serious signs of BPD (see the next section for ideas about how to deal with these nefarious symptoms): Know that when you need to bring together your mind, body, and environment, arts and crafts are activities where you can easily experience flow. Use …

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Are You Sure It Will Ever Really Happen?

So over the next two decades, Gracey conducted extensive research to understand the socioeconomic factors and clinical challenges that were driving the health gap between white Australians and native aborigine populations. Fail to do either one of these things, and you fail. If you're talking to the right person, there's …

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Make More Money

You may have been shocked when you saw the numbers above showing how little life there is left. Remember that five-legged stool of supports we talked about in Option 1? One of the most difficult questions in terms of content and methodology is that of why. The two most powerful …

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Awareness Makes Piety Possible

Open the shades, part the curtains, or draw the blinds to let the sun in. Additionally, only recently am I beginning to realize just how important words are in my world. Your goal is to check whether it follows the system or uses some of its own movements in the …

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The Winter Of 1987

As you know, things can get pretty hectic with a newborn in the house and the emergency kit was not forefront on our minds. This gift made their celebration tremendously special, and captured forty years of friendship and love in a lasting, meaningful way. But a scheme introduced in the …

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