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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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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I Feel The Sadness In My Veins

If you feel the spark, that doesn't necessarily mean the relationship is viable. If you have to use it, use it during the second half of your cycle, not throughout the entire cycle. I, too, had fought (and some days still struggle with) these same feelings of self-sabotage and defeat …

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Turn Orthodoxy Into A Game

Early in my career, I wish I had then had a better definition of what I now call the generosity gene, Jack said. Focus on spending time with your loved ones to be more grounded. Mishaps, I've come to realize, are simply part of the lecture-circuit territory. In December 1951 …

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Your Tracker Will Show You What

Duval and Wicklund came up with a solution based on the idea that some external stimuli cause us to focus inward on ourselves. Although the Robbers Cave experiment is usually described as an example of how superordinate goals can help break down intergroup biases, Allport's other key ingredients for optimal …

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Another Obstacle To Fervor

In fact, work by researchers at McMasters University found that HIT creates molecular changes in the muscles similar to those produced by several hours of biking or running. I played sports the other girls played--floor hockey and softball. Your eyes would assume it is an open house because your mind …

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Do You Hate Yourself?

The emotion takes place in us, yes, and you may even say it's part of us, but it is not who we truly are, and seeing that frees us to be able to fully experience an emotion--and when we are able to fully experience an emotion it will change, because …

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The Winter Of 1997

That's why clinical narcissists also use these mean mechanisms as preferred weapons from their armoury. As the caretaker, you come to feel like the parent because the narcissist acts like a child who needs lots of caring and monitoring. Cleaning their car, organizing activities, helping them with obligations, or bringing …

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Little Known Ways To Help

You can also go for a half-hug instead, wherein you just pat someone on the back after wrapping an arm around him or her. Parents sacrifice their personal time and space for their children, they lose sleep as a result of their kids, and they are constantly engaged in tiring …

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Coping With Reconciliation

Obviously, you won't be able to listen in on their inner self-talk, but people often speak their self-talk out loud: I'm just not good at those sorts of things, I haven't got time to deal with that, I've always wanted to do that, but I just don't have what it …

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