If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Is it my imagination or are more people suffering from phobias in the modern day? Perhaps this is the case, perhaps not; certainly there are more people who are willing to talk about having a phobia or suffering from anxiety. [...]
Read the full story »In this day and age there seems to be a lot of chatter going on about the causes of stress, the ways in which you can relieve stress and manage stress, be it emotional stress, workplace stress, chronic stress, or whatever other terminology one might come up with. Stress, stress, stress! We hear this word [...]
Read the full story »Can meditation slow down your brainwaves? Why would this be a good thing and what exactly are brainwaves anyway? Basically brainwaves are a term used to describe patterns in the electrical activity in the brain. There is always some activity going on, every moment of your life
Electrodes that measure this activity have been used [...]
I always remember someone asking “what is the best way in which to eat an elephant?” The answer was “in bite sized chunks”. Whenever you start to feel a little over whelmed the key to coping well is to break your elephant down into small chunks which are easy to chew and swallow. You may [...]
Read the full story »It is interesting to note different people’s reactions when dealing with situations involving conflict. Some people act tenaciously like a Jack Russell, yapping and barking loudly and refusing to back down; going on the offensive seems to be inbred in their nature. Other’s respond more like a King Charles spaniel, curling up in a corner [...]
Read the full story »There is much evidence these days of people rushing into things without taking sufficient time to think. The consequences are usually not too detrimental, although sometimes the effect is less than pleasing.
I know myself that I have a rather short fuse when I encounter answering systems which leave you dangling for an indefinite time and [...]
Yale University conducted a study which compared the effect of your attitude upon life expectancy and the results were dramatic to say the least. It is clear from this research study and others that stress impacts upon physical health as well as mental and emotional well-being and this can eventually lead to an early demise. [...]
Read the full story »It is ever so easy to get into a rut. We humans are creatures of habit and we tend in the main to stick to patterns of behavior which have grown familiar to us. We tend to keep on repeating the same patterns even when we know that they are not working for us. In [...]
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