Here we go again — the time of year that gave birth to the phrase ‘I need a vacation from my vacation’. With the seemingly endless parade of work parties, family gatherings and social engagements, it’s no wonder why nearly 70% of people report feeling increased levels of stress during the holiday season. But what… Continue reading Science Reveals Why Holiday Stress Can Impair Your Brain – and How You Can Beat It!
Tag: emotions
Loneliness: Understanding and Beating the Hidden Health Risk
Editor’s note: A new study reveals loneliness at epidemic levels, with almost half of Americans missing meaningful in-person daily interactions, such as having an extended conversation with a friend or spending quality time with family. Loneliness can actually be life-threatening, notes veteran holistic physician Dr. Bradley Nelson, author of the bestselling book The Emotion Code.… Continue reading Loneliness: Understanding and Beating the Hidden Health Risk
Can Over-The-Counter Pain Meds Influence Thoughts and Emotions?
Over-the-counter pain medicine such as Ibuprofen and acetaminophen may influence how people process information, experience hurt feelings, and react to emotionally evocative images, according to recent studies. Examining these findings and how policymakers should respond, a new article was published on Feb. 6, 2018 in Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences, a Federation… Continue reading Can Over-The-Counter Pain Meds Influence Thoughts and Emotions?
Telling Your Kids and Grandkids about Your Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Carol saw her doctor about a lump in her breast in early December. By the time the mammogram and biopsy were done, she didn’t want to ruin her adult daughter’s birthday or Christmas. Yes, she had breast cancer, but it wasn’t life threatening. So she sat on the news for more than a month., In… Continue reading Telling Your Kids and Grandkids about Your Breast Cancer Diagnosis
Emoji fans take heart: Scientists pinpoint 27 states of emotion
As everyone knows, there are literally hundreds of emojis designed to express a variety of emotions. And it seems that the emojis are right on – that there is a far greater range of feelings than experts have believed. A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, challenges a long-held assumption in psychology that… Continue reading Emoji fans take heart: Scientists pinpoint 27 states of emotion
Heart Health and Post-Separation Journaling
Writing after a separation or divorce could improve your heart health – but you have to do it in a certain way, according to new research from the University of Arizona. The findings, to be published in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine: Journal of Biobehavioral Medicine, are based on a study of 109 separated or divorced… Continue reading Heart Health and Post-Separation Journaling
Streamlined Analysis Can Help with Emotional Difficulties
Researchers from the University at Buffalo have boiled down to three categories the multiple ways people use to manage their emotions. According to a news release from the university, the findings can potentially benefit researchers and clinicians trying to better understand and treat a range of psychological disorders, everything from anxiety to substance abuse, by… Continue reading Streamlined Analysis Can Help with Emotional Difficulties
Smartphone Exercises Make People Feel Better Fast
Exercises on smartphones can help people quickly improve their mood, according to researchers from the University of Basel, Switzerland, and international colleagues. The findings were published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. Participants in the international study felt more alert, calmer and uplifted after – using five-minute video tutorials on their smartphones as a guide… Continue reading Smartphone Exercises Make People Feel Better Fast
Living with Chronic Illness: Being Honest About Your Feelings
One of the many daily challenges of living with chronic illness is how to answer the simple question, “How are you?” The polite answer is, “Fine, thanks.” Much of the time I am not fine, but I was taught by my parents I should not complain or, even worse, whine. Illness has taught me that… Continue reading Living with Chronic Illness: Being Honest About Your Feelings
5 Ways to Maintain Balanced Emotions While Caregiving
Have your feelings been bruised recently by someone for whom you’re providing care? You may be taking caregiving too personally. If you’re the caring type, you want to be helpful. But what happens when you become too helpful or become too controlling of the life of another person, especially IF this person IS family? Caregivers… Continue reading 5 Ways to Maintain Balanced Emotions While Caregiving
Getting Over Summer Sadness
zSummer is often thought of as the most carefree season of the year, filled with sunshine, beach days and BBQs. However, for many people with Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD), a condition in which your mood is affected by the seasons, summertime is not when the living’s easy—about 10-25% of America’s 500 thousand SAD sufferers fall… Continue reading Getting Over Summer Sadness
3 Ways to Overcome the Hurt of Cheating
Gay Hendricks, Ph.D., and Kathlyn Hendricks, Ph.D., have been married (and are still in love) after 35 years. As founders of the Hendricks Institute, in Ojai, California, and authors of the new book Conscious Loving Ever After, they have developed research-backed strategies for recovering from the hurt and bitterness caused by infidelity and for deepening… Continue reading 3 Ways to Overcome the Hurt of Cheating
Acetaminophen May Affect Your Emotions
Acetaminophen may do more than treat your headache: it could weaken your emotions, researchers have found. Investigators from The Ohio State University reached that conclusion after conducting two studies. The first involved 82 participants, half of whom took an acute dose of 1000 milligrams of acetaminophen and half who took an identical-looking placebo. They waited… Continue reading Acetaminophen May Affect Your Emotions
7 Ways to Become A Positive Thinker
While it may seem as if good things just seem to happen to ‘good’ people and the good life seems to be easier for some to attain, than others, here’s some good news. These people don’t simply “get lucky”. Instead, they’re proactive in the way they live their lives. They’ve made a choice: to take… Continue reading 7 Ways to Become A Positive Thinker