The body-mind connection broadens: Study says obese people lose lots of brain tissue
The health complications associated with obesity, among them an increased risk of developing diabetes and heart disease, may now include what scientists are calling “severe brain degeneration.” In a new study out of UCLA, obese and overweight people were shown to have significantly less brain tissue than people classified as being a normal weight.
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How To Motivate Yourself
It happens to us all. One day we’re motivated and the next day we’re in the dumps having ourselves a pity party. Staying motivated is not easy. If it were, everybody would do it. But, it can be done. You believe it can be done and that’s why you’re reading this right now – good… Continue reading
Silencing Self Criticism
In this series, adapted from the book Toxic Criticism, we examine the ways that criticism and self-criticism interfere with our ability to find our life purpose and live as strongly, passionately, and effectively as we would like to live.
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Responding to Criticism
Constructive criticism is a good thing. It helps you improve yourself and refine your skills. Destructive criticism, on the other hand, is useless and serves no good purpose, aside from hurting your feelings.
Destructive Criticism – What Should You Do?
Even though it’s difficult receiving destructive and negative criticism, you should still listen to it.… Continue reading
Stressed About 2012?
When I first started hearing about the 2012 fears–predictions that the world will come to an end in 2012–I thought, ‘Interesting.’ After a friend told me about a documentary she saw detailing the fact that the ancient Mayan calendar ends in 2012, part of me thought, ‘Wow, is there something to this?’ Then the… Continue reading
Antidotes to human nastiness
Being a victim of cruelty can be fatal. For those who survive, it can be incredibly unpleasant, demoralizing (in more than one sense of the word) and painful. Often the scars remain for ages, even for what may appear to be quite minor acts of cruelty – verbal abuse at school, for instance.
Even learning… Continue reading
How to Change Things When Change Is Hard
If you’ve been struggling to make a change in your health and fitness, your relationship, your financial situation, or place of work, Switch, which comes out in February 2010, is a must read.
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What Does Motivation Mean To You?
Becoming motivated and staying motivated is difficult for most of us. When you ask the question what motivation means to you, it also begs the questions, Do I believe in motivation and, Do I really need motivation? In other words, do you believe you need motivation to succeed in your career and personal goals?
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Developing Intuition
Have you had that experience when all of a sudden you just had this huge hunch that something is about to happen, and to your surprise, that intuition was eventually translated to reality?
When you feel strongly about something without logical basis to it, that’s called intuition. It comes in three impressions: clairvoyance or “the… Continue reading
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