Finding a balance for everyday life
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Bedtime Yoga: 8 Simple Moves to Improve Quality of Your Sleep
By Bridgette Macilwaine Yoga is the artwork of awareness on the canvas of body, mind, and soul. ― Amit...
Create a Stress-Free Life Philosophy: 4 Simple Ways to Get Started
Many people who suffer from stress can live a better quality of life by choosing to reduce stress. Make the decision to create a life philosophy that it’s OK to indulge in doing, well, nothing! Life is short, and it’s not worth seeing it pass by drowning in an ocean of busyness. Integrate these tips into this philosophy to emotionally and mentally declutter your life of stressors. Read More...
How Hobbies Improve All Aspects of Your Life
“Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that, because what...
How to Have a Good Night’s Sleep for a Better Tomorrow
Chronic sleep deprivation can all manner of negative consequences for both our mental and physical health, from depression to heart disease. So how do we go about having more of those dream-filled nights and less of those horrible waking nightmares? Well read on and I will let you in on the best way to have a good night, every night. Read More...
3 Powerful Tips to Improve Your Emotional Fitness
Emotional fitness is your best armor against all of life’s challenges. When you’re emotionally fit, there’s nothing that can throw you off course because you’ve cultivated the inner-strength to block difficulties from infiltrating your mission and affecting your purpose. Read More...
How to Banish Stress While Studying a MEAD Degree Online
In this article, we offer some words of advice for prospective students, from those who have already studied for their own degrees, as to how they can minimize the amount of stress that they experience while studying a MEAD degree online. Read More...
3 Ways to Supercharge Your Happiness During the Gloom
I believe that practical medicine is good for some things, for some people, but our happiness is within our own mental capacity if we train our brains and support our brains physical and environmental needs. Read More...
The Wonderful Gift of Giving and Receiving
One of the things I find amazing with many of my clients is their power of giving. Some donate money to charity organizations. Some offer their time – and what a precious gift that is, as time is Life, and never coming back! Others offer their skills and talents pro-bono to people in need of their service. Read More...
How to Get Along with Difficult People
It's easy to get carried away with anger and resentment towards difficult people we have to deal with, yet when we choose to interrupt this outburst of emotions when we take a pause and reframe, the new avenue of solutions could be suddenly discovered. Read More...
How to Manage Workplace Stress in 5 Easy Steps
Everyone is different with unique stress triggers of their own as well as ways of dealing with stress. However, work is one common trigger that many of us share. Whether or not you enjoy your job, anything from the desire to do better, to deadlines, probably make you feel anxious regularly. Too often, that anxiousness can build itself up into stress in no time. This is why today, I want to talk to you about 5 tried (by me) and tested things that can help relieve your work-related stress. Read More...
Do You Want to Be Inspired and Unstoppable? Try This
“They tried to bury us; they did not know we were the seeds.” – Mexican proverb As I...
How I Overcame a Childhood Trauma from Psychological Abuse
I want help others suffering from this sort of trauma to know that you they are not alone. You may be suffering in silence but, it can be worked out. Read More...
Create a Kinder Mind: How to Stop Your Negative Self-Talk
with practice, you can replace these negative thinking patterns with thoughts that help and make a difference to your day to day happiness. Read More...
How to Awaken and Reconnect with your Spirituality
For some people, spirituality is irrevocably linked to religion, but others believe that it’s possible to connect with...
Quitting This Will Make You Feel Calmer and Peaceful
Despite my attempts to limit the impact of the news cycle, a 6-week vacation this year proved I was being exposed to a lot more than I realized. Some of the destinations through which I traveled had limited or no access to wifi and on top of that I had not paid for an extension of my cell data for international travel so I was essentially cut off from the online world for most parts of a day if not all of it. Read More...
Releasing Resentment: How to Stop Swallowing Poison From the Past
Although normal, resentment is only useful when occurring in the short term. When it persists in the longer term, simmering under the surface, it becomes toxic for the individual experiencing it and also impacts on others they interact with. Like the old saying goes “Resentment is like swallowing poison and expecting the other person to die”. A bitter person is usually someone who has been swallowing the poison of resentment for too long. Read More...
6 Ways Poor Sleep Can Sink Your Relationship
When it comes to things in life we cherish, our relationships hit the top tiers of our lists. If you are fortunate enough to have a partner in life that shares your dreams and hopes for the future, how you treat each other is important. As much as we wish that being in love was easy it isn’t, so every chance we get to make our love lives smoother, we’ll take it. Read More...
5 Things You Can Do Today to Change Your Life and Be Happier
If you feel like you are stuck in life and you really need a change right now and feel happier, here are five things you can do to start transforming your life, starting today: Read More...
Peace of Mind as a Healthy Habit: 7 Tiny Reminders
Before you react, think. Before you quit, try. – William Arthur Ward In the roaring waters of daily...
How to be at Peace When Your World Turns to Chaos
I was hit from every angle but discovered that this was a fight I could win. I could give up or take it head on. It never was easy, except when I was sleeping, but I was determined to come out of it with myself intact. I started asking myself how the future would look? I wondered if I should envision it with a lesser hope to protect myself from the worst case scenario. Or should I envision better than ever things for my future instead? Read More...
How to Explain Anxiety to Someone Who Doesn’t Get it
When we talk to people suffering from anxiety, most of them would describe this as a feeling of deep dread, apprehension of doom and gloom. It is a part of 'fight or flight' response which is a natural reaction to events we find rather stressful; it helps us deal with various demanding situations like before delivering a speech and getting exposed in front of a massive audience, or studying and trying to pass the excruciatingly important exam. In fairness, short-term anxiety can help us stay more focused and alert which could be useful when dealing with perceived threat, but long-term anxiety has a harmful impact on the body and the mind. Read More...
