Health & Wellness
Your mental health is vital to your overall health and wellness — and stress management is critical to your mental health! These articles will help educate you about these complex subjects and teach practical ways to cope with daily challenges.
By Laura Araujo
administrator
The act of identifying your purpose and bringing it to life on a consistent basis, however, can prove challenging. I don’t know about you, but there are times when I feel overwhelmed when I begin a new project or am pursuing a purpose-driven goal.
By Laura Araujo
administrator
Play encourages abstract thought and improves our ability to imagine. It releases endorphins and helps us envision other perspectives — hello empathy!
Even more powerfully, recent research has shown that play helps build connections of neurons in the pre-frontal cortex — what I call “the boss” because it’s the decision making part of our brains.
By Laura Araujo
administrator
So what is gratitude?
Cicero, in Roman culture, named gratitude the “mother” of all human feelings.
In woo-woo talk, it’s that tingly, fuzzy, feel-good sensation inside our minds, and maybe even hearts. It’s validation. It’s instant happiness.
And it is. When we express gratitude, it acts as a catalyst for our brain to release dopamine and serotonin – neurotransmitters responsible for happiness.
By Laura Araujo
administrator
It is estimated that over 400 MILLION people meditate around the world. Our supermarket shelves are bursting with magazines, and since 2015 this budding industry has launched more than 2,500 meditation applications and now claims millions of online practitioners. Yet it seems that people are more stressed out than ever before. Why?
By Laura Araujo
administrator
What’s your relationship with uncertainty?
For many of us, it can be very unsettling. But learning to deal with uncertainty can unleash tremendous power within us.
By Laura Araujo
administrator
Amid the fear, the guilt, the hate, and the uncertainty that has exploded this past week, I decided that a Tonglen meditation, which is a meditation to cultivate compassion, was appropriate.
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