Browse Category: Mental Health and Stress

The 5 Best Ingredients To Fight Depression And Boost Your Mood

If you’re feeling depressed lately, or even just a little down in the dumps, you may want to take a look at your diet. Recent studies are showing that what you’re eating (or rather, not eating) may lead to a depressive state. Essential nutrients such as the B vitamins, fish oil and even water may play a role in your emotional and mental health. Keep reading to find out the best ingredients for fighting depression and boosting your mood. . .

Worried About Your Health? Try Positive Psychology

Are you a glass-half-full or glass-half-empty type of person? Well, if you want to improve your health you might want to consider filling up your glass a bit! Positive psychology is becoming more and more popular as a way to boost not only your emotional health, but your physical health as well. Keep reading to find out why you should keep your glass half-full all of the time. . .

Change Happens. . . When You're Ready!

Do you want to know how true positive change happens?  Then read on.

Help Reduce Stress for Your Loved One

Heart disease is the number one killer of men—and half of men who die of a heart attack fail to show previous symptoms. Stress is a major risk factor, so reducing stress is a critical part of the preventive process. To help your loved ones reduce their stress and keep their hearts healthy, follow this advice.

Don’t Overthink Your Life or Health

There’s an old saying in golf that applies to any of us: Don’t overthink your swing. The Kaizen method of continuous improvement calls for not overthinking your life. As a reward, you can be healthier after just a few days of “small thoughts.” Kaizen devotees know it as visualization or mind sculpture. You imagine yourself in a situation of wellness success—less junk-food eating, more exercise, sounder and longer sleep, increased time with loved ones. You put yourself in that scene by creating sensory experiences of what you might feel, taste, smell (breathe in that fresh air), see (a person you admire in the mirror) or hear (“you look great!”), and it works! Keep reading for more insights into this powerful Kaizen visualization practice. . .

Stress and the Single Life

Married people live longer than never married or divorce adults. That’s a fact from decades of health research. This finding has always been puzzling to those people among us who are steadfastly single—along with the happily divorced and unhappily married. The single life offers would-be health perks to all three demographic groups, such as doing what you want with your free time, deciding how clean (or not so clean) your home needs to be and a diminished amount of conflict in intimate relationships.

Smile! Scientists Confirm Happiness is Contagious

It might sound like a catch-phrase for an optimists club, but new science shows that happiness can be contagious. Harvard Medical School researchers recently reported that the more happy people you know, the greater the chance you will be happy yourself.

5 Easy Ways to Lower Stress for Your Loved Ones

Heart disease is the number one killer of men—and half of men who die of a heart attack fail to show previous symptoms. Stress is a major risk factor, so reducing stress is a critical part of the preventive process. To help your loved ones reduce their stress and keep their hearts healthy, follow this advice.

Women are More Prone Than Men to Symptoms of Economy Stress

The economy is no one’s favorite subject these days. But a new American Psychological Association survey shows that women might be even more inclined to avoid the subject. Eighty-four percent of the women in the survey acknowledged deep fears about the uncertain financial future, compared to 75 percent of men. The difference is statistically significant.

3 Natural Tricks to Beat Depression during the Wintertime

When it comes to the wintertime, there are many who struggle with depression . . . and you may be one of them.  It appears that depression and winter go hand-in-hand and ultimately make a perfect partnership. Whether it is the weather itself or the “shorter” days, it is a known fact that more people get depressed in the winter than any other season.  In this article, we will expand on three ways to fight wintertime depression; light therapy, talk therapy and melatonin.