How to Reduce Cortisol & Restore Sleep
Lack of sleep can affect the release of cortisol into your system. When we are sleep deprived, our cortisol levels tend to rise. This, in turn, affects our sleep patterns in a negative way and makes it...
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What Are the Benefits of an EAP?
In addition to health insurance, life insurance and a retirement plan, many workplaces offer an Employee Assistance Plan (EAP).
View ArticleHow to Deal With a Leg Amputation
Leg amputations are one of the hardest procedures to recover from. This comes from not only physical demands, but also the emotional battery of losing a limb. Whether the amputation happened due to...
View ArticleAlternatives to Stress Balls
Stress balls are great tools for helping you relieve stress. Busy schedules, blown deadlines, visiting in-laws...; we all have stress triggers that impact us every day. Squeezing a stress ball can help...
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Drugs That Affect a Lie Detector Test
A lie detector test measures and records physiological changes in the body. When lying, heart rate may increase, and you may fidget or squirm. Some medications, however, can affect lie detector tests.
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Over-the-Counter Stress-Relief Pills
Stress in small doses can be a helpful response to pressure-filled situations. According to HelpGuide.org, stress under pressure can make you perform better as it increases your awareness, mental focus...
View ArticleUses for the Hitachi Wand
There are some devices invented by man that are considered infinitely useful. In fact, there are new uses for these legendary inventions that are discovered every day. When the wheel was invented, who...
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How Can Men & Women Improve Communication?
Communication problems between men and women date back through evolution. Women continue to baffle men, while men baffle women. Creating good communication skills between the sexes, however, isn't...
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Multidimensional Anxiety Theory
Multidimensional Anxiety Theory posits that two types of anxiety, cognitive and somatic, impact performance differently. This theory is applied most often in the field of sports psychology.
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Symptoms of Excess Dopamine or Taurine
Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that primarily acts to control the movement of the human body. Although it is produced naturally by the human body, synthetic forms of dopamine can also be prescribed to...
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How to Meditate And Relax Your Mind
What is meditation? Meditation is a mental discipline by whereby an individual trains his mind to reach into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. The purpose of meditation is learning to focus...
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How to Boost Endorphins
Endorphins are chemical neurotransmitters in the brain that send electric signals throughout the nervous system. They act as natural pain and stress relievers by interacting with opiate receptors in...
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What Is a Bamboo Massage?
Bamboo has been introduced into rituals for life energy, sexuality and fertility for thousands of years. Today, these ancient rituals have been reintroduced by modern spas through bamboo massage...
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How to Set Goals Using the SMART Method
Setting and achieving goals is difficult for many of us. How many times have you said that you were going to do something and just never got around to doing it? Or set New Year's Resolutions only to...
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How to Create a Positive Attitude
It can be difficult to go through life with a negative attitude. If you look at situations from a pessimistic viewpoint, it can be tough to find the strength to keep pushing at it. The more positive...
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Writing Activities for Emotional Trauma
Those who suffer emotional trauma as a result of a major life change, accident or other problem, may want to seek forms of help that utilize creativity rather than or in conjunction with medication or...
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Support Group Activity Ideas
Support groups provide encouragement and understanding for people dealing with similar issues. Support groups may consist of cancer patients, stroke victims and people with mental health problems,...
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What Does Being Proactive Mean?
Being proactive means having total mastery over your own mind, emotions and behaviors. It means believing you have the power to change negative situations and take control over your life. Being...
View ArticleHow to Lead a Happy Life
What is happiness? Each of us defines it differently and there are as many recipes for it as there are people. But it is a universal goal, something we all want. It is our nature as human beings to...
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Types of Communication in Family Therapy
Conflict and misunderstandings can make it difficult for a family to function as a unit. How each member relates to the others affects how the group functions as a whole, as well as how each member...
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