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ARTArticleFunctional Depression is Dysfunctionally DepressingSummer is in full swing, the birds are chirping, the sun is shining and all you want to do is curl up alone in a dark room and be alone. This is the stark reality of someone who deals with chronic depression. The general public knows this image well. Mention depression and they imagine a person who withdraws from social events; who can’t get out of bed, and are either tearful or angry.ARTArticleGive Yourself A 'Mini Vacation' To Overcome Health AnxietyWhat an unpleasant thing to live with, health anxiety. What's even more troubling is the fact that traditional treatments for health anxiety simply don't work very well. I remember going to doctor after doctor, emergency room after emergency room due to my symptoms of anxiety and the intense fear that a real physical problem was present. I was given a clean bill of health over and over again and was told that my problems were mental, but no 'professional' got to the root of the problem. The root of the problem of health anxiety is adrenaline.ARTArticleGO AHEAD OF YOUR SCHEDULE : HAVE PEACEPhilosophers have shown their conce on the habitual actions of mankind that he acts upon the things even though he knows harmful to himself. I pre-suppose that more than 80% of the common populace practice on what is believed in their eyes to be harmful to their mind and body. Isn’t true; that the common; universal; human ethical behavioral truths are the tools to attain peace of mind and body? Every ethical way and good conducts put good effects on our mind and body? To our surprise; we knowingly ignore them, and face disturbance.ARTArticleHave You Seen Your Inner Self Lately?"Your outer world is a reflection of your inner world." You have heard this before. It makes sense. Yet, do we really understand the magnitude of its truth? The very idea that your beliefs thoughts, and feelings (your inner world) directly influences your outer world experiences, especially if your experiences haven’t necessarily been good, can be a little disconcerting.ARTArticleHealth Anxiety 30 Day Beginners Exercise ChallengeMany people who suffer from debilitating high levels of anxiety and especially health anxiety and fears related to their heart have a very difficult time starting an exercise program, mainly because the common physical bodily sensations that exercise brings on mirrors a full blown panic attack in many ways, but what if you gradually stepped out of your comfort area and into what you fear, what if you could add enough fun and variety to your daily exercise routine and also chip away for 30 days? How would you feel?ARTArticleHeart Palpitations Due To Your Anxiety Keeping You Up At Night?During my 6 year battle with an anxiety disorder I remember taking multiple tests like a stress test, ecg, blood tests, holter monitor and more all because of one frightening and annoying symptom of anxiety... heart pounding during sleep time. These pounding heart sensations used to keep me up for hours and hours at night during my anxiety disorder and sometimes I would completely give up on trying to sleep, and just stay up all night (which would make my symptoms of anxiety worse in the morning and lead to insomnia).ARTArticleHerbal Pain Remedies – When Aspirin Is Not EnoughHerbal pain remediesare sought after by millions of people because pain is inevitable. Pain is the only way our brain will know that there is something wrong with our body. Of course, there are many pain killers prescribed by doctors but how assured are you that you will not suffer from negative effects in the long term? Herbal medicines – Alte ative treatment for pains ARTArticleHow Can You Use Your Anger Positively To Be An Equal Player In Relationships?Why on earth are we burdened with anger? Why do we have to battle with anger all our lives? What is the point of having this emotion? Why can’t we do without it? We aren’t needing to kill predators to protect our lives or keep meager food rations for ourselves as we did millions of years ago. So what on earth does anger do for us in this day and age? Want to stop being a doormat? Get Angry! Anger continues to have a strong psychological survival value. Anger is the strongest sign that urges you to stand up for yourself.ARTArticleHow Jill Miraculously Overcame Her Panic DisorderJill was a good friend of mine who had been dealing with panic attacks for a few years. Jill had 3 kids, a loving husband, and amazing friends that did everything they could to help her cope with her panic attacks. Sometimes these panic attacks would appear out of nowhere, and other times something would trigger them, either way she lived her life in fear from day to day not knowing when a panic attack would strike next.ARTArticleHow Meditation can help with Eating Disorders?Meditation (or mindfulness training) is proven to be very helpful for eating disorder sufferers. If practiced regularly, meditation can balance abnormal mental states of patients. It can also bring them peace and stability. The brains of eating disorder sufferers are overloaded with abnormal thoughts and feelings to the point that they sometimes have to give up on their studies, jobs and relationships; because they simply feel that they can’t cope with it anymore.ARTArticleHow Nutrition Played A Big Part In My Recovery From An Anxiety DisorderDuring my 6 year struggle with generalized anxiety disorder I must have visited over 30 different doctors for my health anxiety and panic attack symptoms. I remember the day that things started turning around for me though, together with a number of factors such as getting to the point of 'no return' (deciding not to live another day the way I was), I remember hearing an interesting statistic, the statistic that stuck to me like glue was that less than 6% of doctors have any kind of training with nutrition! I thought to myself how could this be!ARTArticleHow To Completely Eliminate Your Social AnxietyThere are many reasons people begin to experience social anxiety, however nearly all of those reasons stem from the desire of the individual to avoid an emotional response that might arise from a social situation. Examples of these responses include nervousness, awkwardness, insecurity, fear, rejection, and a host of other uncomfortable feelings. If you experience this type of anxiety, you need to ask yourself: 'Would I have this problem if it weren't for these feelings'?ARTArticleHow To Give Yourself What You Want and Stop Getting MadI do what you want, but you never let me do what I want! Justin had his heart set on the new BMW sports car, but Be ice wondered whether it was the best way of spending money at this point. There were other more important priorities like her business start up, the kids school fees and house repairs to consider. Justin blew up. “ You never let me have what I want! When you wanted to go to Costa Rica I agreed because I knew what that meant to you. I let you choose the living room furniture even though I hated it.ARTArticleHow to Parent Your Adult ChildIn the last few years I have created a new niche in my practice, counseling parents of adult "children." Perhaps it is a result of the fact that people are living longer that my clients are often over 65 and are as frustrated over their relationships with their grown-up sons and daughters as they were when their offspring were toddlers or teens. Although society has many rituals to celebrate the rites of passage into adulthood such as graduation from school, bar mitzvahs, and weddings, we have no way to demarcate the passage from "child" to adult within the family.ARTArticleHow to Reduce Your Stress in 3 Easy StepsStress is wearing us out and wearing us down. Every day stress causes people to have headaches, stomach problems, neck and back aches, disrupted sleep—and the list goes on and on. Stress is responsible for missed days of work, diabetes, mobility problems, high blood pressure, heart problems, and depression. Those are just a few of the health issues we are dealing with that are related to stress. If you do not start to reduce your stress you are making a choice that will influence the rest of your life. Your health will suffer and thereby affect everything else.ARTArticleHow to Resolve Self-conflicts in Eating Disorder Sufferers.Eating disorders are rooted in emotional struggles. These struggles are deep emotional conflicts within the sufferer, these are called self-conflicts. How the conflicts started in the first place? This process begins by fantasizing at a very early age. People fantasize a script, for example like a Hollywood production focusing on TV stars or other celebrities. Then they start rehearsing their part. As they go, they either give up on their initial part and take up a new one, or they practice the first part and role –play that script out until it becomes who they think they are.ARTArticleHow To Resolve the Guilt of the Suicide SurvivorNo one can know the depth of despair to which a person may sink upon contemplation of suicide. Possibly, the black hole in which one finds him/herself gets deeper and darker as the days go by. Soon, even the smallest sliver of light is blocked from view. And then -- instead of being frightening -- the darkness becomes comforting and safe. It cradles and protects the person from all outside forces – from life and all the decisions to be made, both large and small. Ete al sleep and “supposed” freedom from worry beckon the suicide until he can no longer resist, and life is snuffed out.ARTArticleHow to Shut My Brain Down So I Can SleepHow to Shut Down My Brain So I Can Sleep ARTArticleHow To Stop Anger About Your Past From Interfering In Your PresentKoren is furious that her son is being unfairly picked on As she drove to pick up nine year old Hector from school, Koren seethed with rage. She was confronted with a complaint that Hector was suspended from after school playground access for hitting another boy. Koren was mad at the playground supervisor for believing the other child rather than her son. She was furious that the supervisor allowed the incident to occur.ARTArticleHow To Stop Anxiety Step 1Sharing What Worked,ARTArticleHow To Stop Anxiety Step 2Complete Acceptance - For people that are struggling with GAD, learning to have complete acceptance of the fact that you have an anxiety disorder (and nothing more) as well as accepting the temporary discomforts that come with anxiety provoking experiences, can become highly therapeutic on its own.ARTArticleHow To Stop Anxiety Step 3Becoming Knowledgeable - It's vitally important that once you have accepted that what you have is related to panic and anxiety disorder, you start educating yourself on how panic attacks happen and what generalized anxiety disorder is. Knowledge is a powerful tool that will give you a deeper understanding, and also provide you with many answers that will build your confidence about your condition. Since fear is a main culprit for so many people with anxiety disorders, so much of the fear that we hold on to disappears as more knowledge is gained, and then applied.ARTArticleHow To Stop Anxiety Step 4Building On The Facts,ARTArticleHow To Stop Anxiety Step 5Taking Action Remember this quote because it has turned my life around and will turn yours around as well, “knowing is not enough, we must apply, willing is not enough we must do.”ARTArticleHow To Stop Anxiety Step 6Accepting Setbacks ARTArticleHow To Stop Anxiety Step 7Patience ARTArticleHow Winnie The Pooh Contributed To Ending My Anxiety DisorderFunny thing happened today, I had a flashback to the days of suffering through an anxiety disorder and I made a very important distinction between how my thought process was then, compared to how my thought process is now. Back then I allowed people to show me how to think in my day to day life, friends who were quick to share an opinion and their emotional attachment to any give situation dictated the meaning I placed to everything, mostly negative.ARTArticleHow working out can lower chances of breast cancer developmentPost-menopausal women who are regularly working out are less likely to develop breast cancer due to the fact that they have lower estrogen levels, based on new research. Many scientists have often connected working out with low breast cancer risk for older women partially because of the lower levels of estrogen in their bodies, because increased estrogen levels are known to also increase the risk of developing breast cancer.ARTArticleInstant Stress Reduction With EFTMost of us are so used to living with stress that we aren't even aware that it's there. Here's a quick way to eradicate stress in two minutes or less. You can perform this procedure, called EFT, any time and anywhere.I enjoy doing it while stopped at a red light. It is safe and good for your health. Make sure to turn off your cell phone or iPod before you get started, When you are feeling uptight because of physical or emotional stress, the body tightens, and you may experience a knot in your stomach, neck or shoulders.ARTArticleIs Your Chronic Fatigue Linked to Stress and Painful Emotions?Patsy swallows her feelings and gets tired out Patsy spent her forty-fifth birthday with her elderly mother who complained about the food being cold and bland. Patsy bit her tongue and tried to make something more appetizing. Her sister called to wish her a happy birthday, then made excuses as to why she couldn’t take care of their mother next weekend. Patsy was outraged that she was expected to be the dutiful child while her siblings got away with it. She ground her teeth, stuffed the indignation and continued with her chores.

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