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#NationalTakeAChanceDay Today is National Take a Chance Day, and every year on April 23rd, we are encouraged to break out of our comfort zone. It reminds us that taking risks can open you up to new challenges and opportunities and empower you to push the limits in your mind. We all have boundaries where comfortable staying or thoughts of what…
Visualization works, in fact, it is one of the most powerful mind exercises you can do. Athletes have been using it for decades to improve performance, and Psychology Today reported that the brain patterns activated when a weightlifter lifts weights are also similarly activated when the lifter just imagined (visualized) lifting weights. However, while brain pattern results are similar for…
Millions of people suffer from chronic pain and living with chronic pain can be difficult or outright debilitating. Pain management can also be tricky. Often, even after taking the maximum dose of painkillers, the pain soon returns with a vengeance. But living with chronic pain is not only a physical strain, but it can also affect our mind as we…
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How to cultivate and strengthen our capacity for kindness and compassion. Offering a smile and a kind word to the checkout person, giving a frazzled mom an understanding look when her child is having a tantrum, offering your shoulder to cry on for an upset friend; these are all gifts of kindness. While there may be a cultural trend away…
The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another —William James This week’s mental workout is about learning how to identify what generates stress and create an action plan for how to minimize and overcome the pressure. What To Do Take some alone time today to sit down with a pen and paper…
When you own your power, you take responsibility for the situations and experiences you have in your in life. Taking responsibility is empowering and freeing. Of course, while we cannot control all that happens in the world (or to us), powerful affirmations help us create a more positive response to how we perceive and experience these challenging situations. According…
