(Isabelle Z.) If everyone in your family is obese, you might think that your fate is sealed and that you simply have “fat genes” in your DNA that can’t be overcome. While many conditions do carry a genetic component, a recent study illustrates just how greatly your lifestyle choices can influence your genetic risk.
Self Empowerment
8 Ways to Write Away Your Worries
(Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S.) You are worried about a litany of things, and it feels like these worries are pelting you in the head like balls from a pitching machine.
41 Powerful Journaling Exercises for Mind Expansion and Effective Behavior Change
(Michal Korzonek) Based on the work of some of the greatest world-class experts on productivity, complexity thinking, health and wellbeing, and more
Are You Trapped in a Cycle of Drama that Leaves You Disempowered?
(Christy Whitman) Are your personal relationships strained or combative? Are you seeing signs of a toxic relationship with someone you thought you could trust? Do you often find yourself in power struggles with friends or people at work?
4 Simple, Effective Ways to Release Unwanted Thoughts and Feelings
(Anna Hunt) The chatter of the mind is never more noticeable then when you are bombarded with unwanted thoughts or feelings that create conflict within you. A simple thought can sprout into dozens of hypothetical stories in the mind that leave you fearful, overwhelmed or confused. Better yet, an emotional reaction you have to a situation can fester for days, completely distracting you from enjoying life.
25 Signs You Have a Wounded Inner Child
(Aletheia Luna) Every child deserves the fundamental right to feel safe, secure and protected. But not every child does. Growing up, it is the emotional and biological responsibility of our parents and family members to create a safe environment for us. But not all parents accept that responsibility, are aware of that responsibility, or have the capacity to fulfill that responsibility.
The Emerald Tablets by Best Selling Author Billy Carson
(Wendy Stokes) Billy Carson is the founder of 4biddenknowledge.com, and he is also the author of the famous book “The Compendium of The Emerald Tablets”.
The Power of Suggestion: Psychological Placebos Found to Be as Effective as Medical Placebos
(Edsel Cook) Swiss researchers suggest that placebos were all in the mind. They recently conducted a trio of experiments that indicated a placebo didn’t need to come in physical form, as long as a healthcare professional could convince a patient about the supposed effectiveness of the psychological placebo.
The Historical Facts on Measles and the Measles Vaccine Censored by Mainstream Media
(Barbara Loe Fisher) This year, the fear mongering about measles has reached epidemic proportions in America. A day doesn’t go by without media outlets publishing angry articles and editorials spewing hatred toward a tiny minority of parents with unvaccinated children, who are being blamed for measles outbreaks.
How Unconscious Guilt Manifests Itself
(Exploring your Mind) Many times unconscious guilt manifests itself through depression and anxiety. In depression, there’s a feeling of dissatisfaction with oneself and the world. In anxiety, through the expectation of harm or punishment.
32 Tips for Navigating A Society That is Full of Propaganda and Manipulation
(Caitlin Johnstone) For as long as there has been human language, humans have been using it to manipulate one another. The fact that it is possible to skillfully weave a collection of symbolic mouth noises together in such a way as to extract favors, concessions, votes and consent from other humans has made manipulation so common that it now pervades our society from top to bottom, from personal relationships between two people to international relationships between government agencies and the public.
New study confirms: Junk food takes YEARS off your life
(Isabelle Z.) It’s hard to keep track of all the ways that the wrong foods can compromise your health. For example, eating nitrates is linked to colorectal cancer, but how can you tell which foods contain these chemicals? Sugar is bad no matter how you look at it, but aren’t artificial sweeteners even worse? You can’t bring a stack of nutrition journals with you every time you head to the grocery store, so a recent study makes it very clear: junk food takes years off of your life, plain and simple.
Addiction and a Lack of Purpose
(Steve Taylor, Ph.D.) As you are no doubt aware, presently the United States is experiencing an opioid epidemic. There are many reasons for this—one of the most obvious being the reckless over-subscription of opiate-based painkillers by doctors, leading to dependency. But on a psychological level, we have to take into account the strong relationship between addiction and the lack of a sense of purpose.
Beginning your Spiritual Journey, a Minister’s Path to Enlightenment – Leon Isaac Kennedy Part 1
Beginning your Spiritual Journey, a Minister’s Path to Enlightenment – Leon Isaac Kennedy Part 1
Automatic Negative Thoughts: Got ANTS on the Brain?
(Edie Weinstein) Numbers bandied about from many sources indicate that adults have somewhere between 60,000 to 80,000 thoughts a day. Most are repetitive and many are negative. Two important questions call to be answered:Where do the thoughts originate?What are we to do with them?