(Exploring Your Mind) Nerves and anxiety can make you experience a greater need to go to the bathroom. Indeed, frequent urination is one effect of those times when you’re feeling particularly worried and stressed. What can you do?
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Three Approaches to the Study of Personality
(Exploring Your Mind) Personality is one of those aspects of the person that nobody can define in a standardized way. Discover here the different approaches to its study.
Being Worried About COVID-19 Impairs a Person’s Cognitive Abilities
(Arsenio Toledo) New research has found that constantly worrying about the Wuhan coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic can impair a person’s cognitive abilities.
Drunkorexia: What is It?
(Exploring Your Mind) Drunkorexia is the restriction of calories in food to make room for calories in alcoholic beverages. It’s an eating disorder that’s especially prevalent among young people.
Reverse the Brainwashing: How to End America’s Addiction to Fear
(Dr. Joseph Mercola) Dr. Mark McDonald is a psychiatrist in the Los Angeles, California, area. He’s written a book called “United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to Mass Delusional Psychosis,” which is the topic of today’s discussion. Around April 2020, McDonald actually made the brave decision to “fire” patients who refused to accept his stand on certain realities and truths.
5 Ways You Can Combat Morning Anxiety
(Kendra Beckley) It’s easy to let your busy schedule cause you to feel anxious right as you are starting your day. Worrying about all the tasks you need to complete is normal, but it results in unnecessary stress. This is a huge reason as to why many of us aren’t morning people. Though it’s challenging, there are ways to work around these overwhelming feelings. Here are five ways that can help you combat your morning anxiety.
Mindful Productivity: What is It?
(Exploring Your Mind) You’re working and take a five-minute break to eat something. You return to your desk, but then find you need to stretch your legs for a bit. You return to your desk again. Then, a video catches your attention… it’s only four minutes long, so you watch it. Very soon, without even realizing it, your workday is over. However, you feel anxious because today you haven’t been too productive.
Children With Greater Self-Control Become Happy Adults
(Valeria Sabater) Educating children in impulse control from an early age will allow them to become adults who are able to regulate their behavior, relate to others more successfully, and work more appropriately to achieve their goals.
Smile More Often. You’ll Feel So Much Better.
(Exploring Your Mind) The smile is a simple but powerful tool. It helps you to be happier and healthier and to enjoy your relationships with others. We tell you about its benefits.
The Turing Test: Differentiating Between a Human and a Machine
(Valeria Sabater) Can machines think? This is the question Alan Turing presented in the article on his famous test, designed to differentiate a human from an artificial entity.
MINDSET: This One Factor Is the Difference Between Defeat and Opportunity
(Jayne Rising) In uncertain times, how we cope becomes very important. The choices we make can literally make or break us. Beneath those choices lies a mindset. How we think creates a great deal of our reality. Not all to be sure, but how we think is the factor that decides whether we choose yoga and breathing to manage our stress, or alcohol & other drugs. Our mindset makes all of the difference between seeing defeat and opportunity.
These Personality Traits May Make You More Prone to Problematic Binge-Watching
(Neuroscience News) Once upon a time, TV viewers had to wait patiently each week for a new episode of their favorite series to drop. Streaming services have upended that model, allowing unfettered access to an entire season-worth of episodes – unleashing the phenomenon known as binge-watching.
The Importance of Forgiving Yourself
(Exploring Your Mind) Being able to forgive your own mistakes, and to assume them as an inherent and necessary part of evolution, is essential for your self-concept and personal growth.
Brain Noise: What is It and How Does It Affect You?
(Exploring Your Mind) Your neurons talk to each other constantly. In fact, the electrical activity they generate forms a permanent and unpredictable ‘noise’ that neurologists are trying to understand.
Do Animals Have a Sense of Humor? Science Says Yes
(Exploring Your Mind) What does science tell us about humor in animals? Everything seems to indicate that some species do have one. However, what does this imply?