Daily Reminders
I normally review my quarterly goals each morning, which is a good habit for staying focused on them throughout the quarter. One new habit I’ve started is to also review a daily reminders list. This is a list of good practices that I want to refresh in my mind each morning, so I can remember to practice them.
The reminders list is good for habits that are difficult to anchor to just one time of day. This can include mindsets, frames, values, and practices that I may want to embody throughout the day. The list is very flexible though, so I can also use it to remind myself of positive habits and their benefits.
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Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Productivity Values Source Type: blogs
Victoria Beckham skin, Kiehls, anti-aging products and the oldest beauty brands – episode 217
On today’s show we’re going to be answering questions about…
Does Kiehls eye alert product help eyes look better?
What is the best product to use to avoid breakouts with anti-aging benefits?
What do you think of the technology of the new Victoria Beckham line?
What is the oldest beauty product on the market today?
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Beauty Questions
Question 1 – Audio Question – Frank O – This is about Kiehl’s Eye Alert product, which uses cucumber and alfalfa to energize the skin in eye area and vitamin E and caff...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - April 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
Victoria Beckham skin, Kiehls, anti-aging products and the oldest beauty brands – episode 217
On today’s show we’re going to be answering questions about…
Does Kiehls eye alert product help eyes look better?
What is the best product to use to avoid breakouts with anti-aging benefits?
What do you think of the technology of the new Victoria Beckham line?
What is the oldest beauty product on the market today?
Beauty Science
Fekkai launches new beauty technology to customize hair care
Take the Fekkai quiz
Beauty Questions
Question 1 – Audio Question – Frank O – This is about Kiehl’s Eye Alert product, which uses cucumber and alfalfa to energize the skin in eye area and vitamin E and caff...
Source: thebeautybrains.com - April 17, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Perry Romanowski Tags: Podcast Source Type: blogs
How Self-Development Protects You
We often think of self-development as a pursuit that builds positive capabilities such as courage, ambition, or a success mindset. And of course it can generate many positive results if we truly invest in it, such as loving relationships, a meaningful and lucrative career, and a rewarding lifestyle.
But we can easily overlook just how beautifully self-development protects us from major problems in life, including serious but common problems that drag many people down for years, if not decades.
Preventing Self-Destruction
I originally got into self-development as a path away from self-destructive behavior when I wa...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 8, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
How to Cope with Coronavirus Anxiety When You Already Have an Anxiety Disorder
When you already have an anxiety disorder, and a real pandemic hits, you can feel especially lost and terrified.
Clinical psychologist Regine Galanti, Ph.D, helps her clients recognize that their anxiety is a false alarm—“it’s not your house on fire, it’s a pizza burning in the toaster.” But because of Coronavirus, she said, your house is actually ablaze.
In other words, it makes sense that you’re anxious.
It makes sense that your symptoms have flared up or gotten worse, agreed Emily Bilek, Ph.D, a clinical psychologist and clinical assistant professor at University of Michigan.
Bilek noted that people understa...
Source: World of Psychology - March 31, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Margarita Tartakovsky, M.S. Tags: Anxiety and Panic Disorders General Health-related Self-Help Stress coronavirus COVID-19 quarantine social distancing Source Type: blogs
Have a headache? The top 7 triggers
“Headaches aren’t welcome here” — that’s the sign you have hanging on your brain’s front door, but the pain is barging right in. You can chalk it up to stress from world events or something you ate or drank, and you might be right. But there are a number of common triggers for migraines, tension headaches, or cluster headaches. The faster you identify them, the quicker you can boot headache pain off the property.
What are the triggers for your headaches?
Take note of your circumstances when a headache starts. Keep a diary to track the day, time, symptoms, and circumstances surrounding the pain (what had you eat...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 30, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Heidi Godman Tags: Headache Health Men's Health Women's Health Source Type: blogs
How to Navigate Your Panic Attacks During These Turbulent Times
If you suffer from panic attacks or are prone to them, you might find that you are experiencing them more than usual. The uncertainty in these challenging times as we face a global pandemic — it’s the perfect storm for intense fear and a sense of dread that cripples those who suffer from panic attacks. It triggers physical symptoms like a pounding heart, sweating, shortness of breath, nausea, chest pain, or trembling. It can last 5 to 20 minutes but can feel like forever. Despite the scary situation you find yourself in, the “silver lining” is that once you learn to recognize when your attacks are coming on...
Source: World of Psychology - March 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Emily Waters Tags: Anxiety and Panic Stress Anxiety Attack coronavirus COVID-19 Panic Attack stress reduction Source Type: blogs
Strategies to promote better sleep in these uncertain times
These are unprecedented times. Given the real and tangible threat of the coronavirus pandemic on personal, community, and societal levels, it is normal to experience anxiety and sleep problems. Sleep is a reversible state marked by a loss of consciousness to our surroundings, and as members of the animal kingdom, our brains have evolved to respond to dangers by increasing vigilance and attention — in other words, our brains are protecting us, and by doing so it’s harder for us to ignore our surroundings.
Despite the threat of the coronavirus and its rapid and pervasive disruption to our daily lives, many of us are an i...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 27, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Suzanne Bertisch, MD, MPH Tags: Health Sleep Stress Source Type: blogs
Why Coffee Drinking Runs In Families (M)
The reason parents who like coffee tend to have children who also like coffee.
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The effect of caffeine on creativity and problem-solving abilities.
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Source: PsyBlog | Psychology Blog - March 7, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jeremy Dean Tags: Caffeine Creativity subscribers-only Source Type: blogs
Morning Anxiety: Causes and Cures to Combat the Waking “What Ifs”
Although I’ve been dealing with anxiety for almost three decades now, I just recently noticed how much more debilitating “waking-up anxiety” is compared to when it infiltrates my brain at other times of day and night. This morning anxiety business belongs in a whole other stratosphere. Looking back, I realize that my worst-of-the-worst fears have happened upon awakening. And those fears are that much harder to harness, that much harder not to believe.
I began to wonder if it’s because my brain has been busy ruminating all night, and, thus, further unconsciously reinforcing a sense of all-so convincing reasons wh...
Source: World of Psychology - March 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Tracy Shawn, MA Tags: Anxiety and Panic Exercise & Fitness Mental Health and Wellness Self-Help Source Type: blogs
Cutting down on alcohol helps if you have atrial fibrillation
In medical school, there are lots of cutesy names that help us learn and remember things. “Holiday heart” is one of these — it reminds doctors-in-training that binge drinking alcohol can lead to an episode of atrial fibrillation (afib). The association is a real one; I have met a number of patients who suffered an unfortunate introduction to afib courtesy of a night (or weekend) of heavy alcohol intake. When that happens, we tell patients to avoid future binge drinking, as excessive drinking could cause them to have recurrent episodes of afib.
Alcohol: A known risk for afib
The association between alcohol and afib, a...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - March 2, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Amy Leigh Miller, MD, PhD Tags: Alcohol Heart Health Source Type: blogs
4 Life-changing Ways to Overcome Depression
You're reading 4 Life-changing Ways to Overcome Depression, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Depression
can affect anyone, at any given time or age. It is generally a disorder that
causes one to experience excessive sadness, loss of interest in once enjoyable
activities, and a lack of motivation. Commonly, sorrow or despair results from
a loss, significant life change, stress, disappointments, and so on. Although
these feelings may seem ‘normal,’ you cannot just snap out of them. For
starters, it’s i...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - February 21, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Harry Hogan Tags: depression featured self-improvement mental health pickthebrain self improvement Source Type: blogs
How Does Dehydration Trigger Heart Problems?
Being in a dry environment, such as on a plane, can cause dehydration and heart issues.
According to Mellanie True Hills, CEO of StopAfib.org, a patient advocacy organization that hosts the number one arrhythmia site and one of the top five heart disease sites worldwide, “The significantly dry air on a plane wicks moisture out of the body, causing dehydration quickly. Dehydration thickens the blood and depletes the body of essential minerals such as potassium and magnesium. Magnesium regulates the heart rhythm and potassium helps it work. Inadequate levels of potassium or magnesium can trigger abnormal heart rhythms, inc...
Source: Embrace Your Heart Wellness Initiative - February 20, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Eliz Greene Tags: Diet and Nutrition Tips Heart Health Source Type: blogs
The Chemistry of Chocolate
Chocolate is a Valentine’s Day must-have and popular among people with a sweet tooth. Many also claim it lifts mood or even acts as an aphrodisiac, and we’ve all heard someone say it’s habit forming.
The compounds in chocolate that allegedly have positive effects come from the cacao bean, so the darker the chocolate, the more of these compounds it contains. Milk chocolate has less than dark chocolate, and white chocolate has nearly none because it includes no cocoa solids, only cocoa butter.
Chocolate contains upwards of 800 chemical compounds, just a handful of which are explored in this infographi...
Source: Biomedical Beat Blog - National Institute of General Medical Sciences - February 12, 2020 Category: Research Authors: Chrissa Chverchko Tags: Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Source Type: blogs
