Podcast: Negative Self-Talk and Pessimism
“You’re so stupid. That was the dumbest thing anyone has ever done.” You probably wouldn’t ever say this to a loved one — but would you say it to yourself? What’s your self-talk like? And why does it matter?
In today’s Not Crazy podcast, Gabe and Lisa break down their own experiences with negative self-talk and why they do it. And while Gabe believes in reframing his thoughts to be more positive, Lisa thinks there may be some benefits to not always looking for the silver lining. What do you think?
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Source: World of Psychology - August 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Not Crazy Podcast Tags: General Habits Mental Health and Wellness Not Crazy Podcast Self-Help Source Type: blogs
The Future Of Food And Eating
I do not have to stress how important a role food and eating play in our lives. Food is at the base in Maslow’s hierarchy of our needs; it is essential for our survival. It shows perfectly the creativity of humankind: food exists in the richest variety of ingredients, forms, shapes, tastes and colors all over the world from the Greenlandic kiviak (dozens of small birds stuffed into a seal fermented under a rock) through the Liquid Pea Sphere of molecular gastronomy to the tagliatelle with hand-cut meat ragout from the world’s best restaurant, Osteria Francescana.
The advent of novel digital health tools will radicalise...
Source: The Medical Futurist - August 11, 2020 Category: Information Technology Authors: berci.mesko Tags: Future of Food 3d printing genomics Innovation technology GC1 sensors nutrigenomics food sensors Source Type: blogs
The middle school of medicine: a reflection on the first year of medical school
There is a picture of me kneeling in front of the Azure Window, once off the coast of Malta, eating a chocolate ice-cream cone. I am 12 years old, having just finished the sixth grade, wearing high-top “Bathroom Wall” Converse and not-at-all-grungy cargo pants in my attempt to emulate the 2008 aesthetic of Avril Lavigne. […]Find jobs at Careers by KevinMD.com. Search thousands of physician, PA, NP, and CRNA jobs now. Learn more. (Source: Kevin, M.D. - Medical Weblog)
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Santa Is More Real Than Peter Pan: Children Have A “Hierarchy” Of Belief In Fictional Characters
By Emily Reynolds
The creeping realisation that Santa isn’t real can be a watershed moment — not quite an entry into adulthood, but certainly a step in its direction.
But “real” and “not real” are not the only two categories that children have when it comes to cultural figures, according to a new study in PLOS ONE. Rather than a black-and-white model, Rohan Kapitány and colleagues propose a “sensible hierarchy” of belief in various figures, finding that cultural rites and norms for those figures play a big part in its creation.
Even very young children are capable of understanding the diff...
Source: BPS RESEARCH DIGEST - July 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: BPS Research Digest Tags: Developmental Source Type: blogs
Better heart health in eight weeks? Double down on fruits and veggies
Two decades ago, the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) study tested the effects of three different diets on almost 500 participants over eight weeks. The first diet was a typical American diet, relatively low in fruits and vegetables (3.5 servings daily) and high in junk foods and sweets. The second offered more fruits and vegetables (8.5 servings daily) as well as seeds, nuts, and beans, and not many sweets. The third was the very healthy DASH diet, rich in fruits and vegetables (9.5 servings daily), beans, nuts, seeds, and whole grains, and barely any sweets. Participants truly stuck to each diet plan: All m...
Source: Harvard Health Blog - June 11, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Monique Tello, MD, MPH Tags: Diet and Weight Loss Food as medicine Health Heart Health Nutrition Source Type: blogs
Blessings: How a Two-Time Cancer Survivor Copes During COVID-19
I, for one, am taking social distancing seriously. My husband and I haven’t had sex since the quarantine began. We’ve only hugged each other three times. A two-time cancer survivor, I’m afraid I’ll catch COVID-19. I’ve been working at home, but he’s been going in, and I think he’s afraid he’ll spread the disease. Not that he has it. We’re quite a pair. We always stand six feet apart.
This pandemic is hard on me because I have no frame of reference for it. All I know is that danger is all around me. My mother taught me about danger when I was two and a half. We lived along the Cuyahoga River, and she’d w...
Source: World of Psychology - June 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Laura Yeager Tags: Personal Trauma Cancer Survivor coronavirus COVID-19 Rape Sexual Assault social distancing Source Type: blogs
5 Things I Learned from Lock-down
As New Zealand emerges from the most severe lock-down levels to greater freedom (but still not back to life as usual) I’ve been reflecting on what I’ve learned – no, not a new language, new baking skills, or sudden competence in using R (see here for a great tutorial), but things about myself. Odd though it may seem, I’m leaving lock-down with a sense of wistfulness. You see, the time from the end of March to end of April has been a lovely time for me.
I’m lucky, I have a good job, my work hasn’t changed much (well, a bit), my family are safe, I live close to the beach and a park, an...
Source: HealthSkills Weblog - May 17, 2020 Category: Anesthesiology Authors: BronnieLennoxThompson Tags: Pain conditions Professional topics Resilience/Health Uncategorized COVID19 Source Type: blogs
Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge
Here’s a recipe for Chocolate Peanut Butter Fudge taken from my Wheat Belly Revised & Expanded Edition, a recipe that should snap you out of any boredom while sheltering-at-home.
Minus sugar, grains, and other unmentionables, we turn fudge into a health food! And, because it’s loaded with healthy fats, you will find it exceptionally filling, while not fiddling with blood sugar.
Keep a supply of this decadent dessert handy to satisfy those occasional cravings for chocolate or sweets.
Serves 12
Fudge
1 tablespoon coconut oil, melted
8 ounces unsweetened chocolate
1 cup natural peanut butter, room temper...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - May 16, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open fudge low-carb recipe wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Being Stimulant-Free
I like being 100% stimulant free – no coffee, caffeinated tea, chocolate, caffeinated soda, etc.
This means no decaf either since decaf still contains some caffeine.
I base this on lots of personal experimentation. I’ve gone some years of my life with no stimulants, and I’ve also gone for long stretches consuming coffee daily. The two modes of living are notably different.
Caffeine tends to make me obsess more over trivialities and lose focus on big picture goals. I see this pattern in other coffee drinkers often – lots of busywork type of thinking on low criticality items. It seems to make some pe...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Emotions Health Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Discipline Ripples
A nice side effect of my daily blogging challenge is that it’s helping me become more disciplined in other areas of life. This in turn increases my capacity to get more done because I can trust that I’ll have abundant discipline to flow through more tasks and projects.
I expected that there would be some discipline ripples, but I’m pleased that they’re better than I anticipated.
Staying caffeine free feels easier than ever. I’m also easily avoiding other stimulants like any forms of chocolate, caffeinated tea, etc. It feels like the part of my brain that recognizes and wants to avoid add...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
Before 7am
I love the morning magical time. It’s my favorite time of day – before dawn when most of the city is still snug in bed.
This morning I hopped out of bed at 4:45am, feeling happy to start another adventurous day. By 7am this morning, I had done the following:
Ran 5 miles / 8 kilometersDid 12,000 stepsListened to 4 hours of The Art of Possibility audiobook (100 minutes x 2.5 speed)Did 15 minutes of yoga with a little meditation at the endMade a green smoothie (1 banana, 6 mandarin oranges, spinach, celery, blueberries, maca, dehydrated barley grass juice, chia seeds, hemp seeds, water)Mopped the kitchen floor (...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - May 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Health Lifestyle Productivity Source Type: blogs
Expert Tips Revealed: How to Boost Mental Health in Lockdown
You're reading Expert Tips Revealed: How to Boost Mental Health in Lockdown, originally posted on Pick the Brain | Motivation and Self Improvement. If you're enjoying this, please visit our site for more inspirational articles.
Many of us have our own hacks for managing mental health, but how do they fare in lockdown? In these unprecedented times, we’re all having to adapt to a new way of living, and with that, new ways of managing our wellbeing, too.
In these trying times, and with social interaction being largely off limits, it’s important we give our brains that extra bit of love. While experts have been calling...
Source: PickTheBrain | Motivation and Self Improvement - May 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Elizabeth Nightingale Tags: featured health and fitness productivity tips psychology self-improvement covid_19 quarantine self improvement Source Type: blogs
Bread, paper, and other indigestible objects
Olivia posted this incredible story of wheat-free release in the comments on this blog some time back. Her story so powerfully encapsulates how far off course health can go by consuming this thing called “wheat,” that I thought it was worth sharing with everybody again. During her wheat-consuming days, Olivia was clearly suffering body-wide inflammation and other effects that were being ineffectively “treated” by her doctor, effects largely due to the indigestible or only partially-digestible proteins from the seeds of grasses AKA wheat. As often happens, she managed to reverse the entire collection...
Source: Wheat Belly Blog - April 29, 2020 Category: Cardiology Authors: Dr. Davis Tags: Open gluten-free grain-free grains wheat belly Source Type: blogs
Practicing the Art of Change
Every month in Conscious Growth Club (which will open for new members April 27 to May 1), we host a group 30-day challenge. Members can choose which challenges they want to do, and we share updates as we go through each challenge together.
Some challenges are to improve our habits or to test new habits. Other challenges are more exploration-based. Some are just for the experience.
Each challenge allows for plenty of customization, so members can adapt any challenge to fit their situations. In May 2019, we did a daily exercise challenge, and members decided whether to walk, run, bike, do yoga, weight train, etc. In Ja...
Source: Steve Pavlina's Personal Development Blog - April 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Steve Pavlina Tags: Lifestyle Source Type: blogs
Want a More Charismatic Personality? Science Says It ’ s Possible
Be the one that commands attention.
When it comes to attraction, charm, and magnetism, what do attractive people have that makes everyone like them without even trying?
How many times have you been at a party when someone enters the room and immediately commands everyone’s attention? Have you ever thought, “I wish that was me”?
As it turns out, it can be — you just need to embody one specific personality trait.
7 Empowering Personality Traits of Superheroes — and How to Cultivate Them in Yourself
So, what makes someone attractive and charming? It all comes down to charisma. And the good news is scien...
Source: World of Psychology - April 16, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Psych Central Guest Author Tags: Personality Publishers YourTango charismatic Meditation Personality Traits Present Source Type: blogs
