Personal Growth
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If You Are Grown and Mature Person, Stop Giving These 14 F*cks Right Now!
Trying to make the world a better place, as well as keeping everyone happy, you are only going to make your life more stressful than it actually is.
The Powerful Connection Between Empaths and Vivid Dreams — the Special Gift of Observation
Empaths can experience extreme highs and lows which makes them unpredictable. They regularly have vivid dreams that they remember.
People with a Twisted Sense of Humor are More Intelligent and Have Better Emotional Stability
People who appreciate gallows humor tend to be smarter, better-educated, and better emotionally adjusted than most. The darker, the better.
Spiritual Meaning of the July’s Blood Moon Total Eclipse — the Changes it Will Bring to Our Lives
The call is to use this time as an emotional reset period, a time of reflection, rather than one of high activity. If intense feelings overwhelm you, channel them into non-violent activities which can bring satisfying results.
John Steinbeck On Falling In Love: A 1958 Letter
Steinbeck’s words of wisdom—tender, optimistic, timeless, infinitely sagacious—should be etched onto the heart and mind of every living, breathing human being.
7 Strategies to Stop Worrying about Things You Can't Control — there’s a Time and a Place for Each of Them
It's time to stop worrying about things you can't control. Replaying yesterday's conversations in your head and dwelling on catastrophic outcomes isn't helpful.
The Healing Power of Cat Purr — Why and When Cats Purr?
Purring has been linked to lowering stress, decreasing symptoms of Dyspnoea, lessening the chances of having a heart attack, and even strengthening bones.
An Ayurvedic Happy Holiday Season
11 Super Simple Solutions to Reducing Stress
Stress is a natural reaction of the body. But too much stress zaps the joy out of living. Stress can be defined as a state of mental or emotional strain resulting from demanding circumstances.
How To Handle Your Ayurvedic Stress Type
In the Western world, we don’t usually dwell on the distinctions between our reactions to stress . . . we tend to focus on the stressful situations we find ourselves in, such as looming work deadlines or a missed train. And the general stress coping solutions are applicable to most everyone . .
Ayurveda & Pregnancy: Importance of Self Care
In conventional medicine, when a woman thinks she is pregnant, she goes to the doctor, is given a pregnancy test and her blood pressure, pulse rate, and weight are checked. Then she is advised to eat a generally healthy diet and to take some prenatal vitamins.
How to Heighten Your Healthy Gut-Brain Connection
The gut-brain connection is at the core of our overall well-being . . . when there's stress at one end, there will be stress at the opposite end as well. Your gut is totally in cahoots with your brain. There truly is a gut-brain connection.
Ways to Keep the Miracles of Your Mind Alive
By keeping the physical brain nourished, we are able to better understand the mind and who we really are: a magnificent machine full of vigor, vitality, love, consciousness, and pure awareness. Your brain is a crazy boss of an organ.
Let's Talk Inflammation
The four fundamental signs of inflammation: pain, swelling, redness, and heat Sound familiar? At some point or another you've probably experienced all of these symptoms. A sprained ankle, a bug bite, some poison ivy. Inflammation is the body's protective mechanism, it is our natural defense system.
Here Are the Natural Ways to Balance Your Hormones
Ready to think outside the pillbox and balance your hormones naturally? When your lifestyle is balanced, your body chemistry will also have balance. To summarize my best advice for balancing hormones, take this prescription: eat well, move your body, and let go of stress.
Understanding the Relationship Between Stress and Disease
What is the relationship between stress and disease? Medical doctors agree that the psyche plays an important role in the persistence of chronic disease, but because there is no scientific way to study this clinical phenomenon, for a long time it has been ignored.
How to Relieve Stress and Rejuvenate with Powerful Adaptogens
Our modern lives can be stressful, no doubt, so it's nice to know we have nature's adaptogenic herbs on our side. Ashwagandha has been praised as a longevity and vitality tonic for millennia. It is revered in Ayurvedic medicine for its restorative, energizing, and strengthening properties.
How to Use Your Heart to Heal Your Mind and Body
The heart is a muscle about the size of your fist. It lies behind and to the left of your breast bone . . . and pumps about 6 quarts of blood 12,000 miles per day. Your heart works tirelessly, propelling life through various blood vessels, arteries and veins of the body.
Which Ayurveda Routines Can Change Your Life?
Ayurveda and Yoga can actually make your life better in a huge way. A lot of experts on the subject say that both go hand in hand to make living easy. However, a lot of people don't know that the connecting link between the two is prana or the life force.
According to Science, Your ‘Meanest’ Friend is the One Who Wants the Best for You!
A new study at the University of Plymouth found that people who insult their friends aren’t necessarily mean-spirited — some just want the insultees to benefit in the long run.
Every Person Should Know This One Essential Thing About Love
Love can be such a confusing thing, maybe we don't even know what we're struggling with. Do you really love that person? Should that relationship have ended?
Feasting rituals – and the cooperation they require – are a crucial step toward human civilization
Charles Stanish, University of South Florida “The Epic of Gilgamesh” is one of the earliest texts known in the world. It’s the story of a god-king, Gilgamesh, who ruled the city of Uruk in Mesopotamia in the 3rd millennium B.C.
Living In A Messy And Chaotic Environment Really Causes Stress
According to a study by UCLA's Center On Everyday Lives and Families, the relationship between clutter and stress is chemical. The study demonstrated that women who live in cluttered houses have higher levels of the stress hormone cortisol than average.
Toxic People and 9 Signs of Recognizing Them: A Zen Master Reveals How to Deal with such a Person in Our Lives
We all have someone toxic in our lives. A Zen Master has some good advice, how to deal with this kind of people, but first, let's define them with these 9 signs.