Building Self Esteem Keeps You Healthier! – 3 Simple Techniques

When your self-esteem is low, you can build negativity toward your body. This negative experience can be transform into stress. This results is often felt as fear, anger, worry, and dissatisfaction about most of what you are experiencing or thinking. This constant distress can severely strain your body and may lead to many types of [...]

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Optimism Could Help Kids Keep Depression at Bay

Teaching them to be upbeat may be a buffer, expert suggests By Randy Dotinga HealthDay Reporter Here’s a reason to try to change your kid’s attitude: The most optimistic adolescents may be somewhat less likely to be depressed than their peers.

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Happiness Is a Focused Mind

If you want to be happy, try to stay focused. New research shows that when people’s minds drifted from the task or activity at hand, they reported being less happy than when they were fully engaged in whatever they were doing.

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Biofeedback Now Seen as ‘Regular’ Medicine

Computer-assisted treatment has joined mainstream for pain, anxiety and more! Biofeedback used to be thought of as alternative therapy — something that might help but wasn’t considered a fully legitimized medical treatment. No more!

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Soothing Songs Please the Heart

WEDNESDAY, April 15 (HealthDay News) — If you have heart problems, you might want to plug in that iPod or pop in a CD of mellow songs. Hospital patients with coronary heart disease reduced their heart rates, breathing rate and blood pressure just by listening to music, a Temple University review of 23 previous studies [...]

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Happiness Is Contagious, Study Says

So suggests a new study proposing that happiness is transmitted through social networks, almost like a germ is spread through personal contact. The research was published Thursday in BMJ, a British medical journal. It’s the latest in a growing body of work investigating how our social connections – neighbors, friends, family, co-workers, fellow congregants at [...]

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