What is NLP?

Neuro Linguistic Programming, or NLP, is a fairly new discipline that is slowly gaining acceptance and popularity in the field of alternative medicine. It is a behavioral technology that falls under the classification of mind-body medicine. NLP uses the mind-body connection to help an individual heal. It enhances the mind’s capacity to affect physiological functions [...]

Stress: The Prime Cause of Anxiety

Living with stress is a fact of life, one that everyone must cope with.  Each day, individuals must make decisions under varying degrees of stress.  While stress itself can be helpful, exposure to chronic levels can change bodily functions and, unless it is relieved, can create long term anxiety problems in individuals, including Generalized Anxiety [...]

The CBT Self-Help Solution for Panic Attack Sufferers

While panic attacks alone are not dangerous, living under the constant fear and threat of an impending attack is socially and emotionally incapacitating.  Fortunately, panic attacks can be controlled, lessened and even eliminated altogether, by taking control of the underlying anxiety fuelling the panic attacks through self, group or individual therapy. Many sufferers often combine [...]

Situational Vs Spontaneous Panic Disorder: How to Know

The onset of a panic attack can be an unpredictable and unnatural bodily response to a false sense of danger or, depending upon the sufferer, a predictable manifestation of a deeply ingrained or specific phobia. A 1991 study conducted by the Psychiatry Service at West Haven Veterans Administration Medical Center, revealed that, “within a given [...]

Manifesting Material Miracles through Positive Intangible Thoughts

Thinking positively about circumstances even when situations seem depressing and hopeless not only boosts mood, creates motivation, cures stress and relieves anxiety, but also has the power to attract positive energy using the principles of the Laws of Attraction.  Manifesting goals and our deepest wants and desires into material miracles is often only a thought [...]

Is Lifestyle the Key to Cognitive Function?

Recent research indicates that certain lifestyle factors can play a significant role in the retention of cognitive function over time. For individuals who wish to take proactive steps to retain mental prowess as they age, recent research points to a number of key areas in which to focus efforts for optimal results. Muscle Strength Linked [...]

Dealing with Stress at Special Times

The effects of unchecked stress on the health of an individual are many and varied, from the exacerbation of headaches and migraines, to fatigue and a greater susceptibility to flu and illness. Indeed, it can even lead to weight gain. While stress is difficult to manage at any time, those times that are supposed to [...]

The Magic of Yoga

Yoga Yoga is one of the most well known and practiced meditative techniques in the world. It is associated with several religions, including Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, and while it incorporates various aspects of each school of thought, different types of yoga can include different focuses. For example, in Hinduism yoga refers to one of [...]

Reducing Stress

Stress is the umbrella term for a myriad of physiological and psychological symptoms which individuals experience naturally when they are under pressure or experiencing fear. A reasonable amount of stress may have a positive effect as it can motivate an individual to perform at an enhanced level. However, too much stress over a prolonged period [...]

Tense (and who isn’t)—Try Passive Relaxation

Tension, stress, anxiety these are all symptoms of the modern busy lifestyle. Tension headaches are just one of the symptoms of stress and tension and they are amongst the most common types of headache that individuals suffer from. Tension headaches are not an inherited trait rather they are caused by tightened muscles in the back [...]

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