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Affirmation of the Week
Learn to play seriously
for great spiritual achievement
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Health Tips of the Week
- Eating more meat, having less of certain bacteria in the gut, and more of certain immune cells in the blood, all link with multiple sclerosis, reports a team of researchers led by UConn Health and Washington University School of Medicine.
- Can mindfulness meditation help patients with glaucoma? A recent study suggests that there may be benefits to eye pressure and optic nerve health by doing meditation on a regular basis. So relax your inner eye.
- A new study from the American Academy of Neurology shows that people with Parkinson’s disease who eat a diet that includes three or more servings per week of foods high in flavonoids, like tea, apples, berries and red wine, may have a lower chance of dying during the study period than people who do not eat as many flavonoids.
- Women ages 35 years and younger were 44% more likely to have an ischemic stroke (caused by blocked blood vessels in the brain) than their male counterparts according to a new review of more than a dozen international studies on sex differences in stroke occurrence as reported by the American Heart Association.
- Injecting platelet cells into muscle injuries gets athletes back on the field faster.
- Take breaks when binge-watching TV to avoid blood clots, say scientists. The warning comes as a study reports that watching TV for four hours a day or more is associated with a 35% higher risk of blood clots compared with less than 2.5 hours. The research is published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology.
- A greater adherence to the Mediterranean diet which had been assessed through an index made with biomarkers during a 20-year scientific monitoring is associated with a lower mortality in adults over 65.
- Mindfulness meditation programs have shown promise for the treatment of anxiety, one of the most common mental health disorders in the U.S. New research suggests people can begin to derive psychological and physiological benefits from the practice after a single introductory session.
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Article of the Week
From Doormat to Diva in 3 Steps
A doormat is created during childhood. A child receives cues to delight the parental unit functioning like a cheer leader, or someone responsible for parental happiness. While many teenagers rebel to assert individuality and flex identity muscles, the doormat seeks to be the good youth who expresses identity through obedience as dictated by parents and social mores. Often playing the role of the good little girl or boy, who thrives on external approval, triggers the development of an unhappy people-pleasing, self-suppressed adult -the over-doer. Ultimately, during the course of a lifetime a person who has so many family and friends’ demands plugged into their socket, finally blows, either in anger, or in disease. And this kind of stress is a killer for both mental and physical health. However, why let it get to this explosive point?
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Addicted to Stress: A Woman's 7 Step Program to Reclaim Joy and Spontaneity in Life
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Stress will always land on your doorstep, but you don’t have to constantly open the door. It’s time to build immunity to external pressures and cultivate an inner peace which does not depend on outside influences. Shed that endless to-do list. Leave the straight lines of your personality to enjoy the surprising detours life has waiting for you.
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