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Life is stressful. What can we do about it? All change begins with awareness. Stress resiliency and stress hardiness can be learned, even in adult age. Stress hardiness is a combination of courage and coping strategies that take stressful life situations and turn them into opportunities for personal growth. Courage grows out of fear and is considered . . . → Read More: Let’s Do Something About The Stress It seems like somehow with the modern conveniences and technological advancement we have managed to create living and working environments that are not only stressful but also not optimal for mental and physical health. How many people did you hear today complain about being stressed out, feeling overwhelmed, under pressure, unable to cope, anxious, unable to . . . → Read More: Let’s Talk Stress Did you know that alcohol is the most dangerous drug? Let me explain. Alcohol is legal. It is cheap to get. We see it advertised in the media. Alcohol is readily available and used frequently – in social, business, and family situations. Alcohol causes severe damage and death … The purpose of my article is . . . → Read More: Chemicals that harm with pleasure: Alcohol Tobacco: is legal. 70% of people who try it become addicted. 20% of deaths each year are due to smoking. Smoking has a genetic effect. It causes nausea, cough, dizziness, chest pain, difficulty breathing, and compromises the immune system. Smokers end up with panic attacks, cardiovascular disease, heart attack, stroke, pneumonia, bronchitis, . . . → Read More: Chemicals that harm with pleasure: Tobacco James H. Stewart, MD, from the Department of Internal Medicine and Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Jacksonville, Florida, undertakes a review of the . . . → Read More: Oncology Our thoughts can make us sick, and they can help us get well. That may seem like New Age thinking, but medical research increasingly supports the role played by the mind in physical health. “People have been seeking healing through prayer and intention since Paleolithic times,” notes Dr. Herbert Benson, founder of the Benson-Henry Institute for Mind . . . → Read More: Thoughts Can Heal Your Body Researchers at the Department of Psychiatry, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine in Seoul, South Korea studied the effectiveness of progressive muscle relaxation training and guided imagery in reducing the anticipatory nausea and vomiting and post-chemotherapy nausea and vomiting and in increasing quality of life for patients with breast cancer. Thirty new chemotherapy patients . . . → Read More: Guided Imagery: Improving Quality of Life for Patients with Breast Cancer Ninety-six women with newly diagnosed, large or locally advanced breast cancer were randomly assigned to either standard care, or standard care plus relaxation training and guided imagery (imagining host defences destroying tumor cells) at the University of Aberdeen Behavioural Oncology Unit in the UK. They were tested for mood and quality of life before each of the . . . → Read More: Relaxation training and guided imagery improve quality of life during chemotherapy |
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