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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 Methamphetamine is illegal, relatively cheap, easy to obtain, and highly addictive. It affects the central nervous system and causes structural, chemical, and metabolic brain changes. Stress increases neurotoxicity of meth. Addiction leads to reduced cognitive performance and verbal fluency, poor attention and memory. Exposure to meth causes impairment to visual motor integration, sustained attention, and verbal . . . → Read More: Chemicals that harm with pleasure: Meth Cocaine is illegal, relatively expensive, and highly addictive. Approximately 10% of Americans have used cocaine. Cocaine is a neurotoxin that is used as a stimulant as it increases neural and cognitive, behavioral, and sensory activity, and suppresses the need for sleep or food. The toxic effects of cocaine include insomnia, tremors, nausea, hyperthermia, and psychosis. A heavy . . . → Read More: Chemicals that harm with pleasure: Cocaine 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 In 1998, a research team led by Linda Halpin at the Inova Heart Center of Inova Fairfax Hospital compared cardiac surgical outcomes between two groups of heart patients – with and without guided imagery. A questionnaire was developed to assess the benefits of the guided imagery program to those who elected to participate in it, and, . . . → Read More: Guided imagery in cardiac surgery A special report published in Circulation by the American Heart Association, The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine examines the impact of mind-body techniques, and, because it is seen as the most widely researched method, Transcendental Meditation on Heart Disease. The report states that the first major study . . . → Read More: Complementary and alternative medicine in cardiovascular research Researchers from B. J. Medical College in Ahmedabad, India, studied numeric measures of respiratory function, cardiovascular parameters and lipid profiles of those practicing Raja Yoga meditation. The profiles of short and longterm meditators were compared with those of non-meditators. The study found that vital capacity, tidal volume and breath holding were significantly higher in short and longterm . . . → Read More: Meditation Significantly Improves Respiratory Function, Cardiovascular Parameters and Lipid Profile |
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