stress

Yoga Reverses Stress, Not Just Relieves It

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                  Filling our lungs with incense and essential oils, sweating in a warm yoga class, and breathing through our various asanas, we are rarely aware of the deeper effect yoga is having on our bodies, specifically, our DNA. When we think about yoga and stress relief, we don’t often take the time …

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Why Some Stress is Actually Good For You

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Look at Stress as a Motivator If life didn’t get challenging we would never be motivated to change. If we didn’t experience difficulty we might stagnate and never grow and change. Sometimes, we need stressful periods in our lives to stimulate action, new choices, and new behavior. We need stress to motivate us. Of course, some stress, especially if it’s …

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Meditation Video to Help Relieve Stress

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Crazy and full schedules make it hard for people to make it out to their favorite nature spots that tend to relax us. You might be surprised to learn that even a brief walk outside can lower stress and decrease symptoms of depression, according to a study by researchers at the University of Michigan. Since not everyone has time to get outside as much as they’d like, writer Lindsay Holmes for Huffington Post has provided the following meditation video.

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Cigarettes Sign of Mental Health Issues

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Mental Health | LakehouseRecoveryCenter.comPeople who smoke cigarettes will often claim that lighting up a cigarette relieves stress.  A new study by researchers from the University College London and the British Heart Foundation found that this is not the case and actually what a person is experiencing is early signs of nicotine withdrawal.  By surveying 6 ,500 people, researchers were able to come to the conclusion that smoking cigarettes could be a sign of mental health issues. More than 18% of those surveyed who were smokers also had anxiety or depression, while only 11.3% of ex-smokers and 10% of non-smokers also had those mental health issues. The results of the study suggest that quitting smoking could help improve mental health.

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