Attitude Adjustments

Details: Written by: Bryant Lusk

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Anxiety disorders have long been associated with the early-onset and progression of cardiovascular health issues.

Details: Written by: Charlotte Pennington and Daniel Shaw

Are you a doom scroller or a frequent Tweeter? Do you pass the time by flicking endlessly through others’ posts on social networking sites, or perhaps you use these platforms to share your own content?

Details: Written by: Dawn Baumann Brunke

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If spiders present so little of an actual threat to our survival, why do we fear them so much?

Details: Written by: Michael Glauser

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Decades of research in psychology have shown that we have significant limitations in how we perceive the world around us.

Details: Written by: Steven Washington

How To Move Beyond Fear

Without a doubt, it takes courage to face our fears, to be willing to look beneath the surface and examine what we normally avoid.

Details: Written by: Dawn Baumann Brunke

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The cat never touched me, but an indelible impression of her remains. It is my first memory of meeting a shadow animal, face to green-eyed face.

Details: Written by: Bethany Teachman

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Well-meaning advice for people stressing out about current events often includes encouragement to be patient, stay calm and keep the faith – but how on Earth are you supposed to do that when the onslaught of troubling news seems never to stop?

Details: Written by: Rabbi Wayne Dosick

Going back only ten generations, each of us has 1,024 direct ancestors. Each of those 1,024 people left a lineage and a personal legacy. If any of them had lived in a different place...

Details: Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

What we emit into the world is picked up by others and it affects them as well.

Details: Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

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As I do in life itself, I look for messages when I watch movies. And because The Universe, All That Is, Spirit, Guidance, Good speaks through everything and everyone that comes our way, messages are found...

Details: Written by: Ronni Tichenor and Jennie Weaver

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For years, I thought that my overachieving, perfectionism, and need for control were about proving that I was good enough—being the best, being perfect, was the only way to be “enough.” But a session with an intuitive coach brought something else to the fore...

Details: Written by: Jude Bijou

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Whether it's your parent, coworker, child, lover, or friend, we all sometimes say and do things we regret. We fret, get defensive, make excuses, and rationalize that what we did wasn't so bad.

Details: Written by: Evelyn C. Rysdyk

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Life happens, and you are bound to experience feeling angry, anxious, judgmental, accusatory, and all the other faces that fear wears during your day.

Details: Written by: Beth Bell

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I didn’t truly understand the phrase “never say never” until I started recognizing I was contradicting my so many of my own “nevers.”

Details: Written by: Bernard Beitman, M.D.

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Each human being may be part of something greater. Common phrases suggesting this reality include ’re all in this together” or “everything is connected.”

Details: Written by: Matthew McKay, PhD.

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All significant choices move us toward or away from love. And the most important thing we learn in life is recognizing the choices and actions that bring us closer or farther from love. Each day is full of...

Details: Written by: Rabbi Wayne Dosick

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So why don’t we go for it? Why don’t we reach out for what we really want? Why don’t we strive to...

Details: Written by: Jude Bijou

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Are you thrown off by unforeseen complications? Are you frantic to meet deadlines or goals? Do you hate to wait? Are you a slave to the clock?

Details: Written by: University of Copenhagen

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Horses, pigs, and wild horses can distinguish between negative and positive sounds from their fellow species and near relatives, as well as from human speech, researchers report.