Amino Acids for Anxiety
These three supplements can help settle the nervous system and calm a worried mind.
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Amy Zellmer’s Success Story
After suffering a traumatic brain injury, one woman spent years trying to recover. In the process, she became a nationwide advocate for TBI survivors.
How to Reclaim Your Attention Span
We all get distracted, but there are habits we can cultivate to strengthen our focus.
How to Harness the Healing Power of Your Mind
Science has now confirmed that our thoughts and emotions have very real physiological consequences. What does this mean for medicine in the 21st century? Among other things, that many potions of choice might be produced by our minds and delivered without prescription drugs.
Psychobiotics: Using Gut Bacteria to Treat Mental Illness
Can probiotics and prebiotics improve our mental well-being?
How to Take a Risk
Risk is about more than ignoring your fears or your better judgment: Taking intentional, measured risks in your endeavors can help you cultivate courage that serves in other areas of your life.
How Therapeutic Work — and Medication — Helped Gabrielle Bernstein Emerge from Trauma
In her new book, Happy Days: The Guided Path from Trauma to Profound Freedom and Inner Peace, spiritual teacher Gabrielle Bernstein talks about how medication, when prescribed as part of a larger program of recovery and therapy, can help establish a safe baseline from which to do the deeper work.
What Is Behavior Design?: Understanding How Our Environment Shapes Our Behavior
Does your living environment support — or sabotage — your self-improvement efforts?
The Power of Attention
What you put your attention on grows. Here are seven tips on how to train your attention.
Smarter Eats: 5 Recipes From Tana Amen BSN, RN and Daniel G. Amen, MD
Total health is about more than your body — it’s about your brain, too. These nourishing recipes can help improve your focus, memory, and mood.
Intuitive Eating for Weight Loss
As an alternative to doomed diet regimens, some weight-loss experts recommend tuning in to our own instincts and trying intuitive eating. But are our bodies’ cravings always a good guide?
How Fitness Success Helps Career Success
Stressed out and strapped for time? Don’t skip that workout. Research indicates that those who break away from their desks reap physical, mental and professional rewards.
See It, Believe It: How Visioning Can Help You Reach Your Goals
Imagine if everything went the way you wanted: your workouts, your relationships, your grandest career ambitions. Visioning can bring your life goals into clearer focus – and help you make them a reality.
How to Trust Your Instincts
Paid attention to your gut feelings lately? Maybe you should. Instinctive thinking is finally getting the respect it deserves.
The Truth About MSG
Depending on whom you ask, monosodium glutamate is either a miracle ingredient or a dangerous neurotoxin. The truth likely lies somewhere in between.
The Healing Power of Sleep
New science shows that sleep is essential to our mental and physical health — and most of us aren’t getting enough.
PUMPING IRONY: Young at Heart
Feeling younger than your years? It could be a sign of a youthful brain.
Mindfulness Could Help Prevent Obesity in Children
A new study suggests meditative techniques may help balance brain functions that affect eating behavior.
Getting Things Done: “Collect”
In the first installment of a five-part series on David Allen’s organizational system, Getting Things Done, the chaotic jumble of things competing for our attention comes into clear focus.
How Guided Imagery Can Boost Your Health — and Performance
Guided imagery can be a powerful support for health recovery, goal realization, and emotional healing. Here’s why.