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Finding Peace: A Guided Meditation for Stress Relief and Depression
Welcome to a guided meditation exercise designed to help you find relaxation in times of stress and to assist in managing and alleviating symptoms of depression. This practice offers a moment of calm, allowing you to rest, recharge, and focus on what truly matters.
By Mojalefa Mokoena2 years ago in Longevity
How Depression Affects The Brain - Yale Medicine Explains
The current standard of care for the treatment of depression is based on what we call the monoamine deficiency hypothesis, essentially presuming that one of three neurotransmitters in the brain is deficient or underactive. Neurotransmitters can be thought of as the chemical messengers within the brain. They help one cell in the brain communicate with another to pass that message along.
By Imsatisfyingwith2 years ago in Longevity
5 Things People With Anxiety Secretly Do Alone
Hey, Think you've never experienced anxiety before? Well, you might not have realized it because people experience anxiety in different ways. Your idea of anxiety might not align with how you experience it. And you may not notice anxiety in someone who grapples with it privately. So, it's important to remember to always be kind because you can never know what others are struggling with when they're alone. If you're dealing with anxiety, know that you're not alone in facing these challenges. Anxiety is a normal part of life. It alerts us to dangers and helps us prepare for a wide variety of situations. But according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, DSM, anxiety becomes a disorder when it starts to impact daily functioning and different aspects of life. With that said, here are five things people with anxiety secretly do alone.
By Imsatisfyingwith2 years ago in Longevity
What's normal anxiety -- and what's an anxiety disorder?
We live in a culture that doesn't take mental health issues seriously. There's a lot of stigma. Some people tell you to just suck it up, get it together, stop worrying, or that it's all in your head. But I'm here to tell you that anxiety disorders are as real as diabetes.
By Imsatisfyingwith2 years ago in Longevity
Can you change your sleep schedule?
Here we see an early bird and a night owl in their natural habitats. The early bird rises with the sun, springing out of bed abuzz with energy. As the day goes on, they slowly get more and more exhausted until finally crashing around sunset. Meanwhile, the night owl rises long after the sun, stumbling groggily from their bed. After about 30 minutes—or a cup of coffee—they begin to come to life. But they don’t really hit their stride until later in the day, at which point they comfortably coast past sunset, only heading to bed in the early hours of the morning. For many, this is a familiar story and one that’s easy to cast yourself in. But how many people are truly night owls or early birds? And are our natural sleep schedules predetermined at birth, or can we change them?
By Imsatisfyingwith2 years ago in Longevity
3 yoga exercises to help improve and enhance health on rainy days
Breathing exercises in yoga play an important role when the weather becomes more humid, making the risk of respiratory diseases or microbial attacks on the immune system higher such as colds and coughs. , flu, infections and other diseases . Below are 3 yoga exercises to help improve your health for rainy days that you can easily do yourself at home.
By Ken Daklak2 years ago in Longevity
