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How Do Emotions Affect Your Everyday Life?

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Emotions have the power to drive our actions on a day-to-day basis, and they influence our physiology, or our bodies, more than we think. Understanding how our emotions affect us and our relationships can help us achieve better emotional well-being. In the book Discovering Psychology, Don and Sandra Hockenbury conceptualize emotion as a complex psychological […]

Three Reasons Why You Feel Stressed When Trying to Relax

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Have you ever tried to relax, only to find yourself overwhelmed with feeling stressed and having negative thoughts? Turns out a lot of us experience this – which is why some have coined it “stresslaxing”. Even though stresslaxation is a new term, it describes relaxation-induced anxiety which has been studied for years. This is shown […]

The Buzz on Caffeinated Beverages

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Caffeine: Are the Perks Worth the Price? Caffeine is the world’s most widely used drug. Approximately 90 percent of Americans consume caffeine in some form every day. Is a caffeine habit harmless, or can it constitute an addiction to a potent drug? Janice Keller Phelps, MD, shares how at an addictions conference where she guest lectured, juice […]

4 Signs that Your Marriage is Crumbling

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Let’s think about some attitudes in marriage, practiced by the husband or wife, that foster the idea of separation in each other’s minds, due to the pain and frustration that such attitudes produce — especially when they become routine. Eva Van Prooyen is a psychotherapist, educator, and relationship expert based in Santa Barbara, California. In […]

Finding Joy in Little Things

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Find joy in the little things. This piece of folk advice has been around for eons, and is one that many of us try to live by. But is there actually any real benefit to this practice? According to research, yes, there is indeed some benefit to savoring fleeting moments of joy – also known […]

Autoimmune Disease – Why Does the Body Attack Itself?

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Autoimmune Disease: Why Is My Immune System Attacking Itself? With this title, Dr. Ana Maria Orbai published an article on autoimmune diseases on the Johns Hopkins Medicine website. Let’s now analyze why, in these diseases, the body starts to attack itself. According to Dr. Orbai, a rheumatologist at the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center, autoimmune diseases […]