Tag: Heart
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How Moving Your Body Keeps Your Brain Sharp
Compelling evidence shows exercise improves memory and cognition. For example, a 2010 study on primates revealed that regular exercise helped the monkeys learn new tasks twice as quickly as non-exercising monkeys, and researchers believe this might hold true for people as well. How Exercise Protects and Improves Brain Function Previous research has demonstrated that exercise […]
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8 Keys to Healthy Relationships
I get asked a lot about what a healthy relationship is like, or is supposed to be like. The easy answer is that it looks different for every couple. However, I realized a long time ago that if we didn’t grow up with parents who had wonderful ways of relating to one another, that there […]
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The Secret of Happiness Revealed
Happiness comes from choosing to be happy with whatever you do, strengthening your closest relationships and taking care of yourself physically, financially and emotionally. Thus revealed a recent survey of Harvard’s class of 1980. They compared responses between those “extremely happy” and the rest of the respondents. 2010 Survey An earlier survey of this same […]
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3 Steps to Mindfulness: A simple way to improve Joy, Performance and results
This post is based on the version of “Mother of Mindfulness” Ellen Langer’s idea of mindfulness, which she has been researching for over 30 years. She was the inspiration for the TV series “The Young Ones,” where she took a pile of really old people (back then), placed them in house decorated as if it […]
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Yoga: a discipline your heart will thank
Not a fan of running or bike-riding? Yoga may be as good for your cardiovascular system as aerobic exercises. According to a new study in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology suggested Yoga may be as beneficial as more traditional physical activities such as walking or biking in reducing the risks of cardiovascular disease. Investigators […]