Category Archives: Stress

Don’t Worry, Be Happy: Good Advice or Bad?

Everyone from time to time gets worried thoughts. What's a way to put these thoughts to good use? And if you are a chronic worrier, what's an alternative path you might take?

Dying to Help: What Caregivers’ Dilemmas Can Teach Us

How can healthcare professionals' dilemmas when they cope with medical epidemics offer a vital lesson to all of us about sustaining well-being?

Back Hurting? Five Ways to Use Your Brain to Heal Back Pain

Try these strategies to relieve your chronic pain. They are safe so at the least they will give you no negative side effects. And at best, you could become pain free.

Bad Luck, Bad Choices or Psychological Reversal?

Are you your own worst enemy? You may suffer from a subconscious phenomenon that therapists are just at the very beginning stages of recognizing and treating.

Beware: Thinking Leads to Doing

Sports psychologists teach athletes to visualize making a winning basketball free throw or an effective tennis serve before doing the action. That’s because thinking prepares you for doing. When you think about something, the odds zoom upwards that you will do just what your mind was picturing. The lesson: be careful what you think about!

Anxiety Problems, Part II: 3 Habits That Help

What is usually the fastest and most thorough route to ending fearful feelings? It's not necessarily distraction.

A Visualization Strategy for Rapid Treatment of Depression

Feeling low? While this technique will not end a major depressive episode, it can lift your energies when you are feeling down.