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Advanced Citizenry
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Others Well
Being an advanced citizen means that you dedicate some of your time, your thoughts and your perspectives to a cause that you believe in. This may be something as simple as volunteering a few hours every month to visit with senior citizens in the local nursing home, perhaps becoming a mentor to a child,
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Change Unhealthy Habits
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Yourself Well
There are three things that have to happen to successfully change a habit. The first is that you must make the decision to change. When you make a decision, you are affirming to yourself that you are willing to go to any lengths to make your wishes come true. This means that you will need to completely
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Love Others
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Others Well
Although you may have never seen a doctor write a prescription for daily doses of "love," best selling authors such as Deepak Chopra M.D., Bernie Siegal M.D., and Dean Ornish M.D. all write about the healing properties of love. Dr. Ornish says, "love may be the greatest of all disease-fighters, and it's
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Quit Smoking
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Yourself Well
Smoking throughout the day is akin to living inside a burning building. Smoking degrades the collagen of your skin causing premature aging, destroys the cells inside your lungs, and promotes heart disease, cataracts and cancer because of the oxidizing radicals released into the blood stream. It can contribute
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Read the Labels
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Eat Well
Just about every packaged food made in the U.S. has a food label indicating serving size and other nutritional information.
Learning how to read food labels is like looking at a prescription for your health and your life. We recommend looking for red-flag ingredients- if a Hall of Shame ingredient is
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Turn off the Television
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Yourself Well
There are three major trends in the health of both children and adults that have public health workers concerned: an increase in obesity, attention deficit disorder (ADD) and the amount of time spent watching television. Several recently published research studies indicate that television may be the
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Identity
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Spiritual
The big distinction about wellness psychology is that it is largely a manifestation of your identity, who you believe yourself to be. If you consider yourself a well person, it goes a long way toward producing well habits and a well mind. Your identity is your self image, your self concept, your beliefs
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Personality
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Physical
Healthy people express themselves consistent with their personality types, so there is a wide spectrum of normal behaviors that could contribute to achieving wellness.
The technical end of wellness psychology encourages normal responses to the challenges of life, rather than just treating mental and
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Quality Of Life
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Social
Our own values and beliefs will shape our definition of a great quality of life. A well person or family seeks to live consistently with their own meaning for living well.
The most obvious and desirable benefit of a well mind is a better quality of life, which of course is determined by each individual's
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Relationships
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Social
Sharing and committing to support each other's values calms rocky waters and sets the stage for happiness and growth in relationships.
While you can't be responsible for someone else's behaviors and values, you can help to create an environment that makes relationships work better. Gaining and maintaining
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Spirituality
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Spiritual
Appreciating religious values and spiritual beliefs can help form a solid foundation of wellness in your life.
No discussion of wellness psychology would be complete without mentioning the impact of spirituality on wellness. Appreciating religious values and spiritual beliefs can help to form a solid
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Pinched Nerve
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Common Conditions Treated, Body Pain
When nerves become 'pinched', injury, spasm, and inflammation of the surrounding muscles causes the nerve to become compressed, resulting in pain.
The term "pinched nerve" is somewhat of a catch-all phrase that is commonly used to describe the pain associated with a variety of conditions from subluxations,
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Carpal Tunnel
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Common Conditions Treated, Repetitive Use Injuries
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS) has become one of the most widespread occupational health problems we face today. It affects millions of people a year, and with our growing reliance on computers there seems to be no end in sight.The syndrome is caused by pressure on the median nerve just above the wrist.
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Auto Accidents
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Common Conditions Treated, Auto Accident Injuries
Numerous studies have shown that years after auto accident victims settle their insurance claims, roughly half of them state that they still suffer with symptoms from their injuries.
If you have been involved in a car accident, your injuries need to be taken very seriously. Because symptoms of some
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The Quest for Strong Abs
Category:
Newsletter Library, Exercise & Fitness
The abs rule. As a result of this not-so-subtle imperative, a flat abdominal musculature is one of the primary goals of all exercise programs. Flat abdominals have great aesthetic appeal, not only to the "owner" of those abs, but also to the person's spouse or partner.
Of course, a flat abdominal musculature
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Forty Winks
Category:
Newsletter Library, Wellness
When we think of healthful lifestyle choices we generally consider requirements for a healthy diet and regular vigorous exercise. We want to be sure we're eating a wide variety of foods from the primary food groups and that we’re careful to watch our daily calorie intake. In the realm of exercise,
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