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Hearing Birds Sing Might Be Just As Important To You As Your Next Paycheck, Here’s Why

Grounding, Medical Reports, Organic Lifestyle / By Laura Koniver, MD

More evidence that Mother Nature can boost your happiness like nothing else can… a new study suggests that bird diversity is as important to life satisfaction as an income is. This study, published in Ecological Economics on Nov 2020, found that not only is happiness correlated with local bird diversity, but a 10% boost in bird diversity actually increases happiness to a similar magnitude as a 10% boost in income does! We’ve known for a while that animals improve our mood, health, and even boost longevity (I’ve blogged about how pets can do all of this and more …

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Jun 1 2021

Need To Boost Your Hopefulness? I’ve Got You

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

Yesterday I was talking with my husband and he was expressing how down he has been feeling lately about the current state of events in the world. I know he’s not alone. So today I thought I’d dedicate a blog post on how to immediately boost a sense of resiliency and remain hopeful even during times of immense stress and darkness. There have been several major medical studies released in the past few months that show the major, physical, measurable impact that poor outlook has on our brain function and brain chemistry. Like this one, published in Neurology …

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May 4 2020

The One Thing You Can Do Daily To Lift All Types Of Depression… Naturally

Grounding, Healthy Mindframe, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

We all know that getting morning light each day significantly improves seasonal blues (or winter depression.) But a new study shows that light therapy lifts depression — even depression that is NOT seasonally related — *more effectively* than antidepressant drug therapy. The assumption has always been that major depressive disorder is different from seasonal depression, but this study shows that light therapy can be used on it’s own to treat depression whether seasonal or not. Published in JAMA Psychiatry on Nov 18, 2015, this placebo controlled study supports the use of a non-pharmaceutical intervention over a pharmaceutical intervention, which …

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Jan 11 2016

Studies Prove: Long Term Health Is NOT About Exercising Hard

Female Health, Healthy Mindframe, Healthy Weight, Intuitive Medicine, Medical Reports / By Laura Koniver, MD

For years physicians have been recommending an exercise program for cardiometabolic health. Well… turns out it’s not really about the intensity of the exercise. Several landmark studies have come out in the past few months revealing that it’s not how strenuously you exercise that matters. In fact, it doesn’t matter if you “exercise” at all. What matters, both in cardiovascular health and in cancer prognosis, among other parameters… is how often you just get up and move around. Answer this… what do you think is healthier? Do you think it is better to: Hit the gym …

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Apr 8 2013

Thoughts on Health… Positive thinking and a Dream Revelation

Healthy Mindframe, Intuitive Medicine, Soul Healing / By Laura Koniver, MD

I was told recently that life was *easy* for me because I was a positive thinker. I almost fainted… and laughed. I am so far from a natural positive thinker it’s not even funny, so I didn’t laugh. I was extremely pessimistic and worried as a child. Through lots of diligent work I *literally* am not even the same person that I was years ago. But I didn’t change this by “positive thinking” — that’s for sure! I don’t even like the idea of *positive thinking* at all. Because positive thinking is usually fake… something you try …

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Dec 20 2010

Hearing Birds Sing Might Be Just As Important To You As Your Next Paycheck, Here’s Why

Need To Boost Your Hopefulness? I’ve Got You

The One Thing You Can Do Daily To Lift All Types Of Depression… Naturally

Studies Prove: Long Term Health Is NOT About Exercising Hard

Thoughts on Health… Positive thinking and a Dream Revelation

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