mindframe

Reducing Background Anxiety Increases Mental Clarity: Here’s How

Recently published in the Journal Of Neuroscience (June 2015) researchers looked at the role of norepinephrine in songbirds to determine what effect it has on stimuli detection and processing.   What they found is that norepinepherine helped decrease the “background noise” of the brain, allowing songbirds to not only enhance their auditory signal detection but to accurately encode complex incoming information. With higher norepinepherine levels, the brain had less background activity and less spontaneous firing of neurons, allowing the songbirds to distinguish the relevant incoming information from irrelevant incoming information.   Meaning… the less background noise in the brain, the […]

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Good Moods Are Contagious In Teens (And Prevents Depression)

As I blogged about last week… mood is not just something that colors our day. Our moods actually make a huge difference in our projected lifespan… this is now a medical fact!   On the heels of that study, yet another study was published just last month (August 19, 2015 in the Proc Biol Science) revealing that a positive mood among teens is not only “contagious” and spreads among peers… … but is also associated with enhanced recovery from depression and decreased future risk of depression. And even better, the reverse is not true: depressed mood does not appear to

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Higher Morale, Longer Life Span

  A new study shows that having a sense of optimism about your future actually helps you live longer… much longer!   Published March 15, 2015 in Age and Aging, the results are clear: a higher morale leads to a longer life.   Researchers looked followed over 645 elderly participants (85 years old and older) for over 5 years using interviews, assessments and home visits, and after adjusting for age, health conditions, mobility, functionality and other variables. Those with higher morale lived on average 5 years longer than their more pessimistic counterparts. If folks who are already 85 years old

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A Simple Tip For Navigating Life’s Ups And Downs

Life is full of ups and downs… … that is how you know you are ALIVE!   My daughter and I painted this original artwork together a few weeks ago. She inspired this artwork through a conversation we were having one night about how our own journey has had so many ups, downs, highs, lows, and beautiful amazing valleys of spaciousness in between.   The variable nature of life reminded me of our a heartbeat — the core of our heart chakra, the core of our ability to connect to others, the core of our own life force beating through

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Anxiety Ages You: 10 Ways To Reverse It

Published February 5, 2015 in the British Journal of Psychiatry, a new study shows that anxiety increases the rate of aging AND that treating anxiety helps reverse the aging process!   Looking at over 2,300 patients with anxiety disorders and matched controls, researchers found that those with active anxiety had shorter telomere length than both those with no history of anxiety disorders and those with adequately treated anxiety disorders. Shorter telomere length is a known marker of aging, and the fact that telomere shortening can be reversed when an anxiety disorder is treated is awesome news.     Telomeres are

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Scientific Proof That Mindframe Is Everything

Do you know what the single most important factor in long-term health is?   Is it drinking enough water each day? Is it eating only raw foods? Is it getting high quality sleep?   Nope. All of those things are amazing, of course… but here is the ONE factor that is controlling your current state of health completely: your thinking.   Don’t believe me? Look at it this way: Your body is completely new — inside and out — every few years.   All of your organs (except for one) completely regenerates, repairs, and optimizes on a continuous basis.  

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7 Ways To Feel Hopeful Even Under Incredible Stress

    Mid-winter is the perfect time to post these tips, as often it is in the darkest of winter, post-holidays, that we can feel most bleak.   It doesn’t have to be that way. Here is how to remain hopeful even during times of immense stress and darkness.     To retain hope increases resiliency, and is one of the best ways to persevere through any type of adversary in life, whether that be a personal tragedy, a health crisis or a series of financial stressors (or all three, as they often travel together.)   As I recently blogged

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