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Archive for February, 2009

Stressed? You Can be Your Worst Enemy

Friday, February 27th, 2009

How many times during the day do we run away with stories in our heads that only serve to make us more tense or more frustrated with life. How many troubles do we have in ...

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What’s the Point of Life?

Wednesday, February 25th, 2009

Human beings are social creatures and we really need one another for support and survival in this world. Back in the day it was called a clan or a tribe, now it's called community or ...

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Depressed? Break Out of Auto-Perception

Monday, February 23rd, 2009

This weekend I went on a hike with some good friends and during the hike we kept hearing sounds of frogs, ‘croak, croak.' We looked in the water, on the ground and all around us, ...

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Feeling Grief Means Being Alive: 7 Tips to Help

Friday, February 20th, 2009

In a recent blog, Ronald Pies, M.D. wrote about an experience which left him fuming when a local pharmacy lost close to 50 years of "priceless" home movies of childhood summers and memories gone ...

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Turn on the Shower and Reduce Your Stress Today

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Supreme Court Justice, Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." Too often in our society we favor spending time in ...

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Mindfulness and Addiction: Part 3

Monday, February 16th, 2009

This is the last blog in a 3 part series on Mindfulness and Addiction. This one is all about getting our hands dirty in practice when it comes to working with cravings and urges. Let ...

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Mindfulness and Addiction: Part 2

Friday, February 13th, 2009

In the prior blog I wrote about the potential to use nonjudgmental present moment awareness (aka mindfulness) to become more attuned to triggers, cravings, and urges and help break the cycle of addictive behavior. I ...

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Mindfulness and Addiction: Part I

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009

In an age where our lives seem to be accelerating, our stress also naturally seems to be increasing. In addition to addictive behaviors potentially having a strong genetic link, it's no wonder why so many ...

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Reclaim Your Mind, One Story that May Change Your Life

Monday, February 9th, 2009

When struggling with our mental health one thing we can all agree on is that sometimes our minds feel out of control and reactively judging or interpreting a situation may not only be inaccurate, but ...

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Mindfulness, Mood, and Your Mental Health

Friday, February 6th, 2009

Every day we walk around taking in information and interpreting what we see. Depending on how we're feeling we'll interpret it differently. Here's an example I often do with my own patients to illustrate the ...

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