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Simple Nasal Breathing to Manage Stress
Do you often breathe with your mouth? Are you regularly stressed? If that sounds like you, you may benefit from a simple, nasal breathing technique. It’s estimated that 80% of people have suboptimal breathing patterns, which worsens stress, impairs sleep, and reduces energy levels. In this brief article, you will learn what suboptimal…
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Tips for Building Meditation Into Your Life
Meditation is a powerful practice. The many benefits include improved focus, increased self-awareness, reduced anxiety, improved stress management skills, and improved sleep, to name a few. But there’s a catch. In order to receive these benefits, you need to meditate consistently. This is not a magical technique that will fix all of your problems after…
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How to Establish a Healthy Bedtime Routine for Your Child
Is falling asleep proving to be a struggle for your child? Is there resistance or defiance at bedtime? Does the current routine seem to make the entire household more stressed? By embracing these four expert-endorsed components of a healthy bedtime routine, you can transform bedtime from a stressful ordeal into a serene and restorative experience…
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Eight Keys to Healthy Living
Why is healthy living so hard? A healthy lifestyle has many benefits, not only for the body but for the mind too. Yet many of us neglect to take all the steps within our control to ensure that we live as healthy as we can. There are many reasons why it can be hard to…
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Self-Care for Depression: Tips to Help You Feel Better
When a person experiences depression, key ingredients of a healthy lifestyle can suffer—diet, physical activity levels, and sleep. By the same token, maintaining adequate nutrition, regular physical activity, and a proper sleep schedule can help relieve tension and stress and leave a person less vulnerable to depression and mood changes. Here are some self-care activities…
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How to Treat Anxiety
There are many different approaches to treating anxiety, including medical treatments, psychological therapies, and self-help (e.g., complementary and alternative therapies or lifestyle approaches). However, when a treatment is shown to work scientifically, this does not mean it will work equally well for every person. The best strategy is to try an approach that works for…
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Sleep Well and Awaken Refreshed
Sleep is an essential part of your body’s mental and physical wellness. However, it’s easy to forget how important sleep is until you have trouble getting it. How Much Sleep Do You Need? The National Sleep Foundation recommends seven to nine hours of sleep per night for adults between 18 and 64. Adults over 65…