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Train Your Brain…Here's Why and How!

Try These Cognitive Restructuring Exercises to Improve Your Mood and Reduce Stress

Cognitive restructuring is a core part of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). CBT is one of the most effective psychological treatments for common problems like depression, anxiety disorders, and binge eating. Here, clinical and social psychologist Alice Boyes shares some CBT techniques you can try at home to reduce problems with mood, anxiety, and stress.

Practice Noticing When You’re Having a Cognitive Distortion

Choose one type of cognitive distortion to focus on at a time. Example: you recognize that you’re prone to “negative predictions.” For a week, just notice any times you find yourself…READ MORE

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This is YOUR brain on NOT enough SLEEP

Find Out about How Your Brain Operates on LOW SLEEP!

When you’re so tired and you haven’t slept a wink, your mind goes on the blink. That’s more than just a play on a quaint batch of Beatles lyrics. It’s the truth.

The sleep-starved mind is a mind on the blink, a groggy, impaired ball of mush.

Being tired — really, really tired — is a lot like being wasted. You’re more likely to slur when you speak, make risky decisions, forget what you did and generally act, well, a bit like an idiot. Worse, driving tired is as dangerous as driving drunk, several studies — and, yes, even the meticulous Mythbusters — confirm.

It’s simple, yet so few of us listen, this zombie mommy included. Bottom line: Sleepy equals bad for your brain. Well-rested equals good. Not getting enough shut-eye isn’t just harmful to you, it could lead to you accidentally harming others, too. By now none of this should come as a surprise, so why aren’t you logging at least six to eight restorative, absolutely critical hours between the sheets every night?

Your wakeup call is now. Take a look at the sobering infographic about the ill effects of sleep deprivation by General Electric and Mic below, then see if you’re still up for an all-nighter. We’re not…READ MORE

This is how you warp your brain when you don’t get enough sleep:
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The Price of Success? Your Health

Study hard. Work hard. Pay your dues, and anyone can be a success. This is the classic advice imparted to those striving for a better life, a prescription that generally fails to account for other factors that inhibit upward mobility in people who start out life in an economically insecure household.

The concept of upward mobility is a cornerstone of the American Dream. For those who achieve that dream, climbing to a higher socioeconomic status can cost decades…Read More

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The Powerful Effect of Noticing Good Things at Work

The phrase, “It’s always best to look at the bright side” means more than we thought based on an article Joyce E. Bono and Theresa M. Glomb for the Harvard Business Review.  What most people don’t realize is that positive experiences — even small ones — provide you with valuable resources that can be used to reduce stress, including physical symptoms such as headaches or muscle tension. They make it easier for you to detach yourself from work at the end of the day.

We learned from our research that thinking about positive events in a systematic way can be… Read more

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21 Anxiety Triggers That Might Surprise You

y , if you suffer from anxiety, you’re not alone. Anxiety disorders affect 40 million U.S. adults, according to the Anxiety and Depression Association of America.Doctors typically diagnose patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder if they suffer from symptoms of anxiety (constant worry, insomnia, difficulty concentration and more) for more than six months. But according to Everyday Health, almost all of us have experienced anxiety at some point.

What triggers those feelings of panic and worry that we’re oh-so-familiar with? We reached out to HuffPost Lifestyle’s Facebook community and got some honest, heartfelt answers from our readers. Here are 21 things that trigger anxiety:

1. “Money woes! Trying to READ MORE

What’s Behind Road Rage?

Have you ever wondered what makes some people snap when they drive?  According to an article written by Eric Niiler for Discovery Phycology, “Being inside a car can lend a sense of anonymity, which can lead some to act out rage.”

What drives people to take shots at other motorists from behind the wheel of a car? Aggression, territoriality and a feeling of anonymous power are the psychological ingredients of road rage, experts say.

Police say the violence was preventable.  “We’re starting to see this throughout our nation,” said Albuquerque Police Chief Gordon Eden at a Wednesday news conference. “And this is something that should not be happening in Albuquerque, New Mexico, let alone anywhere else in the United States.”

Police said the girl was shot when…Read more

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What's Behind Road Rage?

Have you ever wondered what makes some people snap when they drive?  According to an article written by Eric Niiler for Discovery Phycology, “Being inside a car can lend a sense of anonymity, which can lead some to act out rage.”

What drives people to take shots at other motorists from behind the wheel of a car? Aggression, territoriality and a feeling of anonymous power are the psychological ingredients of road rage, experts say.

Police say the violence was preventable.  “We’re starting to see this throughout our nation,” said Albuquerque Police Chief Gordon Eden at a Wednesday news conference. “And this is something that should not be happening in Albuquerque, New Mexico, let alone anywhere else in the United States.”

Police said the girl was shot when…Read more

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