By Lindo Bacon, Amee Severson — 2019
“Health experts” are sending incorrect and destructive messages about the relationship between weight and wellness.
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Meditation is a mind and body practice that has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation, improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and well-being.
Imagine hypnosis actually helping you lose weight — because the news is: it does. Harvard Medical School psychotherapist Jean Fain gives you ten hypnotic suggestions to try right now.
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Failing to manage your anger can lead to a variety of problems like saying things you regret, yelling at your kids, threatening your co-workers, sending rash emails, developing health problems, or even resorting to physical violence.
In the past 10 years, I've realized that our culture is rife with ideas that actually inhibit joy. Here are some of the things I'm most grateful to have unlearned:
Right now, yoga is “marketed toward thin, white, affluent people. That’s such a small percentage of who exists, and it’s not the group of people who need yoga the most,” says Stanley.
To get healthy, embrace imperfection.
If you want to improve your health, treat it like school. Changes made in a hurry won’t last.
Blame and shame will not lead to sustainable weight loss.