When we’re feeling some inner resistance to a task, we tend to put it off—check email, social media, our favorite distractions, or busywork. We all do it. We often turn it into something bad: “I suck for not being disciplined and unable to focus. I’m not strong enough.” But it’s just a part of being…
CDC Signals Changes to COVID-19 Vaccine Schedule, in Part to Address Heart Inflammation
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Feb. 4 outlined an expected change to the COVID-19 vaccine schedule for people with weak immune systems and signaled that a different alteration is coming for the general population to try to cut the number of post-vaccination heart inflammation cases. The CDC told its vaccine advisory…
How a Prone Position Might Help Save Your Life
February 6, 2022
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Lying in the prone (face-down) position, in which your chest is down and your back is up, could be a simple way to improve outcomes in cases of severe respiratory distress. This topic has received renewed attention during the COVID-19 pandemic, as invasive mechanical ventilation is conventionally delivered with the patient lying on their back…
Preventing Kidney Disease
Your kidneys are two bean-shaped organs about the size of your fist. They sit below the rib cage on each side of the body. Kidneys filter blood. They remove waste products and water to make urine. They filter about a half cup of blood every minute. The kidneys also make substances that control your blood…
Balancing Compassion With Equanimity
Diana Winston, Director of Mindfulness Education at MARC UCLA, offers a meditation podcast on the theme, The Balance of Compassion and Equanimity. This is one of the weekly meditations provided by the Mindful Awareness Research Centre (MARC). Currently, the meditations are offered via the Zoom platform and are recorded and uploaded for ongoing access. They are also readily available…
Self-Compassion in the Classroom: Three Things You Can Do in Five Minutes
What is this self inside us, this silent Severe and speechless critic, who can terrorize us And urge us on to futile activity And in the end, judge us still more severely For the errors into which his own reproaches drove us? – T.S. Eliot, The Elder Statesman (1959) We have a tendency toward self-criticism as a way of…
How Playfulness Develops and Spurs a Drive to Learn
Everyone talks about the benefits of playfulness for learning and development. But what do we do to become playful? What helps or hinders us on that road? And what is it like to stay on that road? If we can map out the path, including its obstacles and its benefits, it will be easier to…
Expectant Fathers Influence a Child’s Development Prenatally
An overview of 50 years of research at the University of Southern California on how fathers influence children’s development during pregnancy has made several recommendations for public health services: Consider fathers’ health behaviors as well as mothers’, Assess and treat fathers’ mental health as well as mothers’, Treat family stress and attend to the couple’s…
Keto-Friendly Cookies for Valentines Day
Valentine’s Day is the perfect time to give your family and friends some keto dessert love! Try these and let us know in the comments below what you think. Ingredients ½ Cup Coconut Flour ½ Cup Raw cacao powder 6 Tbsp Butter, solid 6 Tbsp Coconut butter ¾ Cup Monk fruit/erythritol fruit sweetener 2 Eggs 1 tsp Vanilla 1 tsp Aluminum-free Baking powder Ingredients for Berry…
Your Brain May Be Listening to Strangers—Even While You Sleep
Ever awakened from a dead sleep, certain that something was wrong? Something woke you up, yet you have no idea what or why? We all know that the brain can respond to the environment during sleep. If it didn’t, your alarm clock would never wake you up in the morning. But exactly how the brain…
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