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Hormesis and the Importance of Good Stress

Chronic, self-inflicted stress is bad. The kind of stress that occurs from negative thinking and is perpetuated over and over again from our minds wreaks havoc on our bodies and leads to sickness and disease. But not all stress is bad. In fact, we need some stress in our lives...

Vision and Stress Management

A great way to reduce stress in the heat of the moment, and one that often gets overlooked (pun intended), is practicing different vision techniques. Our vision has a direct effect on our states of mind and levels of stress. For example, we stress ourselves out when focus hard on...

The Primacy Effect

There is a phenomenon in psychology known as the primacy effect. This concept illustrates why it is a good idea to create a morning routine. Or to tackle your most important work early in the day. Reason being, the primacy effect is the observation that we tend to remember the...

Meaning in Life

What is the meaning of life? Is there meaning to life? At some point in your life, if you haven’t already, you’ll likely wrestle with questions like those. I think about them almost daily. And I used to be unsure about the answer or if there was an answer. Or...

The Importance of Good Posture

Many of the practices on this platform and on this website are simple. Well, simple, but not necessarily easy. They may not be easy because change can be hard. We are creatures of habit and our brains like familiarity. But anyone can change and overcome our brain’s powerful tendencies to...