Stress and anxiety can hit you at any point of the day and at any age. These days, it is quite common to see even the ever-carefree teenagers suffer from conditions like stress, depression, and a lot of other dark emotions. You might have felt your heart getting heavy or filled up with emotions that might suffocate you and make you feel congested. You must be looking for a way to get out of that...
Every now and then, all of us fall on hard times. Life is rarely a walk in the park all of the time, and it is not uncommon to have to ask for extra help from others. Sure, our friends and family are there for us most of the time and ready to offer support when needed, but often that’s not enough. Although professional counseling and therapy are getting increasingly normalized, there is still a...
By Ora Nadrich On this Valentine’s Day, go beyond exchanging the usual gifts and calling it good. Instead, make an effort to mindfully celebrate all the love in your life. Bring your full presence and awareness to recognizing the love around you and feel gratitude for the love that you are able to give and receive. Honor love in all of its forms — both romantic and platonic love. With mindfulness, be a conduit for...
Have you ever experienced that you can’t find a particular word, or remember someone’s name, or concentrate on a task that you’re doing? Have you ever stared blankly on a black piece of paper or an empty word document? Have you tried juicing out ideas from your brain but nothing comes out no matter how hard you push yourself to think? If the answer is yes, then you might have experienced having mental blocks. A...
Of all the mental ailments, anxiety may be the most innocuous on the surface. It can hide as minor fear, but can affect all of your reasoning, can seriously impact your total mental health, and can even have a detrimental effect on your physical health. But, because anxiety is such a common trait among humans, we have developed methods to deal with this deep-seated killer. Online anxiety treatment is one recent tool we’ve developed that...
By Baljit Sidhu, Founder, Tea Freak Did you know that meditation has been scientifically linked to a change in 172 genes that regulate everything from inflammation to circadian rhythms to glucose metabolism, which leads to a significant decrease in blood pressure? As a yoga instructor and mindfulness facilitator, I’ve studied the practice of mindfulness for many years. As part of this, I’ve observed a number of cultures and customs around the world that relate to...
Stress is the common thread that each human being experiences. Stress can be linked to unstable relationships with your job, partner, kids, finances, or just with chronic negative self-talk and self-doubt. While stress is connected to the development of diseases such as diabetes, cardiac disease, and some cancers, it within itself is actually not a disease. According to the World Health Organization, stress is defined as merely the verbal, behavioural, spiritual, or physical reaction a...
Are you living through a period of a life transition? Have you recently experienced trauma? Such moments cause tremendous stress, sadness, and negative feelings in individuals. The inability to cope with life issues, depression, or marriage concerns leads to even more serious problems like addiction and suicidal behavior. Instead of becoming socially isolated, overly anxious, or addicted to drugs and alcohol, one is advised to seek counseling services. There is a myriad of top-rated Brentwood...
The practice of psychology has been around for quite a while. It came in as a social science, an offshoot of sociology. Over many decades, it has been developed to take a subtle yet productive approach to improving the mental health and wellness of people suffering from a wide range of psychological issues. These issues range from anxiety and depression to suicidal tendencies and addiction, and everything in between. There is really no end to...
Heard the word psychology? Well, whenever you hear the word, you dwell in a pool of thoughts. Yes, you assume that psychology is all about reading the mind of the person sitting next to you, or a person is lying on the couch. The person takes a walk down memory lane and shares their thoughts. Having to be involved in this might seem very tempting, but psychology runs beyond mind-reading. The experts believe that it...
