Tag: stress
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Tai Chi for Stress, Anxiety, and Depression
Read more: Tai Chi for Stress, Anxiety, and DepressionScience Daily: Tai Chi Gets Cautious Thumbs Up for Psychological Health. [A study] found that practicing Tai Chi was associated with reduced stress, anxiety, depression and mood disturbance, and increased self-esteem. What’s Tai Chi? Wikipedia’s answer is here.
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RAINing Mindfulness
Read more: RAINing MindfulnessThe Irish Times Tara Brach spells out RAIN (the mindfulness acronym): R is for Recognise. Just recognise that you have the emotion, that you’re very anxious for instance. A is for Allow. Allow the anxiety to be present, accept that it’s there. No need to get into a fight with yourself over it. I is for Investigate.…
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Workplace Misery in Review
Read more: Workplace Misery in ReviewJob satisfaction is down, stress is up. A psychologist points the finger at…workplace reviews: Annual reviews not only create a high level of stress for workers, he argues, but end up making everybody — bosses and subordinates — less effective at their jobs. He says reviews are so subjective — so dependent on the worker’s…
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Moms Soothing
Read more: Moms SoothingGuess you don’t know for absolutely sure until you study it: Mother’s Voice Calms Stress. Once stressed, one third of the girls were comforted in person by their mothers – specifically with hugs, an arm around the shoulders and the like. One third were left to watch an emotionally neutral 75-minute video. The rest were…
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Laughter as Exercise
Read more: Laughter as ExerciseBest medicine department: Repetitive Laughter Response Is Similar To The Effect Of Repetitive Exercise, according to researchers in Loma Linda, CA. Their studies have shown that repetitious “mirthful laughter,” which they call Laughercise, causes the body to respond in a way similar to moderate physical exercise. Laughercise enhances your mood, decreases stress hormones, enhances…