October 2011

Calming The Nervous System With Ayurveda

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photo credit: marc kjerland The nervous system is governed by the vata dosha according to Ayurveda. Doshas are the bioenergetic systems of the body and vata is one of three doshas which make up the human system: vata controls movement, pitta provides metabolism, and kapha governs tissue, bones and lubrication. Of course, it is actually [...]

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Is The Quick Fix Killing Us?

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  Technorati Tags: capitalist society, quick fixes

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Study Reveals Bias Toward Optimism

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Article first published as Study Reveals Bias Toward Optimism on Technorati. Nature Neuroscience published on October 9, 2011 the findings of a study conducted by researchers at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London on the question of pervasive optimism. The scientists wanted to understand why people maintained optimism in spite of [...]

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Stress Creates 50% Mortality Risk In Some Men According To New Study

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  Article first published as Stress Creates 50% Mortality Risk In Some Men According To New Study on Technorati.   The october 23, 2011 issue of Medical News Today announced  the results of a new study on stress and mortality in men. The study results show that stress can create as much as a 50% higher [...]

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The Loneliness Problem

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If we took a survey of HSP’s, how many would say they are lonely? Loneliness is not the same as being alone. Being alone and enjoying it come from our full engagement with life.  Loneliness is something else. Loneliness often feels like we have been graded and found wanting.  It feels like a suffocating prison [...]

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Breakthrough In Diabetes Treatment

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Article first published as Breakthrough in Diabetes Treatment on Technorati. There is new hope for diabetics, according to the Neural Stem Cell Transplant May Tackle Diabetes report in ScienceDaily on October 14, 2011. Researchers in Japan have found a way to regenerate the beta cells of the pancreas, which makes possible a long awaited cure to this devastating [...]

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Why Self Care Is Hard

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Why is self care so hard?  Whenever I see a sleeping cat, I am struck by how unconflicted they are about living each moment, about being here and their deservingness.  Receiving simply is not an issue for them. Humans make the whole business of receiving about power.  So receiving inevitably comes with some sort of [...]

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New Study Shows How Winning Affects The Brain

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Article first published as New Study Shows How Winning Affects The Brain on Technorati. So says a Yale study published in the October 6 issue of Neuron, a journal that investigates genetics and the brain. It has reexamined the reward pathways of the brain that are conventionally associated with the basal ganglia, a center brain region [...]

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Tyranny of the Clock

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  People in an economic system based on production learn to live with the tyranny of the clock.  Although people have been tracking time since the early days of humans, this is different.  Time used to be related to something going on in nature.  People measured the hours of sunshine, the seasons, and how long [...]

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Michael Jackson: An HSP?

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Was Michael Jackson an HSP?  The odds are that he was. Highly sensitive people are known for being different and suffering because of it.  They are also frequently highly gifted and often geniuses.  Unfortunately, many HSP’s suffer from any number of genetic, stress and anxiety disorders that impair their functioning. It is not my purpose [...]

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