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EXERCISE AND MENTAL HEALTH

In gyms, in parks, on tracks, and on sidewalks, they are walking, running, swimming, and working out. The mentally ill are no longer hid away in scary hospitals and terrifying institutions. They are taking advantage of recent research suggesting “lifestyle modifications” for the mentally ill – they are exercising. The NCBI a branch of the …

GOAL-SETTING – HOW IS YOUR NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION?

A list is made, resources assembled, dates and times established. This year will be different; this time you will succeed. If you are in the 8%, perhaps. Science reports 92% of people don’t achieve their goals, see their visions fail, and live with unfulfilled dreams. Despite these numbers, people are sharing mission statements, implementing visions, …

Love

“Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove: O, No! It is an ever-fixed mark that looks on tempests and is never shaken.” A beautiful passage from Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 – love cannot be true …

Emotional Blind Spots

You have high self-esteem; you know what you want and you know how to get it. You are aggressive enough to make people pay attention, but not enough to scare them off. Your life is on track and you are truly happy – until someone identifies an aspect of your personality obvious to everyone but …

Words Matter

“Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me,” is reported to have appeared in The Christian Recorder of March 1862, a publication of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. Mankind has come a long way since 1862. Humans have made incredible advances in medicine, exploration, technology, and, unfortunately, in bullying. Today, …