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S1E18: Building Your Spiritual Toolbox For Personal Growth

In this episode of "Seeking the Light of a Thousand Suns," host welcomes back Dr. Eleanor Haspel-Portner, a licensed psychologist, hypnotherapist, and spirit...

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

How Lifting Your Legs up Against the Wall Can Calm Your Mind and Reduce Stress

Looking for a simple yet effective way to relax after a busy day? Tired after an intense workout or long run? Legs-up-the-wall pose may be the answer, writes Sonam Nundoochan.

Health & Fitness | Health

20 Best Weight Loss Secrets, According to Experts

When you wan to lose weight, it's always helpful to have the best weight loss secrets, according to experts, in your back pocket.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

What To Do After Work To Reset Your Mind and Body

A long day of working at a desk can leave you feeling sluggish. Here's what to do after work to reset and refresh ahead of your evening.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

The Many Paths to Better Mental Health

Dive in to Pocket’s curated guides to feeling better about yourself, managing stress, and finding healthy ways to add meaning to your life.

Advice & Self-Help | Helpful Advice

How to train your brain to increase your attention span

Modern work and information environments are so busy that it can be hard to focus for long—and that can make you less productive.

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Boost career, relationships & confidence. Learn our strategies. Unlock Your Hidden Potential

If you're looking to improve your career prospects, enhance relationships, or gain self-confidence, we offer a range of resources to help. Achieve more! Learn to unlock your hidden potential today.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

I Cold-Plunged Every Day for a Month—Here’s What I Learned - Outside Online

One yoga teacher immersed herself in freezing water for 31 days. Here’s her advice for how you can do it, too.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Cyclic breathing: Why experts say just 5 minutes a day can reduce stress

New research explains why cyclic breathing can calm you down — and it may be more effective than mindfulness meditation.

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How to Break Bad Habits: 7 Tips for Lasting Results

"Most cravings only usually last from a few minutes to about 20 to 30" says one expert — so if you take a quick stroll, you may walk away the craving.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Crying: My radical plan to get rid of my worst tendency in 2023.

The produce aisle, my local bar, and seat 15C on a recent flight had no idea what hit them.

Psychology | Psychology

Navigating Conflict Webinar: practical tools for handling difficult, messy, touchy situation: practical strategies &

Conflict Tools Webinar: practical tools for handling difficult, messy, touchy situations: practical strategies & useful tools: a practical, hard-hitting 'how-to" webinar with the proven strategies to help you gain positive outcomes from even seve

Psychology | Psychology

Your Sneak Peek of Navigating Conflict | Workplace Coach Blog

Conflict skills & self-training manual: 20 pages from the new release of Navigating Conflict; the full table of contents & chapter 1

Miscellaneous | Jewish Wisdom

My Strategy for Avoiding Drowning in Stress

When I leave the ark of my morning prayers, it’s a beautiful world—one that I can work with and add light to.

Miscellaneous | Jewish Wisdom

Battling My Eating Disorder, Day by Day - Dealing with Challenge

I have an eating disorder.The doctors call it anorexia nervosa, but I resent being put in a box with a nice little label.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

How to train your brain to enjoy doing hard things - The Washington Post

New research suggests we can learn to enjoy effort for its own sake with just a little bit of training.

Books | Books

These 7 Books Can Help You Make More Money and Advance Your Career

The best business books of 2022 so far (and one from very late 2021).

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

988 Lifeline Dialing Code Launches

On July 16, 2022, the dialing code 988 will become available across the US to route callers to the existing National Suicide Prevention Lifeline network.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

Quiet the Anxiety in Your Head—20 Best Ways To Stop Overthinking

Everyone knows that thinking before acting is wise but when does our thinking actually become debilitating? With too much thinking, negative thoughts can begin

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

What to Do When You Never Feel Good Enough

Are you stuck in constant self-judgment? In a new book, a clinical psychologist suggests a better way to feel good about yourself.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice

Why You Procrastinate Or Lack Motivation—And What To Do About It.

As humans, we’re driven to seek pleasure and avoid pain. We have to either *want* to do something or perceive that we *need* to do something to take action. Here are eight strategies that will help you set yourself up for follow-through.

Psychology | Psychology

5 Signs You Are Making Your Anxiety Worse

Letting go of your struggle with anxiety is key to its effective management.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

8 Telltale Indications That Your Business Career is Limited by Self-Doubt

Getting out of your comfort zone is always a challenge, but more and more evidence indicates that it is necessary for growth and success in your business and career. In my experience as a mentor to entrepreneurs, I find that self-doubt and lack of confide

Advice & Self-Help | Advice

How to be more creative: Psychology recommends these five habits.

Many mistakenly assume that creativity is about inspiration. Psychologist Barry Scott Kaufman explains that creativity is about habits.

Advice & Self-Help | advice and self help

What the Science Says About Forgiveness

We’ve seen a lot of T-shirts and memes circulating on social media with some version of the words: ...

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How to stop eating food for comfort | Psychologies

Want to learn how to stop eating food for comfort? Here are a few simple food swaps to replace your carbs.

Psychology | Personality

How to take things less personally | Psyche Guides

Always blaming yourself or assuming others think ill of you? A CBT therapist shares ways to break these self-critical habits

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5 Habits of a Highly Effective Coach

Being a great coach is about more than just mastering technical skills. It's also about developing the right habits.

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How to tell if you've been emotionally abused by your parents: 6 things parents do that are extremely harmful

Emotional abuse by a parent is common but often harder to spot than physical abuse. Here's how to tell if it's happened to you and how to get help.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

How to Reset Your Balance After an Unexpected Change

Have you ever started your day with good intentions, and then something happens that sets you off? Try reciting this prayer to reset your energy.

Psychology | Psychology

5 Symptoms of Repressed Anger

Many people see anger as something bad, something they need to suppress, hide away, or quickly undo. Contrary to this common impression, however, anger is a natural emotion—neither good or bad, it just is, and it serves a function.

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15 Best Mental Health Podcasts of 2022

This collection of podcasts addresses mental health issues, for anyone looking for self-help advice on different conditions and improving emotional wellness.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Are You An Overthinker? 4 Tangible Tips To Stop, From A Mindset Coach

Rather than worrying, maybe the easiest path forward is to shift our perspective from worry to wonder—and the following four steps can help.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

‘I’m a Neuroscientist, and These Are the Foods That Cause Your Serotonin Levels—And Mood—To Dip’

Here, neuroscientist Caroline Leaf, MD, shares the 3 main foods that deplete serotonin, as well as foods that increase serotonin.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Conflicting health information can compromise our attention – Research Digest

By Emily Reynolds. Participants who read inconsistent information about the benefits of whole grains later performed worse at a visual attention task.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice

How to Stop Overthinking: 5 Expert Strategies to Calm Your Mind

Wrestling with the same decisions again and again can trap you in your head. Here's how to stop overthinking, according to experts.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

How to master the art of conversation, according to psychology

By Emma Young. Psychology provides some intriguing insights into how best to handle conversations, to turn strangers into new friends, and new friends into life-long confidantes.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice

You’re not a failure. How to get past a setback and back in the game

We all get stuck in a rut. This author and consultant to top sports stars offers some surprisingly simple advice for a mental reset.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

3 small changes you can make to improve your workday

The founder and CEO of DittoPR is a big fan of keeping things small because they are easier to accomplish, and the more you accomplish, the more confident you get.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

The Science of How to Make Friends as an Adult (and Why You Should Put in the Effort)

Science confirms it's harder to make friends as an adult, but psychology offers a few tricks to help.

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5 Ways to Shut Off Your Brain Before Bed So You Get Restful Sleep

A buzzing mind is often the reason we can't doze off — or sleep restfully. Fortunately, these activities help "shut off the brain," and they can be tailored to your own needs and circumstances.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

Always Too Hard on Yourself? Try These 5 Self-Compassion Exercises

It can feel counterintuitive to extend yourself some grace. But it's vital to do so. These self-compassion exercises can help.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Walking for Fitness: What Muscles Does Walking Work?

Walking does great things for your mental health and cardiovascular fitness, but did you know that a good walk can also help you build the muscles in your legs and abs?

Psychology | Psychology

You Were Doing Fine Until . . . What To Do When Something Unexpected Takes You Down | Workplace Coach Blog

Personal coaching: what to do when something unexpected takes you down

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

The Five Minute Journal Soothes You in Seconds| Well+Good

You don't need to carve out an hour of your day to reap the benefits of journaling—all you need is five minutes. Here's why.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Speaking of Psychology: How to overcome feeling like an impostor, with Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD, and Kevin Cokley, PhD

Lisa Orbé-Austin, PhD, and Kevin Cokley, PhD, discuss where impostor feelings come from, the repercussions they can have in people’s lives, and what you can do to address impostor feelings.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice

The state of mind that stands between you and your success and how to combat it

We tend to hear our friends, neighbors and family complain of feelings such as annoyance, lack of courage, exhaustion, the feeling of not having a clear direction, which has generated mental fatigue that is becoming increasingly difficult to handle.

Psychology | Psychology

Are You a Bully Magnet? - Workplace Coach Blog

Are you a bully magnet? Here are 5 answers that tell you what you need to know.

Psychology | Psychology

Attacked by a Workplace Cyberbully: Actions to Take ASAP - Workplace Coach Blog

Cyberbullying escalating: why & what to do

Health & Fitness | Health & Fitness

Waking Just One Hour Earlier Cuts Depression Risk by Double Digits

Changing your sleep schedule by one hour has a significant impact on risk factors for major depression. Going to sleep and waking one hour earlier than usual was associated with a 23% decreased risk of developing depressive disorders.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

What to Do When You Don't Want to Do Anything

Everyone has times when they feel unmotivated or listless. Here are just a few things you can try if you don't feel like doing anything.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Paul McCartney Says This Simple Eye Exercise Keeps Him From Needing Glasses at Age 78

Paul McCartney says he doesn't have to bother with reading glasses at 78 thanks to some simple eye yoga exercises. Take a look.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

How to lose weight: A doctor shares 6 essential tips to make it easier

Forget counting calories, a Harvard doctor explains why restrictive diets don’t work and what to do instead.

Psychology | Psychology

The three feelings that mean you need to learn how to say "no"

Three therapists give advice on how to establish boundaries when you want to say "no."

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Self-care Rituals That Have Become Non-negotiables

Self-care rituals are often seen as luxuries, but should be seen as staples in our routines.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Simple Ways to Discover Wonder in Nature

Small ways spending time outside can help inspire you and shape your perspective.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

10 Tips We’d Give Our Younger Selves About Communication

We learned a lot about healthy communication this year, and many of these lessons could have come in handy long before the pandemic began.

Psychology | Psychology

5 Research-Backed Tips for Dealing With Boredom, Courtesy of Psychologists | Inc.

Psychology can help you push through this last, incredibly dull part of the pandemic.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

How to Set (and Reach) Goals in Wildly Unpredictable Times

Statistically speaking, most resolutions died this week. Should you give up on goals? No, just change how you pursue them.

Psychology | Psychology

Navigating Your Landmines - Workplace Coach Blog

Navigate your landmines; bring light to your shadow side.

Psychology | Psychology

36 Questions That Can Make You Fall In Love Fast! In Less Than An Hour | Gonitz Experts

In 1997, Professor Arthur Aron, an expert in personal growth psychology at Stony Brook University in New York, published a study describing a scientific

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Arianna Huffington: This Is Our Opportunity to Take Action on Mental Health

In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, this Mental Health Month, we have an opportunity to take steps to identify our signs, stressors and solutions.

Miscellaneous | Miscellaneous

25 Ideas For Mind Blowing Unusual Dates! | Gonitz Experts

Whether you are in a long relationship and want to add some pepper to the relationship, whether you are at the beginning of a relationship and want to keep

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

7 Early Signs That May Indicate A Future Divorce | Gonitz Experts

My divorce came as a complete surprise. This is what happens when you are not at home for 18 years. "This quote belongs to Lee Trevino, an American golfer

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

11 Things You Do Not Have To Do To Feel Loved In A Relationship | Gonitz Experts

After seeing and experiencing some relationships in life we ​​can tell you that most of us, if not all of us, have sinned on one level or another and passed

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

This 3-Minute Habit Changed My Life

“Tracking my time has changed how I think about my time. Knowing exactly where my hours go has helped me feel like I can slow time’s ceaseless ticking.”

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Pandemic winter dread is real. Here’s how to conquer it. - Vox

Psychology points to one simple principle that’s highly effective at improving our mental health and well-being.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

The psychology of 'stress baking': Why so many are making bread in 2020 - CNET

"It was a way for me to control something when my life felt otherwise really chaotic and out of my control."

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

5 Must-Do Steps To Win After The Pandemic | Inc.

Solve the problems your customers will face post-pandemic before your competitors do

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Sleep Hot or Cold? The Right Temperature Can Transform Your Sleep Experience

How the right temperature and the right bed can help you get the shut-eye you need whether you sleep alone or with a partner.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

How to Regain Motivation When Your Productivity Starts to Fade

When we’re struggling to stay driven, these tips will help you reset and regain motivation.

Advice & Self-Help | Politics

When You Want to Talk Politics at Work - Workplace Coach Blog

We need to talk politics at work. Here's how.

Advice & Self-Help | Politics

Political fighting in my workplace scorches me. - Workplace Coach Blog

Political discussions in the workplace expose employee to backlash.

Health & Fitness | Sleep

Dr. Dyan Haspel-Johnson's Tuesday Sleep Tip - About Hypnosis: Time Distortion

Some quick and easy self-care strategies to help improve your sleep. In this sleep tip, we go over the hypnotic characteristic of how time slows down and sp...

Health & Fitness | Sleep

Sleep and the Immune System and How to Support Them | Dr. Dyan

Sleep and the immune system go hand in hand. These tips help you to boost the immune system and sleep better by finding small pockets of rest.

Miscellaneous | Interesting & Helpful Information

Planning for Life Post-Pandemic — Lemonade To Lace

Hey y’all. I hope you’re all staying safe and healthy during these times. In an effort to keep myself busy I’ve been sharing with you how I’m passing the time while self-quarantining - blogging is a great creative outlet! My favorite part of the d

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

When Things Fall Apart, Train Your Brain to Self-Regulate

Thoughts, emotions, moods, and memories come and they go. It’s our ability to regulate them that makes the difference.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

15 Ways to Reach Your Goals and Commit to Healthy Habits

When you have goals to reach but you struggle to stay committed, these effective tips will help you reignite your drive and stay on track.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

Is Thinking About Work Keeping You Up Late at Night? Here Are 4 Proven Ways to Get the Sleep You Deserve

According to a 2018 Korn Ferry study, stress causes sleep deprivation for 66 percent of American workers.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Listen Up! Following A Healthy Diet Can Lower Your Risk Of Hearing Loss - Study Finds

A new study reveals a simple strategy that may effectively reduce one's risk of suffering from hearing loss as the years go on: eating well!

Advice & Self-Help | advice and self help

Can Apps Make Your Kids Smarter? - WebMD

The review found that apps could be particularly useful for teaching early math and language skills.

Psychology | Psychology & Psychological Research

Dealing With a Negative Person

Negative people can drain us. It's tempting to just cut them out of our lives. But there is another option: take the experience as something to savour.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Following Your Intuition Can Transform Your Decision Making

How tuning into your body’s intuition can help you make informed decisions and change your life in the process.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help!

7 Lies You Tell Yourself That Keep You From Succeeding | Inc.

These are untruths any one of us can get trapped in --so free yourself to soar.

Health & Fitness | Sleep

10 Great Morning and Night Practices to Help You Sleep

Experts give suggestions on how to start your morning, prepare for the day ahead, and wind down before you go to sleep.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Here's a Chart Explaining Anxiety and Solutions

275 million people worldwide have experienced an anxiety disorder, and millions of others experience anxiety from time to time. Here's how to cope.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Understanding Different Types of Anxiety Can Help You Diffuse it

In small doses, anxiety is a vital emotion. Without it, we could be killed crossing the street and would find ourselves ill-prepared for many of the important tasks of life.

Advice & Self-Help | advice and self help

5 Easy Ways to Practice Mindfulness Every Day

Do you ever get tired of being in your head? I know I do. Most of us go through our lives lost in our thoughts, which are rarely about ...

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Behaving Compassionately helps us both Externally and Internally

What does it feel like to engage in compassionate actions? Learn about the feeling of compassion, how it affects us internally, and the impact of external reactions.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

Profiles in (Everyday) Courage | Psychology Today

How to Stop Fear from Being the Boss of You: Small acts of everyday courage are the key to developing confidence

Psychology | Personality

These Thinking Patterns May Be Holding You Back from Success at Work

A psychologist suggests how to find the cognitive distortions dragging us down, and adjust our narratives accordingly.

Psychology | Psychology

6 Signs It’s Time to Seek Help for Your Anxiety | Psychology Today

If you feel symptoms of anxiety absent of any apparent reason, or everyday things make you anxious—leaving home, for example—it may be time to see a mental health professional.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Mindfulness Meditation Too Boring? Try Mindful Movement To Shed Stress, Anxiety - Study Finds

A study by researchers at Pennsylvania State University shows that practicing mindful movement can lower anxiety and stress.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Actionable Steps to Achieve Your Goals

We all need actionable steps...we like being told exactly how to do something and to be kept on track.  Unless you can afford a personal trainer, a life coach or your very own cheerleading squad...

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Taking the Power Back from Anxiety (by Swamy G) -

It’s 8 am on a Monday morning. You are getting ready for work. You’ve got an important meeting, but you just don’t feel right. It’s anxiety; you know it and you hate it. You have been feeling anxious for a while now, and this week’s no different

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

I Wrote in a Gratitude Journal Every Night for 32 Days and Here’s What Happened

It can be difficult to wind down at night, but keeping a gratitude journal is a simple way to lower stress and help you feel more relaxed before bed.

Advice & Self-Help | advice and self help

14 Ways to Quiet Your Mind Explained With Pictures

Do you find it hard to shut down the chatter, clear your head, or find a sense of calm? These techniques could help. And they may have other benefits, too.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Feeling Stuck or Anxious? Change Your Story to Move Forward | Psychology Today

An exciting new line of research shows that creating psychological distance from negative memories or threatening future events can help you manage your emotional response.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

The Key To A Long, Healthy Life Lies Within The Gut, Study Finds - Study Finds

The world of life deep within our bellies may hold the key to many happy, healthy years ahead. Experiments on fruit flies showed increased lifespan after the addition of probiotics and an herbal supplement.

Advice & Self-Help | Advice & Self-Help

Stop worrying that you’ve missed your chance at success—Science says you probably haven’t

Am I lagging behind? Why have I not yet achieved “success”? A study published in the journal Nature suggests we don’t need to worry so much.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Take 10 Minutes to Defuse Holiday Stress with This Mindfulness Practice - Mindful

'Tis the season to give up the guilt. Here's a practice for taking a more mindful approach to the holidays.

Health & Fitness | Health News

5 Simple Steps to Pain Relief with Alpha-Stim - Alpha-Stim

The Alpha-Stim pain protocol involves 5 simple steps. Relief is long lasting and often immediate. Alpha-Stim is a drug free way to treat pain.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

9 Ways To Not Be So Stressed & Overwhelmed - mindbodygreen

Dr. Samantha Brody, licensed naturopathic physician and author of upcoming book, Overcoming Overwhelm: Dismantling Stress From the Inside Out, shares nine ways we can combat stress and the secret behind why what we're programmed to do isn't working.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

11 Natural Remedies for Anxiety

Here are the 11 best natural remedies for anxieties, from walking meditation to CBD oil to herbal medicine, according to experts.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

the optimum exercise intensity, type and duration for boosting mood

By Christian Jarrett. Perhaps the most important lesson from this review is that we need more research into how different types and intensities of exercise affect our mood.

Advice & Self-Help | advice and self help

Slideshow: Exercises to Help Knee Pain in Pictures

Getting over a knee injury? WebMD shows you moves that can help make you stronger, so you're less likely to get re-injured.

Psychology | Personality

What Are Ego Blind Spots?

An essay encourages people to consider their “ego blind spots”: hidden drives and assumptions that prompt us to keep repeating destructive knee-jerk reactions and behaviors. Is it possible to find these blind spots and reconsider (or eliminate) them?

Health & Fitness | Sleep

5 Steps to Wind Down and Fall Asleep - Mindful

How to stop tossing and turning and get some quality shut-eye.

Psychology | Health & Wellbeing

7 Ways to Stop Feeling Lonely During the Holidays

The holidays often amplify feelings of loneliness and isolation, but three experts offer 7 tips that will help you to cope.

Advice & Self-Help | Meditation and Other Practices

Stress-Free Holiday: Here's What to Do

Here's how to fill your life with gratitude and love, instead of stress. Trust us, it's even possible around the holidays.

Advice & Self-Help | advice and self help

Regular Exercise May Keep Your Body 30 Years ‘Younger’ - The New York Times

The muscles of older men and women who have exercised for decades are indistinguishable in many ways from those of healthy 25-year-olds.