You’re physically fit: You eat your vegetables daily and run three times a week. But what about your mental fitness? Sure, it’s a little harder to evaluate — you can’t measure it with calipers or a scale. Yet, given the deep connections that researchers have found between mental and physical health, it is crucial that you pay attention to your psychological well-being. According to experts, many of us don’t realize we are suffering psychologically because we aren’t exhibiting “classic” signs like exhaustion, panic attacks or frequent crying. But, specialists warn, psychological problems can take many forms. ” Mental health problems are massively under-diagnosed in men,” says William Pollack, M.D., […]
Prevention, magazine, Mar. 1998, reminds us that eating the right foods helps keep the mind clear, quick and sharp and helps to fight off diseases. “Abstemiousness in diet is rewarded with mental and moral vigor.” CDF:126. Here is a list of eight (8) Laws that positively affect and improve the mind Law of Mental Exercise (also see Lifestyle blog on physical exercise) “It is a law of the mind that it will narrow or expand to the dimensions of the things with which it becomes familiar.”- Mind, Character, and Personality, Volume 1, page 101, Law of Beholding “It is a law of the mind that it gradually adapts itself […]
Patients suffering from bipolar disorder who underwent therapy to help them maintain a regular daily routine and cope with stress were able to avoid relapses over a two-year period, a study has found. The study, published in September’s Archives of General Psychiatry, examined a therapy developed by researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. Using what researchers dubbed interpersonal and social rhythm therapy, patients were taught how to keep to normal sleeping, eating and other daily routines. They also were shown how to anticipate and cope with stress just as a diabetic who would be taught, for example, how to cook and eat differently. “This is really a […]
I heard a story once of two patients, on the same hospital ward, who were both diagnosed with cancer. As the physician gave the first patient his results, he said to him, “Sir I have very bad news for you. The blood test results came back, showing you have cancer and it is at the fourth stage. Even treatment at this time will not help you. You have just six months to live”. The distraught patient left the ward feeling overwhelmed and hopeless, and died six months later. The second patient was told by the doctor, that his blood test results came back and there was no trace of cancer. […]