Posted in brain and mind, stress management, women's issues on May 20th, 2011
As the first segment of the baby boomers generation is quickly approaching retirement age, issues about what constitutes a healthy retirement come to the fore.
Gone seem to be the times when people retired and stayed home, played bingo, and gradually reduced their activities as their physical conditions deteriorated and their energy waned. Up until as [...]
Posted in brain and mind on Mar 7th, 2011
What kinds of messages do we tell ourselves? “Try harder,” “Don’t push yourself too much;” “How could you make such a stupid decision,” or “You did your best, let it go?”
All of us constantly carry on a conversation in our minds, commenting on events and reactions to what is going on inside and around us. [...]
Posted in brain and mind, stress management on Jan 30th, 2011
When we look at ways of improving our lives, we tend to focus on physical changes like losing weight, being more active, looking better, but we tend to forget a part of our body that is central to all of this: our brain.
What can we do to maintain our brain in good health?
The number one [...]
Posted in brain and mind on Jan 20th, 2011
By now most of us are back to our work schedules, our daily responsibilities and chores and the routines of everyday life.
Even though it has been only two weeks from New Year, the holidays already seem far away. On the one hand we are glad to be back to our normal lives, to eating more [...]
Posted in brain and mind, communication, intimacy on Jan 13th, 2011
Most of us enjoy being with others rather than being alone, as being with someone we like is an enjoyable experience. We like to share our reactions to situations and events that amaze us, like going to the Grand Canyon, for instance. As we stare and are awestruck by its beauty and majesty, we like [...]
Posted in brain and mind on Jan 4th, 2011
This is the time of the year when most of us think about New Year resolutions and plan to make drastic changes in the way we eat, drink, and in general live our lives, all with the intent of being better and healthier.
There are some reasons why this process is so appealing to most of [...]
Posted in brain and mind, stress management on Dec 7th, 2010
The holidays has started with a big bang on Thanksgiving day evening, when for the first time some stores opened to shoppers who wanted to have a head start on Black Friday. From now on most of us will be busy, running around trying to get everything done and ready… ready for what?
There is a [...]
Posted in brain and mind, communication on Nov 26th, 2010
We all compete in sports, jobs, school, and any other area of our lives. There are competitions, however, that touch us at a deep gut level. These are competitions with a known rival – an opponent against whom one competes over and over again. In these cases, a set of psychological [...]
Posted in brain and mind, communication, intimacy on Nov 12th, 2010
Most of us enjoy being with others rather than being alone, as being with someone we like is an enjoyable experience. We like to share our reactions to situations and events that amaze us, like going to the Grand Canyon, for instance. As we stare and are awestruck by its beauty and majesty, we like [...]
Posted in brain and mind on Nov 4th, 2010
Most of us remember dreaming, but few of us may remember full dreams, or even bother writing them down. At first sight they seem bizarre, confusing, nonsensical and irrational. We may tend to dismiss them as they don’t fit our idea of a narrative with a logical development that has a beginning, a middle and [...]
