Category: stress management

Grey Hair Can Regain Its Color – if You Relieve Stress

There’s now definitive proof that hair greying is reversible, albeit rare, in humans. What’s more, stressful life events play a primary role in triggering your hair to turn grey, while relaxation — like a two-week vacation — may help give your roots back their original color Grey hair is one of the earliest and most…


Wellness Tourism: Retreat to Advance

At the end of July, Kristen Campbell announced that she would be hosting her first beach yoga retreat in October. In a week, it was fully booked. Campbell, owner of Cushing Yoga + Barre in Oklahoma, has attended dozens of wellness events and has regularly incorporated a specific schedule of retreating into her own lifestyle…


Relaxation Techniques: What You Need To Know

What are relaxation techniques? Relaxation techniques are practices to help bring about the body’s “relaxation response,” which is characterized by slower breathing, lower blood pressure, and a reduced heart rate. The relaxation response is the opposite of the stress response. Some of the studies discussed in this fact sheet compare relaxation techniques to cognitive behavioral…


How to Deal With Anxiety Dreams

When you think of a busy time of year, do you think of stress or spirit? Is your “to do” list the first thing that comes to mind or your soul? If it is indeed stress, then you are likely to have typical anxiety dreams that go hand-in-hand with the hectic pace and demanding days you are experiencing…


Tending to Food Sensitivities

The confusion over food sensitivities, intolerances, and allergies can make it difficult for those suffering reactions to find relief. While some go on a journey to uncover root causes, others desperately try anything to feel better, sometimes finding themselves immersed in a variety of tests with different specialists who seem to contradict one another with…


Social Stress Can Speed Up Immune System Aging: New Research

As people age, their immune systems naturally begin to decline. This aging of the immune system, called immunosenescence, may be an important part of age-related health problems such as cancer and cardiovascular disease, as well as older people’s less effective response to vaccines. But not all immune systems age at the same rate. In our recently published study, my colleagues and I found that…


How the Wim Hof Method of Breathing Brings About Healing

When the Solari Report announced Wim Hof to be the recipient of the 2021 Hero of the Year award in December 2021, we took notice. Calling Wim Hof one of the most likely men to make an enormous difference in natural health care in the coming years, they shared his extremely practical, results-driven, and virtually free techniques….


60-80% of Diseases Are Related to This, and Your Personality Type Shows It

We are exposed to more and more toxins in our daily lives. In addition to physical toxins (e.g. radiation), chemical toxins (e.g. plasticizers, pesticides and benzene) and biological toxins (e.g. viruses and bacteria), there is another type of toxin, namely, emotional toxins. Emotional toxins can be even more harmful than physical or biochemical toxins, because…


4 Ways to Stop Thinking the Worst Will Happen When You’re Stressed

Imagine you have an interview for a new job tomorrow. Some people might think about what kind of questions they will be asked so that they can prepare, or imagine the interview going well. For others, the thought of an interview will cause them to toss and turn all night thinking of every worst case…


‘Dog People’ Less Likely to Be Lonely in Lockdowns

Australian research has discovered that dog owners tend to have different personality traits from cat owners and that the former tended to cope better with loneliness during COVID-19 lockdowns. Researchers at James Cook University surveyed 534 lone dwellers in Australia who were dog owners, cat owners, and those without pets during the second lockdown period,…