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Five Things That Poison Your Brain

May 17, 2016 by Power of Positivity

Some poisons, like toxic air pollution, you can limit your access to, but you ultimately can’t control how they affect your brain. In this article, we will discuss five things that you can control that could poison the cells of your brain.

Environmental factors, chemicals, and ingredients used in the manufacturing, packaging, and producing the goods that we consume daily are poisoning our brains. Knowing about the unhealthy effects of these five things that harm our precious brain cells is important for our well-being.

Let’s look at five things that can poison your brain’s ability to function t its full capacity. Once you know what to look for, you can choose to avoid these five harmful things.

Five Things That Poison Your Brain

Check the ingredients in foods you consume, products that touch, or that go in or on your body. Think about things that you normally don’t consider, like your lip balm. We eat about 3.7 lbs of lip balm or lipstick over the course of our lifespan. Are there parabens or other harmful chemicals in the products you accidentally ingest into your body that can poison your brain?

Avoiding unhealthy chemicals is easier than ever. Use the Healthy Living app on your cell phone to scan the barcodes of products you use daily. The app will show you the amount of allergy-inducing, cancer-causing, and reproductive health-harming ingredients and the amount of research available on each one in the products that you buy. Choosing products lower in these brain poisons is also something that the app can help you with.

1. Noise pollution

Noise pollution can come from so many sources; things you never noticed are actually sending high-pitched whining noises to you. These can be fluorescent lights, air conditioning or heating units, appliances, clocks, and anything that is not a sound from nature can poison your brain’s ability to think clearly.

Even things that cannot be heard like the radiation from your cell phone, the radio waves, cable, and digital satellite TV waves that are being sent and received in our homes and businesses are unheard of noise or wave pollution.

Although we cannot detect these waves as sound, it is possible that our bodies are capable of sensing them. You get a feel for this when you can completely unplug in the wilderness. There is no background ‘hum’ of civilization to distract and poison your brain.

2. Excessive Caffeine

You don’t have to say goodbye to your beloved coffee, but we might suggest that you do a test without caffeine for a short period of time to see if it is one thing that is poisoning your brain.

Caffeine is one thing that is beneficial for a great many people. It helps them feel alert when they need to. However, according to one study, some ‘reports’ have demonstrated negative effects when very large amounts are given or sensitive groups (e.g. patients with anxiety disorders) were studied. In this context, caffeine has been shown to increase anxiety and impair sleep. There is also some evidence that fine motor control may be impaired as a function of the increase in anxiety.’

If you might have a problem with anxiety, skip the coffee, tea, and sodas containing caffeine. You might notice a difference in your ability to move gracefully, and improve your sleep when you eliminate this chemical.

3. Artificial sweeteners

Sugar-free was exciting when it first came to a grocery store, but by now we know that fake sweeteners are real poison for our brain. Aspartame was found to have a decline in cognitive performance for some subjects in a research study. Aspartame is also linked to concerns about increasing seizure risk in those who are already susceptible.

4. Refined sugar

Sugar tastes sweet but it’s not something we have evolved to handle in non-fruit or honey forms. Refined sugars link to bad memory, poor cognitive performance, and decreases in brain growth hormone.

Refined sugar also ties to increased inflammation. The inflammation from this brain poison occurs in the digestive system. Chronic digestive inflammation is also associated with the mood disorders schizophrenia and depression.

Refined, processed, bleached sugar is poisoning your brain. A study of a diet high in sugar has been linked to poor short-term memory functioning. People who ate a high-sugar meal had problems remembering what they had eaten before.

5. Flouride

Flouride has been a controversial additive to our drinking water ever since municipalities decided that it was better for the public’s health to add the chemical than to not add it.

Look for non-flouridated water filling stations at your local store or try a filter. Reverse osmosis, a deionizing filter, or an activated alumina filter can all remove around 90% of the fluoride in tap water.

Watch: Scientists Explain A Newly Discovered Form of Water

May 17, 2016 by Power of Positivity

Water is something we are so familiar with and we know that it comes in other forms, like steam and ice, but now scientists have found a never before seen form of water.

Scientists Explain The Entirely New Form of Water Never Seen Before

The water molecule that we all know as H2O is commonly found in three forms; vapor form at high temperatures, liquid at our typical comfortable temperature range and, in solid form at cold temperatures.

Now, researchers at Oak Ridge National Lab (ORNL) have discovered that water molecules can be found in a fourth form. By working with super-cold forms of ice in tiny, confined spaces, researchers learned what ice does to tunnel into minerals.

Ice is one of the strongest untapped energy forces on our planet. Ice is what causes enormous mountains to crumble as the water that seeps within cracks in rocks freezes in winter and expands in size, forcing the crack apart further.

The Oak Ridge National Lab says ‘Neutron scattering and computational modeling have revealed unique and unexpected behavior of water molecules under extreme confinement that is unmatched by any known gas, liquid or solid states.’

The size of the tunnel where this form of water is found is only the width of a single water molecule. ‘In a paper published in Physical Review Letters, researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory describe a new tunneling state of water molecules confined in hexagonal ultra-small channels ‘ 5 angstrom across ‘ of the mineral beryl. An angstrom is 1/10-billionth of a meter, and individual atoms are typically about 1 angstrom in diameter.’

The new research will help scientists understand how water behaves in small spaces. This will enhance our understanding of biology by discovering how water is transported in the small spaces of the cell walls of the body, for example.

Another likely field that will benefit from this research is that of geology. Water moves within crystal structures of many minerals. This new form of water was discovered in the mineral beryl, which is what the gemstones aquamarine and emerald are made from.

1. Where did scientists find this new form of water?

If you own an emerald or aquamarine stone, which are beautiful gemstone forms of the mineral beryl, then you may have a piece of jewelry containing this new form of water that has never been seen before.

According to minerals.net, pure beryl is colorless, but it can be found in red beryl or bixbite, pink morganite, Yellow heliodor and golden beryl. Certain forms of green beryl can be heated to produce aquamarine.

2. New form of water also bends concepts of physics

When water is super-cooled and contained within the confined, pressurized spaces that are found in mineral rocks, the hydrogen and oxygen atoms that make up the water molecule change positions. The hydrogen and oxygen atoms use the energy found in the positive charge of their protons to get in formation.

This new form of water that was never seen before is perfectly designed to tunnel through the crystalline structure of rocks by pushing against them on a tiny quantum level.

Picture a hydrogen atom up against the crystal wall of the rock it is trying to tunnel through. The hydrogen atoms can be on either side of the crystal, inside the crystal wall or both at the same time. At the quantum level, the hydrogen atoms are bending space by being in multiple places at once.

Alexander Kolesnikov, the lead author of ORNL’s Chemical and Engineering Materials Division says ‘This means that the oxygen and hydrogen atoms of the water molecule are ‘delocalized’ and therefore simultaneously present in all six symmetrically equivalent positions in the channel at the same time. It’s one of those phenomena that only occur in quantum mechanics and has no parallel in our everyday experience.’

What does this never seen before, new form of water look like?

The new water form is confined within a six-sided hexagonal tube, so we can say that it fits a six-sided form, however, the new form of water has two extra parts on each end that form a stacked, diamond-shape.

The American Physical Society Physics says that the new tunneling water form of each hydrogen atom ‘takes on six different rotational orientations simultaneously. Tunneling among these orientations means the hydrogen atom is not located at one position, but smeared out in a ring shape.’ There are two stacked rings of hydrogen in this new water molecule shape and the tunneling shape allows them to be in six different orientation positions simultaneously.

Oak Ridge National Lab says that their ‘neutron scattering and computational chemistry experiments showed that, in the tunneling state, the water molecules are delocalized around a ring so the water molecule assumes an unusual double top-like shape.

5 Things That Cause Bloating (And How To Avoid Them)

May 17, 2016 by Power of Positivity

Your diet, medications you take, or even beverages could all be things that are causing that uncomfortable and unattractive bloating in your body. In this article, we will look at five possible causes of your bloating issue and also how to resolve it for a flatter belly.

Chronic bloating is so distressful to some people that the New England Journal of Medicine says, ‘in one study, nearly 50% of the patients were willing to accept a 12.7% risk of sudden death with a drug that offered a 99% chance of cure. Can you imagine being so desperate to cure yourself from bloating that a 12.7% risk of sudden death sounds GOOD to you?

5 Things That Cause Bloating

Bloating is caused when air enters our digestive system or is created as food is broken down. The air takes up room and makes our digestive organs swell, sometimes causing pain and discomfort not to mention making us look a little bigger-bellied than we would like.

Bloating can be the symptom for an underlying medical problem so getting at the root of the cause is important for your health. Dr. Satish S. C. Rao says ‘Symptoms such as belching, bloating, and flatulence may represent functional bowel disorder or may herald the onset of an organic syndrome such as peptic ulcer disease, malabsorption, gastrointestinal obstruction, bacterial overgrowth, or parasitic infestation.’

Symptoms of bloating can interfere with your ability to absorb the necessary nutrients from the food that you eat. You can try eliminating these potential causes of bloating from your diet, but check with your physician if your bloating is a concern to you. You may be able to work with your doctor to find a solution.

1. Ingesting too much

Overeating is not just about stuffing yourself. The human stomach is about the size of your closed fist. If the quantity of food on your plate would be larger than that, you are asking for stomach bloating.

Think of your level of hunger as a scale. Other cultures look at eating differently than Western households where cleaning your plate and avoiding waste was encouraged. After a meal, we expect to feel full, which is what we equate with satisfying our hunger.

In the Japanese culture of the Okinawan people, people eat only until they are no longer hungry or are 80% full. On a scale from haven’t-eaten-in-days to just-ate-Thanksgiving-dinner-plus-pie, try to stop before you feel full. Overeating can definitely cause bloat as well as weight gain.

Eating too fast can also cause bloating if you are swallowing large amounts of air as you gulp your food or drinks. Sucking through a straw, chewing gum and sucking on candy or lozenges can also increase the amount of swallowed air that may cause you to bloat.

2. Bloat-causing veggies

Anything that makes you burp after you’ve eaten it is also causing bubbles down the line of your digestive tract. The digestive tract is huge and you may experience symptoms of bloating anywhere in it, from just under your ribcage to your lower abdomen and even in your back.

You may have experienced gas from belching after eating any of the following vegetables:

Cucumbers
Cauliflower
Broccoli
Cabbage
Kale
Brussels sprouts
Beans
Lentils
Prunes
Sprouts
Apricots
Dairy that includes lactose

As the digestive tract expands due to the gas, it pushes other organs out and causes painful pressure in other areas of the body as well.

3. Sport beverages

The fact that carbonated beverages cause bloating make senses, of course all those bubbles are combining to make a giant gas bubble in your digestive system. Other non-carbonated beverages, especially ones sweetened with Sorbitol, can cause gastrointestinal distress and bloating.

Some beverages that are marketed for the purpose hydrating people who engage in athletic and sports activities have a lot of ingredients that lead to bloating. Natural and artificial sweeteners, preservatives, added color chemicals, etc. are all ingredients that creates gas byproducts in your digestive system.

4. Certain medications

Chronic boating is called functional dyspepsia. Although you can still function, if that feeling of discomfort and fullness happened at least once per week and over a period of 6 months or longer, you are a chronic sufferer. According to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, ‘Up to 40% of persons who have functional dyspepsia consult a physician, and the condition negatively affects attendance and productivity in the workplace.’

Are you taking any non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs)? These medications that your doctor may have you on can cause bubbles and digestive discomfort. Talk to your doctor about symptoms of bloating that you have after beginning a new medication.

5. Higher fat foods

New England Journal of Medicine also says that people suffering from bloating should reduce stress and anxiety, and that they should eat small, regular, low-fat meals to help avoid bloating.

10 Signs You’re Losing Your True Self

May 16, 2016 by Power of Positivity

When we think about being ourselves, the meaning behind that often gets pretty blurry. It requires thinking about what it means to embody our most authentic essence. And, more importantly, how you can reconnect with your true self.

While people do change over time, and even from day to day, being your true self means expressing the deepest you in every moment you get. No matter what you become or who you’ve been in the past, your true self wants you to shine your brightest colors at all times.

While figuring out your most authentic nature can seem daunting, confusing, you will know if you’ve been showing others who you are by how you feel inside. These signs can help you determine if you’re on the right track.

Ten Signs You May Be Losing Your True Self

1. You Feel Unhappy Most of the Time When You Lose Your True Self

Negative emotions will creep up more often than desired if you don’t embody your true self. Frequently feeling unhappy indicates something profound going on within you, so pay attention to your emotions.

You must make changes if you don’t feel content with yourself and your life. Becoming our true self starts with being honest with our emotions and feelings, so don’t hesitate to look within your soul when you feel you need a new beginning.

2. You Don’t Feel Comfortable Around Most People

Another indicator of not being yourself lies in how you interact with others. If you feel uncomfortable or often cancel plans with people, this might signal the need to reevaluate yourselves and the people you keep in your life.

Surround yourself with positive people who make you feel good about yourself. If the people around you don’t reflect your most authentic self, this might mean that you don’t know yourself on an intimate level. It could also indicate that you ignore your highest self because you continue hanging out with those who don’t resonate with you.

3. You Judge Others Frequently

Judging others often means seeing something in ourselves we don’t like and seeing this in everyone we meet. If you don’t like yourself, you probably won’t enjoy anyone else either. In becoming our authentic selves, we can begin to strip away the layers of hate and judgment and remove the need to judge others so harshly.

4. You Don’t Value Your True Self

Becoming your most authentic self means valuing your being. If you don’t respect yourself, you likely haven’t gone inside your soul to reveal the truth within you.

You spend the most time with yourself, so you must learn to love the person inside to live life genuinely. When you see your self-worth, you will begin to value others that much more.

5. You Seek Acceptance from Others

In life, we can’t always gain the approval of others. Plus, if you skip that step and look to yourself for validation, you won’t need the acceptance of others.

Looking to others for approval means you don’t trust yourself enough to decide for yourself. When you become your most authentic self, you learn to trust your intuition and not let the opinions of others sway you.

6. You Feel Negative Emotions Quite Often

Feeling negative emotions more than positive usually means you haven’t allowed your true self to emerge. When we move into a place of love, compassion, and acceptance for ourselves, we remove those layers of negative thinking and programming and see the beauty of positive living. While you will still feel negative emotions when you embody your true self, you’ll begin to master your mind and recognize the importance of filtering those heavy emotions.

7. You Don’t Express Yourself Authentically

In life, we have the privilege of expressing ourselves however we desire. We all come into this world with different likes, dislikes, strengths, and weaknesses, so when you become the truest form of yourself, you know how to express yourself in the purest form. When you don’t do this, you stifle the free-flowing energy in your body and feel stuck within yourself.

8. You Hang Out with People You Dislike

Another indicator that you haven’t found your authentic self is keeping friends around that you don’t like. Our friends should uplift us and provide meaning in our life. If you frequently hang out with people who don’t resonate with you, you need to look in the mirror and ask if they add value to your life and why you choose to keep them around.

9. You Do Activities Your True Self Does Not Enjoy

Also, when you don’t act like yourself, you’ll engage in activities you don’t like. When we become who we were meant to be, we automatically feel drawn to specific activities and people, and everything untrue seems to fall away.

10. You Second Guess Your Intuition

Finally, you’ll question your heart when you act like anything except your highest self. You’ll take longer to make decisions and often disregard your first gut feeling. Our intuition can guide us through life so we may live according to our truth, but denying it will only set us back on our course.

10 Habits That Help You Reconnect with Your True Self

When you want to reconnect with yourself, you must make lasting changes in your life. Beneficial changes will affect all areas where you feel trapped or frequently struggle.

1. Take a Digital Break to Reclaim Your True Self

The first way you can connect with yourself is by taking a break from electronics. First, don’t check your email or social media for at least the first hour of your day. Instead, use that time to care for yourself, meditate, stretch, or do anything else that helps you check in with yourself.

Don’t leave your phone on the table during mealtimes so that you can be present while you eat. Engage with the people around you, instead, and you’ll notice a quick improvement.

Additionally, choose three days each month where you don’t use electronics. Don’t use your phone, internet, social media, or TV. You can take the time to go camping, hiking, or go to the beach without the internet.

2. Do Things That Align with Your Soul

Figuring out what aligns with your soul is pretty simple if you do what feels good and makes you smile. Think about what would make you feel best about yourself and your life regarding your career and relationships. Follow your heart with little decisions, too, because eventually, they become the big things.

Consider why you want the things you desire, and remember your reason. Use it to create intentions that guide you to make the best decisions for your life. Set goals based on your intentions, and break them down into actionable steps that allow you to see your progress.

You’ll feel much happier when you feel like you’re learning and getting closer to your goals. It helps you recognize who you are again, allowing you to do more of what you love.

3. Spend Time with Like-minded People

Spend your time with people who have dreams and goals. Your friends and loved ones should bring out the best in you, not encourage mistakes or regression. Surround yourself with people who love you for who you are and will offer support at any moment.

4. Reconnect With Your True Self by Practicing Gratitude

When gratitude is a habit, it can be life-changing as it is a powerful way to get in tune with your true self. It constantly reminds you of the good things in your life, helping you appreciate who you are and what you’ve accomplished.

When you focus on the positive aspects of your life, you’ll become much happier. It increases your happiness levels and allows you to identify yourself.

5. Regularly Spend Time Outside

Spending time outside each day is beneficial for connecting with yourself. Make it a point to leave your phone behind when you go so that you can be present in each moment. Not only will you reconnect with yourself, but you’ll feel closer to nature, too.

6. Stop Being a People Pleaser

People-pleasing causes you to put yourself last as you constantly do things you don’t want or need to do. Stay true to yourself by prioritizing yourself and learning to say no to others. Taking care of yourself is not selfish, and it helps you rediscover who you are.

7. Honor Your True Self

Regularly spend time reflecting on what makes you who you are. Think about your talents, strengths, and gifts, and identify your favorite parts of yourself. Then, consider what you need to thrive and feel good about your life.

8. Learn to Say Yes and No at the Right Times

When you say no to things you don’t want to do, it frees up your time to do activities that bring joy and excitement. It fills your life with what you love, helping you stay in synch with your true self. Remember that changing your mind about things is also okay, even if someone is upset.

9. Talk About Things You’re Interested In

If you always let other people dictate the conversation, you won’t ever get to discuss things you want to talk about. Don’t be afraid to speak up or shift the conversation. It can change the way you feel about interacting with others, and it can change the dynamics of your relationships.

10. Honor Your True Self by Eating Healthy Foods

When you eat foods that make you feel good, it gives you a clearer mind and a better understanding of who you are. It goes beyond eating healthy, too.

If you want to stop eating meat or drinking alcohol, do it. If it makes you feel good about yourself and what you take in, you’ll reconnect with yourself sooner.

Final Thoughts on Being Your True Self

Living life intentionally is the best way to identify yourself. Do the things that make you happy and help you feel good.

When you live for yourself, nothing can stand in the way of who you are. If you recognize the signs that you’re losing your true self, use the advice above to embrace yourself again.

6 Ways To Find Your Way to Your Partner’s Heart

May 16, 2016 by Power of Positivity

The heart muscle sends ripples of pumping joy out to your toes and fingers whenever you think of your beloved; if only you could find the way to your partner’s heart, you know they would feel the same.

6 Ways To Find Your Way to Your Partner’s Heart

They say that a man’s stomach is the way to his heart, but they also say that all men want to be respected and all women want to be loved. It is more likely true that every single one of us just wants to be loved and respected. Let’s look at the 6 ways that you can find your way to your partner’s heart.

1. Be slightly unavailable

This is not a suggestion to stray from your romantic partner, this is an important part of making yourself desirable to your mate. If you are always there, hanging on your partner’s every word, with no dreams or pursuits of your own, you are just a passive tagalong in your relationship.

Find your way to your partner’s heart by taking an active role in your well-being. Do the things that you love, even if your partner doesn’t. You supporting your own interests is how you show yourself love, and that makes you more alluring to your partner.

2. Put yourself first

Who is more likely to be someone that you would care about, a person with ambition, or someone without? No one loves a doormat, so make sure that your goals remain your priority. In a perfect world, with a perfect soulmate, your goals would be the same.

Make your partner aware that you plan to pursue your dreams, and that you are not willing to sacrifice that just to earn a place in your partner’s heart. Be willing to adjust the timeframe, or how specifically you will reach your goal to fit with your partner’s plans. Don’t let go of your passion for your partner.

When you prioritize your own plans first, you reaffirm your determination to your partner. That passion, drive, and self-love makes you an object of desire and will help you find your way to your partner’s heart.

3. Ask for a favor

Strangely enough, a psychological study showed that doing a favor for someone makes you like them more. It seems that our brain justifies that fact that we are willing to help this person by reasoning that we must like them.

So you can use this fact to your advantage to find your way to your partner’s heart. Never take advantage, but ask your partner to do little things for you to help you.

4. Learn your partner’s love language

Each of us gives and receives love a little differently. Pay close attention to what your partner likes. According to Gary Chapman, author of the 5 Love Languages, there are 5 ways in which we prefer to give and receive love; Tasteful clothes or fine gifts, sensual touch and closeness, communication with positive words of love and encouragement, spending time, or giving to others.

5. Praise your parents’ relationship to your partner

It makes sense, our experience with close, loving relationships starts with our parents. If your parents had a successful, happy relationship, we think that we can also be successful in love.

Researchers at the University of Massachusetts studying relationship lessons and attitudes of optimism vs. pessimism found that your parents’ happiness or divorce in their relationship predicts your attitude about marriage.

Even if your parents’ marriage was a disaster, make it sound rosy when you tell your partner about your childhood with your happy parents. Doubt about your genetic ability to maintain a relationship is not a good way to find your way to your partner’s heart.

Same for your partner, tell them that their horror stories about their parents’ relationship just show how much their parents cared, and had good intentions of raising a resilient adult. Putting a positive perspective on it helps heal emotional wounds too.

6. Help your partner to heal their heart

Your partner hasn’t opened their heart to you yet and it might mean your beloved has had emotional pain in their past, it is possible that in order for you to find your way to your partner’s heart, you have to rebuild it first.

Researchers studying forgiveness found that you may actually benefit from getting counseling to forgive someone who has wronged you. When participants who had been dumped in a relationship went to counseling sessions for a 6-week forgiveness program their mental health improved more and they had more forgiveness toward their ex than the control group did.

Maybe your partner would benefit from talking to a counselor about it. Counseling can be found confidentially online and in apps now too. If your partner won’t try a counselor, get them to talk it through with you so they can forgive their ex and bring you completely into their heart.

11 Quotes To Remember When You Feel Exhausted

May 16, 2016 by Power of Positivity

There’s no doubt about it – this life can get pretty tiring after a while. With so many responsibilities we must take care of, we can easily become exhausted if we don’t take time for ourselves. We have kids to take care of, jobs to get to, a house to clean up, errands to run, and so much more, in addition to our minds that can sometimes get the best of us. At times, life can seem like a battlefield, but the next time you feel exhausted, just keep the following 11 quotes in mind to help you keep going.

11 Quotes To Remember When You Feel Exhausted

1. “Anxiety happens when you think you have to figure out everything all at once. Breathe. You’re strong. You got this. Take it day by day.” – Karen Salmansohn

2. Do not confuse my bad days as a sign of weakness. Those are the days I am actually fighting my hardest.

3. The biggest wall you’ve gotta climb is the one you build in your mind.

4. Stop letting it bother you, just let it go. Your mind can only take so much.

5. Today I refuse to stress myself out about things I cannot control or change.

6. Sometimes you don’t realize the weight of something you’ve been carrying until you feel the weight of its release.

7. Sometimes you just need to disconnect and enjoy your own company.

8. The souls that have seen the darkest days can shine the brightest light. Keep going!

9. When life gives you a hundred reasons to break down and cry, show life that you have a million reasons to smile and laugh.

10. Stop worrying about what can go wrong, and get excited about what can go right.

11. Set a goal that makes you want to jump out of bed in the morning.

Here are a few tips to help you fight exhaustion and get your energy levels up:

1. EAT BETTER IF YOU FEEL EXHAUSTED.

It’s hard to be happy when your body isn’t feeling its best. In fact, undernourishment can cause fatigue. So if want to start feeling better immediately, all you have to do is make small changes to the type of fuel you use. The advice is simple, and it’s to eat more natural, whole foods and less processed ones. Drink water and green tea and fewer sodas and energy drinks. It doesn’t have to be hard or an all-or-nothing proposition to create new habits. Start by adding one good food and eliminating one bad.

2. EXERCISE REGULARLY.

Now that you’re getting up early and eating better, what are you going to do with the extra time? Move. Adding more movement into our day is an important part of being happy. Keeping the body active as it goes through life helps to make sure your life is active well into its golden years. As with any habits, start small and then continue to add activities that you enjoy that also help you break a sweat.

3. SLEEP MORE.

There is no doubt that sleep affects our happiness. We are fooling ourselves when we think surviving on four hours of sleep a night is what we need to do to achieve our big goals. Good sleep helps us be more productive and make better decisions, and those are things to be happy about.

4. ACCEPT THAT WHICH YOU CAN’T CONTROL.

Happiness can’t exist in the midst of worry and regret. Let go of the things you can’t control, while saving your energy for the things you can. There’s no point in getting upset at the traffic that makes you late. Adopting habits such as leaving the house ten minutes earlier, though, is something you can control. Focus on the solution, not the problem and watch your attitude shift.

5. EVALUATE YOUR ROUTINES WHEN YOU’RE EXHAUSTED.

There is a love-hate relationship with the routines of our day. Some routines are necessary for efficiency, but too many routines may prevent us from living in the moment. It’s well-known that one of the best ways to increase our happiness is to be more mindful. The goal here is to create a balance between habits/routines and embracing the moment. Wake-up and bed-time routines help our body shift from one state to another, so those are helpful. But the routine of driving to work may prevent us from an opportunity to learn, observe and establish our mood for the day. Let’s evaluate our habits and routines and see where we can bring more mindfulness into the day.

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Five Things That Poison Your Brain

1. Noise pollution

2. Excessive Caffeine

3. Artificial sweeteners

4. Refined sugar

5. Flouride

Scientists Explain The Entirely New Form of Water Never Seen Before

1. Where did scientists find this new form of water?

2. New form of water also bends concepts of physics

What does this never seen before, new form of water look like?

5 Things That Cause Bloating

1. Ingesting too much

2. Bloat-causing veggies

3. Sport beverages

4. Certain medications

5. Higher fat foods

Ten Signs You May Be Losing Your True Self

1. You Feel Unhappy Most of the Time When You Lose Your True Self

2. You Don’t Feel Comfortable Around Most People

3. You Judge Others Frequently

4. You Don’t Value Your True Self

5. You Seek Acceptance from Others

6. You Feel Negative Emotions Quite Often

7. You Don’t Express Yourself Authentically

8. You Hang Out with People You Dislike

9. You Do Activities Your True Self Does Not Enjoy

10. You Second Guess Your Intuition

10 Habits That Help You Reconnect with Your True Self

1. Take a Digital Break to Reclaim Your True Self

2. Do Things That Align with Your Soul

3. Spend Time with Like-minded People

4. Reconnect With Your True Self by Practicing Gratitude

5. Regularly Spend Time Outside

6. Stop Being a People Pleaser

7. Honor Your True Self

8. Learn to Say Yes and No at the Right Times

9. Talk About Things You’re Interested In

10. Honor Your True Self by Eating Healthy Foods

Final Thoughts on Being Your True Self

6 Ways To Find Your Way to Your Partner’s Heart

1. Be slightly unavailable

2. Put yourself first

3. Ask for a favor

4. Learn your partner’s love language

5. Praise your parents’ relationship to your partner

6. Help your partner to heal their heart

11 Quotes To Remember When You Feel Exhausted

Here are a few tips to help you fight exhaustion and get your energy levels up:

1. EAT BETTER IF YOU FEEL EXHAUSTED.

2. EXERCISE REGULARLY.

3. SLEEP MORE.

4. ACCEPT THAT WHICH YOU CAN’T CONTROL.

5. EVALUATE YOUR ROUTINES WHEN YOU’RE EXHAUSTED.

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