Laugh Out Loud

Nothing is more infectious than loud, funny laughter. Even if you don’t know what people are laughing at, you start laughing and get positive feelings. Did you know about the health effects of laughter? Humor and laughter have positive effects on health. They bring mind and body into balance. Laughter strengthens the immune system by [...]

The Power Of Positive Thinking

Did you know that positive thinking has some “magical effects?” It both reduces stress levels and improves your physical and mental health. It’s not totally clear why optimists experience so many health benefits, but studies showed that positive thinking prevents heart attacks and helps in staying mentally and physically healthy. Positive thinking provides the following [...]

Become A Stress Killer!

Do you know what I discovered as a psychology student doing research on stress? Everyone talks about it, but few really know what it is. Of course I’m not going to teach you the scientific definition of stress and other things you don’t need. But I’m sure that there have been such events in your [...]

Recognize Troubled Teens

There are two questions that worry nearly all parents of adolescents: “Is everything OK with my teen? Maybe he needs help?” Of course, adolescence is a period of changes: the child grows up, his way of thinking changes, and as a result his behavior can be affected, too. Let’s not try to understand when your [...]

Residential Treatment Centers: Help Your Children

What can you do when your grown-up child does not listen to you any more? It’s probably one of the most difficult tasks for a parent. Usually troubled teens hardly take advice into consideration. Their behavior often leads to sad consequences. As a result of abnormal activity a lot of them suffer from drug and [...]

Help Your Teen

During our lives we go through stages of development when we undergo a psychological crisis typical to the specific age. Crisis symptoms are usually similar and are the result of changes within ourselves as well as environmental influences. Erikson’s stages of human psychology development are well known. They describe each stage of development that an [...]

Say No To Eating At Night

Every single evening you promise yourself that this will be the last time you eat at night. But every time your legs ceremoniously stretch to the refrigerator, and there you go, you cannot help but eat. After that you feel both sated and guilty, as if you have committed a crime. There are lots of ways to [...]

Avoid Or Adapt To Stress

Are you emotionally and physically strained? Are you under stress? An excellent treatment for stress is to be able to say “no” when necessary: when you feel that it is beyond you to handle the added responsibilities. Stop communicating with those people who always stress you out. Avoid hot discussions over the same topics that [...]