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What You Can Learn When You Stop Fearing Change
By Kristyn Kusek Lewis From layoffs to security threats, we live in a crazy and scary world. You could just pray for calmer times — or learn to love the occasionally wild ride. Life, as you may have noticed, is one great big roller-coaster ride. From job changes (planned or not) to turn-your-world-u
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The New Addictions
Behavioral addictions - to shopping, sex, even e-mail - trigger the same rush of feel-good dopamine to the brain as drugs and alcohol. Since these "fixes" aren't formally recognized by the medical establishment, insurance won't pony up for treatment. But that doesn't mean they can't undo your life.
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Healthy Living: 8 Steps to Take Today
Healthy living is within your reach, starting today. Sure, healthy living is a long-term commitment, not a flash-in-the-pan fad. But there are steps you can take right now that will make today healthier than yesterday and pave the way for healthy living tomorrow, too. Here's your checklist of practi
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'Concrete' Ways to Beat Procrastination
Jan. 15, 2009 -- Go ahead, do it. Don't wait. It won't get easier. There won't be a better time. So start. Right now. Just stop procrastinating, already! Chances are you've given yourself such admonitions many times, and chances are also good you will again, concludes an international team of psycho
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Why You’re Not Happy
Happiness can be a paradox: The more you reach for it, the more it seems to slip through your fingers. “Ask yourself if you’re happy, and you cease to be so,” says Darrin McMahon, PhD, author of Happiness: A History. How could this be true? Could it be you’re looking for happiness in all the wrong p
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Pets Comfort College Students
Dec. 26, 2008 -- Pets may be a source of stress relief, as well as companionship, for college students, a new study shows. The study included 241 students, mainly freshmen, at a commuter college in the Midwest. About 100 adults age 30 and older in the same area, but not affiliated with the college,
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Popularity Gene Found?
Dec. 22, 2008 -- Do you carry the popularity gene? Your genetic makeup can make you more likely to be liked, suggests behavioral geneticist S. Alexandra Burt, PhD, of Michigan State University. Your genes don't confer popularity. That's for others to decide. But Burt suggests that those carrying spe
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Happiness Is Contagious
Dec. 4, 2008 -- Could happiness be contagious? New research from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego suggests that happiness is influenced not only by the people you know, but by the people they know. The study showed that happiness spreads through social networks, sor
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Top Emotional Health Stories of 2008: Readers' Choice
Feeling good, boosting energy, and finding balance -- things we all surely would like to achieve –resonated with readers in 2008’s turbulent economic times. Even the Dalai Lama weighed in on easing stress. Those topics are among the most popular emotional health stories on WebMD for 2008. 13 Heal
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Happy People Get the Big Picture
Nov. 20, 2008 -- When you're in a bad mood and have your nose to the grindstone, all you see is the task at hand. But a good mood lets you see how the task fits into the bigger picture. This isn't a motivational motto, it's the finding from five psychology experiments by marketing researchers Aparna
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