How to Feel Better in Less Than 15 Minutes

Sources Medically Reviewed on 03/11/2019 Reviewed by Tyler Wheeler, MD on March 11, 2019
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SOURCES:
Mayo Clinic: “Meditation: A Simple, Fast Way to Reduce Stress.”
Landscape and Urban Planning: “The Benefits of Nature Experience: Improved Affect and Cognition.”
Journal of Environmental Psychology: “Vitalizing Effects of Being Outdoors and in Nature.”
Southern Medical Journal: “Music as Therapy.”
Journal of Happiness Studies: “Counting One’s Blessings Can Reduce the Impact of Daily Stress.”
Mayo Clinic: “7 Simple Steps to Boosting Energy.”
The Greater Good Science Center at the University of California, Berkeley: “Loving-Kindness Meditation.”
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: “Open Hearts Build Lives: Positive Emotions, Induced Through Loving-Kindness Meditation, Build Consequential Personal Resources.”
Mayo Clinic: “Exercise and Stress: Get Moving to Manage Stress.”
Emotion: “Walking Facilitates Positive Affect (Even When Expecting the Opposite).”
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition: “Give Your Ideas Some Legs: The Positive Effect of Walking on Creative Thinking.”
Mayo Clinic: “Stress Relief from Laughter? It’s No Joke.”
American Heart Association: “3 Tips to Manage Stress.”
Psychological Science: “Successfully Striving for Happiness: Socially Engaged Pursuits Predict Increases in Life Satisfaction.”
UCLA Center for East-West Medicine: “Eat Right, Drink Well, Stress Less: Stress-Reducing Foods, Herbal Supplements, and Teas.”
Journal of Experimental Social Psychology: “Happy to Help? A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Effects of Performing Acts of Kindness on the Well-being of the Actor.”
Mayo Clinic: “Stretching: Focus on Flexibility.”
Cleveland Clinic: “Sit All Day or Text a Lot? These Yoga Poses Can Help.”
Harvard Medical School: “Exercising to Relax”
PLoS ONE: “Receiving a Hug Is Associated With the Attenuation of Negative Mood That Occurs on Days With Interpersonal Conflict.”
Psychological Science: “Does Hugging Provide Stress-Buffering Social Support? A Study of Susceptibility to Upper Respiratory Infection and Illness.”
Neuroimage: “The Effects of Gratitude Expression on Neural Activity.”
Reviewed by Tyler Wheeler, MD on March 11, 2019
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