Transform your Health and Well-Being with These Simple Tips.
Image via Pexels Transform your Health and Well-Being with These Simple Tips. When it comes to your health, you are your own best advocate. Taking an active role in your healthcare can lead to better outcomes and improved quality of life, not to mention greatly reduced healthcare costs. Today, Evolution Hypnotherapy will discuss some tips for being your own health advocate, including documenting everything, establishing connections with healthcare professionals, speaking up, creating a healthier home environment, utilizing technology, researching health preventative measures, and leading a...
read moreSAD – Seasonal Affective Disorder
Winter Wellness Advice for Those with Seasonal Affective Disorder Photo by Osman Rana on Unsplash What is Seasonal Affective Disorder? Seasonal affective disorder, or SAD, is a type of depression that comes and goes with the changing of the seasons. The majority of people with SAD feel it during the winter when the days are shorter and sunlight is scarce. Rates of SAD tend to go up in northern areas where winter is more severe and the days stay darker for longer. Signs that someone is experiencing winter depression include changes in appetite, weight gain, drop in energy level, fatigue,...
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You may have recently been inundated with emails from all kinds of companies asking for you to stay in touch. It is pretty baffling to most as to why this new GDPR data protection is causing such a fuss, with companies scrambling to keep you on their mailing list. It comes into effect on the 25th May 2018 and it is an updated version of the data protection act of the 90’s. I have recently updated my privacy policy which can be found here: Privacy Policy (just click the link) Its really rather boring if you have the will to read it, but I am required to provide it. Here’s to your...
read moreWhy do thoughts make us anxious?
Do thoughts make us anxious? Well, not all thoughts of course! There is such a thing as positive worry, which is the polar opposite to the worry we all know, which is negative worry. Negative worry is using thoughts and images to predict the future. This could be something that you feel is imminent, or something ominous further into the future. These predictions, or assumptions, can lead us to feel very anxious as the brain senses the information as threatening. Once threat is established the brain will issue the fight or flight response. This response readies us for a fight or an escape....
read moreStoptober quit smoking the easy way
It is that time of year again, the encouragement to stop smoking hits a high in the month of October. The aptly titled Stoptober urges us to give up smoking for 31 days. There is a reason for this and that is, if we can quit smoking for a number of weeks, then you have pretty much become an ex-smoker! It doesn’t take long for the mind to form new habits, of which smoking is one. When we persevered with smoking in the beginning, the body and mind learned that you were now a smoker! The unconscious part for your brain doesn’t really know right from wrong and so it continued for...
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