Tag: Health
10 Deep Breaths that Will Change Your Attitude (When You Can’t Change What Happened)
This morning’s email from Marc and Angel’s had this excellent suggestion that I wanted to share.
“How can I respond from a place of clarity and strength, rather than continuing to react in anger and frustration to the painful experience I was forced to live through?”
Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, pause, and consciously decide if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the present moment.
In order to gain conscious control of what’s really going on in your mind, you need to develop a keen awareness for this process. What helps is to hold still for a moment, take a ten deep breaths, focus exclusively on these breaths, and free your mind of the senseless chatter that’s going on inside your head. This makes room for a change of state, for something new to enter.
Detached from the weight of stressful thoughts and reactions you grow capable of consciously redirecting your focus. It’s time to take it willingly away from something unchangeable that drags you down, and zero it in on something actionable that inspires you. Focus on the next logical, meaningful step. Remind yourself that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who have grown hopeless about them.
In almost every case, nothing is stopping you right now—nothing is holding you back but your own thoughts about yourself and “how life is.”
You may not be responsible for everything that happened to you in the past, or everything that’s happening to you right now, but you need to be responsible for undoing the thinking patterns these circumstance create.
It’s about thinking better so you can ultimately live better.
The key is to understand that no matter what happens, you can choose your response, which dictates pretty much everything that happens next. Truly, the greatest weapon you have against anxiety, negativity and stress is your ability to choose one present thought over another—to train your mind to make the best of what you’ve got in front of you, even when it’s far less than you expected.
Yes, YOU CAN change the way you think! And once you do, you can master a new way to be.
Be sure to visit Marc and Angel’s web site for more excellent material and resources. They are great!
Vision Improving Eyedrops
From the Department of Amazing comes this announcement from Israel’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center and Bar-Ilan University that their ophthalmologists have developed eye-drops that can improve both nearsightedness and farsightedness. It starts with an app on a patient’s mobile device to take measurements of their eye which is used to prepare a pattern for a quick laser proceedure. The procedure takes less that a second to perform after which the patient uses the special eye-drops to correct their vision.
The laser procedure preceding the eye-drops is much less aggressive that other laser eye procedures. Consequently, the process might need to be redone every one or two months in order to maintain the patients superior eyesight. A small price to pay for not having to wear glasses and contacts.
Get the whole story at Digital Trends.
Prescription Opioids No Better Than Tylenol
A recent study found that prescription opioids, including generic Vicodin, oxycodone or fentanyl patches,
worked no better than over-the-counter drugs like generic Tylenol and ibuprofen. The lead author of the study said there’s no reason to use opioids if they don’t work better than the less risky drugs particularly because of “their really nasty side effects – death and addiction”.
This study focused on opioids used for chronic pain, so you might think there would be a benefit for their use in controlling acute or short-term pain. However, other research has revealed that over-the-counter medicines can also work as well as opioids at treating acute pain like broken bones, kidney stones, or dental work. Overall, it appears use of prescription opioids is not warranted.
You can find more details about the study here.
Ovarian Cancer Can be Passed Down by Fathers
A new study has found a link between ovarian cancer and a gene on the X chromosome. The finding shows that a father’s genes are an important factor in a woman’s ovarian cancer risk. Researchers discovered that women whose paternal grandmothers had ovarian cancer were twice as likely to develop ovarian cancer themselves as compared with those whose maternal grandmothers had ovarian cancer. This finding is consistent with the theory that the responsible gene was on the X chromosome.
“Ovarian cancer doesn’t have any specific early symptoms… It’s the most lethal gynecologic cancer”
The results of the new study may provide valuable insight into one of the most difficult cancers to identify and diagnose at a treatable stage.
Furthermore, the men who carry the mutated gene are not in the clear themselves. While these men cannot get ovarian cancer, they are significantly more likely to develop other types of cancer, particularly prostate cancer.
Read the entire article at KCTV5.