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Clinical psychology and Buddhist philosophy agree on how to address our negative thoughts.

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The senior leader I’m coaching feels stuck. For decades, Angela prospered in operational roles by leading with her brilliance. She was the expert, dogmatic about her opinions (and typically right), and if needed, she knew how to bully her views to the top. Yet her new role as beverage company COO required her to “play ...read more.

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In the 1960’s, cognitive neuroscientists Michael Gazzaniga and Roger Sperry performed research on split-brain patients (1). And this condition gave Gazzaniga and Sperry a unique opportunity to…

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These coping skills worksheets will enable you as a practitioner to help your clients increase their mental well-being with science-based tools.

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Stress can be debilitating, paralyzing, and generally bad for our health. It can also motivate us to get organized, try new things, and push to higher levels of achievement. Kelly McGonigal, a health psychologist at Stanford, thinks we spend too much time worrying about stress and not enough harnessing it to learn and grow. “I

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You're not at your best when you're stressed. In fact, your brain has evolved over millennia to release cortisol in stressful situations, inhibiting rational, logical thinking but potentially helping you survive, say, being attacked by a lion. Neuroscientist Daniel Levitin thinks there's a way to avoid making critical mistakes in stressful situations, when your thinking becomes clouded -- the pre-mortem. "We all are going to fail now and then," he says. "The idea is to think ahead to what those failures might be."

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Stress can make us better human beings. But it also it can also hamper our judgement. That’s the conclusion of an experiment conducted by scientists at the University of Vienna.
The study, published in the journal Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, looked at what happens in the brain when people who are highly stressed try to empathize with others.
It found that they showed increased empathy towards others and wanted to help them more, but that stress skewed their judgement.

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Learn 10 simple strategies that you can use to brighten up a bad day.

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Everybody says meditation is great but how do you do it right? Let's look at the neuroscience of meditation and how it can make you much happier.

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Stress is what you feel when an important goal, value, or resource is threatened. Here are four things that you can do to reboot your brain.

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A psychologist’s tips for how to feel better about taking on a new experience, hobby, or skill that you want to want to try in the new year.

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Take this test to find out how you perceive things, and get advice on how to think more positively, and which stress management tools can help you.

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Do you commonly find yourself over-thinking? Try this short "brain drain" exercise to help free up your mind and release thoughts trapped in your head.

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In Art Journaling for Anxiety: Dwelling in the Mystery, see artist Amy Maricle of Mindful Art Studio talk about how she uses abstract art for anxiety.

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Worrying about deadlines, work flow or employee issues is natural for people working in the business world. Stress happens. You have options, though, on how you deal with stress.

 

Sometimes, taking a moment to recenter yourself is all you need to do: By putting things into perspective, you can find the grit to keep going. That’s not always the best course of action, though. If you find that a particular task or job regularly leaves you feeling overwhelmed, drained or quietly angry, you may want to rethink how you approach the work or even consider whether you’d be better suited for a different sort of job or different company.

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The more tools you have in your "mental toolbox," the more options you have when you find yourself in a difficult situation.

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Need to find a new direction or reclaim inspiration? Grab a pen and paper. These writing exercises can help.

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