Mindfulness: Your Key To Staying Productive This Holiday Season
Blame it on the cocktail party of Twitter, the constant flow of invites and text messages, or the hum of the cars on the street – the modern mind is managing a thousand tiny distractions. This constant tug-of-war for your attention can easily leave you…
Science Says Crafting Is Good For Your Brain
You know making cool stuff is a great way to pass the time, express your creativity — and even make a living. But a study cited by CNN confirms another huge benefit to crafting: Mental health! From CNN: Crafting can help those who suffer from…
3 Must-Read Books to Make This Your Healthiest Year Yet
The new year is here which means it’s the season where many of us pull out our dusty goals notebook and start planning out how we are going to make ourselves look and feel better over the next 365 days. I love this time of…
Want To Be More Creative? Start Running (It’s Not That Hard)
Despite your best efforts, for most people, the end of January is that time when devotion to those resolutions start to slip. Maybe you promised yourself that you’d start working out but just can’t figure out how to get started. Maybe you feel like you…
Healthy Body, Healthy Mind: How Physical Health Impacts Creativity
The stereotype of the artist who stays up all night and drinks themselves to an early death has been interrupted in the last few years by a new class of thinkers who take physical health as seriously as they take the health of their creative…
Farmers’ Market Cheat Sheet: 9 Tips for Shopping Local
Eating fresh and local is a great way to get the nutrients your body needs, and the abundant farmers markets that are popping up around the world make it easy source food that is both seasonal and delicious. But those long aisles of booths —…
You Are Not Too Busy to Be Healthy
Many, many pages of the internet and print journals have been ceded to the discussion about the weighty issue of American obesity. Most of them find fault in food production, sedentary office work, dependence on cars, and just about anything else that’s changed in the…
Pleasure Chemistry: How Our Brains Process Music
Why does music bring us pleasure? Well, the simple answer is that it changes our brain chemistry… literally. Music triggers the parts of our brain associated with reward, motivation, and emotion, which causes the feelings of pleasure that we get when we put our headphones…
A Class a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Study Says Education Prevents Trauma
Education is often viewed as exercise for the brain — but a study by researchers at Johns Hopkins found that might be more true than anyone knew. Not only does learning make you feel smart, it might actually make your brain healthier, and, as a…
The Simple Trick You Can Do To Combat Foot Pain On the Job
Whether you’re on a long photo shoot, running errands, or just spending the day chasing down your kids, foot pain from high-heels can put a serious crimp in your productivity. But that doesn’t mean you have to forgo cute shoes on the job — it…
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