What Tom Brady Can Teach Us About Fitness, Focus, Resilience, and Getting Your Mind In the Right Place. Wellness, focus, fitness, and sports psychology is the topic for today. The... Read More
Does Putting Alcohol Aside Make You Healthier?
Does Putting Alcohol Aside Make You Healthier? Many of you may have chosen to take a month away from alcohol as the New Year unfolded. Does such brief abstinence lead... Read More
Improve Your Focus and Creativity with a Nap
Improve Your Focus and Creativity with a Nap What about napping? What is the optimal length for your nap? The available scientific literature points to these observations: Napping for five... Read More
Improve Your Focus and Creativity with Sleep
You can improve your focus and creativity with sleep. You may also learn better. What about napping? What is the optimal length for your nap? The available scientific literature points... Read More
Surgeons Stole a Black Man’s Heart
The disturbing secret about the first heart transplant in the segregated southern USA. Surgeons stole a black man’s heart. Bruce Tucker, a black factory worker in the American South, suffered... Read More
Box Breathing Makes Me Calmer and Improves My Mood
Box breathing makes me calmer and improves my mood. Meditation is not easy for me, and Vinyasa flow yoga has proven to be even more challenging. But I have found... Read More
Mindfulness Works But Not for All
Compared to other feel-good practices such as exercise, mindfulness fares neither better nor worse. Mindfulness is “a state of active, open attention to the present. This state involves observing one’s thoughts and feelings... Read More
Dreading Colon Cancer Screening: I Just Did It
Colorectal cancer is the #3 cause of death among men and women in the United States. On a positive note, polyp removal, early detection, and colon cancer management advances have significantly improved survival odds.... Read More