By Amira Posner — 2015
Through utilizing various mind-body techniques, women struggling with infertility can mitigate emotional stress and emerge with new perspectives.
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Meditation is a mind and body practice that has a long history of use for increasing calmness and physical relaxation, improving psychological balance, coping with illness, and enhancing overall health and well-being.
To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.
You could argue that there’s three coding languages, one being your native language, the second being mathematics, [or] ways of representing the world internally to yourself, and the third is through imagery.
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A cancer diagnosis brings a wealth of psychological challenges. In fact, adults living with cancer have a six-time higher risk for psychological disability than those not living with cancer.
Anxiety is a natural response to a cancer diagnosis, whether for ourselves or a loved one. Our bodies engage a flight, fight or freeze mechanism that can become overwhelming.
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Getting enough sleep is important for overall health and may be related to cancer risk.
It’s no surprise that patients with cancer might become depressed, but now researchers say depression could precede a diagnosis. Here’s what you should know about the link between these two conditions.
Intense, persistent, and suppressed anger may have a connection to cancer.
Scientists now have more evidence than ever before revealing the intimate, intertwined relationship between the mind and body.
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The author writes that what she does on behalf of healing any individual or being must also be healing, even if not directly extended, for the world itself.