Mind Wellness

Suicide rates among Army soldiers increased 80 percent between 2004 and 2008, according to a recent report published in Injury Prevention. In the last several years, the number of soldiers returning from the Middle East with mental and physical wounds has continued to climb. According to Dr. Simon Rego, a supervising psychologist at Montefiore Medical Center, "Unlike any other time in history, U.S. military suicide rates now appear to have surpassed those among comparable civilian populations. It is therefore critical that we address this emerging public-health problem."

Ancient sages compared the human mind to a monkey: constantly chattering, hopping from branch to branch - endlessly moving from fear to safety. If you are one of the millions of people whose life is affected by anxiety, you are familiar with this process. Unfortunately, you can't switch off the "monkey mind", but you can stop feeding the monkey - or stop rewarding it by avoiding the things you fear.

Considered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore the activities of the mind considered by Arendt to be fundamental. What emerged is a rich, challenging analysis of human mental activity, considered in terms of thinking, willing, and judging.

Come allenare la mente scava a fondo nei benefici pratici e tattici della meditazione–e vi insegnerà a inserire un rituale di meditazione nella vostra vita. Oltre a calmare la mente e a permettervi di rallentare in questo mondo super ansioso, la ricerca mostra come la meditazione può ridurre gli stimoli mentali per portarvi a pensare più lucidamente, procrastinare meno ed essere più efficienti in tutto quello che fate, al lavoro come a casa.

A compelling and growing body of research has shown music and arts therapies to be effective tools for addressing a widening array of conditions, from providing pain relief and alleviating anxiety and depression to regaining speech after stroke or traumatic brain injury, and improving mobility for people with disorders that include Parkinson’s disease and MS.

Whether you're new to Reiki or you're a practitioner seeking to deepen your knowledge and enhance your skills, with this guide you'll learn how to use Reiki to heal yourself and others, cultivate and trust your natural intuition, develop your empathic and psychic abilities, work with your spirit guides, and ground and protect yourself as a practitioner of this sacred healing art.

If you are tired of being tired and your brain insists on running a late night talk show the moment your head hits the pillow, Boring Bedtime Stories To Put YOU To Sleep Fast: 18 Stories to Help You Quieten Your Mind and Fall Asleep is here to save your sleep and your sanity. This hilarious yet calming collection of extremely uneventful stories is written with one mission in mind. To relax your mind so completely that you drift off before you even remember what the story was about.

Lawyers. Accountants. Software Engineers. That what Mom and Dad encouraged us to become. They were wrong. Gone is the age of "left-brain" dominance. The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: designers, inventors, teachers, storytellers - creative and emphatic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't.

A compelling memoir by ABC News correspondent James Longman in which he discusses mental illness and trauma in families, what the latest genetic science is telling us, and how to not only persevere but thrive.

Welcome to menopause, where everything you thought you knew about your body changed overnight. You’re always hot (unless of course you’re freezing cold), you’re moodier than ever, sleep seems like a distant memory, and your skin is forming “age spots.” You can’t help but wonder, Is this it? Thankfully, no. Weight-loss life coach Pahla Bowers is here to help with a radically simple and powerful method to flip the script on menopause—by adjusting how you think. Pahla teaches how to target Really Unhelpful Thoughts (RUTs), to shed extra pounds, and stay healthy.

What if your brain didn’t need to be rewired—just re-tuned? You’ve been told to sleep more, focus more, calm down—but it’s hard to do when your system is overstimulated or shut down. Spanning 30+ hours of expertly engineered soundscapes, this complete collection gently guides your brain into the balanced states it was designed to thrive in.

We oftentimes look towards the outside world to find the roots of our problems. However, most of the times, we should be looking inwards. Our mind and our emotions determine our state of being in the present moment. If those aspects are left unchecked, we can get easily overwhelmed and are left feeling unfulfilled every single day.

Imagine waking up feeling lighter, more energized, and completely in sync with your body. What if weight loss and deep, restorative sleep weren’t a struggle but a natural result of aligning your mind, body, and spirit? That’s exactly what 16 Transformative Hypnosis Sessions for Rapid Weight Loss and Deep Sleep for Women is designed to help you achieve. This isn’t just another weight loss guide—it’s a deeply immersive experience that rewires your subconscious to work for you, not against you.

Many of us grapple with how to stay happy, calm, and focused in a world that seems to get more complex by the minute. How do we keep our wits about us, our mood stable, and our memory intact when our brains and bodies are bombarded with information and influences from every side? This...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER An award-winning psychologist reveals the hidden power of our inner voice and shows how to harness it to combat anxiety, improve physical and mental health, and deepen our relationships with others. LONGLISTED FOR THE PORCHLIGHT BUSINESS BOOK AWARD “A masterpiece...

Discover the innovative intersection of somatic therapy and Internal Family Systems (IFS), featuring 5 core practices to transform modern therapeutic approaches. Enhance your clinical practice and patient outcomes by skillfully uniting body and mind through an evidence-based therapeutic...

In Change Your Brain Every Day psychiatrist and clinical neuroscientist Daniel Amen, MD, draws on over 40 years' clinical practice with tens of thousands of patients to give you the most effective daily habits he has seen that can help you improve your brain, master your mind, boost your memory, and make you feel happier, healthier, and more connected to those you love.

Understand how to use mind games and mental manipulation! You will learn the main techniques that manipulative people use to control their targets and to get them to do whatever they want. All the main tricks that narcissist, Machiavellians, sadistic people, sociopaths, and even psychopaths use to keep others under their thumb will be revealed to you, so that you can learn to protect yourself from manipulation or control, whether its orchestrated by your partner or spouse, a member of your family, a friend with personal agendas, or a colleague with malicious intentions.

The science of emotion is in the midst of a revolution on par with the discovery of relativity in physics and natural selection in biology. Leading the charge is psychologist and neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett, whose research overturns the long-standing belief that emotions are automatic, universal, and hardwired in different brain regions. Instead, Barrett shows, we construct each instance of emotion through a unique interplay of brain, body, and culture.

What makes us happy? What makes us sad? How do we come to feel a sense of enthusiasm? What fills us with lust, anger, fear, or tenderness? Traditional behavioral and cognitive neuroscience have yet to provide satisfactory answers. The Archaeology of Mind presents an affective neuroscience approach - which takes into consideration basic mental processes, brain functions, and emotional behaviors that all mammals share - to locate the neural mechanisms of emotional expression. It reveals - for the first time - the deep neural sources of our values and basic emotional feelings.