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Stroke, Brain Injury, and Dementia: Is There a Link?
A brain injury doubles your risk of developing dementia. Learn more about how to reduce your risk here:
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A 5-Minute Breathing Meditation To Cultivate Mindfulness
Reduce stress, anxiety, and negative emotions, cool yourself down when your temper flares, and sharpen your concentration skills.
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Jon Kabat-Zinn: Defining Mindfulness
What is mindfulness? The founder of Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction explains.
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What Does It Mean to Be Grateful?
Gratitude isn't just in our head: It takes root in our heart and in our senses, for one beautiful moment...and then the next. Here are three ways to practice gratitude, from a.m. to p.m.
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A Meditation on Working with Anxiety
This meditation combines breath awareness, the body scan, and mindfulness of thoughts to explore sources of stress and anxiety.
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Why Loving-Kindness Takes Time: Sharon Salzberg
It's only after we've practiced many times that we'll begin to notice a habit developing—namely, letting ourselves off the hook once in awhile.
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5 Simple Mindfulness Practices for Daily Life
Your day-to-day activities offer ample opportunities to call up mindfulness in any moment. These simple practices will breathe space into your daily routines.
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How to Boldly Move On
Star Trek fans know Deep Space Nine actor Nana Visitor as the officer who suffered personal trauma on her home planet Bajor. When that narrative played out in her own life during the show’s filming, she turned to mindfulness.
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This Loving-Kindness Meditation is a Radical Act of Love
Loving-kindness, compassion, sympathetic joy and equanimity are rigorous meditation practices, used for the most part to cultivate one-pointed concentrated attention, out of which the powers of these evoked qualities emerge, transfiguring the heart. Just naming these qualities of heart explicitly and making their role explicit in our practice may help us to recognize them when they arise spontaneously during mindfulness practice. As well as to incline the heart and mind in that direction more frequently, especially in difficult times.
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The Top 10 Guided Meditations of 2018
Whether you’re in need of a better night’s sleep, a chance to practice gratitude, or simply a reminder to take a deep breath, here are our most popular guided meditations from 2018.
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10 Things We Know About the Science of Meditation
There's still much we don't understand about mindfulness and meditation. Here's a run-down of 10 things we do know about meditation.
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How to Meditate with Anxiety
The present moment isn't always a place of rest. Meditation can put us in touch with our stress and anxiety, and that's why it can be so helpful. Explore how mindfulness and meditation can help soften feelings of anxiousness, reduce stress, and calm a panic attack in our new mindful guide to meditation for anxiety.
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The Benefits of Being a Patient Person
Religions and philosophers have long praised the virtue of patience; now researchers are starting to do so as well. Recent studies have found that, sure enough, good things really do come to those who wait. Some of these science-backed benefits are detailed below, along with three ways to cultivate more patience in your life.
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Feeling Overwhelmed? Remember “RAIN”
To help people address feelings of insecurity and unworthiness, I often introduce mindfulness and compassion through a meditation I call the RAIN of Self-Compassion.
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Beginner’s Body Scan Meditation
By practicing the body scan, I am learning to stay softly present to the United Colors of Stress as it tries to hole up in my body. More and more, I can notice what I feel without having to hold on to it. I can let it go and return to the present moment over and over.
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Free Mindfulness Apps Worthy of Your Attention
There’s no shortage of mindfulness and meditation apps these days, promising to help you combat anxiety, sleep better, hone your focus, and more. In fact, the Wall Street Journal reports that more than 2,000 new meditation apps launched between 2015 and 2018. We scoured the app stores to find the most valuable and easy-to-use mindfulness apps that are available for free. Two on this list are completely free, while the rest include a free version with the option to upgrade to premium content and features
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Mindfulness: How to Do It
Mindfulness: How to Do It
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Getting Started with Mindfulness
Mindfulness is available to us in every moment, whether through meditations and body scans, or mindful moment practices like taking time to pause and breathe when the phone rings instead of rushing to answer it.
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How to Meditate
When we meditate, we inject far-reaching and long-lasting benefits into our lives: We lower our stress levels, we get to know our pain, we connect better, we improve our focus, and we're kinder to ourselves. Let us walk you through the basics in our new mindful guide on how to meditate.
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What do we get wrong about the Golden Rule?
"Most people grew up with the old adage: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Best known as the “golden rule”, it simply means you should treat others as you’d like to be treated. After talking with experts, I realized that I may be applying the golden rule too stringently and that it can help to be flexible and learn where exceptions might work better."
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How shallow breathing affects your whole body
When we breathe in a shallow way, the body remains in a cyclical state of stress—our stress causing shallow breathing and our shallow breathing causing stress. This sets off the sympathetic nervous system, the branch of the autonomic nervous system that primes us for activity and response.
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How to find a therapist when you don’t know where to start
Finding the right care for your needs can feel a little like looking for love on Tinder—it’s tedious, awkward, and can be a bit of a wild ride. Luckily, getting started doesn’t have to feel overwhelming. Here are some helpful insights to consider before you dive into your search.
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Resources for Aphasia and Depression
How to seek and receive help when it is hard to communicate
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Mental Health Resources When You Can’t Afford a Therapist
We’ve rounded up 80 of the very best affordable (or free) mental health resources
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Mood and Sleep: How Sleep Affects Mental Health
Getting enough sleep is vital for health and wellbeing
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Cognition
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Living Well With a Disability
Adjusting to life with a disability is never easy, but there are ways to help yourself cope with limitations, overcome challenges, and build a rewarding life.
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10 Minute Mindfulness Meditation
A YouTube resource for guided meditation to help you stay grounded in the present
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Mindfulness
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Pet Therapy and Depression
Could your best weapon against depression be four-legged and furry? Find out what research is saying about the role of companion animals in depression treatment.
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The Mental Health Benefits of Art Therapy
Get creative in your recovery
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How Spirituality Impacts Stroke Recovery
Spirituality has positive benefits for both stroke prevention and recovery
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Staying Motivated After Stroke
Whether one is contemplating or committed to a health decision, understanding the psychology behind motivation can help remove obstacles in the path towards change
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Setting Personal Goals After Stroke
Don't know where to begin when setting personal goals? Use these strategies
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A Gym Workout for Your Brain: How Mindfulness Can Help Improve Mental Health
Mindfulness training is just like taking your brain to the gym for a workout.
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Might Lifestyle Choices Reduce the Risk of Depression?
Lifestyle choices can promote brain health, lower the bad effects of stress, and reduce the risk of depression.
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How Your Brain Responds to Stress
What happens in their brain when we are stressed? How do humans adapt to stress?
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Stress
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Our Brain Enjoys Making Friends
Socializing and making friends has a positive effect on health, learning, and life outlook
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Mood
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Emotional Issues After Stroke
Survivors share their experience with mood and emotional changes following stroke
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After Stroke, Attitude Is Everything
After Stroke, Attitude Is Everything
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Making Rehabilitation Decisions
Choosing the next steps in your rehab wisely
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When They Don't Know What They Don't Know: Understanding and managing the challenges of living with post-stroke anosognosia
Understanding and managing the challenges of living with post-stroke anosognosia
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Something's Different: Personality Changes After Stroke
Something's Different: Personality Changes After Stroke
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Grieving the Old Self, Embracing the New
Grieving the Old Self, Embracing the New
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What Happens Next? Making the Best Decisions at Discharge After Stroke
Making the Best Decisions at Discharge After Stroke
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Post-Stroke Mood Disorders
Although stroke effects are unpredictable, mood disorders such as depression, anxiety and pseudo-bulbar affect (PBA) are fairly common.
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Social and Emotional Support: Keys to Recovery
A stroke affects more than brain cells – it impacts every area of the survivor’s life, as well as the lives of the survivor’s loved ones.
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When You Can't "Just Do It"
If you are one of those people who effortlessly and always does what’s good for you — eats right, sleeps enough, exercises 90 minutes a day, five days a week, manages stress, never gets upset — then don’t read any further.
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Helping Others Understand: Post-Stroke Depression
Depression is common after stroke, affecting an estimated one-third to two-thirds of all survivors.
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Emotional and personality changes after stroke fact sheet
Changes in your emotions and to your personality are common after stroke. It’s very normal to experience strong emotions after stroke, however these emotional reactions usually get better with time. Longer-term emotional and personality changes can be very challenging.
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Learning About Emotional Changes After a Stroke
After a stroke, many people feel different without knowing why. For example, some people find it hard to control their emotions. They may cry or laugh for no reason. Or they may feel down or even hopeless.
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Depression, Anxiety, Other Emotions After a Stroke
After a stroke, you’ll probably have some physical changes in how you move, speak, or see. But you may also feel changes in your emotions. Depression and anxiety are common, but so are anger, frustration, lack of motivation, or crying or laughing for the wrong reasons.
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What is emotional lability?
Emotional lability is a neurological condition that causes uncontrollable laughing or crying, often at inappropriate times. It tends to affect people with preexisting neurological conditions or injuries.
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Tough Emotions After Your Stroke: 5 Tips Watch for depression, behavior changes
Tough Emotions After Your Stroke: 5 Tips Watch for depression, behavior changes
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