Chronic stress and brain circuits : Microglia ?

Chronic stress alters neural circuits in the brain, increasing the risk of depression and anxiety.                              The brain’s resident immune cells are called microglia. They are responsible for fending off infections, but this is not their only role. They also help build and remodel neural circuits. Such activity […]

Fight to relief your stress

Are You Feeling Stressed? All of us experience stress of one form or another throughout our lives. It’s often an uncomfortable and overwhelming feeling resulting from a lack of control we feel we have over our environment and/or circumstances. There’s just so much going on, there’s just so much to do, time is running out, […]

The Power of Your Imagination

  If you were locked up in prison for ten years, how would you survive? If you feel locked in a bad marriage, bad job or bad living arrangement, it might seem like you are in prison. The stress and depression can be unbearable. Even waiting in long lines, traffic jams or boring meetings can […]

72 Ideas to Simplify Your Life Today

The Short List For the cynics who say that the list below is too long, there are really only two steps to simplifying: Identify what’s most important to you. Eliminate everything else. Of course, that’s not terribly useful unless you can see how to apply that to different areas of your life, so I present […]