Mental Toughness Training

I prayed real hard. I asked God to help me to get out because I didn't know how. I had my house and a good job back at home, and I knew he [the man] would never leave me alone. But after a long talk with God . When Jelica saw clearly that she needed to dig this bad seed out of her life, everything started falling into place. All these doors started opening. Losing yourself in a article is the ultimate relaxation, the cognitive neuropsychologist David Lewis told The Telegraph. In a study he conducted at the University of Sussex, Dr Lewis found that reading is better at reducing stress and lowering your heart rate than listening to music, taking a walk, or even drinking a cup of tea. Reading also stimulates creativity, imagination, and empathy. Develop a screen-free unwinding routine before sleep. Whether you're settling in with a good article, chatting with your partner, filling in a crossword or Sudoku puzzle, journaling, or doing some gentle stretches, creating a regular pre-sleep routine will cue your mind and body to relax and get ready to drift off. Silence your phone. When you don't need to rely on your phone to wake you up, you can silence it, set it on airplane mode, or turn it off entirely. If you want to be available in case of emergency, enable Emergency Bypass in your iOS (or equivalent Android) settings to allow calls and texts from specific contacts. Ease into morning. Once your alarm clock wakes you up, turn it off or hit Snooze--no judgment! They needed to be replaced with easy, fast acting chemically based products. The part that never made it into the advertising copy was that while this might be an effective way to clean your bathtub or the kitchen floor, you would also be breathing in substances that might harm your health. Cleaning product labeling in our country is as confusing as personal-care products This means it's up to you to choose consciously. According to the American Lung Association, chemicals released when using cleaning supplies contribute to chronic respiratory problems, allergic reactions, and headaches.

Studies are underway to assess how these chemicals affect people who have asthma and other respiratory illnesses. However, past studies indicate a link between chemicals from cleaning supplies and occupational asthma and other respiratory illnesses. Formaldehyde-releasing biocides may be present or be formed as a reaction to other ingredients when it hits the air. Products containing chlorine bleach may release chloroform, and many detergents contain 1,4-dioxane, which is believed to be a human carcinogen; And ingredients such as borax and boric acid, which are added to cleaning products, may be hormone disrupters. The addition of quaternary ammonium compounds, fragrances, and artificial colors such as D&C violet 2 in fabric softeners and dryer sheets, poses dangers to the reproductive system and links to cancer. If the listener is standing, the partner stands directly in front of her and asks questions from that position. In this way the front-back axis for the training is always respected. Follow these step-by-step instructions: The partner now asks the listener to move back and forth (the direction started does not matter) with the whole body, including the feet, once to the left with up to 90 degrees deviation from the main axis, then once to the right with up to 90 degrees deviation from the main axis. By further oscillating, the listener is seeking alignment with the sound source. She should oscillate until she clearly hears it from the front. Thus the current orientation of the person is determined regarding the alignment of the entire body to the sound source. This shows how much the hearing differs from the center. The person should not just turn her head but should instead align her entire body to the sound source. If the person is not exactly standing on the front-back axis but has a shifted alignment to the sound source, you will now help her align on the front-back axis. I am by no means alone in making this assertion. In The Red Queen , Matt Ridley is nearly as adamant as I: Almost all discussions of consciousness assume a priori that it is a uniquely human feature when it is patently obvious to anybody who has ever kept a dog that the average dog can dream, feel sad or glad, and recognize individual people; Dogs seem to know virtually every human emotion, including such subtleties as guilt and contrition. My fellow dog lovers will surely know what I mean, having seen that I couldn't help myself, but I'm SO sorry!

Whatever we do with or to animals must allow for their capacity to feel as we do, not be based on our convenient denial of emotion other than our own. Richard Dawkins, a singular expert on the interconnections of life , routinely decries such speciesism . Having learned to think about those things, I now eat fish and seafood carefully and far less often than before, and poultry only very rarely and locally sourced and ethically raised. Humans do not need to eat meat. Not to build muscle, not to get adequate protein, not for any reason at all. A human diet can be optimal and complete without meat. My parents offered to let me stay there until I found a place. I got a job offer after applying to a few places. A close friend of mine called me, seeking a place to live, so I was able to rent my house to her. And the father of my kids actually wanted me to leave and was willing to sacrifice and travel to see the kids because he wanted us safe. I was able to sell 90 percent of my things. A couple even gave me extra for some of my furniture. They said, `I don't know what you're going through, but please accept the overpayment,' and they wished me blessings. Digging up this bad seed was a painful experience for Jelica, but it has left her in a much better place. I have finally stopped looking around when I leave my house or work. I've stopped feeling nervous about private calls. Open your curtains to get some natural light. Consider jotting down your dreams, if you remember them, or doing a few stretches to get your blood flowing. Turn your bedroom into a no-phone zone. If you live in a studio, charge your phone somewhere you can't easily reach from bed.

DENMARK IS A COUNTRY of long, cold winters: Danes spend as many as seventeen hours a day in darkness in the winter, often at freezing temperatures. As gloomy as that sounds, Danish citizens consistently rate among the world's happiest people. What's their secret? Maybe it's the government-subsidized higher education, universal healthcare, and fifty-two weeks of paid parental leave--but we could also credit the role of hygge, the centuries-old Danish concept of coziness, sharing, and joy in simple things. In recent years, hygge has caught on as a lifestyle trend around the world. In the United States and elsewhere, the rise of hygge #goals has coincided with ads, magazine features, and articles encouraging us to invest in rustic furniture, throw pillows, soft blankets, fluffy socks, Edison bulbs, and sheepskin rugs in order to bring Danish-style coziness into our homes. Antimicrobial or antibacterial ingredients are added to kill bacteria, viruses or molds. These biocides are usually listed as active ingredients and should be avoided. And what about inactive or inert ingredients? According to the EWG, there is no requirement to list them on the product label; Inert does not mean safe, but includes petroleum-derived solvents, preservatives or fragrances. Off-gassing, the release of potential VOCs, is especially worrisome in indoor areas that are poorly ventilated, so use no or low VOCs in your products. We're beginning to see transparency in ingredients happening at the state level. In 2017, New York became the first state to require manufacturers to disclose chemical ingredients in cleaning products with the establishment of the Household Cleaning Product Information Disclosure Program. California followed suit by signing the Cleaning Product Right to Know Act of 2017, requiring ingredients to be listed both on the product and online. Some companies are following suit. For this purpose, grasp the listener firmly but gently on the shoulders, and turn her carefully until the upper body and head are again aligned exactly in the direction of the sound source. Usually the person follows this movement with their feet. Check the alignment for the noise source (the running water coming from the sink shown in this picture). Turn to the right as shown, on the axis.

Turn to the left, on the axis. Turn back toward the center, not quite as much as the first time. Turn back in the other direction. The listener should move using a pendulum motion until she feels that she is exactly facing the sound source. The listener is using her auditory perception to align with the sound source, until the sound source is exactly in front of her (actually in the picture, however, the orientation is shifted to the left). Orient the listener to the sound source by gently rotating her shoulders so that they are perpendicular to the source. That said, meat is a native part of the human diet, but that requires consideration of the full, native context of meat consumption by our kind. The native variety of meat eating involves the meat of wild animals, living their own wild, active lives, and fed on their own, wild, native diets. The conversion of those animals into food natively involves the work of our hunting muscles. The meat of domestic animals, to say nothing of the adulterations born of factory farming and the further adulterations involved in producing processed meat reaching us in cellophane are in no way legitimate beneficiaries of a Paleo or native diet argument. Arguments for the Paleo diet , or the resurrection of meat, butter, and cheese devolve into silly impertinence if they do not explicitly acknowledge the limits of their applicability in the world as it is. None of us asked to be born into a global human population nearing 8 billion. None of us asked to be born into a time of mass extinction, resource depletion, and accelerating climate change - but here we are. The world, all too literally, is on our plates now. We are all invited, if not obligated, to dine accordingly. Variations in diet, lifestyle, and environmental exposure can alter the composition of the microbiome . And most importantly, I finally have more peaceful days than ones with anxiety and depression. I made a commitment to do everything that I always wanted and not ever put up with crap from a man again. I strive every day to love myself. And I'm learning to do just that.