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Neurogenic Nutrients: Omega-3 fatty acids. The single most important nutrient for your brain is the complex of fatty acids called omega-3s. Of the three omega-3 fatty acids (ALA, DHA, and EPA), the most important is DHA. Sixty percent of the brain is fat, and one-third to one-half of this is DHA. DHA is the fundamental building block of the brain. EPA is also important for its anti-inflammatory effects. Omega-3s have been shown to dramatically increase neurogenesis and BDNF levels. Neuroscience researcher Sandrine Thuret, Ph. Other studies have shown equally impressive gains in neurogenesis, elevated BDNF levels, increase in brain size, and neuroprotective benefits from omega-3s. Many retailers would have you believe that the two must be bought together. So shop around for the best price on frames, but don't skimp on quality lenses. Manufacturers often sell frames to vendors without a suggested retail price, and the markup can vary dramatically from store to store. Much of the designer eyewear is licensed to one of the two Italian manufacturers of eyeglass frames -- Luxottica or Safilo -- and between them, they own LensCrafters, Pearle Vision, Sunglass Hut, and Solstice Sunglass Stores. That's why it's easier than ever to find the big designer names -- Armani, Valentino, Gucci, Dior, Donna Karan, Versace -- online or at a mall near you. You can also get great deals on top-of-the-line designer frames at discount retailers such as Costco. Just buy the frames there, bring them to your optician, and have the lenses put in. You can find deals online if you search, but don't buy frames without trying them on first. It's impossible to tell how the shape and color will look on you based solely on a picture. If you want to shop online, do your in-person research, then see if you can find the same model on the Internet.

It guarantees that you can handle one task at a time without making it seem too burdensome for your mind to tackle. Cut Yourself Some Slack The desire to succeed might be too ingrained in you that you cannot think of anything else that is not related to what you want. This leads to a scenario where you are too hard on yourself. You will find it difficult to forgive yourself for the little mistakes that you make along the way. Unfortunately, this leads to overthinking. The truth is that you can't always expect that things will go your way. We are human beings and therefore, we are prone to making mistakes. Successful people understand the importance of making mistakes. It gives them an opportunity to identify their weaknesses and work on them before reaching their goals. You could say something like: I am angry at you because [fill in the reason]. I am hurt because you [fill in the reason]. I am so afraid because you [fill in the reason]. You may need to do this exercise several times before you truly feel that you have gotten rid of all your anger. You may want to work on one anger issue or several. Do what feels right for you. The Power Is Within You: Your Day 11 Journaling Exercise Have you been angry for much of your life? Here are some questions you can journal about to help release these habitual angry feelings: Why am I choosing to be angry all the time? What am I doing to create situation after situation that angers me?

Being around negative people can seriously damage your self-esteem and self-confidence. Walk away from relationships that don't nurture you anymore. Walk away from people who don't value you. Walk away from negative people. Life is too short to spend it in bad relationships with people who suck your happiness out of you. Often, it needs more courage to walk away than to stay in a bad relationship, but you can do it. Sometimes, it's better to be alone than to be in bad company. Don't let loneliness drive you into a relationship because there is nothing worse than being lonely in a relationship. There is a high probability that your best relationship will come when you are okay with yourself. It's kind of funny. Then there's the devastating addiction epidemic caused by the overprescription of opioid painkillers. These drugs are for the most part treating, and sometimes suppressing, symptoms, but not resolving the underlying cause of the problem. It's like seeing the oil light go on in your car, but instead of going to a mechanic for a look under the hood, you stick a Band-Aid over the light and keep driving. To make matters worse, you often end up taking multiple drugs to suppress a number of different symptoms because the problem just pops up in new locations, trying to alert you to an underlying issue. How do you chart a course through our increasingly pharmaceutical-based health system to avoid taking unnecessary drugs and ensure you treat illnesses at their cause? It's a big question, but here's a basic primer: Never stop taking a medication on your own, but do an audit of any medications you are currently taking: Ask your provider why you are on them to evaluate whether they are essential, how they interact with your other medications, and whether alternative actions (particularly in diet and lifestyle) could take their place. Learn about the root causes of, and successful rebalancing and repair strategies for, some of the most medicated conditions of today: inflammation, autoimmune issues, high cholesterol, anxiety and depression, skin and sinus issues, and frequent viruses and infections. With this knowledge, you can begin to look at prescribed medications with clearer eyes and make choices for strategies that deal with the underlying issues, either in tandem with medication or instead of it. To help you get started, the What to Do When .

The pain of envisioning my little girl upset because `Daddy wouldn't play with her because he's too tired' is a pain that completely shifted my focus in life. My why is now to create and design a life where I have the time, money and health to truly be present before my daughter and influence her life in a positive way. Her journey is her journey, and I have no control over it, but I have control over how much I am present in this journey and how much influence, advice and guidance I can provide to help develop her character along the way. Your why might be completely different from mine, and you might even have several `whys'. It might be a comment or a jibe from a friend or a loved one that gives you that spark to get into great shape or a friend who called you stupid that led you to read more articles (my why for indulging in reading). ERIC THOMAS. Pain and negativity can be powerful motivational tools and as long as they don't consume you, I think they're vital for achieving great things in life. Thus, on days when you're struggling and want to give up, recall the pain that made you get started and remember your why. Your why will keep you going on the days you want to give up. Use your why and go get what you want. So what positives can you take from your first run? The feeling of accomplishment we feel from achieving a goal can give us a huge psychological boost and make us much more likely to repeat the experience, so take time to really soak in the fact that you have overcome your fears, faced into your self-doubts and pushed yourself to achieve something you once thought was beyond you. Despite the fact that your legs may ache and you feel somewhat fatigued, you will still feel the afterglow of having exerted yourself, along with a feeling of self-satisfaction. So go ahead and enjoy it - you have earned it! Recording Your Success Take pleasure in formally opening your running log. Record the date and time of the session along with the length of time you trained for. It can help your motivation if you record this in a separate row under your `planned' schedule times, as this not only creates a boost from hitting a planned target, but gives you encouragement to hit the next target on your plan. Sometimes called Don't break the chain, this type of motivation theory is based on comedian Jerry Seinfeld's productivity method, or calendar method, in which he would put a big red cross on his calendar for each day he successfully completed his goal task, which in his case was writing a new joke. The system works by the fact that after a few days you develop a `chain' of crosses, which grows longer and longer for each successive day that you achieve your goal, and it becomes a goal in itself to keep the chain going.

Sometimes you are reborn into a family you have a collective karma with, and you are given a chance to work something out together. Some families seem like emergency landing airports, and you move on from them early due to a lack of common ground to work on. Other families are your chosen opportunity to heal your tendency to be stuck in negative patterns. All of you in the family have the opportunity to work out your karma with each other. That means not doing it the same old way, warring and victimizing, but seeking forgiveness and finding gratitude for the opportunity to heal. You may feel you have already done a lot of work with your family, with healing relationships within your family, but one thing I can tell you is that we are born onto this planet to work through our individual, family, and collective karma. Every action, thought, or deed is an opportunity to gain sat (which means truth and/or good) karma and help balance out the dush (bad) karma. And the greatest remedy to help clear karma is to remember that gratitude is the fastest way to heal any wound or challenge Even if what comes up is uncomfortable, be thankful for the opportunity to heal. If not for yourself or your immediate family, do it for the future generations of your lineage. Many people (and their loved ones) believe that if a person returns to old behavior patterns, he must not really want to change, or even worse, is just an addict who can't change. A lapse is in fact much more productively understood as the benefits of using outweighing the costs at that time. By understanding the benefits we can help find competing beneficial behaviors, or ways to reduce the benefit's pull. It may also be that there is a cost to changing that is exerting more influence than the benefits of changing at that time. Perhaps the loss of contact with familiar friends and a mild depression are outweighing the value of stopping cocaine use. If you can tolerate thinking about his perception of the downside to changing, you will be better equipped to help alter the environment and your behavior to counter this downside. If you know he is struggling with newfound loneliness, you could plan social events that bring him together with supportive friends and family or new peers whom he does not associate with using. Allowing for people's ambivalence does not mean biding our time until they snap out of it. Understanding and appreciating why your loved one does what she does will help you have more empathy and identify how you can modify your behavior, your relationship, and her environment so you can help to support long-term change. A forty-five-year-old construction manager came to us to follow up a twenty-eight-day rehab stay.