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6 best exercises for mental health

6 best exercises for mental health

When it comes to exercise, the physical benefits are well-documented, from lowering blood pressure and your risk of some diseases to improving your physical...

How Gratitude Can Help With Students’ Anxiety

How Gratitude Can Help With Students’ Anxiety

Students and educators have started a new school year in the midst of a pandemic, an economic crisis, a reckoning with racial injustice, and a divisive political climate....

World Mental Health Day: 8 simple ways nature can improve your wellbeing - Silversurfers

World Mental Health Day: 8 simple ways nature can improve your wellbeing - Silversurfers

From the clean scent of trees and grass and the feel of the warm sun on your face, to a view that takes your breath away – there’s no doubt that the natural world can make you...

Self-Compassionate Letter (Greater Good in Action)

Self-Compassionate Letter (Greater Good in Action)

15 minutes. Try to do this practice once per week, or at least once per month. How to Do It First, identify something about yourself that makes you feel ashamed, insecure, or...

8 Common Signs That You're Deficient in Vitamins

8 Common Signs That You're Deficient in Vitamins

A well-balanced and nutritious diet has many benefits. On the other hand, a diet lacking in nutrients may cause a variety of unpleasant symptoms. These symptoms are your body’s...

7 Steps to Enhance Your Digital Wellness

7 Steps to Enhance Your Digital Wellness

We are surrounded by technology, day in and day out, and studies are finding that being constantly plugged in can have serious mental and physiological health effects. In fact,...

The Best Health and Wellness Habits from the Pros

The Best Health and Wellness Habits from the Pros

Health and wellness is at the top of most people’s minds right now. The pandemic has caused many of us to take a long, hard look at our health—both physical and emotional—and...

Why the Key to Savoring the Moment is Doing Less - Mindful

Why the Key to Savoring the Moment is Doing Less - Mindful

Anxiety about the unknown can change the pace and intensity of our lives. Here’s how doing less for its own sake can be simple and transformative. There is an old story of a...

The tension between intense commitment and physical, emotional, and interpersonal well-being

The tension between intense commitment and physical, emotional, and interpersonal well-being

Around Thanksgiving, the ceiling light that illuminates most of my apartment burned out. I still haven’t replaced it. Instead, I use the flashlight app on my phone to get...

Peak Anxiety? Here Are 10 Ways to Calm Down

Peak Anxiety? Here Are 10 Ways to Calm Down

Continue reading the main story Peak Anxiety? Here Are 10 Ways to Calm Down If the one-two punch of pandemic stress and election stress feels like more than you can handle, try...

Nature shows us how important circadian rhythm is to our overall well-being

Nature shows us how important circadian rhythm is to our overall well-being

Nature demonstrates the importance of circadian rhythm to organisms’ overall well-being in the latest issue of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...

For a More Empathic World, People Have to Choose Empathy

For a More Empathic World, People Have to Choose Empathy

In the late 1990s, Najah Bazzy, a nurse in Dearborn, Michigan, made a house call to an Iraqi refugee family to check on their premature baby. When she arrived, she was shocked...