stress
Stressed? Of course you are. That said, you can be a better friend to yourself by being a better friend to yourself. A study published in Brain, Behaviour, and Immunity, found that self-compassion may be helpful in lowering one’s stress. Researchers had forty-one participants rate their levels of self-compassion by … Read More
We love video games as much as the next guy—or maybe more than the next guy—but if there’s one thing they won’t do, it’s reduce stress. Neither do movies, TV, or other media. According to a study published in the Journal of Communication, high stressed people who play video games … Read More
Stress makes you shoot blanks, predisposes you to mental health problems, and, it’s been known for awhile, is related to heart attacks. Now, we know why. A study published in Nature Medicine has found that stress pushes the immune system into overdrive, inflaming critical arteries near the heart. If those … Read More
Stress is killing you—so how do you reduce it, quickly? According to a study published in Psychoneuroendocinology, you may need as little as twenty-five minutes of mindfulness meditation a day to reduce stress—which is handy, because it also improves your decision making and cures wandering attention. Researchers had sixty-six healthy … Read More
If you’re a modern worker, you know what burnout is—hell, you may have experienced it—and if you haven’t, we can only assume that you’re a government accountant. In case you are and happen to be reading this in between uselessly using the copy/paste function in Excel instead of applying the … Read More
