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Chronic Diseases

Letting Go of What Was Once Wonderful

What are some of the things you did in your past that you loved to do that you are no longer able to do?  When it became apparent I could no longer go surfing,  I ...
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

Live Your Best Life

And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been (Rainer Maria Rilke)
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

Can You Think Yourself Well?

One doctor (Lisa Lankin, M.D.) explains how to tap into the power of your mind to feel better—every day.   What if you had the ability to heal your body just by changing how you think ...
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Medication Adherence

Medication Adherence: The Elephant in the Room

According to the World Health Organization Medication adherence can have a more direct impact on improved patient health outcomes than the specific treatment itself.  Non-adherence to treatment regimens and medication therapy has long been recognized ...
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Brain Health

Life is a Succession of Lessons which Must be Lived to be Understood

The words above were written by Helen Keller. Life has often been compared to a game. Unfortunately, we  are not given the rules, nor instructions about how to play. We simply begin at “Go” and ...
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

You Come First so Think Health for A Change!

There is just one life for each of us: Our Own  (Euripides) I wish more people would take time to take good care of themselves  When they neglect their own well-being, we are all drawn ...
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

Ten Tips to help you Make a Health Behavior Change that Sticks

It is time to make health changes you can stick with, based on science.  Focus on one behavior change goal at a time. Focus on one small or attainable change at a time. Once you ...
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Brain Health

Inspire Others

Shortly after 9/11, the poet and author Maya Angelou came to Lincoln center to give a talk. She walked onto center stage and sang—words that inspired us with her vision: “If it looks like the ...
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Uncategorized

Room for Improvement

“The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement.”  Japanese Proverb  We all have something we want to change about ourselves or learn to do.   Usually, in January, people get inspired (again!) to ...
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Courage

Health is Having Courage

Courage does not always ROAR.  It can be the quiet voice at the end of the day telling you that tomorrow is a new beginning… a fresh start. Courage is a skill that can be ...
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Courage

Everyday Inspiration_Think Health For A Change

We believe in home and that our home should restore us from the stresses of the day and ready us for tomorrow. We believe in seeking the balance between hustle and rest and learning to find contentment in both.  We believe in kindness, knowing we are made better when we all work together.  We believe…
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Brain Health

Make Yourself Stronger

More than ever we need qualities like grit, resilience and drive as well as physical power and stamina for a healthy mind and body.   Fortunately. having one can make building all the others easier, research has found. Studies indicate that increasing your physical strength ” allows you to see that you can do difficult things…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Biggest Obstacles To Changing The Standard of Health Care Are The Excuses

Michelangelo had his Pope Julius II, Mozart his Colloredo. But they did not make excuses about the restrictions placed upon them.  They made masterworks that  changed the standards of art and music. In the US healthcare system, the medicines are complex, and the regulations are stifling but using the complexity of our healthcare system as…
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Inspire

Three Cheers for America’s Birthday!

The Pledge of Allegiance just thirty-one words… whether we are aware of it or not, these thirty-one words carved out a place in our hearts—in the shape of a true patriot:  a love of liberty, a defender of faith, a promoter of unity, a champion of peace, a protector of democracy and a guardian on…
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Health lifestyles

For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters

A new study in the journal Global Epidemiology authored by Dr, Brendan Case (Associate Director for Research at Harvard University’s Human Flourishing Program gain and Dr. Ying Chen, research associate),  it makes the case in its findings that married women were more optimistic and had a greater sense of purpose. Their findings’ were striking. The…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Another Medical Revolution Is Under Way

We sometimes forget that, as recently as the 19th century, people suffered through gruesome surgeries without anesthesia. The first part of the 20th century saw only slow progress in clinical medicine. Even by the early 1970s, doctors, for the most part, could only observe the human devastation caused by serious diseases. Physicians had little in…
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Health lifestyles

AWAKENINGS

Spring, a time of awakening. Everything is clear and fragrant. “Live in each season as it passes:  Breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.” Henry David Thoreau Everything has beauty but not everyone sees it. By finding beauty in the ordinary , you can add…
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Behavioral Science Healthcare Solutions

Declutter Your Mind

“If you don’t know what to do with it, or where to put it, or why you ever bought it in the first place, or if looking at it depresses you, throw it out,”  say Leslie Raycraft my friend and CEO of Posh Organizing in Connecticut. According to Gail Blanke, a personal life coach, here…
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Brain Health

It’s Time to BREATHE

Studies have shown that increasing the flow of oxygen to the brain and lungs can help reduce stress and impose endurance.  As we face change in our world, just  a thought  to help you remember to breathe.
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Brain Health

Hope, Wish and Dream DAILY!

Record your holy cow revelations.  Answer the big “why not?” questions. Make your own life…in dreams there are no impossibilities. Capture new ideas that encourage you to press on regardless.  Expand on those magical callings that give your heart wings.  Celebrate the dreamer in you. Life is the grand adventure and only a life worth…
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