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Step Forward Into Growth—Rethink Your Health
By Marilyn Shreve
“You will either step forward into growth or will step back into safety.” Abraham Maslow Think Health for A Change is a “call to action” for each of you. Integrating positive health choices into each ...
Continue Reading Brain Exercises Can Keep You Mentally Sharp
By Marilyn Shreve
The brain is involved in everything we do and, like any other part of the body it needs to be cared for. According to Healthline’s Sara Lindberg: “Research has shown that there are many ways ...
Continue Reading Health is… Being Clear on What You Really Want
By Marilyn Shreve
It is very hard to change a habit, even a small one. Let us say I wanted to change something—anything. I would need to post reminders on the mirror. When I caught myself doing it ...
Continue Reading HealtheGoals—Rethinking Your Health
By Marilyn Shreve
Simply prescribing medication and lifestyle changes and expecting a person to comply with these instructions does not assure health improvement. Achieving improved patient health outcomes can require much more than gentle reminders to take a ...
Continue Reading Be Happy At Home
By Marilyn Shreve
There’s No Place Like Home (Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz) Your lifetime is primarily enjoyed in your home. Where else can you be happier than in the privacy of the environment you created and ...
Continue Reading Science Says: MOVE MORE
By Marilyn Shreve
According to a recent study, short spurts of physical activity can make a big difference. Researchers estimated that more than 110,000 deaths could be prevented each year if US adults ages 40-85 added 10 minutes ...
Continue Reading How To Save A life
By Marilyn Shreve
What if you could save a life—or even three—in just an hour? You can, by giving blood. Every two seconds in the U.S., trauma survivors, cancer patients, people with chronic diseases and many others need ...
Continue Reading An Energetic Walk is No Silly Workout
By Marilyn Shreve
Intensifying your fitness routine could come from the simplest change possible: how you put one foot in front of the other. Walking with more “push” can burn as many calories as higher-impact activities such as ...
Continue Reading Find Your Exercise Inspiration
By Marilyn Shreve
Having a workout routine you like isn’t just fun—it helps keep you coming back for more. If you are still trying to find your exercise groove, try one (or more) of these ideas: ENJOY THE ...
Continue Reading The Future of Wireless WELLNESS is Now
By Marilyn Shreve
Marilyn Standifer Shreve is a pioneer in using technology-assisted healthcare to expand the clinician’s voice and reach beyond the walls of traditional practice settings and into a patient’s everyday life. In the past few ...
Continue Reading Everyday Inspiration_Think Health For A Change
By Marilyn Shreve
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…
Continue Reading Make Yourself Stronger
By Marilyn Shreve
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…
Continue Reading The Biggest Obstacles To Changing The Standard of Health Care Are The Excuses
By Marilyn Shreve
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…
Continue Reading Three Cheers for America’s Birthday!
By Marilyn Shreve
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…
Continue Reading For Long-Term Health and Happiness, Marriage Still Matters
By Marilyn Shreve
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…
Continue Reading Another Medical Revolution Is Under Way
By Marilyn Shreve
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…
Continue Reading AWAKENINGS
By Marilyn Shreve
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…
Continue Reading Declutter Your Mind
By Marilyn Shreve
“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…
Continue Reading It’s Time to BREATHE
By Marilyn Shreve
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.
Continue Reading Hope, Wish and Dream DAILY!
By Marilyn Shreve
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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