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How to Meditate ─ 10 Tips to Calm Your Mind

Health Facts, Healthy Living

Society keeps moving fast; it is a struggle to keep up. Sometimes, it is easy to get carried away with the running around that comes with smashing your goals, other times, the weight of the things you have to do in a day keeps you in bed a few hours more. With these activities, it is inevitable that your mind may start to run on its own accord. Having control over your mind is the best achievement you can get because your mental health has a lot to do with the results you produce. You can determine your pace and feel more like yourself through meditation. Meditation is a useful exercise for maintaining mental health because it brings peace of mind and clarity. It can be used to build the mental strength to overcome grief, reduce stress, or manage anger. It is also a good way to prepare yourself for the day’s pressure. However, meditation is not an easy practice so without proper guidance, it can be difficult and unyielding. If this is your category, here are tips to help you calm your mind: 1. Prepare a suitable environment Meditation is not an activity that you can do at any place […]

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It’s Getting Harder to Imagine a PPE-Free Medical Environment

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Much of the discussion surrounding the coronavirus pandemic deals with the here and now. What do we need to do now to prevent people from getting sick? What do we do about schools and sporting events? All the short-term discussion is absolutely necessary. Yet the long-term effects of coronavirus will become short-term at some point. For example, the virus has had such a profound impact on our collective psyche that it is getting hard to imagine a medical environment that is ever free of routine personal protective equipment (PPE) again. It seems like this might be one of those things that can never be put back now that it has been let out. Prior to coronavirus, you could go to your doctor’s office and never see: ● face masks ● latex gloves ● isolation gowns ● transparent face shields. It is not that these things are bad or were never used. They are good and they were used. But their use in routine medicine was so limited that you could visit the doctor several times per year and never see them being worn by staff. Those days may be permanently over. Fear Is Hard to Overcome Fear is a complex […]

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