Mental Health Archives - calm canada https://calmcanada.com/category/mental-health/ Exploring modern mindfulness and mental health without the fluff Mon, 25 May 2020 22:37:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://calmcanada.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/cropped-finelogo-32x32.png Mental Health Archives - calm canada https://calmcanada.com/category/mental-health/ 32 32 Practicing Mindfulness – Beyond Buzzwords https://calmcanada.com/mindfulness-and-mindful-practice/ https://calmcanada.com/mindfulness-and-mindful-practice/#respond Sun, 05 Jan 2020 22:55:24 +0000 https://calmcanada.com/?p=828 How do you practice mindfulness? And what is it, anyway? Take a deep breath, inhaling for as long as you exhale. Do it again, inhale and exhale, taking notice of how the air feels in your nose and throat. If you followed along with that paragraph, consider yourself a more mindful individual than you were […]

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]]> https://calmcanada.com/mindfulness-and-mindful-practice/feed/ 0 A Delicious Strategy for Better Self-Control https://calmcanada.com/better-self-control/ https://calmcanada.com/better-self-control/#respond Tue, 06 Aug 2019 22:52:00 +0000 https://calmcanada.com/?p=819 Poor self-control, or lack of discipline, is one of the most common and burdensome traits that modern people wind up with. I feel confident saying that because I’ve been in a lifelong grappling match with self-discipline and regularly find myself pinned. Those pin attempts often look like afternoons spent staring blankly at a page while […]

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]]> https://calmcanada.com/better-self-control/feed/ 0 How to control fight or flight anxiety https://calmcanada.com/fight-or-flight-anxiety/ https://calmcanada.com/fight-or-flight-anxiety/#comments Wed, 26 Jun 2019 22:51:14 +0000 https://calmcanada.com/?p=801 It’s a late-night and you’re shutting the lights off in the unused part of your home. You have to pass a dark, exposed window to get to the bedroom, and realizing this sends a nervous zap up your spine that urges you to bolt for safety as you approach the vulnerability. Does that sound familiar? […]

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]]> https://calmcanada.com/fight-or-flight-anxiety/feed/ 1 When Your Anxiety Means Memory Loss https://calmcanada.com/anxiety-memory-loss/ https://calmcanada.com/anxiety-memory-loss/#respond Fri, 08 Mar 2019 23:28:06 +0000 http://calmcanada.com/?p=780 Around 30% of people have anxiety disorders and everybody on the planet experiences some kind of stress. Everyone also experiences some memory loss and an increase in blank moments as we age. But imagine being in your 20s or 30s and honestly searching keywords like ‘early dementia symptoms’ or ‘how young can Alzheimer’s present?’

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