The mind and body share a strong link - our mind comes out of our body's many movements, impulses, and chemical reactions. Literal movement from our muscles, to the hormones that surge through our body all play a part. Of course, how we eat impacts our thought and emotion! I always love simpler tips to healthy eating.
The Environmental Working Group has put forward its recent Good Food on a Tight Budget guide. EWG's webpage gives a number of helpful guides for healthy living all worth consideration.
The mobile technology innovation continues to permeate into our lives -- like most things -- it's a double edged sword. We have information at our fingertips at the cost of unsolicited information flooding our lives and minds and a loss of privacy.
Journaling provides a great opportunity to get thoughts out of the head, on paper, no longer bouncing around in your head. Someone pointed out to me recently that there are now great apps to keep journals. When the caveat to writing a journal has always been to make sure it can be kept safe from others' eyes, apps provide even greater security for our private thoughts. Here are a few mobile apps just for journaling:
myMemoir (iPad)
iJournaler (iPad)
There are many other mobile apps that provide some bona fide benefits to our mental health:
Stress Test & CBT Self-Help (Android)
Let Panic Go (iPad/iPhone)
The mind and body share a strong link - our mind comes out of our body's many movements, impulses, and chemical reactions. Literal movement from our muscles, to the hormones that surge through our body all play a part. Of course, how we eat impacts our thought and emotion! I always love simpler tips to healthy eating.
