In the past two episodes, we have been looking at what can cause a good or bad attitude and the effects of attitude on other people. In today’s episode of the Weird Is Great podcast we examine how your attitude can impact your own life for good or bad, and how you can change your [...]
Emotional health
Figuring out how to change your attitude can be a hellish kind of soul search. After all, your attitude is largely based on past experiences, and if you have had mostly bad ones – or mostly bad ones in a particular area of life – getting a new attitude is a kin to ripping out [...]
Converting a negative attitude to a positive one may be a great anger management tool. But your attitude does more than influence your emotions. The effect of attitude on the people around you can not only harm their well-being but also stifle their forward movement. How do you know if you have a bad attitude? [...]
In this episode of the Weird Is Great Podcast, we start looking at the importance of a positive attitude and how it relates to your success. Note the word “success.” Most people think of it in terms of wealth, financial or material. If that’s so, it would seem that it’s possible to have a bad [...]
How to reduce stress? In the past two episodes of Weird Is Great, we talked about what stress is, what causes it, and its symptoms. We delved into two of the worst effects stress has on the body physically – essentially, getting rid of stress is equivalent to finding a cure for cancer! In this [...]
The symptoms of stress are many and varied, and getting it under control may be a crucial part of an anger management program. In today’s episode of the Weird Is Great podcast, I explain: what stress is; various symptoms; and the two major ways stress affects your physical health. How stress is sabotaging your success [...]
Treatment for manic depression, or bipolar disorder, does not have to mean toxic drugs or expensive psychiatric sessions. This mental illness, affecting an estimated seventeen million people in the United States, is characterized by bouts of clinical depression followed by a period when the person feels elated and over-confident. This leads to behaviors like overspending, [...]
To declutter your home is a cancer cure? Well, even I think that’s a bit of a stretch, but the fact is, a cluttered home can be a cause of stress, and the more stress you have, the more open you are to getting all manner of illness and disease. So if your home has [...]
Eucalyptus oil is one of the staples for a natural health medicine cabinet. But be sure to have the radiata type on hand, as this is the one lowest in camphor and thus the least toxic and safest for children. (It is the globolus variety that is usually sold.) What makes this product so great? [...]
Reducing stress is key to healthy living, and there are many ways to reduce stress, including better nutrition, more exercise, managing thoughts and emotions and simplifying life. But one of the simplest ways of decreasing stress levels is little-thought of in today’s gotta-have-it-now society. That method is being prepared. “Prepared for what?” Ever had a [...]