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Orthotics
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, What You Wear
Your feet are the base that your body stands on. If your feet are weak or have structural problems, this can lead to problems in your knees, hips and low back, and can even cause headaches. Many people wear orthotics because they are good for their feet, but orthotics are even more important for those
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Personal Trainer
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
Another great way to get results is to make sure you are getting expert advice and supervision. A personal trainer is a great way to ensure that you are exercising safely and effectively to accomplish your goal. All exercise is not the same; some people want to build more muscle mass, some people want
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Power Plate
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
The Power Plate's Advanced Vibration Technology is the most innovative health and fitness tool in the industry today. Backed by over 40 years of scientific research, vibration training enables you to achieve a higher level of fitness faster than traditional methods. The Power Plate produces a vibration
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Resistance Bands/Weights
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
In order to keep your muscles strong, you must stress them by resistance training. Dumbbell weights or resistance bands are great ways to strengthen your muscles. Resistance bands are great because they are easy to travel with. Take them on your next business trip and you won't miss a workout wherever
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Videos, Books, & Internet
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
With today's technology there really is no good excuse not to stretch and exercise properly. You can check out exercise videos for free at the local library, rent them from video stores or access free information online. You can even purchase exercise, yoga and pilates programs to download onto your
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Wrist Metabolism Monitor
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Essentials, Exercise
If you are a gadget junkie, a professional athlete or just like to have the most advanced new technology, you'll want the Suunto t6. It is a wristwatch that calculates your heart rate, energy consumption, ventilation, oxygen consumption (VO2), respiratory rate, Training Effect and EPOC (Excess Post-Exercise
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Advanced Citizenry
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Others Well
Being an advanced citizen means that you dedicate some of your time, your thoughts and your perspectives to a cause that you believe in. This may be something as simple as volunteering a few hours every month to visit with senior citizens in the local nursing home, perhaps becoming a mentor to a child,
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Love Others
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Treat Others Well
Although you may have never seen a doctor write a prescription for daily doses of "love," best selling authors such as Deepak Chopra M.D., Bernie Siegal M.D., and Dean Ornish M.D. all write about the healing properties of love. Dr. Ornish says, "love may be the greatest of all disease-fighters, and it's
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Read the Labels
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Lifestyle Tips, Eat Well
Just about every packaged food made in the U.S. has a food label indicating serving size and other nutritional information.
Learning how to read food labels is like looking at a prescription for your health and your life. We recommend looking for red-flag ingredients- if a Hall of Shame ingredient is
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Identity
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Spiritual
The big distinction about wellness psychology is that it is largely a manifestation of your identity, who you believe yourself to be. If you consider yourself a well person, it goes a long way toward producing well habits and a well mind. Your identity is your self image, your self concept, your beliefs
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Personality
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Physical
Healthy people express themselves consistent with their personality types, so there is a wide spectrum of normal behaviors that could contribute to achieving wellness.
The technical end of wellness psychology encourages normal responses to the challenges of life, rather than just treating mental and
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Quality Of Life
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Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Social
Our own values and beliefs will shape our definition of a great quality of life. A well person or family seeks to live consistently with their own meaning for living well.
The most obvious and desirable benefit of a well mind is a better quality of life, which of course is determined by each individual's
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Relationships
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Social
Sharing and committing to support each other's values calms rocky waters and sets the stage for happiness and growth in relationships.
While you can't be responsible for someone else's behaviors and values, you can help to create an environment that makes relationships work better. Gaining and maintaining
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Spirituality
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Spiritual
Appreciating religious values and spiritual beliefs can help form a solid foundation of wellness in your life.
No discussion of wellness psychology would be complete without mentioning the impact of spirituality on wellness. Appreciating religious values and spiritual beliefs can help to form a solid
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Wellness Psychology
Category:
Health & Wellness, Wellness Perspectives, Mental
Is this glass of water half empty or half full? Wellness psychology would definitely indicate the latter.
Wellness psychology is the study of mental and emotional wellness - in other words, the way to create conditions of thinking and feeling that are consistent with healthy living.
Wellness psychology
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Chiropractic Objective
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About Chiropractic Care, How Does it Work
What truly differentiates doctors of chiropractic from any other healthcare professionals is the fact that chiropractors are the only professionals who are trained to diagnose and treat what are called spinal subluxations. The word "subluxation" comes from the Latin words meaning "somewhat or slight"
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