Articles about Developing Healthy Habits

The right kind of food can offer benefits for brain health including an increase in cognitive function, a reduction in inflammation, and a lower risk of dementia and strokes.

Find out how certain food and ingredients interact with fertility, pregnancy, menopause, hormones, and overall wellbeing for women.

If you find yourself ruminating on negative thoughts or comparisons, try these exercises to pull you back into reality.

Going vegan is not only good for the planet, it has a host of health benefits for your heart, gut, and immunity.

Integrate one or more of these practices into your daily routine to reap all the benefits of healthy sleep — starting tonight.

Dive deep into the best spices for gut health, their nutritional backgrounds, and how they contribute to better digestion.

Looking for more energy and nutrition throughout the day? Healthy snacks can offer a delightful, and surprising, avenue towards wellness.

Bringing the quality of mindfulness into any activity is a good way to start your meditation practice.

Resolutions declare what you want to start, while goals take action toward a desired future.

It can be difficult to focus or enjoy life when you’re feeling anxious. These practices can help quiet a racing mind.

Need slumber support? If you want to sleep better, find out what healthy foods can make for a more restful night.

Knowing your strengths and weaknesses will allow you to make lifestyle adjustments needed to stay productive.

While everyone has a unique personal rhythm, many may benefit from a midday rest period when feeling fatigued.

With tons of books, podcasts, and articles promising to reinvent your morning, know which routine is right for you.

Being a child is not easy. School and peer pressure are leading to mental health issues among kids. Meditation and mindfulness can help them manage their emotions.

Giving back is an essential ethic — everyone can and must give back, in whatever way they can.

It’s time to reimagine how we look at habit building and consider shaking up routines with some help from the experts.

We need to change our daily food habits to do our bit in saving the planet.

We see meditation as not just a healthy habit, but as one of few enablers of building healthy mental and behavioral habits.

With homeworking expected to remain commonplace for many — even as the pandemic recedes — executives recommend habits that can promote healthy bursts of work, and leave enough time for rest.

While there is no cure for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS), yoga is an effective and proven way of dealing with its effects. Read on to know more.

Encourage your employees to stop slouching and have a straight posture by avoiding text-neck, investing in an ergonomic workstation, and shifting positions often.

Don’t let remote working ruin your employees’ physical wellbeing. By introducing walking meetings, virtual yoga sessions and encouraging a balanced diet, you can push them to stay active at home.

Make remote working more productive through flexible schedules, creating an organized workspace, socializing and maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

By building trust, listening to your employees, and encouraging collaboration and work-life balance, leaders can create a stress-free environment at work.

The RoundGlass Wellbeing at Work Survey 2019-20 suggests a majority of organizations are not doing enough to promote mental wellbeing at work. Here’s how your organization can destigmatize mental wellbeing.

Wellness champions in the workplace are integral to understanding the needs of your employees and ensure the success of your wellbeing program.

How is your work-life balance? Answer these questions to see for yourself.

Virtual teams are here to stay in the midst of this unprecedented COVID-19 pandemic. Learn how a successful virtual team stays socially connected.

Meditation can even improve the quality and duration of sleep as much as a sleeping pill.

Many compare wandering thoughts to clouds – watch them as you would watch the clouds, passing over and impermanent.

Much has been made of yoga's mental and emotional benefits, but what are its physical virtues?

Call out smells and sensations to get your kids excited about paying attention to their meals.

A central theme of the practice is to create a balanced lifestyle that supports energy flow in the body for wholistic health.

Winter solstice reminds us to honor taking time to slow down, and release what is no longer serving us.

We shouldn't think of meditation as something to do in our spare time, but as a constant state of being that gives us more spare time.

To move away from habits and compulsions, and toward awareness, we must chart our body’s day-to-day requirements.

There are many different kinds of yoga out there. In this article, I set out to explore their different benefits.

Fitness and exercise are more than just a health pastime: they’re part of a lifestyle.

Being mindful of your carbon footprint can enhance both your own wellbeing and that of the planet.

'When we are not appreciating and enjoying, we then tend to think more of quantity rather than the quality of food.'

Starting small with a 30-second practice sends a powerful message to the brain that we can quiet our thoughts briefly.

'Breath control is the most effective way to control our stress, and regulate the stress response when we're reactive.'

Being twenty-something is prime-time to understand your mind and heart, and to undo any intergenerational trauma.

Not surprisingly, diaphragmatic breathing slows the heartbeat and lowers or stabilizes blood pressure.

Don’t let being inside or the busyness of the day keep you from getting your daily dose of the natural world.

Feeling dull or disconnected is a byproduct of the overdrive and hyperactive states we often find ourselves in.

Mindful pauses allow you to experience brief moments of beauty or intensity you may have been too distracted to notice.

One of the remarkable things about mantra is it does deep work on you, but not in a flashy way. It’s steady and consistent.

Creating better outcomes isn’t just about visualizing a situation; it’s also about being your best self.

I was always aware of my intuition, but I did not always have the wherewithal to act on it before practicing Kundalini yoga.

It took a cancer diagnosis, lots of inner work, and a lifestyle change to help me realize I needed to cultivate self-love.

It wasn't that she changed at all; I just saw her very differently, with the help of loving-kindness.

Meditation as a to-do item becomes rooted in a wrong view of our fundamental human nature, inherent goodness.

A group atmosphere or 1:1 coaching can help you move past emotional blocks to reap the rewards of meditation 24/7.

The students learned to be better citizens and I learned to be a better educator.

Accepting everything as is, was a pathway to acceptance and peace within myself.

A meditation teacher suggests certain activities to bolster a mindful existence.

Sometimes being mindless can help us arrive at deeper mindfulness — and a deeper mind.

The ability to be comfortable in my skin and to show up for my life daily has allowed me to be more fulfilled.

As we get more experienced with meditation, it allows us to reap more of the benefits, outweighing the discomfort.

The best preparation for meditation is cultivating joy, which leads to openness and receptivity.

If there's one thing I like to teach, it's compassion as our natural way of being.

A playful attitude keeps us going given the repetitive nature of meditation.

We all have different personalities, and our minds work in various ways.

At first, you'll likely have enthusiasm, but that can give way to discomfort. Stick with it, though, and you'll be richly rewarded.

While most of my friends hated figures, I fell in love with the quiet along with the sense of feeling focused.

Get used to being with yourself and fighting off the urge to stop because your mind is going to tell you it's not working.

Cultivating a state of being that allows me to connect and feel deeply adds a richness to life.

If we allow ourselves the luxury of having a lie-in on workdays, we'll develop a bad habit.

It's from high vibrational state that clarity, opportunity, synchronicities and joy enter your life.

Focusing on the present can change your entire perspective.

I was searching for hope, for something to help with anxiety. Then, my life improved with a gratitude experiment.

What is meditation exactly? Many people have an idea but struggle to explain it.