Mental health
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How can Taiji and Qigong helps in everyday life?
Taiji and Qigong are relaxation techniques and can be good for general body strengthening. It become more and more popular. A recent meta-analysis has now shown that it can also significantly increase the quality of life in cancer patients.
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How to prevent dementia?
Worldwide, around 30 million people suffer from dementia. And by 2050 this number is will be triple. However, many cases of dementia can be prevented by simple rules of life.
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Conscious and the unconscious – Who controls whom?
“The ego is not master in its own house” – Sigmund Freud’s famous dictum. The generally known how much our actions and thinking is controlled by unconscious processes. But apparently our unconscious awareness also can be checked.
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What more effective against insomnia: acupuncture or drugs?
More and more people suffer from insomnia. Many of them then start to use medicines. But acupuncture can eliminate sleep problems better and gentler.
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Can mindfulness meditation reduce social anxiety?
Mindfulness meditation helps to reduce negative emotions, and help focus your attention on things which you choose. This means it can also contribute to reducing social anxiety, as a study has shown now.
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Did hypnosis helps for insomnia?
More and more people suffer from sleep disorders. The new opportunity to sleeping pills and it’s usually the worst way. Instead, help various relaxation techniques – including hypnosis.
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St. John’s Wort – herb against melancholy
St. John’s wort is one of the most researched medicinal plants and now known as an effective drug in mild transitory depressive disorders. Since ancient times, the plant is used to treat many different ailments. Used externally, the red oil produced from the flowers to bring about with minor burns, sprains, bruises or rheumatic pains relief, to name just a few areas of application.
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Symptoms of depression
The opposite of joy is not sorrow but emptiness. If nothing more fun or interest awakens, one constantly feels exhausted and the idea of ever being happy again, is infinitely far away, you have met all the typical symptoms of a depressive disorder and should be treated quickly.
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Spring fever – what works best?
No sooner are the days get longer and the first flowers poke their heads out of the ground, many people start to feel an unexplained fatigue. Without real reason they feel dejected and listless. Everything just my imagination, or does our body really struggling with the spring?