#mindfulness

#mindfulness

Depression can bring out the worst in you, even the parts you didn't know existed until now.It's not an easy road to recovery when we talk about depression.With symptoms such as lack of motivation, lack of pleasure, lack of emotional availability, lack of energy, and more, depression can bring you down every day and leave you with little to no hope of recovery.

We've all heard habits design our life, and they make us what we are.Sometimes it feels like habits help solve life challenges, but if habits start affecting our focus and productivity, then?This is when we need to pay attention to habits that destroy our productivity and change them as they affect our physical health and mental well-being.

Happy Monday, everyone!If you're a pop culture fan you can enjoy the 10th year of Awesome Con this week.If music and movies are your preference, then attend Re:Set DMV, or check out the launch of the first-ever DC/DOX Film Festival.Best Things to Do This Week
June 12-18



Re:Set DMV Festival.A brand new concert series arrives in town for three days of live music, outdoor fan fun, food, and drinks at Merriweather Post Pavilion.

SAN DIEGO - An unexpected call from Roc Nation's sports division came through to Brave Space Alliance early Thursday.Shortly before Chicago Cubs pitcher Marcus Stroman's Pride month posts went live on his social media pages, his agency reached out to the Black- and trans-led LGBTQ+ nonprofit based in Chicago.

1. Counterfactual thinking is the practice of imagining alternative outcomes to a situation that did not actually happen.
2. It can be used to increase cognitive flexibility and help people find more creative solutions to problems.
3. Counterfactual thinking can improve decision-making and resilience by

We've heard how obsessive-compulsive behaviors can create feelings of fear of hurting others or oneself in the throes of one's compulsions and obsessions, however, there's a different (more subtle) type of OCD that can create a different kind (not less intense) type of fear.What I'm talking about is called sensorimotor OCD or hyperawareness OCD.

Every time you feel the urge to check your phone is an opportunity to pause, get curious about your experience, and practice present-moment awareness.Believe it or not, we are checking our phones an average 344 times every day.This might seem almost unfathomable until you bring mindful attention to how often you're eyeballing your email, Twitter, TikTok, finances-the list goes on and on.

Welcome to the world of luxurious outdoor living spaces, where the boundaries between indoor comfort and the stunning outdoors blur into seamless harmony.Whether you envision basking by the sparkling waters of an infinity pool at your Calabasas home or immersing yourself in the magic of an open-air theater at your vacation home in , this guide will empower you to transform your outdoor sanctuary into a haven of opulence.

"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity" - Hippocrates One of the hardest paths to walk in life is the path to healing; the road to recovery.There come many days when it's almost believable that healing is impossible, but for those who haven't given up, healing is a real possibility as long as they let go of their expectations about the healing process and trust that one day, the opportunity to feel whole will arise.

A new study has highlighted how losing just 39 minutes of sleep in a night can impact children.So what can we do to help kids get the best night's sleep possible?As adults, we know just how much sleep affects our ability to go about our daily lives.Following on from those nights where we toss and turn, getting through the next day is a whole lot harder.

Q: I'm a woman in a heterosexual relationship, and my partner always seems to fall asleep faster (and stay asleep longer) than me.What's going on?Do men have an easier time sleeping than women?Trouble falling or staying asleep is common, especially as you age.And for women, research suggests, the difficulties can be even greater.

A greatest-hits soundtrack produced by self-criticism would sound something like this: You should have done better on that project.Why isn't the house cleaner?You tanked the whole soccer game!You're a bad parent, an even worse colleague, and a sorry excuse for a friend.And you're wasting so much time right now that you'll be lateagain.

(Christina House / Los Angeles Times)

An after-school program can make a life-changing difference, but it's not reaching enough students, according to Haziel Gonzalez, a 16-year-old junior at the selective Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.His words embodied the general message at the Friday kickoff for an effort to make high-quality after-school programs widely available across the county.

Welcome to the first installment of Well's five-week newsletter series dedicated to walking tips and inspiration.This week, we're exploring awe walks, outdoor rambles designed to cultivate a sense of amazement.To help, I tapped Dacher Keltner, a professor of psychology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life.

Jessica Hausner is the Austrian director whose elegant, refrigerated style has made her a Cannes favourite and her 2009 film Lourdes, about the ordinary world of miracles, is a 21st-century classic.But her recent move to English-language movies has resulted in some nebulous work in the shape of her 2019 picture Little Joe, and so it has proved again with this exasperating and baffling movie.

Marc Hamer was the gardener, someone who for a portion of each day, over a career's worth of years knelt for hire, often pulling weeds.He knew that his employers in the big house, wine glasses in hand, would look out and see him in his posture of humility and perhaps say, The gardener is here, as if he were nameless and this was his only purpose on earth.

(Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

In the moment, it was the most mundane of plays.In hindsight, it signaled the shift of momentum that was called the tipping point of Game 3 in this second-round NBA playoff series.Fouled by Golden State's Stephen Curry midway through the second quarter with the Lakers trailing by five, LeBron James shot the Lakers' first free throws of the quarter.

A program at the University of California, Irvine, ensures first-generation or underprivileged students are prepared for their lives after college, with a 100 percent graduation rate among its 630 scholars in the program's 24-year history.The Student Achievement Guided by Experience (SAGE) program provides scholars with tools for success, scholarship money and a supportive community to reach their goals during college and after.

Boise State University opened its Micron Student Success Center earlier this year and will formally induct the space in April, offering a consolidation of resources for its engineering students to promote a sense of belonging and create a resource center.The success center will centralize internship, mentoring and advising services, in addition to creating a shared space for current, new and transfer students to engage with one another.

SAN FRANCISCO Donte DiVincenzo was a Stephen Curry hater before this season.It was nothing personal, he assures.It was resentment born from respect.Curry's quickness and skill give even the league's most dogged defenders trouble.It's why teams often double- or triple-team him just to try to slow his roll.