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While we may have been taught in school to sit down and listen to external sources, as we gain maturity we need to sit down and listen to our own internal guidance, our internal wisdom. This week, we reflect on taking charge of our life... moving away from living our life according to internal critics and internal oppressors, sexism, trauma, etc. We reconnect with our inner power to create the life we envision for ourselves and for the world at large... one where communication is from the heart and based on human-kindness, rather than from bullying or anger.
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NEW ARTICLES THIS WEEK
Taking Charge of Our Life: Healing from the Inside Out
Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
We are all in need of healing in one form or another. Whether that healing is emotional, physical, financial, or spiritual depends on each one of us, and probably even on what day or time it is, or even on how we look at it. We are a work in progress, and we continue to build and refine what is already there.
Taking Charge of Our Life from the Inside Out (Video)
Releasing the Stranglehold of the Internal Oppressor
Stacee L. Reicherzer PhD, author of The Healing Otherness Handbook
It feels good to heal from damaging messages that you are “less than.” As this happens, you strengthen the voice that says, “You are so much better than this mess you were handed.” You become better at recognizing your boundaries and gain the ability to say “No.”
The Do's and Don'ts of Meditation and Trauma
Marianne Bentzen, author of Neuroaffective Meditation
Some people who have survived severe and ongoing trauma report that in their darkest hours they found the deepest resource—an unshakable feeling of great meaning, or a sense of...
What To Do If You See or Hear Casual Racism or Sexism at Work
Kelly McDonald, author of It's Time to Talk about Race at Work
You’ve probably heard people at work say something that was racist, sexist, demeaning, or offensive, even if it wasn’t directed at you. You may not have said anything or done anything about it, because, when it comes to work, it can be hard to speak up.
How To Deal with The Ups and Downs of Caregiving
Judith Johnson, author of Making Peace with Death and Dying
There were times when my mother's needs felt like a bottomless pit and an endless parade of critical events. In spite of how much I loved my mother, I often felt overwhelmed and trapped.
How To Deal with The Ups and Downs of Caregiving (Video)
Creating Awesome Relationships and Valentine Gifts that Don't Cost a Cent
Jude Bijou, author of Attitude Reconstruction
To create a truly lovely Valentine's month and build more joy, love, and peace in your life, I offer you ten tips for building and sustaining good personal and intimate relationships. This article full of numbers is followed by eight Valentine gifts that don't cost any money and blatantly show your love.
How Romance Expands Your Competence and Capabilities
Gary W. Lewandowski Jr., Monmouth University
When who you are as a person expands, you enhance your competence and capabilities and increase your ability to meet new challenges and accomplish new goals.
How To Revive That Spark In Your Long-term Relationship?
Sarah Gomillion, University of Aberdeen
At the beginning of a romantic relationship, passion is not in short supply. The thrills of learning all about your beloved, sharing new experiences, and having plenty of sex, create an exhilarating state of desire and romantic love. In fact, a number of scientific studies have shown that this kind of love.
The Origin Of Our Sense Of Privacy Is Not New
Laura Brandimarte, Univ. of Arizona and Alessandro Acquisti, Carnegie Mellon Univ.
Many people think of privacy as a modern invention, an anomaly made possible by the rise of urbanization. If that were the case, then acquiescing to the current erosion of privacy might not be particularly alarming.
What If Your Freedom Hinders My Freedom?
Gerald Walton, Lakehead University
The one-word rallying cry — freedom — is the activist mantra. Who could be against freedom? But let’s take stock of the freedom that some have exercised during the ongoing rally...
How Early Menopause Diagnosis Changed Who I Felt I Was
Rhonda Garad and Amanda Vincent, Monash University
Around 10% of women – including many who believe they have the prospect having children ahead of them – are suddenly told they are at the end of their fertile life, and at greater risk of diseases normally associated with middle age.
How Long Does The Omicron Virus Last On Surfaces
Hassan Vally, Deakin University
One of the many challenges over the course of the past two years has been in understanding the importance of the different routes of transmission of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID.
Does China Meet or Miss Its Climate Change Targets?
Phillip Stalley, DePaul University
China has more solar power capacity than any other country and makes many of the world’s solar cells, but coal is still its top energy source.
How Cockiness and Risk Tolerance Add To The Gender Wage Gap
Rich Barlow, Boston University
New research finds men’s risk tolerance and overconfidence play a role in the gender wage gap.
What Is Legitimate Political Discourse?
Jennifer Mercieca, Texas A&M Univ. and Timothy J. Shaffer, Kansas State Univ.
When persuasion stops and violence begins, that’s the line between ‘legitimate political discourse’ and something very different
What Effect Placebos Have On The Body And Mind
Elissa H. Patterson and Hans Schroder, University of Michigan
Did you ever feel your own shoulders relax when you saw a friend receive a shoulder massage? For those of you who said “yes,” congratulations, your brain is using its power to create a “placebo effect.”
How Your Brain Compensates For Eating Animals
Sarah Gradidge and Magdalena Zawisza, Anglia Ruskin University
Most people eat meat and dairy with little thought of the consequences. Yet those consequences are planetary in scale.
Treating Illness Or Injury Of Others May Not Be Uniquely Human
Alexander Piel, UCL and Fiona Stewart, Liverpool John Moores University
In their new study published in the journal Current Biology, researchers have described how they saw Rekambo chimpanzees applying insects to their own open wounds, and, even more amazingly, to the wounds of other community members too.
5 Things To Consider Before Getting A Dog
Ineke van Herwijnen and Claudia Vinke, Utrecht University
As we move towards spring maybe you’re thinking of taking the leap, and welcoming a dog into your home. Living with a canine friend has many positive health benefits...
How Black Upward Mobility Fast-tracked Racial Desegregation In Johannesburg
Owen Crankshaw, University of Cape Town
Scholars disagree about whether the formerly whites-only neighbourhoods of Johannesburg, South Africa’s largest and most economically important city, have become substantially desegregated since the end of apartheid in 1994...
Teachers Show How Toxic Positivity Can Make You Sick
Saul Karnovsky and Brad Gobby, Curtin University
Teachers said their workloads were “massive”. Their work-life balance was “less than ideal or non-existent”. They felt “overworked, burnt out and undervalued”.
Can Antihistamines Relieve Long Covid-19 Symptoms?
Pat Harriman, University of California, Irvine
Patients tell us they wish more than anything that they could work and do the most basic activities they used to before they got sick with long COVID. They are desperately searching for something to help them get back on their feet...
How Disasters Thousands Of Miles Away Can Trigger PTSD In Kids
Jonathan S. Comer and Anthony Steven Dick, Florida International University
Our latest research uses brain scans to show how simply watching news coverage of disasters can raise childen’s anxiety and trigger responses in their brains that put them at risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms.
How Changing Your Diet Could Add Ten Years To Your Life
Laura Brown, Teesside University
Everyone wants to live longer. And we’re often told that the key to doing this is making healthier lifestyle choices, such as exercising, avoiding smoking and not drinking too much alcohol.
Distrust In Government Has Long Been Part Of Republicans’ Playbook
Amy Fried, University of Maine and Douglas B. Harris, Loyola University Maryland
It’s the latest step in a long-standing, systemic effort of the Republican Party to sow and capitalize on public distrust.
Many Indonesian Women Want To Pursue Higher Education, But Structural Barriers Remain
Fitri Hariana Oktaviani , Universitas Brawijaya, et al
Pursuing master’s and doctoral degrees may help people improve their careers and help bring about changes in society, ranging from human rights protection, environmental conservation and gender equality to religious, racial and cultural solidarity.
The Art And Science Of Enjoying Exercise In The Cold
Jane Thornton, Western University
Let’s face it: When most of us see the temperature outside fall to minus double digits, our first instinct isn’t to gleefully run outside.
What We Can Learn From Past Civil Rights Movements
Anthony Siracusa, University of Colorado Boulder
With Congress failing to pass new voting rights legislation, it’s worth remembering that throughout U.S. history, new civil rights laws designed to end racial inequities across American life have been met by stubborn resistance.
How The Future Means Not Giving In To Covid-19 Now
Karen Mossman and Matthew S Miller, McMaster University
It’s understandable that after two years, everyone is tired of being afraid, staying home, wearing masks and queueing up for rounds of vaccines and tests.
How To Use Stress To Boost Your Wellbeing
Paul Mansell, University of Birmingham
Almost everyone wants to know how to reduce stress. After all, stress can have many negative effects on both our physical and mental health.
Horoscope: Week of February 14 - 20, 2022
Pam Younghans, NorthPoint Astrology
In addition to our Leo Snow Moon, which occurs on Wednesday, February 16, at 8:57 a.m. PST, we have two other significant astrological events this week: an exact Venus-Mars conjunction on Wednesday and a Jupiter-Uranus sextile on Thursday. Lots to talk about today!
Additional Videos Posted to YouTube this week
Some of these videos have been available on InnerSelf.com, but are now accessible on YouTube. Please help support InnerSelf by visiting our YouTube channel and subscribing.
Finding Silver Linings and Rainbows
What Getting Old Really Feels Like For Some
The Roads Both Taken
Pleasure: The Medicine of Sensing and Being Here Now
Cultivating Neutrality and Creating Your Reality
Where Do We Go From Here?
Can You Dance Away Your Anxiety, Depression and Deeper Psychological Wounds?
Why A Black Woman With Harvard Credentials Is Still a Black Woman
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