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Combating the Five Kinds of Fake Hunger: A Playbook for Victory
Fake hunger is very different from real hunger. We’re often manipulated into feeling extremely hungry even at odd times. In this post, I share tips on winning the wild games fake hunger plays to manipulate both body and mind…View post to subscribe to site newsletter.
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This Yoga Day, Enjoy a Game of “Freeze” or “Statue”!
You may be scratching your head, wondering what the connection between Yoga Day and this popular childhood game could possibly be…well, the answer is that being still is *the* major ingredient in the secret sauce of happiness and good health. Yoga poses, or asanas, play only a small role in the vast science of yoga,…
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Overpowering the Enemies of Happiness
An easy example is taming the tongue/taming the taste buds. Anything they taste frequently for about 8 days, they no longer dislike. Why is that? It’s because humans only desire what (at least one of) the five senses has encountered at least once. And humans only like what (at least one of) the five senses…
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The 5 Surprising Enemies of Happiness
(Not what you were thinking)! We’re born with our five senses, who live in our house, so to speak. All our waking hours, they keep making demands of us. When we satisfy one of their desires (which are likely not *our* desires, but only theirs!), they quiet down and let us have a few brief…
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About the 16…
What are these 16 components of the human body? Well, 4 are carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and nitrogen. We pay attention to them in our diet by classifying our food into carbs, protein, and fat. We also pay attention to the calories in our diet. However, it’s not often we pay attention to the remaining 12…
Dr. Smita Mehta, MD 