For five minutes, four times a day, stop briefly. (Even set these pauses in your phone or digital calendar.) Bring your attention to your breath and body in the moment, just as they are. And no need to think about your to-do list—it’ll still be there when you’re done. Try passing on a few invitations this year. Pick one or two events that hold special meaning or importance, and enjoy the extra time that opens up in your schedule....

If you are unaware of what it is, the name actually does explain it all. A hot oil treatment is an oil treatment, usually store-bought and found in tube form. It’s typically administered by first heating the tube in some hot water to warm up the oil, then applied onto hair from root to tip. ** Essentially this treatment is used to help treat dry and damaged hair from within, but it can be used as a preventative care method too....

I developed my Morning Minutes ritual by co-opting an idea from my younger sister, Andrea, a yoga teacher. Many years ago, having recently gotten her five-hundred-hour yoga-instructor certification from Kripalu, she had committed herself to doing thirty minutes of yoga each morning. It was an ambitious goal, so within a week or two, she found she was struggling (and often failing) to make that commitment work in the context of her daily life....

Marriage Problems Marriage Problems The first step in how to fix a broken marriage is identifying the core issues. What are the hotspots that make both of you tense and unwilling to compromise? Have you taken time to step back and see it from your partner’s point of view? Just about every disagreement could benefit from one, or both, of you taking a moment to step back and fully understand where your partner is coming from....

As someone who studies both stress and empathy, I get asked about this research a lot. Does it mean that empathy is a liability, increasing your risk of exhaustion, depression, or burnout? If you are highly empathic, are you doomed to become a reservoir for other people’s pain and suffering? As an example, the news story described a study showing that participants had an empathic physiological stress response when they observed another person struggling....