Razi Berry It was my fifth miscarriage in a period of four years. I had experienced this pain before, the bleeding. But something hurt deeper than the physical pain as I was rushed to the hospital in the middle of the night for a D&C, where they would remove the remains of the baby that […]
Razi Berry Love has countless benefits for our physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Among these benefits, love can help us to manage our sensory input, including to serve as somewhat of a pain reliever. Love is associated with NGF, a peptide that helps the body to manage basic physiological processes through the sympathetic and
Razi Berry It’s important to have the support of family and friends when we are struggling. It’s the people who know us most intimately that encourage us to do better, to make necessary changes to improve our health, our happiness. It’s also important to have people to inspire us when we actually start making those
Razi Berry In any stressed or painful situation – a visit to the hospital, a presentation at work, or a funeral for a loved one – it helps to have someone holding your hand. We all know this to be true. Recent experiments have validated our intuitive knowledge and provided explanations as to why having
Razi Berry Want a new way to improve your health and happiness? Try focusing on skills related to emotional intelligence. People with higher levels of emotional intelligence have better health and happiness than those who have lower levels of emotional intelligence. Keep reading for what it really means to have emotional intelligence and how this
Razi Berry Your little child stumbles and scrapes her knee. She looks up at you expectantly, and because you see blood, the look on your face is one of alarm. Seeing your expression startles her and then she starts to cry. You move toward her and kiss her on the wound. The crying stops. This
Razi Berry Jealousy is powerful Our bodies actually experience jealousy through physiological responses. The body has specific neural pathways and chemical responses that are elicited when a situation that triggers jealousy occurs. Most people value monogamous relationships. As a species, we value commitment to a single partner. Many people end up in long-term committed relationships.
Razi Berry Laughter was the best way to start the day and the fastest way to end an argument “Humanity has unquestionably one really effective weapon…laughter. Power, money, persuasion, supplication, persecution—these can lift at a colossal humbug—push it a little—weaken it a little, century by century, but only laughter can blow it to rags and
Razi Berry I’d been hit! And then everything went silent; Love at first sight It’s 1988 and just past lunchtime on campus of my suburban high school. My jeans probably had zippers on the ankles and my bangs were probably curled under and fluffed. I was probably wearing puffy sleeves. The final bell began to
Razi Berry Think You Only Have 5 Senses? Think Again. Try 8 or More… It was before 5:00 am on a hot summer day in Phoenix and I had dropped off my dear friend at the airport. A Tuesday morning in the dead center of summer and the gate resembled more a quiet museum of
