I breathe in calm and breathe out stress to stabilize my nervous system. I ponder solutions only for issues I have the ability and capacity to control. I protect my …

A threat, real or imagined, activates fight/flight/freeze in the amygdala (limbic system). Tapping, a/k/a Emotional Freedom Technique, can decrease arousal, calm the nervous system and lower cortisol.

Standing, knees slightly bent: NORTH: Your arms and fingers stretched to the sky with your chest up and out. SOUTH: Your arms and fingers stretched to the earth in a …

A relaxation technique for anxiety that German psychologist, Johannes Heinrich Schultz, developed in 1932. Sitting comfortably, slowly close your eyes. Breathe in. Breathe out. Tighten your fingers, hands, arms, and …

We need to make time to develop habits that nourish us from inside out. Daily self-care rituals allow us to love ourselves as fully as possible.

Head still, face forward. Look to the right and focus on what you see. Look to the left and focus on what you see. Look up and focus on what …

What is the origin of focus groups? To address a drop in sales of cake mixes in the mid-fifties, Betty Crocker, a subsidiary of General Mills, hired Ernest Dichter, Viennese …

Michael Norton, in The Ritual Effect, explains that rituals or idiosyncratic behavior is what makes us who we are. Habit and ritual are different. Habit is automation. Ritual is animation. …

Michael Norton, michaelnorton.com, Harvard Business School Harold M. Brierley Business Administration Professor, and his Harvard colleagues and others around the world interviewed anthropologists, economists, neuroscientists, and psychologists to understand rituals. …