The holiday season, often depicted as a time of joy and celebration, can paradoxically become a period of heightened stress and anxiety for many individuals. Recent statistics highlight a significant increase in holiday-related stress, underscoring the need for...
Preceding, during, and after this year’s presidential election the populace of the U.S. was subject to constant political messages raising levels of attached anxiety higher than previously seen. Due to the vast division in policies of our current two-party system and...
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a direct effect on the anxiety levels of all of us. Those who suffer from the symptoms of anxiety can find their symptoms heightened further due to the added stresses of trying times. Anxiety produces long term stress. Long term stress...
Long before scientists began shedding light on how our minds and bodies actually affect one another, an intuitive understanding of this dialogue between the body and the emotions, or feelings, emerged and permeated our very language: We use “ sick” as a grab-bag term...
Laughter decreases stress hormones and increases immune cells and infection-fighting antibodies, thus improving your resistance to disease. Laughter triggers the release of endorphins, the body's natural feel-good chemicals. Endorphins promote an overall sense of...
With the increasingly stressful lifestyle there is also rise in other types of disorders such as anxiety and sleep disorders. With the lack of sufficient treatments that address these disorders, cranial electrotherapy stimulation comes as an innovative and required...
For a public increasingly concerned with the effects of stress on physical health and emotional well being, CES (cranial electrotherapy stimulation) provides a way of addressing that stress in a safe and effective manner. CES is not only for those with a diagnosed...
Stress can make you fat. And it’s not entirely because you stress eat. Researchers found that chronic stress may pump up the rate in which new fat cells are formed. It all comes down to levels of hormones called glucocorticoids, which are produced in abundance when...
Cranial Electrotheapy Stimulation is a unique and viable bio-electric approach which enhances the homeostasis of the biological central nervous system—the tendency for intrinsic balance within a system. User-friendly, it employs mild battery-powered electrical...
Vignette #4 The patient is a fifty-two year old married female whose psychological problems took the form of depressive and anxious symptomology with an accompanying hyperkinetic element consisting of excessive energy that would not allow her sit still and experience...