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Health and well-being benefits of plants

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  Studies Show Houseplants Improve Your Mental Health & Wellness Plants are extremely important. It's not new news to say plants are imperative to our survival. Think about it: food, building materials, medical efforts, oh and the most important of all, taking carbon dioxide and transforming it into clean oxygen. It's no surprise then, recent studies highlight that plants in our homes have a direct impact on our mental health & wellness. There are a number of reasons why household plants might improve our mental health, and the general consensus is they’re better to look at and smell. A recent study  further supports this notion in its report that there is a direct c orrelation between the amount of care required to keep a houseplant from dying and the positive psychological effect it had in the caretaker. According to the research, those who share extended periods of time with plants tend to have healthier relationships with other people and consequently experience hi...

The Inner Child

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Embrace Your Inner Child Have you ever thought about why you can’t move forward? Have you wondered why you sabotage yourself? Have you ever questioned why you so easily feel anxious, depressed, and self-critical? Inside each of us, there’s an inner child that was once wounded. To avoid the pain, we’ve tried to ignore that child, but s/he never goes away. Our inner child lives in our unconscious mind and influences how we make choices, respond to challenges, and live our lives. What exactly is this so-called inner child? Does it truly exist? And why should we care? To begin with, the inner child is real. Not literally. Nor physically. But figuratively, metaphorically real. Your Inner Child is the echo of the child you once were. We were all once children, and still have that child dwelling within us. But most adults are quite unaware of this. And this lack of conscious relatedness to our own inner child is precisely where so many behavioral, emotional and relationship ...