Word: stress
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...WORRY, GET ANGRY! Sometimes it pays to get mad. In a small study published in Biological Psychiatry, subjects who made angry facial expressions in stressful situations--like having to count quickly back from 6,233 by 13--had smaller blood-pressure spikes and lower levels of stress hormones than those who responded with expressions of fear...
...estimates of numbers of students involved in dance in one way or another can run as high as 10 to 20 percent.“Dance is a lifelong enjoyment,” Drew says. “It’s a good source of exercise, a stress reducer, and I know a lot of other companies are culturally based so there’s a sense of community”.Now that community may be even better fostered and developed as the Dance Program and all its affiliates embark on their new, and hopefully even more successful, life...
Despite the unbelievable stress, Fingleton saw swimming as a path to a happier life. He says he thought that success at swimming could perhaps win his father’s affection and provide a path away from the wharves...
Apart from a kind of sybaritic utilitarianism, there is science to explain this yen for closets. Getting organized appears to lower stress and anxiety and increase efficiency. Sheila Jowsey, a professor of psychiatry at the Mayo Clinic, says, "Organization is comforting. It's soothing." How does this age of bigger and more luxurious closets bring about that kind of Zen? "We don't have the disposable time to go through our possessions and determine what we need, so it accumulates," Jowsey says. "What Americans do have is enough disposable income to tell somebody, 'Build...
...short-term mass-memorization. The pain generated by graduate school preparation stands to be lessened considerably by changes in the Graduate Record Examination (GRE) set to take effect in a year’s time. And we wholly endorse anything that minimizes a Harvard student’s stress level. The GRE, an examination required for admission to nearly every reputable graduate program, has long been little more than a rearranged SAT with more sophisticated vocabulary and reading passages. But with what the Educational Testing Service (ETS) calls the most significant overhaul in the GRE’s 55-year...