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Stephenie Zamora: It Shouldn't Be as Painful as It Is

2013-05-24T17:34:53Z

If you're experiencing pain on any level, I want you to take a good look at the level of resistance that you may be creating. Where do you need to face your problems head on? Where do you need to accept them? And where do you need to release?

Read more: Moving On, Pain, Move On, Emotional Wellness, Emotions, Pain and Suffering, Suffering, Releasing Pain, Release Pain, Healthy Living News

Tara Brach: A Heart That Is Ready for Anything

2013-05-23T14:51:17Z

There's a bright light of awareness that shines through each of us and guides us home, and we're never separated from this luminous awareness, any more than waves are separated from the ocean.

Read more: Gratitude, Tara Brach, Passion, Loss, Freedom, Heart, Loving Awareness, Fear, Pain, Spiritual Wisdom, Inner Wisdom, Spiritual Development, Healthy Living News

Gabrielle Bernstein: How to Release Pain

2013-05-22T15:48:46Z

In today's video we're going to tap on pain. We all are affected by physical pain in different ways. Whether it's a daily neck ache from hunching over a laptop, PMS cramps, or chronic pain from an injury, tapping can help you release it.

Read more: Gabrielle Bernstein, May Cause Miracles, Video, Acupressure, Emotional Freedom Technique, Emotional Health, Emotional Wellness, Eft, Natural Health, Pain Relief, EFT Tapping, Self-Help, Healthy Living News

Holly B. Clegg: Top Foods And Tips To Fight Arthritis

2013-05-20T10:08:48Z

Although a variety of foods are always important, there are certain vitamins and nutrients that specifically help prevent inflammation and ease the symptoms of arthritis.

Read more: Healthy Eating, Arthritis Diet, Arthritis, Arthritis Prevention, Health Fitness, Personal Health, Arthritis Treatment, Health and Fitness, Healthy Foods, Foods for Arthritis, Healthy Living News

Dr. Raj Sinha: Osteoarthritis: What You Need to Know

2013-05-16T18:14:19Z

We generally think of arthritis as something that afflicts the elderly, but in fact, most people begin to see wear and tear of their joints in early adulthood.

Read more: Arthritis Pain, Knee Replacement Surgery, Hip Replacement Surgery, Osteoarthritis Treatment, Replacement Surgery, Osteoarthritis, Arthritis, Fifty News

Sunil Kumar Aggarwal: Medical Cannabis in the Empire State: It's Right and It's Respectable

2013-05-14T15:16:41Z

Granting New York physicians, PAs and NPs the authority to certify appropriate patients with debilitating conditions to use marijuana medicinally is the right thing to do. Here's why I, as a resident physician, think so.

Read more: Medical Ethics, Endocannabinoid, Cannabinoids, Medical Cannabis, Medical Marijuana, Chronic-Pain, Chronic Pain Management, Empire State, New York Medical Marijuana, Medical Cannabis Nyc, Video, New York News

Martha Nelson: Knee Replacement Recovery: Get Ready for the 3 'Powerful P' Experiences

2013-05-13T15:43:10Z

The evening after knee replacement surgery, I was startled to see the size of my right leg. Having been sliced and diced, stitched and stapled, it was seemed as if I had gained ten pounds, all in that leg.

Read more: Pain, Knee Replacements, Recovery, Joint Surgery Recovery, Arthritis Pain Relief, Knee Pain, Joint-Surgery, Surgery, Orthopedic-Surgery, Orthopedics, Patience, Physical Therapy, Total Knee Replacement Surgery, Fifty News

Rabbi Evan Moffic: The Unhappy Mother's Day

2013-05-12T08:38:24Z

Mother's Day is one of the sweetest days of year, and we should celebrate it. In our celebration, however, let us not ignore the pain our friend and neighbor may be feeling.

Read more: Pain, Mourning, Loss, Mother's Day, Parents, Scripture Study, Scripture Commentary, Judaism, Religion News

Karyn L. Wiseman, Ph.D.: Wounded Faith

2013-05-10T13:01:14Z

We all have secret pain. We all have brokenness. We all have wounds that do not fully heal despite all the salve we put on them. The truth is that no matter our circumstances in life, there is still heartache and pain.

Read more: Scars, Pain, Depression, Emotional Healing, God's Presence, Healing, Wounds, Faith, Belief in God, Christianity, Religion News

Carla Melucci Ardito: Breathing Tips: Sitting at Your Desk

2013-05-09T13:44:20Z

Did you know that the way you sit has a lot to do with the way you breathe? Over the years, I have spent a great deal of time teaching my students abo...

Read more: Stress Management, Stress, Sitting All Day, Sitting Health, Pelvic Pain, Posture and Health, Lower-Back, Breathing Exercises for Good Health, Lower Back Pain, Muscle Soreness, Deep Breathing, Breathing, Stress Reduction, Quick Stress Relief, Healthy Living News

Theresa Lost 276 Pounds: 'I Am A Participant In Life As Opposed To A Spectator'

2013-05-08T07:57:59Z

Got a success story of your own? Send it to us at success.stories@huffingtonpost.com and you could be featured on the site!

Name: Theresa Borawski
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Read more: Rheumatoid Arthritis Weight Loss, Theresa Borawski Weight Loss, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Weight Loss, Diet and Nutrition, Theresa Borawski I Lost Weight, Pounds Lost, I Lost Weight, Theresa Borawski, Healthy Living News

Jim Moret: When Pain Becomes the New Normal

2013-05-07T10:53:15Z

1,735 days and counting. That's how long our son, a sensitive, loving and talented 15-year-old boy, has been in the grips of debilitating, life-altering and totally consuming, neurological pain.

Read more: Chronic Pain, Depression, Parenting, Medicine, Children, Pain, Rare Medical Conditions, Medical Conditions, Raising Children, Chronic Conditions, Complex Regional Pain Syndrome, Healthy Living News

WATCH: The Best Foods To Beat Headaches

2013-05-06T08:23:59Z

While many people all-too-familiar with headaches know that certain foods can trigger pain, there are actually some foods that help prevent headaches....

Read more: Headache Cures, Migraine Headaches, Foods for Headaches, Headache Causes, Migraines, Video, Headache Diet, Headaches, Headache Foods, Joy Bauer, Foods Help Headaches, Healthy Living News

Mike Robbins: Life Is 'Brutiful'

2013-05-01T16:50:36Z

As awful as the bombings, shootings, and manhunt were (and still are), there was (and still is) so much bravery, beauty, connection, and love that has come out of everything that has happened; which is often the case when something horrible like this occurs.

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Allen Frances: Don't People in Chronic Pain Have Enough to Deal With?

2013-05-01T16:16:50Z

DSM-5 represents a wholesale, imperial medicalization of normality. So many new and untested diagnoses; so many reduced thresholds for the old ones. Pretty soon everyone will have a diagnosis and many will have a whole bunch of them.

Read more: Stigma, Pain, Dsm-5, Somatic Pain, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Allen Frances, Chronic Pain, Mental Illness Stigma, Science News

Vijay Vad, M.D.: You Are Sitting in the Middle of a Back Pain Epidemic

2013-04-30T16:50:16Z

Prolonged sitting, like at a computer, puts a kind of chokehold on the disc, cutting off the blood supply it needs. This combination of pressure and the concurrent decrease in blood and the nutrients it carries to the discs increases the back's risk of injury.

Read more: Tips for Back Pain, Personal Health, Back Pain, Chronic Pain, Tips for Pain, Chronic Pain Tips, Chronic Back Pain, Back Pain Issues, Pain Tips, Chronic Back Pain Tips, Back Pain Tips, Tips for Back Pain Issues, Healthy Living News

This Daily Habit Could Be Causing You Back Pain, From Simone De La Rue (WATCH)

2013-04-30T12:06:31Z

If you're sedentary all of the time, it's likely that you'll suffer from back pain. When celebrity fitness trainer Simone De La Rue met with me on Mon...

Read more: Mondays With Marlo, Marlo Thomas, Back Pain Treatment, Fitness and Exercise, Simone De La Rue, Strengthening Core, Lower Back Pain, Back Pain, Strengthen Core, Ab Muscles, Video, MarloThomas News

Martha Nelson: To Knee or Not to Knee: Three Things to Consider Before You Say, 'I Want a Knee Replacement'

2013-04-26T16:32:50Z

Now on the other side of the decision, here are the three things I think are important to understand as you decide whether to have knee replacement surgery.

Read more: Osteoarthritis Treatment, Knee Replacement, Knee Surgery, Chronic Pain, Boomers, Walking With Pain, Osteoarthritis, Arthritis, Orthopedic-Surgery, Fifty News

Tammy Bleck: Why Men Need To Toughen Up

2013-04-26T06:00:20Z

Let's just call it like it is. Women take pain, panic, worry, anger, hurt and fear without missing a beat and all the while, wearing a smile.

Read more: Recovery, Women vs Men, Fifty News, Surgery, Health, Illness, Sexist, Pain Management, Battle of the Sexes, Slidepollajax, Fifty News

Richard W. Besdine, M.D.: Why Everyone Deserves Palliative Care

2013-04-19T18:22:34Z

The first principle of palliative medicine is to relieve the pain and other symptoms that burden people living with serious illness -- in short, to help people feel better.

Read more: Pain, Hospice, Aging, Older Adults, Research, Palliative Care, Geriatrics, Palliative Medicine, Md, Death & Dying, Healthy Living News

Pop A Pill, Stop Worrying About Death?

2013-04-17T14:05:51Z

By: Megan Gannon, News Editor
Published: 04/17/2013 09:48 AM EDT on LiveScience
Acetaminophen, the main ingredient in some pain relievers like Tyl...

Read more: Pain Relief, Video, Tylenol, Tylenol Existential Dread, Weird Science, Side Effects, Tylenol Anxiety, Psychology, Brain Science, Tylenol Death, Anxiety, Anxiety Tylenol, Medicine, Science News

Colic In Babies Linked With Later Migraines

2013-04-16T17:23:01Z

By: Rachael Rettner, MyHealthNewsDaily Senior Writer
Published: 04/16/2013 04:36 PM EDT on MyHealthNewsDaily

Some babies who cry incessantly may...

Read more: Colic in Babies Linked With Migraines, Colic, Migraines, Colic in Babies, Parents-Babies, Risks of Colic, Effects of Colic, Parents News

Dr. Joseph Horrigan: When Is Stretching Not a Good Idea for Back Pain?

2013-04-16T16:11:35Z

Most patients who develop low back pain have a vague memory that stretching is helpful for the low back and try to fix the problem by doing stretches that target that area, but sometimes, stretching can exasperate the injury and cause even more pain.

Read more: Low Back Pain, Sciatica, Back Pain, Back Injury, Spinal Nerves, Chronic Low Back Pain, Low Back Injury, Radiculopathy, l3, Lower Back Pain, Stretching, Injury, Spinal Nerve Root, l4, L2, Personal Health, Lower Back Stretches, Bad Stretches, Healthy Living News

BJ Gallagher: Annie Hart: "I Set Out to Rescue Dogs, But the Dogs Rescued Me"

2013-04-12T11:12:17Z

Over the past year, I've been getting involved with several animal rescue groups in the Los Angeles area where I live. Their Facebook pages are compelling and the dramatic rescue videos they post often go viral - with good reason.

Read more: Animal Rescue, Dog Rescue, Eldad Hagar, Bill Foundation, Fibromyalgia, Hope for Paws, Tessa the Blind Dog, Dogs, Good News News

Carla Melucci Ardito: Breathing Tips: Lower Back Relief

2013-04-11T18:18:17Z

Don't be discouraged if it takes time to access release through breathing; it will happen eventually, and it is an invaluable tool for de-stressing. Making these connections between breath and body heightens sensitivity and prompts us to take better care of ourselves.

Read more: Lower Back, De-Stress, Lower-Back-Stretches, Yoga Benefits, Yoga Practice, Lower-Back-Pain, Yoga and Health, Deep Breathing, Lower-Back-Injury, Stress Response, Pain Management, Pain, Breathing Practice, Breathing Technique, Emotional Wellness, Breathing Techniques, Lower Back Pain, Breathing Exercise, Healthy Living News