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If you wake up already dreading the day ahead, here are small, intentional tweaks to your morning routine that can make a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Illustration of a neuron in bright blue, with purple myelin sheaths around an axon visible on the right Anxiety disorders are the ...

Research by Stephen Porges, Ph.D. has found that when another person is empathically attuned, he or she sends signals to us that unconsciously calm us. To automatically control stress when flying, we ...

The emergency responses of fight, flight, or freeze have been so important for survival over the millennia that they are built into the human nervous system and also that of animals, like alligators, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some people seem unshakeable. The deadline moves up, the stakes get higher, the room fills with tension—and they stay steady. It's ...

We've all been overexposed to fear lately. Daily reports of affordability, political fragmentation, and conflict in the Middle East all feed into our angst. The emotional pushback on these abnormal ...