Get Moving!

You've heard it: Exercise is important. Before you groan, consider the many ways to add movement to your life—and enjoy it, too.

Why Sitting Isn't Pretty

Obese people sit an average of two and a half hours more a day than slim people.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/obesity-sitting-isnt-pretty

Walk This Way

No need to envy marathoners. Walking is just as good for your mind and body.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/mind-your-body-walk-way

So You Think You Can Dance?

You can. And when the body swings, the mind is swayed.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/dance-therapy-spin-control

Average Man, Superhuman Feat

How—and why—an average guy became an ultramarathoner.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit/average-man-superhuman-feat

The Alexander Technique for Chronic Back Pain

Moving toward less back pain.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/the-alexander-technique-chronic-back-pain

How to Create Real Change in Your Relationship

Latest research on what to do and what not to do!

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/how-create-real-change-in-your-relationship

Go Ahead and Jump---or At Least Run

Running from arthritis.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/go-ahead-and-jump-or-least-run

Procrastination Nation

How to use your urge to procrastinate to be productive.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/procrastination-nation

Would Buddha Make a To-Do List?

Stop procrastinating. Make your to-do list work.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/would-buddha-make-do-list

The Secret to Exercising More and Feeling Great

Why self-image is key to your workout plan.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/the-secret-exercising-more-and-feeling-great

Should Schools Teach Relationship Ed?

Why do schools have sex ed, but not relationship ed?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/should-schools-teach-relationship-ed

When exercise becomes dangerous

Exercise can be too much of a good thing.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/when-exercise-becomes-dangerous

How to generate hundreds of new ideas

How to generate the new and novel ideas you need.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/how-generate-hundreds-new-ideas

A neuropsychological perspective on procrastination

What aspects of executive functioning are related to procrastination?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/neuropsychological-perspective-procrastination

Structured Procrastination: When all else fails

Read this to avoid the other stuff you should do!

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/structured-procrastination-when-all-else-fails

I Drink Therefore I Work Out

Does it lead to more alcohol use (or vice versa)?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/i-drink-therefore-i-work-out

When Exercise Isn't Enough

Are the benefits of the gym overstated?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/when-exercise-isnt-enough

Mow, Mow, Mow Your Lawn

Cut down stress by mowing the grass.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit/mow-mow-mow-your-lawn

Putting Off Your Workout?

Welcome to the club.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/kick-procrastination-and-get-fit

Think Like An Athlete

5 experts offer advice on using brainpower to build brawn.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/weight-training-put-your-mind-it

The Secret to Longevity - It's About Character, Not Just Calisthenics

Results from 80 years of research on personality & health

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/the-secret-longevity-its-about-character-not-just-calis

5 Keys to a Long Life

How to keep on kicking.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/five-keys-long-and-fulfilling-life

Sedentary No More

Bring your body sense to work today

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/new-research-shows-sedentary-work-contributes-weight-ga

Is "Butt in Chair" Always Best?

Writers: leave your chair and increase your productivity.

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-fit-top-tips-exercise/is-butt-in-chair-always-best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biltHTOIPOQ

Explains the importance of generating many ideas for solving a challenge. The more ideas you have to choose from, the greater are the chances that you will get a good idea. Dr. Roger Firestien of the International Center for Studies in Creativity at Buffalo State College, and Suzanne Chamberlin of the Creative Education Foundation explain Written by Jonathan Vehar of the consulting firm, New and Improved.

Exercise Good for Depression: Whose Bright Idea Was That?

Exercise Good for Depression: Whose Bright Idea Was That?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/collections/201106/get-moving/exercise-good-depression-whose-bright-idea-was

Living with a dog

A dog-owner speak often of their dog, their faithful companion. They've found them to be like having a toddler around--you have to know where they are and what they are doing at all times.

If the work you do requires lots of focus and concentration, to work without distraction. Is there a perfect breed of dog?

Can someone who lives happily without a dog learn to live happily with one?

Four factors combine to create riots after sporting events

Why an NHL riot is more likely than a Wimbledon riot

What factors combine to create riots after sporting events?

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/ulterior-motives/201106/why-nhl-riot-is-more-likely-wimbledon-riot

It's possible to replace envy with ecstasy

If Buddha Was CEO: The Four Immeasurables in Business

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/awake-the-wheel/201106/if-buddha-was-ceo-the-four-immeasurables-in-business

The REAL reasons you Tweet? The Psychology Behind Tweeting

What are the real, closeted reasons behind the act of “tweeting”? Why would someone spend hours tweeting to complete strangers he/she has never met before and will probably never meet in person? What needs does tweeting fulfill? Do we really think of the psychology behind our tweeting habits?

Here are some of the main reasons behind the act of tweeting based on Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Model:

• Meeting new people from different backgrounds and various locations around the world.
• Establishing connections with others, grow friendships, build relationships and maybe even find love (or at least talk about it to many others who might be feeling the same!).
• Building on self-confidence through interacting with tweeps who continuously praise your tweets, personality, knowledge and/or looks.
• Earning respect from your Twitter peers by providing them with valuable content, tips and links.
• Developing and spreading your creativity in an open and receptive Twitter atmosphere.
• Learning new skills related to problem-solving, enhancing interpersonal competencies and improving overall communication habits.
• Winning products, through sweepstakes and promotions, that have the ability to make you feel “important” and “unique” such as the Macbook Pro.
• Feeling with others on a deeper level through spreading the news about humanitarian causes, environmental problems, economical issues or political debates, and eventually making a difference.
• Achieving fame through proposing ideas that will become trending topics or uncovering site hacks and problems.

Now that I have listed the psychological needs behind using Twitter, which need would you say Twitter satisfies for you? And do you think there are other needs that Twitter fulfills?

http://tweepi.com/blog/2011/06/why-do-people-really-tweet-the-psychology-behind-tweeting/

Understanding the Psychology of Twitter

http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-tao-innovation/200903/understanding-the-psychology-twitter

What do we pay attention to?

Once we learn the relationship between a cue and its consequences—say, the sound of a bell and the appearance of the white ice cream truck bearing our favorite chocolate cone—do we turn our attention to that bell whenever we hear it? Or do we tuck the information away and marshal our resources to learning other, novel cues—a recorded jingle, or a blue truck?

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-06-attention_1.html

There are seven tests of true love.

How Will I Know If He Really Loves Me?
The Seven Tests of True Love
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/building-great-marriages/201106/how-will-i-know-if-he-really-loves-me

1. If you observe his actions rather than his words, what have you learned?

2. Does he always treat you with respect or does he do so sparingly and inconsistently?

3. In your relationship, are you relegated to second-class citizenship or are you an equal partner?

4. When you are in love, you know this - you cannot imagine life without the one you love!

5. People who truly love each other tell each so everyday of their lives together.

6. One of the underlying notions in the best relationships is this - "I trust him with my life and my sacred honor - I trust him more that life itself."

7. In the end, if he really loves you, he is always there for you - through the good times and the bad.

The measure of his love for you is always, in the end, about consistency.