The Positive Side of Bad Habits
We all have at least one or two bad
habits, but did you know that these habits aren’t necessarily bad, and
in fact can improve your life?
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Nail Biting –
although it’s considered a bad habit by society, humans have been biting
their nails since the dawn of time. Nail biting prevents your nails
from getting too long and breaking or cutting you and it exposes you to
tiny amounts of bacteria from residue under your nails. Research shows
that exposure to small amounts of bacteria on a regular basis actually
strengthens the immune system.
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Fidgeting Keeps You Alert –
fidgeting is actually your brain trying to improve its focus and
alertness in the same way that yawning is its way to get you more oxygen
quickly. Shaking your legs, twiddling your thumbs, doodling, et”c, all
help you focus when you’re tired or bored.
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Cursing – most
people would frown upon swearing and cursing, especially around young
children, but it also has appropriate uses; Researchers discovered that
swearing in stressful times actually helps reducing your risk of a heart
attack by half! Just remember that there’s a time and a place for
everything…
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Daydreaming –
daydreaming is the mind’s way to deal with complex problems by letting
the conscious mind wander and allowing the subconscious to process and
solve the issues. This also occurs if you’re doing a task which doesn’t
require you to concentrate and allows your thoughts to roam.
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Gossiping – research
performed in Brown University discovered that gossiping for even 20
minutes with a friend helped reduce tension and anxiety and boost the
subject’s mood for up to 4 hours. Gossip is great at creating and
strengthening bonds between people, but don’t use it for malicious and
hurtful reasons.
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Being Disorganized –
while some might think that disorganized people are lazy, the truth is
that some people need a degree of chaos in their life and it helps them
think outside the box. In a research performed a few years ago, students
were put in tidy rooms and in messy rooms, and the ones in the messy
rooms actually drew more creative pictures.
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Sleeping In –
endocrinologists recently discovered that waking up before 6:30am
increases a person’s risk of contracting cardiovascular diseases. The
best thing to do is go to bed when you’re naturally tired and letting
your body wake up on its own.
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Social Media – kids
and their phones! Actually, also adults and their phones! Everyone seems
to be hooked on social media, checking their Facebook and Twitter all
the time. The benefit we draw from it is quite surprising; we tend to
make statements on social media and people will hold us up to those
statements just like we will do for them. This forces us and them to
stay on track and achieve our goals together.
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Tanrums – expressing
your anger in small amounts will reduce tension and stress, and is much
healthier than bottling up all that anger and frustration inside. Kids
know it better than us and that’s why they naturally do it. Just make
sure you express your anger in a healthy way – punch a pillow, go off on
a short rant, etc.
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Watching Cute Videos –
if you think it’s nothing be procrastination, you’re dead-wrong.
Watching videos helps the brain focus and complete tasks more
effectively, and watching cute videos specifically increases our
care-giving instincts and makes us take more care in the task we perform
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samedi 30 août 2014
The Positive Side of Bad Habits
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