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Willpower

July 21, 2016 by Dr. James Abshire 1 Comment

“Stay!”blog 14 aussie

Cassie gazed up at me with her one blue and one brown eye. She stared back down at the piece of cheese.

“Stay!”

Cassie looked back up at me and wagged her tail. She had played this game once before and knew she could out-wait me. She also knows that the cuter and sadder she looks, the sooner that I’ll give in and give her the ‘go ahead’. Cassie is perhaps the smartest dog I’ve ever seen. In fact, I think the only thing that holds her back is the lack of opposable thumbs (and her leash).

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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: achieve long term objective, delay instant gratification, James K. Abshire, Live Love and Let Go, set goals, solve life's problems, willpower

Healthy Relationships are Healthy

April 12, 2016 by Dr. James Abshire Leave a Comment

Pblog 4 pic10eople are made to have relationships. The amazing thing is how good relationships can have a positive benefit on our physical health. Let’s look at some of the data1:

  • Married people have fewer doctor’s visits and shorter hospital stays
  • Married people have less depression, substance and alcohol abuse
  • Happily married people have lower blood pressure (unhappily married people have the worst blood pressure)
  • People with loving, stable relationships have less anxiety
  • Long term couples have less headaches and back pain
  • Social support helps stress management
  • People in loving relationships get less colds and flu
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Filed Under: Blog Tagged With: Benefits of Healthy relationships, faith, good support system, health benefits of marriage, James K. Abshire, show gratitude, solve life's problems

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