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Cold Exposure Therapy (CET) - Should You Plunge?

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If you're looking for a new way to improve your health and wellness, you may have heard about cold exposure therapy.    This practice involves exposing your body to cold temperatures in various ways, such as taking cold showers or ice baths.    While it may seem intimidating at first, cold exposure therapy, or CET for short, has numerous physical and mental benefits.    But is it right for you? In this article, we'll explore what CET is, its benefits, and what you should consider before trying it out.   What Is CET?   CET, as mentioned, is the practice of exposing your body to cold temperatures.    The idea behind this is to stimulate your body's natural responses to the cold, which can boost your immune system, reduce inflammation, and improve circulation, among other things.    CET can take many forms, from taking a cold shower to immersing yourself in an ice bath or trying cryotherapy, which uses extremely cold air or liquid...

Decision-Making 101: Are You Letting Stress Impact Your Choices?

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  Are you letting stress wreak havoc with your decision-making process?     Maybe you've been too overwhelmed to make a choice.   Or you find that decisions come quickly, but then you fear the consequences for what feels like forever.   Whatever the case, it's worth taking a step back and trying to understand why your decision-making is off track.    This article will explore how stress can interfere with our ability to evaluate situations and objectively make wise choices.   We also have you back with some tips for getting anxiety under control so that your future decisions are made from a more substantial place of security.    So if you're ready to get in tune with why and how tension can affect the way we choose, let's start making sense of decision-making stress! What Do We Mean By Decision Anxiety Imagine that you are faced with taking the next big step in your life - looking for your next long-term job.    On the one hand...