North Ottawa Wellness Foundation
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North Ottawa Wellness Foundation Resources
Are you curious for more? Helpful tools for bringing more self awareness to your life? And more self-regulation once you find yourself in the stress response? Reducing habit energy in unhelpful areas of your life? Increasing healthy habits and practices? Interested in the research behind the tips and strategies suggested?
Please enjoy the numerous tips and resources compiled here to support a healthier lifestyle for you, creating a healthier community for all of us.
The printable resources were created for you to use and share with others in your life. Print as many as you would like, post them at the office, at home, in your car and on the refrigerator door at home. Share them with family, friends and co-workers. Let’s create healthier lifestyles for ourselves, and a healthier, happier and more vital community for all of us.
An Action Plan to Fight Unhealthy Inflammation, Harvard Medical School
Harvard Medical School suggests six ways to prevent unhealthy inflammation, including choosing a healthy diet, exercising regularly and managing stress.
North Ottawa Wellness Foundation Challenge
Use this one month challenge to guide you to one small step toward greater WELLness using the tips, strategies and tools of the North Ottawa Wellness Foundation website.
NOCH Health & Wellness
NOCHS’ mission is to work in partnership with you to develop an individual health plan focused on prevention that includes proactive strategies to help you achieve and maintain optimal health.
Book Recommendations – The Bookman Bookstore in Grand Haven
Effective Stress Management & Emotional Balance
“Leaders across the globe feel that the unprecedented busyness of modern-day leadership makes them more reactive and less proactive. There is a solution to this hardwired, reactionary leadership approach: mindfulness” – Harvard Business Review. Mindfulness is no longer a buzz word, it’s a reality. Download Article
More Present, More Effective – Applying the Benefits of Mindfulness to the Adult-Child Relationship. By YMCA USA
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- MINDFULNESS – Wellness Challenge – Download Challenge
- “Just One Thing” Is the free e-newsletter by neuropsychologist Dr. Rick Hanson. The newsletter suggests a simple practice each week that will bring you more joy, more fulfilling relationships, and more peace of mind and heart. These practices are grounded in brain science, positive psychology, and contemplative training.
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Effective Stress Management & Emotional Balance
Exercise, Movement & Quality Sleep
Ottawa County Parks and Recreation’s Step it Up! Program
Dr. Martin Seligman’s Three Good Things Practice
- SLEEP – Wellness Challenge – Download Challenge
- TOTAL BODY TONING – Wellness Challenge – Download Challenge
- This is Your Brain on Nature – National Geographic
- Ottawa County Parks Foundation – Newsletter
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Exercise, Movement & Quality Sleep
Real Food & Nutrition
- Top Alzheimer’s researcher explains how you can help protect your brain
- Obesity Increases Risks from COVID-19
- About 40 Percent of US Adults at Severe Risk for COVID-19
- Childhood Obesity Dropped 68% in Beach Cities Blue Zones Project
- Blue Zones Meal Planner – Delicious, Nourishing, Affordable, Easy Recipes
- Brain Food on a Budget
- FRUIT – Wellness Challenge – Download Challenge
- SUGAR – Wellness Challenge – Download Challenge
- CARB – Wellness Challenge – Download Challenge
- WATER – Wellness Challenge – Download Challenge
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Real Food & Nutrition
Helping Self, Helping Others
- MINDFULNESS – Wellness Challenge – Download Challenge
- HABIT – Energy Challenge – Download Challenge
- NICOTINE – Wellness Challenge – Download Challenge
- Meaning is Healthier Than Happiness
- Rick Hanson’s Tip on Taking in the Good
- Mid-Michigan Health’s recommendations: Three Good Things
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Helping Self, Helping Others
Neuroscience of Meditation
- Meditation Expertise Changes Experience of Pain
- The Benefits of Meditation: MIT and Harvard Neuroscientists Explain Why the Practice Helps Tune Out Distractions and Relieve Pain
- The Science of Meditation from The Institute of Functional Medicine
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Ishar Online Reference Library
ISHAR (Integrative Studies Historical Archive & Repository) is an academic reference library offering tens of thousands of free, qualified academic sources on a range of topics, the main coverage of which includes Integrative Health, Integrative Culture and Integrative Theory.