In Part II we learned how worry affects our health. In the last part of our series we’ll discover ways to manage worry.
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Dr. Vijai Sharma, clinical psychologist, certified yoga instructor and a person with COPD himself, says, “If you are a chronic worrier, it means that through the practice of many years of worrying, you have gotten really good at it. The mind learns to have "worry spasms," or a kind of "brain hiccups" that just refuse to quit. The first few seconds...
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