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What is face tapping and how it can improve your mood

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If you still don’t know what face tapping is, it’s time to start doing it.

This technique, which consists of gently tapping your face while saying affirmations, has many benefits, and although it sounds strange and looks weird, it helps calm stress and anxiety levels to improve your mood.

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What is tapping?

Tapping is a technique that mixes Chinese acupuncture and some elements of modern psychology. It consists of giving small taps with your fingers in different strategic parts of the body while saying positive phrases about yourself. It is a quick tool to regulate our mood and calm our anxiety because it only takes a few minutes, and the results are almost immediate.

It is ideal to be able to do it ourselves, we only need our fingers, to know the specific points and the phrases and thoughts to say to release our emotions and feelings.

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How to tap?

As mentioned tapping is relatively easy, you need 3 to 10 minutes to see results and feel calmer.

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The first thing you need to do is recognize how stressed or anxious you feel at the time, on a scale of 1 to 10, where 1 is not stressed at all and 10 is super stressed.

Then you must give yourself small blows under the little finger, where your hand joins the wrist, that fleshy part, while you give yourself the blows you must say your affirmation three times … An example is: “Even though I am stressed, I love myself, I accept, and know that everything is going to be okay.”

Then, you must tap five to seven times, before moving on to the next place, and repeat another phrase, an example is “I let go of all the stress” or “I allow everything to flow”.

The points to touch are:

  • The head
  • The eyebrows
  • The side of the eye
  • Under the eyes
  • Under the nose
  • Chin
  • The collarbone
  • The chest
  • Under the armpits

Repeat this sequence of strategic points and blows, until you feel calmer and that number on the scale from 1 to 10, decreases.

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♬ sonido original – Karla Barajas

Tapping is not the solution to all our problems. Although it is a tool of great help to reduce our stress day by day, and we can do it as many times as we want as long as it does not harm us, remember that it is always important to see a specialist.

Now that you know Tapping and how it can help you improve your mood, it’s time to put it to the test and see how you feel calmer and more relaxed, after tapping yourself and repeating your affirmations.

Sofie Richie’s workout routine only takes 15 minutes

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This year Sofia Richie Grainge has become an it girl of the moment in the world of fashion. After her amazing wedding, she gained a lot of attention for her iconic old-money style and amazing life.

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We have tried to follow her makeup routine, her outfits, skincare, and now her workout. She recently shared her workout at home, and we know everyone will want to try it because the good news is that it lasts 15 minutes! So it’s perfect to do it at any time of your day.

Meet the effective workout of Sofia Richie that for nothing in the world you can miss.

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The effective workout of Sofia Richie that yes or yes you have to do

Sofia Richie is prioritizing her health in any way she can!

The model, 24, shared a 15-minute workout routine to TikTok to show how she stays fit amid her busy schedule. She welcomed the camera into her home gym as she and her certified fitness and pilates trainer, Elizabeth Vidor got to work.

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Dressed in an all-black fit and her hair slicked back with a thick headband, the exercise routine for the lower body consists of three 45-second sets of rope jumping, which include some leg crossings, she then moves on to weighted medicine ball slams, where she picks it up off the floor in a squat and holds it above her head before throwing it down and doing the move again. Afterward, we see her enjoy a break by taking her Stanley Tumbler in an aesthetic and elegant charcoal gray tone.

The next round is chest presses with her hips up in a bridge position as she squeezes a pilates ring between her thighs, raising her hips off the floor while lifting weights. She doesn’t give the number of repetitions for this, but she quickly goes into an ab exercise where she holds a weight and alternates touching each heel to work her obliques. This is followed by a series of side-to-side crunches while holding the weights and a sprint exercise in place.

Richie’s finisher is mountain climbers, which leaves her curled up on the floor when done. Her trainer laughs from behind the camera at the exhaustion a 15-minute workout can cause.

@sofiagrainge

My quick and effective 15 minute workout💕

♬ original sound – Sofia Richie Grainge

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MIRANDA KERR’S VIRAL ACAI MORNING SMOOTHIE

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Erewhon has been going off with celebrity smoothie collabs, and we’re here for it. From Hailey Bieber to Becky G, the beloved Los Angeles supermarket has been cranking out fun new drinks; and if you follow Erewhon or its many devotees on TikTok, it’s hard not to want to try them all.

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Model and entrepreneur Miranda Kerr is the latest to drop a smoothie with the market, and she’s doing so to promote a new product in her skin-care line, Kora Organics. The smoothie is launching in tandem with the new Plant Stem Cell Retinol Alternative Moisturizer ($66); smooths wrinkles and firms skin while providing a boost of antioxidants and moisture-locking actives. A portion of the smoothie proceeds will go to the Organic Farming Research Foundation, which supports education and empowers the use of sustainable organic harvesting practices. (We love to see those smoothie dollars going to a good cause!)

Unfortunately, for those of us who don’t live in Los Angeles, Erewhon smoothies aren’t exactly accessible. And for those who do live in LA, the $17-$19 price tag makes them less accessible than most smoothies. Luckily, we secured the recipe (and made a few tweaks), so you can easily make this smoothie on your own.

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While Erewhon smoothies are typically chock-full of niche superfoods or supplements (such as spirulina, collagen, lucuma, and more), the base ingredients are often easy to find at your local grocery store. While you may not be able to find every ingredient, you can still re-create each smoothie’s delicious flavor, and maybe even find a new favorite smoothie recipe. We already know the frozen antioxidant-rich Sambazon Açaí Superfruit Packs ($8), this recipe is already going to be a new freezer staple.

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While the full ingredient list for this smoothie is quite fancy, the recipe, when boiled down (frozen down?) to the basics, is quite simple. Simply blend açaí plus frozen banana and blueberries with a little almond milk, coconut water, maple syrup, and vanilla collagen, like Copina Co. Vanilla Beauty Plant-Based Collagen Support Creamer ($30) — and there you have it.

To get the gorgeous Erewhon effect (we couldn’t resist), swirl the bottom half of the glass with coconut yogurt and E3Live Blue Majik ($45) spirulina extract, and top with a scoop of coconut cream and more spirulina sprinkles. Sweet sipping!

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Category: Drinks; Smoothies Yield: 1 smoothie Total Time: 5 minutes

INGREDIENTS

  1. Optional Swirl:
    1/4 cup dairy-free coconut yogurt
    1 teaspoon spirulina extract
  2. Smoothie:
    1 frozen banana
    1/2 cup frozen blueberries
    100 grams frozen açaí
    1/4 cup coconut water
    1/4 cup almond milk
    1 tablespoon maple syrup
    1 serving (about 1 tablespoon) vanilla collagen creamer
    1/4 cup coconut cream (optional)

DIRECTIONS

  1. If you’re going for the optional swirl, spread the coconut yogurt around the bottom half of the glass and sprinkle with spirulina extract.
  2. To make the smoothie, combine all the ingredients, in the listed order, in a blender and blend until smooth. (Note: This recipe was slightly too large for my personal blender, so I had to use a full-sized one.)
  3. Pour the smoothie over the coconut swirl.
  4. Top with a scoop of coconut cream and more spirulina extract, if desired. Enjoy!

But wait…

Not only is the smoothie delicious and chock-full of premium ingredients that will make your skin glow, but all net proceeds will go to the Organic Farming Research Foundation in support of educating and empowering sustainable organic harvesting practices. We’ll drink to that!

An organic retinol alternative, the moisturizer is gentle enough to be used day and night and is formulated with antioxidant-rich Acai Stem Cells, rosehip oil, a natural peptide and ceramide blend, and a 5% active retinol alternative blend of bakuchiol and alfalfa.

Miranda Kerr’s KORA Glow Smoothie is available at all Erewhon locations and costs $19. It features a ton of nourishing and healthy ingredients that are inspired by the brand’s age-defying range including pure coconut, organic almond milk, vanilla plant-based collagen boost, blueberries, pitaya powder, and more. 

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If you’re going for the full Erewhon Instagram effect, we recommend freezing the scoop of coconut cream beforehand, so it stays intact. We know it sounds extra, but it saves you from flat coconut cream, which is what we ended up with the first time we made this delicious healthy smoothie.

(Healthy) DOPAMINE HACKS

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Social media. Shopping. Procrastination. More shopping. 

There are many ways to get that satisfying ping of dopamine, but not all of them are healthy. 

What is Dopamine? Dopamine, a neurotransmitter made in your brain, stars as the “reward center” and orchestrates memory, movement, motivation, mood, attention, and more. When you experience pleasure—food, sex, check off a to-do—your brain releases dopamine in large amounts, creating oh-so-good feelings, which motivate you to repeat a specific behavior.

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Think of it like this: 

When you eat something super sugary like a donut, your blood sugar levels spike quickly and then crash. Activities can act as the dopamine equivalent of eating a donut by causing dopamine to rapidly increase and then plummet just as fast. 

Repeatedly experiencing these highs and lows can lead to addiction, depression, and anxiety. 

Ofc, there’s a time and place for some “dopamine donuts,” but it’s important to focus on healthy dopamine hits. These highs come from doing things that cause dopamine to rise slowly and remain elevated for some time.

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How to hack a healthier dopamine high: 

  • Eat foods high in dopamine building blocks, like chicken and avocados.
  • Listen to music.
  • Get some sunshine (but please remember to wear SPF).
  • Take a cold shower, or do a cold plunge.
  • Try something new.
  • Exercise (this can even protect our dopamine receptors as we get older).
  • Check something off a list.
  • Play with your pet.
  • Carry out acts of kindness.
  • Get enough Zzzs.
  • Meditate: New research has found that the improved mental and physical health benefits that meditation brings maybe thanks to increased dopamine levels in the brain. One study in particular found a 65% increase in dopamine production in its participants after meditating for one hour, compared with resting quietly.

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