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HEALING NEWS BOOK 'EM! Want to help clients stick to their New Year's resolutions? Suggest these inspiring reads: It's All Good Excerpt: "There are hundreds of small acts of self-nurturing that can serve to cultivate a more caring relationship with yourself and ultimately a much improved sense of self-worth. Just as you would offer small gestures of caring and nurturing to deepen your relationship with your spouse, child or friends you love, you can do the same for yourself." (Chapter 6, "Your Past Experiences") • Making Habits, Breaking Habits (2013, Da Capo Press) by Jeremy Dean, psychologist, analyzes the phenomenon of habits, and breaks them down so they can be fully understood— and ultimately managed. Excerpt: "The habit itself is one of the most important clues as to what is going on in the unconscious. We can use our memories and conscious awareness to piece together a picture of what might be going on down there, at our cores. With these clues and an insight into how they are produced by the interaction between what habits we want and what habits we actually get, we can take better control of ourselves." (Chapter 3, "Your Secret Autopilot") More Than Meets the eye 44 DAYSPA | JANUARY 2013 New hope for hair loss sufferers is sprouting up in an unexpected place: the world of eye care. It turns out that bimatoprost, a drug commonly used to treat glaucoma and also sometimes used in regrowing eyelashes, may cultivate scalp hair regrowth as well. The discovery comes from the University of Bradford in the U.K., where the drug was tested on human cells from the scalp as well as hair follicles. Researchers are optimistic about these findings, which they see as a starting point for potential advancements in treating hair loss. "Further research should increase our understanding of how hair follicles work and thereby allow for new therapeutic approaches to treat many hair growth disorders," they note. © ISTOCKPHOTO.COM • Be Well (2011, Beneficial International) by M'Lisa Jackson, LCSW, is a spiral-bound workbook that presents straightforward explanations and easy-to-follow exercises for balancing the mind, body and spirit through healthy lifestyle choices. Your good intentions don't only communicate goodwill—they can also relieve pain, intensify pleasure and improve the taste of food, according to a study conducted by psychologist and University of Maryland assistant professor Kurt Gray. Gray, who directs the Maryland Mind Perception and Morality Lab (mpmlab.org), and whose work appears in Social Psychological and Personality Science, wanted to see whether the power of good intentions goes beyond expected social and emotional effects to alter one's physical experience. For Gray's first study, three groups of participants received identical electric shocks delivered by a partner. The first group was led to believe their partners were not aware they were shocking them; the second group thought they were being shocked on purpose but for no reason; and the third group believed they were being shocked on purpose, but because their partners were trying to win them money. The result was that people in the third, or so-called "benevolent," group experienced significantly less pain from their shocks than those of the first two groups. In a second experiment, people who sat in a massage chair switched on by a caring partner reported a more pleasant experience than those whose chair was operated by a computer—even though the provided massages were identical. And in Gray's third experiment, two groups of people were given candy, with one group receiving an accompanying caring note and the other group receiving an indifferent message. The group that got the caring notes thought the candy tasted better, and even sweeter, than did the other group. The study also implies that believing others mean well carries benefits, too. Says Gray, "To the extent that we view others as benevolent instead of malicious, the harms they inflict upon us should hurt less, and the good things they do for us should cause more pleasure."