【推荐1】Anxiety is part of your body’s stress response system, and it can be uncomfortable, overwhelming，and sometimes plain confusing.

“I describe anxiety as a future-centred emotional response to a threat,” says Joel Minden, PhD, a clinical psychologist and the author of Show Your Anxiety Who’s Boss. “We anticipate that something bad will happen. Maybe we have evidence. Maybe we don’t. But we have a belief that something disastrous might occur.”

Minden says, sympathetic nervous system controls involuntary processes such as breathing and heart rate. This leads to releasing adrenaline and cortisol (肾上腺素和皮质醇), two of the crucial substance that drive your body’s fight-freeze flight response and prompt anxiety’s physical symptoms. Your heart races, your blood pressure rises, your eyes became wider, you get short of breath, and you break put in sweat.

For Arthur, chronic (慢性) physical pain and discomfort were the most powerful manifestation of her disorder, but anxiety can show itself in many ways. You might constantly overthink plans or spend all of your time creating solutions to worst-case imagination. Maybe you feel uncertain and fear making the wrong decision. Or you might find yourself restless, nervous, and unable to relax.

Often, those symptoms last only as long as certain situations are present. Other times, anxiety can tip into becoming a chronic anxiety disorder such as generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, stress disorder, or a panic.

The distinction between circumstantial or temporary anxiety and a more severe case isn’t always easy to make, says clinical psychologist David Carbonell, PhD, founder of the Anxiety Treatment Center in Chicago.

“There isn’t a blood test for anxiety. At some point, everybody experiences it,” he says. “It becomes a disorder when it disturbs your behavioral choices and your ability to do as you wish in life.”

【推荐3】Sleeping in on Saturday has long been chastised(谴责)by sleep experts and moms alike.     1    .

Researchers at Stockholm University discovered that adults who slept five hours every night increased their risk of mortality(死亡率).However, when people who only slept five hours a night during the week were compensated by sleeping nine hours a night on the weekends, their risk of death did not increase.

To conduct the study, scientists looked at data on sleep habits collected from more than 43,000 people under 65 years old. Then, they studied death records taken 13 years after the initial data was obtained to determine if and how sleep habits impacted mortality. Their conclusion?     2    .

The study’s findings might come as a surprise, since sleep experts have previously advised against trying to catch up on sleep on the weekend.    3    . “You can’t accumulate a debt and pay it off at a later point in time. If I were to deprive(剥夺)you of sleep during an entire night, and then in the following night give you all the sleep you want, you would never get back all that you’ve lost,” he said.

    4    . “The results show that short weekday sleep is not a risk factor(因素)for mortality if it is combined with a medium or long weekend sleep,” study authors wrote.

    5    . The team found that people who slept six or seven hours consistently didn’t heighten their risk of morality.

【推荐1】Against the backdrop of sweeping economic globalisation, interactions and exchanges among ethnic(民族的) groups, races, and nationalities have become increasingly frequent countries have taken the way of “shared learning” with regards to cultural exchange.

Spring Festival is the most celebrated festival in China, and now is expanding its presence across the world. As Chinese youths celebrate Christmas, Westerners also acknowledge Spring Festival. It indicates the trends of shared learning and harmonious coexistence between civilisations.

Spring Festival marks the first day on the Chinese lunar calendar. On that day and over the following two weeks, people greet each other saying “good luck in whatever you do” or “happiness for all your family”. Streets and houses are decorated by Chinese knots (结) and other articles of red colour. In many foreign countries, traditional Chinese activities are performed as fixed programme, namely the dragon dance and the Peking Opera, adding diversity to local cultures.

Why is a time-honored festival so vibrant and even celebrated in other countries? The answer lies in the rich, positive connotation (内涵) of Spring Festival.

Spring Festival reflects spirit of amity (友善关系). More than 2,000 years ago, Confucius said all people in the world are sisters and brothers. The spirit of amity has shaped Chinese people’s concept of and expectation for intrafamily and inter-state relations as well as state governance.

Spring Festival is a time for expressing gratefulness. During Spring Festival people are reminded of the sense of gratefulness by honoring their ancestors and parents in traditional ways.

Spring Festival is also a salute to another Chinese virtue, diligence (勤奋).Chinese people believe that only with their own hands can people create a happy and beautiful life.

Spring Festival also calls for sharing, a value long respected by Chinese. Mencius told his pupils what a man of virtue is like, “In desperate straits they would develop their own goodness. Successfully, they would share their goodness with the whole world.”

Nowadays the culture, calling for friendship, gratefulness, diligence and sharing, is contributing to the world civilisation for a happy, harmonious, and beautiful future for humankind.