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The first thing you need to know? Don’t believe the common misconception that locs are easier to take care of than loose natural hair. In order for you to keep your locs healthy and thriving, you need to have a consistent regimen. I have been loc’d for six months now. I can say that this loc journey is vastly different from any of my previous natural hair journeys. Some of the steps are still the same such as washing and conditioning my hair, but the process has changed drastically....

At the end of their presentation, Atman Smith reported on the progress of their first twenty students, a group they started working with nearly a decade ago. “We had the toughest cases in the school,” he said. “We’ve continued to work with them over the years and now they help us with the program. All of them graduated from high school. Nineteen of them are working or in college. None are incarcerated....

** Scroll on to see how he styles his own longish hair and transform it from a messy ponytail to a sleek, heartthrob-worthy men’s middle part hairstyle in, like, 2 minutes. Because, as our grungy forefathers will attest to, anything more is just too much, you know? Are you thinking about trying out this style? Be sure to grab a picture and tag us over at @AllThingsHairUS!

Mindfulness allows patients to disengage from this negative thought pattern through the “body scan” technique. Patients are asked to systematically pay attention to each region of the body. As this happens, the alpha rhythms that are responsible for the flow of sensory information to the brain fluctuate. In an interview with The Guardian, Kerr describes this fluctuation as a “sensory volume knob” that acts as a focusing skill that “regulates attention so that it does not become biased toward negative physical sensations and thoughts, as in depression”....

The fifth and final step asked participants to take part in exposure exercises. The exercises required participants to provoke IBS symptoms, to eliminate behaviours that served to control symptoms, and to expose them to situations where symptoms were particularly unwanted. The results of the study showed that compared to the control group, participants in the mindfulness training group improved on IBS-related quality of life and gastrointestinal-specific anxiety, depression, and general functioning....