Why the love affair with music? It’s energizing and healing. And, to put it mystically, as Ludwig Van Beethoven did: “Music is the mediation between the spiritual and sensual life.” Music may be the most accessible and direct means by [...]
For people with heart disease, high levels of stress coupled with depression increase the risk of heart attack and death, according to a new study. via Stress, depression boost risks for heart patients | Reuters.
Where in your brain do you exist? Is your awareness of the world around you and of yourself as an individual the result of specific, focused changes in your brain, or does that awareness come from a broad network of [...]
Depression is a master of procrastination.The disease, which the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates afflicts 350 million people worldwide, can reduce productivity in individuals by as much as one-third. It’s an issue that researchers from Tufts Medical School this week [...]
There seem to be a lot of obvious spiritual narcissists out there today. Like the bombastic Christian televangelists, the Islamic State zealots, the New Age gurus, the over-confident yoga teachers, the Mormon patriarchs, the West Coast eco-spiritual warriors, the know-it-all [...]
The flipside of the placebo effect, the nocebo effect is where we experience negative symptoms because we expect them. via The nocebo effect: can our thoughts kill us?.
Scientists have discovered that the human body contains more than 25,000 genes, but what they do remains mostly a mystery. "We don't know the function of the vast majority of genes," via The gene machine.
Negative thoughts often sneak up when people are stressed, anxious, or depressed. And once they take root, they can impede more helpful, critical, and logical thinking.Here are 5 simple and easy ways to manage negative thoughts when they appear. via [...]
We’ve all been guilty of it – dramatically exclaiming that work is going to drive us to drink after yet another gruelling day at the office. But it turns out there may be a little truth in the old saying [...]
Despite heavily-marketed claims to the contrary, positive psychology interventions do not consistently improve mental or physical health and well-being. The myth that these interventions are efficacious is perpetuated by a mutually-admiring, self-promotional collective that protects its claims from independent peer [...]