Placebos have a longer history than medicine as we know it, and have a huge effect on all kinds of diseases and health conditions. But it may now be time to rethink their role. The placebo made its debut in [...]
As with Western religious institutions, perceived spiritual power has led men in positions of authority to avail themselves of opportunities for pursuing more earthly impulses - as we have learnt through the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sex [...]
When workplaces encourage and enable healthy behaviour, they enhance employee performance in the long run and reduce unnecessary costs associated with unnecessary burnout. So caring for workers’ health is not only the right thing to do, it makes good business [...]
Australia is the happiest country in the developed world via First Person: Happiness Is … Being an Aussie.
Many people find meditation leads in other directions than church. But the numbers turning to that and other practices to satisfy a spiritual hunger is rocketing. As mainstream churches empty and as the traditional bulwarks of community falter and fragment, [...]
University of Arizona doctoral degree candidate Jay Sanguinetti has authored a new study, published online in the journal Psychological Science, that indicates that the brain processes and understands visusal input that we may never consciously perceive. via Study: Your brain [...]
"Being in nature enhances wellbeing," says Dr. Roger Walsh, professor of psychiatry, philosophy and anthropology at the University of California at Irvine. via Contact with nature can be restorative Republican American.
“Why do we sleep? To clean our brains, say US scientists,” The Guardian reports. A US research team, studying mice, has suggested sleep helps clear the brain of 'waste products’. Although sleep is an intrinsic part of our lives, scientists [...]
Neuroplasticity Primer and Update.
The truth embodied in this inconsequential tale is so huge, yet so obvious, that it can be hard to see how weird it is. How can happiness be influenced by things we don't have, were never going to have and [...]