Being spiritual may give life deeper meaning but it can also mess up your mind, research suggests. A study found that people professing to be spiritual, but not conventionally religious, were more likely to suffer from a host of mental [...]
YOGIS have sworn by it for years, but now there is scientific proof that meditation eases stress and promotes better health.Meditation triggers change in electrical activity of the brain, improving the mind and body in measurable ways, the latest study [...]
Fittingly or ironically, the dismal science has a lot to say about happiness. The classic economic story about money and well-being goes something like this. Money buys happiness, sure, but only up to a point. Once basic needs are taken [...]
Now, a remarkable confluence of tools and techniques is bringing the brain into focus as never before. Propelled by novel imaging technologies, massive computing power and the genetic revolution, several large-scale projects around the world promise to accelerate an already [...]
Indian people may have arrived on Australian shores about 4000 years before Europeans colonised the continent, scientists report.Modern humans are thought to have arrived down under about 40,000 years ago, having made their way out of Africa around the coast [...]
Nikki Prentice, an assistant general counsel at Blake Dawson’s Sydney office, participated in a voluntary five-session introductory meditation course offered by her firm in 2009 and can now achieve sharper and longer periods of concentration. “I’m better at recognising and [...]
More than six decades since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls — and thousands of years after they were written — Israel on Tuesday put 5,000 images of the ancient biblical artifacts online in a partnership with Google.via Google [...]
Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin have shown that synchronization emerges between brains when making music together, and even when musicians play different voices. In a study published November 29th in Frontiers in Neuroscience, Johanna [...]
Despite significant advances in brain imaging and cognitive science, neuroscientists continue to search for how the brain develops and retains perceptions and memories.Emerging evidence suggests that a group of neurons can represent each unique piece of information, but no one [...]
This book starts with my own experience of meditation then expands into a broader journey of scientific discovery, providing not only the evidence but the practical methods by which you can verify it for yourself. The information in this book [...]