Even Cherries for Sale Can Evoke Sorrow, and Sweetness
Sweet cherries are back in season. I saw a sale ad for them in the local newspaper back in my Connecticut hometown. My mind flashed back to two years ago…
Anxious? Panicky? Is It Really Just “All In Your Mind?”
In Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Princess And The Pea,” a princess is unable to sleep. She is disturbed by the pea underneath the stack of mattresses she is resting on.…
Has Fear Porn Inserted Its Way Into Your Mind?
Grasp Source: Prawny / Pixabay If you have not heard of the term “fear porn“, it refers to mainstream media content that deliberately and enticingly plays on people’s fears about…
2 Effective Techniques To Maintain Healthy Weight Loss
These two treatment strategies might be the secret to maintaining weight loss. Losing weight can be easier than avoiding regaining it. However, Danish scientists have found a combined therapy to…
5 Key Strategies To Develop A Habit
Developing a habit is more than breaking a useless or harmful habit. Failing to break an awful habit is ultimately self-defeating labor, as it gets you circling within the same…
How Neuroscientists Use Tennis to Study Consciousness in Unconscious Patients
MRI machine Source: EconomicsUZH/Wikimedia Commons When you dream, your mind is active, yet your body is mainly unresponsive unless woken up. A similar situation exists for some brain-injured patients who…
How Therapy Changes Depressed People’s Brains (M)
A new study finds further evidence that the serotonin hypothesis is not true. Source link
Being Mindful to Avoid “Falling” in Love With Wrong People
Though social distancing separates us physically, it brings us closer in other ways. During the pandemic, Facebook has proven to be one of the most popular ways to stay connected…
The Charming Personality Trait Linked To High IQ
The trait is not normally associated with intelligent people. People who are generous by nature have a higher IQ, research finds. Generous people are unselfish and sometimes deny themselves so that…
A Broken Child Inside: Early Trauma and Missing Inner Joy
When bad things happen to us, we draw on our inner resources to cope. This is what resilience, in its essence, is: our ability to build and tap into an…
