Article #740
Researchers have found that people who write about their deepest thoughts and feelings surrounding upsetting events have stronger immunity and visit their doctors half as often as those who write only about minor events. Exciting research in the Journal of the American Medical Association shows that writing about a stressful experience reduces physical symptoms in patients with chronic illnesses.

Article #728
There is a direct link between the emotions that we can or can’t feel and our posture, making posture important where depression is concerned. In the instance of depression, what happens is energy is naturally designed to come up through our spinal column but it’s being kept, by our posture, from coming into the area occupied by the heart. As soon as the energy arrives at the area of the heart, it gets redirected toward the lower half of the body again.

Article #710
A detailed look at the benefits of having anxiety so that sufferers can focus on the positive side of the condition whilst they overcome the condition.

Article #686
You can change your mood by changing what you smell. Smell has a powerful effect on behavior. Certain smells can brighten our moods and lift our spirits. Some smells we find repulsive and alert us to danger. If smells are such powerful influencers of moods and behavior doesn’t it make sense that changing the smell can also change the behavior?

Article #680
Do you constantly find yourself checking your Facebook? Feel that every thing you do needs to be tweeted? Record your whole life for YouTube? You may be suffering from a case of SMA or Social Media Addiction. Here are some signs and symptoms to tell you if you or someone you know is suffering from SMA.

Post #669
Friday Video: TED Talk – Information designer Tom Wujec talks through three areas of the brain that help us understand words, images, feelings, connections. In this short talk from TEDU, he asks: How can we best engage our brains to help us better understand big ideas?

Article #660
Most of us have heard of the term projection, but what is our subjective meaning when we think about it?. It could be argued that our whole experience of reality is a projection and that all of the Ego defence mechanisms are a projection, but for now I will remain in this context. I believe the only person who can really realise or come to an understanding of this, is oneself, once one move’s beyond a mere intellectual understanding and into a visceral knowing.

Post #654
Friday Video: TED Talk – Neuroscientist Michael Merzenich looks at one of the secrets of the brain’s incredible power: its ability to actively re-wire itself.

Post #650
Friday Video: TED Talk – Every morning we wake up and regain consciousness — that is a marvelous fact — but what exactly is it that we regain? Neuroscientist Antonio Damasio uses this simple question to give us a glimpse into how our brains create our sense of self.

Article #612
Things you should know about thinking. You need to have some understanding of what thinking is, how you habitually think and how you can go about changing how you think. Once you have the basics, you can change how your thinking and thereby change your life.This is an exciting capsule study of how to change your life by simply changing how you think.