(Justin Deschamps) Friends, family, and those closest to us are very important. Regardless of who you are or where you come from, you need other people in your life. Psychologically, we’re hardwired to know ourselves through who we become near others, wherein the brain regulates our emotions and sense of self-worth based on the health of our social attachments. This is physically woven within the fabric of our body, meaning there are neurological systems designed to reward us for healthy social attachments.
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Somatic Therapy: Releasing Trapped Emotions
(Exploring Your Mind) Although somatic therapy has its critics recent advances in neuroscience back up a lot of its principles. Being aware of your somatic experiences can help you heal trauma and trapped emotions.
Stone Circles of the Giants
Stone Circles of the Giants
Human Behavior Follows Probabilistic Inference Patterns
(Neuroscience News) How do human beings perceive their environment and take their decisions? To successfully interact with the immediate environment, for human beings it is not enough to have basic evidence of the world around them. This information by itself is insufficient because it is inherently ambiguous and requires integrating into a particular context to minimize the uncertainty of sensory perception. But, at the same time, the context is ambiguous. For example, am I in a safe or a dangerous place?
Childhood Traumas Can Stay with You for Life – by Messing with Your Hormone Levels, Says Study
(Melissa Smith) Your stress levels today may be influenced by your stressful childhood experiences. A study published in the journal Psychological Science found that people who had a rough childhood tend to have higher stress levels in adulthood. The study’s researchers found that these people have a cortisol pattern that could lead to adverse health outcomes.
Drum Circles Put Pharmaceutical Antidepressants TO SHAME
(Sayer Ji) A new study published in PLoS scientifically validates what so many drum circle participants have already experienced first hand: group drumming produces significant changes in well-being, including improvements in depression, anxiety and social resilience.
A New Way to Know Liars’ Intent
(Neuroscience News) Dartmouth engineering researchers have developed a new approach for detecting a speaker’s intent to mislead. The approach’s framework, which could be developed to extract opinion from “fake news,” among other uses, was recently published as part of a paper in Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence.
The Chemistry of Anxiety
(Exploring Your Mind) Anxiety is an important mechanism that has ensured the survival of the human species. In the modern world, however, that same chemical response often harms instead of helping humans.
Food for Your Feelings: Manage and Even Reverse Depression With Diet
(Zoey Sky) Following a balanced diet keeps your body healthy and helps prevent diseases. But according to a nutritionist, eating a plant-based diet is also one of the best ways to boost your mood and reverse depression.
The Rotten Apple Theory — Practical Community Advice
(Exploring Your Mind) We give the name of rotten apples to co-workers who employ negativity, criticism, or constant abuse. With their behavior, they contaminate the entire workplace, causing stress, suffering, and low productivity.
Five Keys to Giving Emotional Support
(Exploring Your Mind) Providing the right kind of emotional support for someone in need can be tricky.
The Symbolism of Dreams According to Jung
(Exploring Your Mind) The symbolism of dreams depends on how they integrate our conscious and unconscious lives.
Captain America: Have Values Become Old-Fashioned?
(Exploring Your Mind) Some people think that the moral code Captain America lives by is old-fashioned. But is it?
How Our Dreams Prepare Us to Face Our Fears
(Science Daily) Do bad dreams serve a real purpose? To answer this question, researchers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and University Hospitals of Geneva (HUG), Switzerland, — working in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin (USA) — analysed the dreams of a number of people and identified which areas of the brain were activated when they experienced fear in their dreams. They found that once the individuals woke up, the brain areas responsible for controlling emotions responded to fear-inducing situations much more effectively. These results, which are published in the journal Human Brain Mapping, demonstrate that dreams help us react better to frightening situations, thereby paving the way for new dream-based therapeutic methods for combating anxiety.
Babies in the Womb May See More than We Thought
(Science Daily) Light-sensitive cells active in the retina even before the fetus can distinguish images may play a larger role in the developing eye and brain than previously thought.