(Marko De Francis) Did you know a secret group of satan worshipers has taken over the world and is openly telling people about it? Oh wait, that’s all just a conspiracy theory right? Well after you see this you’ll start wondering if there’s some truth to it.
Psychology
How Lockdown Affects the Brain
(Exploring Your Mind) We each face confinement in different ways. However, our brain can suffer very specific problems in these difficult days. Knowing about them will allow us to apply a series of strategies in order to take better care of our mental health.
The Neurological Effects of Coronavirus: the Latest Discoveries
(Exploring Your Mind) Loss of smell and taste, neuralgia, dizziness, mental confusion, and even occasional cases of encephalopathy. Experts are studying the neurological effects of coronavirus.
Naggers, Complainers, and Ruminants: Three Different but Similar Perspectives
(Stillness in the Storm Editor) Can we choose how we feel? In some sense, we can but not directly. You can’t use sheer will or choice to force yourself to feel better about something. But you can access a deep part of you, what I call the interpretive frame, to change your thinking, which in […]
Stay Active: Not Finding New Goals Post-retirement Associated with Greater Cognitive Decline
(Justin Deschamps) To be alive means to be active, dynamic, and playful, ideally. Human beings are not meant to stop learning, creating, or sitting mindlessly in front of a TV for hours upon hours, especially during the latter stages of life. The fact our culture has taken the invaluable resource of wisdom accumulated by our elders and cut us off as a people is tragic. But we can restore this link. The following study indirectly supports this conjecture by showing that as we age, we need to continue to generate new dreams, goals, and visions of a fulfilled life. I argue community is the ultimate gateway for this fulfillment. And in the absence of that integrated community, we can do other things to keep our spirits alive and active.
Music Takes 13 Minutes to ‘Release Sadness’ and 9 to Make You Happy, Says New Stud
(Andy Corbley) The British Academy of Sound Therapy (BAST) has been studying the beneficial effects of listening to music for therapeutic purposes for years.
How to Handle Negative Thoughts during the Coronavirus Crisis
(Exploring Your Mind) Experiencing fear and uncertainty during the current COVID-19 pandemic is normal. However, you must keep those negative thoughts in check. Only in this way can you ensure that your mind is always your best ally in adverse times.
Memes and the Coronavirus: Humor in Adversity
(Exploring Your Mind) Laughing at memes in the current circumstances isn’t an act of frivolity. A sense of humor is more necessary than ever. It relieves stress and also makes us feel more united by identifying with the same situations and common problems.
How to Strengthen Your Relationship During Confinement
(Exploring Your Mind) The confinement that you may be experiencing these days can greatly affect your relationship with your partner. In this article, we share some valuable advice that may help strengthen your relationship during confinement.
COVID-19: Five Psychological Effects of Confinement and How to Manage Them
(Exploring Your Mind) The psychological effects of confinement may become more severe as the days go by. You need to know what strategies and mental approaches to apply in order to cope better with this situation and help others at the same time.
Solving Problems: Why Do We Always Do Things the Same Way?
(Exploring Your Mind) When you have a problem, have you noticed how you often apply the same solutions over and over again, even if the results aren’t effective? Why do we do this? More importantly, how can we stop doing it?
Fatherly Wisdom You Might Not Like Hearing But Need to Hear (Video)
Fatherly Wisdom You Might Not Like Hearing But Need to Hear (Video)
Study: What Women Really Want — The Effect of Women’s Cycle on Preferences for Male Behavior
(Neuroscience) In the past, there has been much excitement over research that purported to show a link between changes in a woman’s cycle and how attracted she was to men behaving in different ways. However, research at the University of Göttingen using the largest sample size to date questions these results. The new research showed that shifts in women’s cycles did not affect their preferences for men’s behaviour. The researchers found, however, that when fertile, women found all men slightly more attractive and, irrespective of their hormone cycle, flirtier men were evaluated as being more attractive for sexual relationships but less attractive for long-term relationships. The results were published in Psychological Science.
How our Mind Plays a Critical Role in Healing our Body
(Arjun Walia) Multiple studies and experiments have demonstrated that the mind does have an ability to heal, or assist with healing and recovery. How powerful is our mind? Why do some people still regard this thought as ‘pseudoscientific’ when there is a lot of statistically significant research that’s available with regards to the mind/matter mind/body connection?
Meditation Changes the Structure of Your Brain in a Positive Way, Studies Show
(Aaron Kesel) For years, scientists have been trying to determine, through the study of neuroscience, if meditation has any effect on our personal health and our environment, going so far as to question if it could potentially lower crime rates.