Tag: Pain
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How Moving Your Body Keeps Your Brain Sharp
Compelling evidence shows exercise improves memory and cognition. For example, a 2010 study on primates revealed that regular exercise helped the monkeys learn new tasks twice as quickly as non-exercising monkeys, and researchers believe this might hold true for people as well. How Exercise Protects and Improves Brain Function Previous research has demonstrated that exercise […]
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Laughter has serious benefits
Do we laugh enough or should we learn to laugh more? Joyful, good-natured, ‘mirthful’ laughter is a tonic for our body, mind, emotions, and spirit. Whether we use it as a distraction, to cheer ourselves up, or as a practice to energise and enthuse us, laughing impacts every part of us. In many ways it […]
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Morning Yoga For A Perfect Day
Most of us don’t have the luxury of starting our days with the easy-going, sunrise-watching, coffee-sipping routines depicted in commercials. It’s usually more about hoping the caffeine kicks in quickly as you juggle getting yourself ready with responding to the demands of your household and buzzing phone. That’s why we recommend five minutes of yoga […]
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How Yoga Changes Your Body
More than 20 million Americans practice yoga, according to the Yoga in America study, with practitioners spending more than $10 billion a year on yoga-related products and classes. The mind-body practice is frequently touted for its ability to reduce stress and boost well-being, but it also offers wide-ranging physical health benefits that rival other forms […]
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The 4 Molecules Of Happiness
Having a good nutrition plan, exercising regularly on Green space and enjoying a good nap are the new keys to nourish your well-being and your brain. ¿Do you know we are perfectly designed to be happy? Your brain has big natural resources to provide you happiness. We list the four molecules that determined your well-being. […]
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The Compassionate Mind
Decades of clinical research has focused and shed light on the psychology of human suffering. That suffering, as unpleasant as it is, often also has a bright side to which research has paid less attention: compassion. Human suffering is often accompanied by beautiful acts of compassion by others wishing to help relieve it. What propels […]
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How Happiness Directly Impacts Your Success
The world’s leading positive psychology expert and bestselling author Shawn Achor is the winner of over a dozen distinguished teaching awards at Harvard University, where he delivered lectures on positive psychology in the most popular class at Harvard, and has become one of the world’s leading experts on the connection between happiness and success. His […]
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Hug a tree to be happy
We know that trees have many benefits. In forests they provide habitat, wood, biodiversity and ecosystem services. In cities, they can mitigate the urban heat island effect by cooling the air and reducing greenhouse gases. But, perhaps surprisingly, there is increasing evidence that trees are also good for our mental health. Most people have heard […]
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How to listen to pain
Humanity is intertwined. We walk side by side on a pursuit of happiness that sometimes take us along paths and experiences that challenge our beliefs, knock us down and makes us want to quit and leave it all. Feelings like pain and fear of rejection usually come along when we don’t succeed. In a fast-running […]
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Rising Strong: A wiser answer to pain
Brené Brown’s new book provides readers with a pathway out of shame and toward more self-compassion. According to Brené Brown, a researcher at the University of Houston’s Graduate College of Social Work, the internal feeling of not being good enough when we face criticism, along with some waves of wounded pride is a human response […]