9 Reasons You Need To Be Giving And Receiving Hugs Everyday
Hugging helps the immune system, cures depression, reduces stress and induces sleep. It's invigorating, rejuvenating and has no unpleasant side effects.
To Thrive, We Must Be In Touch With Each Other
When we live connected to a community, we are more likely to become champions for one another, not just for ourselves.
17 Top Tips For Decluttering
Decluttering can lead to less stress and more focus on what really matters. It can also help connect you with others if you share, exchange or gift your extra stuff.
Why You Shouldn’t Want To Always Be Happy
Why have self-reported measures of happiness stayed stagnant for over 40 years? Part of the problem is that happiness isn’t just one thing.
Why We Must Heed The Call For A Moral Revolution
When I stepped into the cavernous hall where the Democratic Party held its national convention last week in Philadelphia, I hadn’t expected to step into a spiritual revival.
From Rio, Olympic Refugee Team Urges Compassion For Displaced People
It's hard to imagine good news emerging from environmental chaos in Brazil and warfare around the globe, but a team of refugees competing at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro this month stood in the spotlight on Tuesday, and took the opportunity to urge compassion for displaced people worldwide.
Living In A Chaotic World: How To Keep Anxiety At Bay
Demands from our personal and professional lives compete for our attention, and all too often the pressures of the day require more than we have to give.
To Truly Define Your Greatest Abilities, Don't Compare Yourself To Others
Human beings have a tendency to compare themselves to others and it is as automatic as any other human emotion. But the negative effects of comparisons keep us from our growth and embracing our greatest abilities to share with others.
Awakening From Materialism: Vegans As Healers
Recent events highlight the injustice and violence of racism, sexism, heterosexism, and gross economic inequity, which cause tremendous suffering in our world, and even within many social justice movements, including the vegan movement. How can we get to the roots of these issues, and what role does the accepted materialism of our society play in this?
Second Sight
The world is opening up all around us in unusual and extraordinary ways, and synchronicity is showing us the hidden connections that link every single bit of it.
What We Can Learn From An Indonesian Ethnicity That Recognizes Five Genders
What if gender were viewed the same way sex researcher Alfred Kinsey famously depicted sexuality – as something along a sliding scale? In fact, there’s an ethnic group in South Sulawesi, Indonesia – the Bugis – that views gender this way.
Making Any Kind Of Art At Any Skill Level Reduces Stress Hormones
Whether you're Van Gogh or a stick-figure sketcher, a new Drexel University study found that making art can significantly reduce stress-related hormones in your body.
Aid To Dying: What Jainism – One Of India’s Oldest Religions – Teaches Us
On June 9, a law allowing patients with terminal illnesses to end their lives with help from a physician came into effect in California, opening conversations about whether human life should be prolonged against the desire to die peacefully and with dignity.
Finding Solitude In An Era Of Perpetual Contact
Being alone has many benefits. It grants freedom in thought and action. It boosts creativity. It offers a terrain for the imagination to roam. Solitude also enriches our connections with others by providing perspective, which enhances intimacy and fosters empathy.
Why Bullying Needs More Efforts To Stop It
As awareness spreads that bullying is not just a childhood rite of passage but a significant public health issue, the demand for action has increased.
Your Name Reveals Who You Truly Are
Do we make up our minds about others because of first impressions or does it go deeper than that? Are we subconsciously picking up something held in a person’s name, which is not recognized consciously, such that we have an immediate impression of who the person is?
The Pause
Life can occasionally hand you a time-out whether you asked for it or not. It could take the form of a health challenge, a job loss, a missed connection, or a misunderstanding. You are zooming along nonstop when suddenly an impenetrable wall appears right in front of you.
A Love Story
The first outing of these little ones was last week, although I saw that some of the cygnets had already hatched, very far away from the edge, where I couldn't go, and wouldn't, probably, even if I could.
15 Effective Foods For Mood And Happiness
There are many foods that may be hurting your mood, making you sick, and even pushing you toward depression! On the flip side there are many foods that promote your health, give you energy, turbocharge your memory and focus, and improve your mood.
Kindergartners Get Little Time To Play. Why Does It Matter?
Being a kindergartner today is very different from being a kindergartner 20 years ago. In fact it is more like first grade.
3 States Of Mind To Embrace The Coming Energy
There is a barrier of wisdom that is being shattered by those who are choosing light over darkness and love over hatred. Right now there exists a potential for this planet that has never been felt or witnessed at any time in history, and it is mostly due to those who are surfing the new wave of consciousness and showing others how to do the same.
Orthorexia: When Healthy Eating Becomes A Disorder
Healthy eating can lead to major improvements in health and well-being. However, for some people, the focus on healthy eating can become obsessive and morph into an eating disorder known as orthorexia.
10 Human Behaviors That Stress Dogs Out
Your dog can become stressed for a variety of reasons. But what many people don't realize is the extent to which we, as pet guardians, can create stress in our dog.
Is There Really A Secret To Inner Peace?
Everyone has his or her definition of what inner peace is. You may describe it as feeling physically, emotionally and spiritually at peace with yourself.
Now In Its 20th Year, Expressive Arts Institute At Salve Regina Accepting Applications For Its Foundation Course
The expressive and creative arts are being widely used worldwide in a variety of human service arenas, including as complementary treatment programs for patients recovering from cancer, heart disease and many other chronic and life-threatening illnesses.
Online Musings: A Belief in Spooky Healing
Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance.” Last year quantum scientists were finally able to prove with certainty that subatomic particles — the stuff of which the entire universe, including you and I, are made — can affect each other at a distance.
The 9 Personalities Which Are Changing The World
Nine distinct personality types make humanity very special, not only in their interactions with each other, but within themselves.
Massachusetts Clinic Treats Refugees With Mindfulness and Medicine From Home
After doctors realized their exam room reminded traumatized patients of torture chambers, they invited Buddhist monks and Cambodian healers to bring age-old therapies to the clinic.
5 Ways Happiness Affects Your Cellular Structure
There is an irrefutable argument in favor of happiness: Happiness and good health go hand-in-hand and scientific studies have been finding that happiness can make our hearts healthier, our immune systems stronger, and our lives longer through enhancements of our cellular structure.
Letting Kids Stand More In The Classroom Could Help Them Learn
Study after study has connected inactivity with negative health outcomes, including heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. But most of this attention has been focused on adults in an office environment, and the negative impact of sitting on physical health.
