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Can We Unlearn The Fear That Creates Our Reality?

Imagination is a wonderful thing. Emotions are often a result of the mind telling us stories without our direction over the outcome.

The Beauty You See May Be Complex Mathematics

Everything in the universe follows the same geometric pattern that fractals over and over creating endless possibilities of light, color, shape and sound.

Do Your Genes Influence How You Support Others?

Can a surge in a particular hormone make us feel and act like a totally different person? And if so, are we right to blame our out-of-control moments on some kind of biochemical signalling?

Magic Mushrooms For Palliative Care Patients

Palliative care patients are being treated with the psychoactive ingredient in magic mushrooms in a bid to reduce their anxiety during end of life care.

How Mind Body Approaches Reduce Blood Pressure Better Than Medication

Decades of research continue to unravel the relaxation response--the physiological and psychological opposite of the well-known fight-or-flight stress response that can be achieved through relaxation techniques like yoga or mediation--can reduce blood pressure in people with hypertension.

The Microbiome In Your Body Thrives With Regular Physical Contact

Hugging helps the immune system, cures depression, reduces stress and induces sleep. Gut bacteria also appears to thrive with regular physical contact, suggests new data that shows ‘huddling’ actions lead to a synchronised microbiome.

Teaching People To Visualize An Outcome More Effective Than Teaching People What To Do

An established but little known psychological theory is likely to improve performances across a range of activities, including sports, according to new research.

This One Thing Helps People Live Longer Than Anything Else

What helps people live longer than anything else? What about having an optimistic outlook on life -- a general expectation that good things will happen?

The Highest Gratitude Comes From Buying Experiences Rather Than Things

New research shows that we feel more gratitude for what we've done than for what we have -- and more importantly, that kind of gratitude results in more generous behavior toward others.

This Love Hormone Enhances Spirituality

Oxytocin is a neurotransmitter that acts on the limbic system, the brain's emotional centre, promoting feelings of contentment, reducing anxiety and stress. It has been dubbed the “love hormone” for its role promoting social bonding, altruism and more.