Digital technologies greatly influence our brains, mental health, and lives these days. No doubt about that. And they aren’t inherently good or bad. How we use them determines…
Studies have undeniably proven that meditation changes your brain. No doubt about that. Early research and all the media hype may have given you the impression that meditation…
Directing your attention is the answer to calming a busy brain that jumps around from one anxiety-inducing thought to another. Bringing your attention back to the present can…
Although we still don’t know all that we’d like to, science has come a long way in understanding what depression looks like in your brain. It’s now known…
How you feel, think, and move, what you see and hear, literally every single thing originates in or is processed and assigned meaning by that three-pound mass in…
Addiction is a disease, not a moral failing. Just like asthma is a disease of the lungs, addiction is a disease of the brain. The experts at the National Institute…
In today’s frenzied world, everyone it seems is trying to do more, do better, and find some way to get ahead. People are looking for ways to enhance…
Whether it’s the whisper of leaves blowing in the wind, the light tapping of raindrops, or the moving melodies of music, sounds can soothe and relax you. People…
In the past few decades, we’ve made substantial progress in understanding the science of happiness. Positive psychology has a pretty good understanding of how happy happens in your…
Until a few decades ago, science told us that our brains were capable of growth and change in childhood and that it was pretty much downhill from there. Now…
Meditation is not just a passing fad like hula hoops and pet rocks. It’s here to stay and with good reason. Over the last twenty years, meditation has gone…