Popular Insomnia Drugs Put You At Risk for Dementia
We’ve all experienced the frustration of longing for sleep that just won’t come. For insomnia sufferers, that frustration is nearly constant, leading many to...
Does Washing Your Hands Often Increase Your Risk of Mental Disorders?
Take everything you know about DNA and genetics and throw it out the window.
Unless you are a geneticist or in the medical field, doing...
This Breathing Technique Helps Alleviate Depression in Just One Session
A growing body of evidence shows that a breathing-based meditation practice called Sudarshan Kriya can help to lift depression and release negative emotions. Sundarshan Kriya...
How Mindfulness Meditation Protects You From Nearly Every Disease
Did You Know…
…mindfulness meditation may help reduce inflammation and associated disease risks?
Numerous studies have shown that mindfulness meditation can help reduce stress, depression, PTSD,...
How Reading Boosts Brain Power and Protects Brain Health
The more you use your brain, the more your thinking capacity expands. This is one of those deceptively simple facts. On the surface, it...
Social Isolation May Be the Most Serious Public Health Hazard of the 21st Century?
We now have the ability to connect almost immediately to anyone, anywhere, anytime, but the number of people who feel socially isolated is rising....
Escaping the Age of Anxiety
Chances are, we all know someone (or many) who struggle with anxiety. That’s because anxiety is currently surging in America—an escalation that began in...
Rewire Your Brain for Happiness With Two Proven Techniques
Being depressed can feel like being stuck in a bleak, hopeless loop. No matter what you try, you can’t convince your brain to reengage...
Did You Know… Negative Thoughts Can Harm Your Health?
The power of your mind to influence your health is perhaps best demonstrated by the placebo effect. That’s the ability of a fake treatment—such...
The Life-Changing Magic of Doing Less
Many Americans define ourselves so entirely by what we do that when someone asks us how we’re doing, we don’t share our emotional state....