How to Break Up with Your Bad Habits
By using mindfulness to understand and manage your cravings, you can gradually break free from unwanted habits and regain control over your actions.
To Change Your Behavior Now, Imagine Your Future Self
Your identity drives your behavior, which over time creates your personality. So start acting like the best version of yourself, and you will become that person.
How to Boost Mental Health Through Better Nutrition
As research progresses, we're uncovering more about how what we eat impacts our minds. The latest findings affirm that our diet plays a crucial role in our psychological well-being.
Practicing mindfulness can help people make heart-healthy eating choices
A recent study highlights the heart-healthy benefits of practicing mindfulness while eating. By enhancing self-awareness, mindfulness encourages adherence to a heart-healthy diet, ultimately promoting better heart health.
How Mindfulness Builds Belonging
Mindfulness isn't solely about personal improvement; it's about recognizing ourselves in others and being part of something greater.
Improving your sleep can also increase mindfulness
Sleep is a critical part of survival and plays a heavy role in how people function throughout their day. Making matters worse, the average person has plenty of things competing for their attention and making them lose concentration. Now, a team of researchers from the University of South Florida has discovered that quality and duration of sleep can boost a person’s mindfulness.
How Gratitude Changes You and Your Brain
New research is starting to explore how gratitude works to improve our mental health.
A growth mindset of interest can spark innovative thinking
Researchers find that viewing interests as developable, not fixed, can help people make connections among diverse fields that others might miss, with implications for innovation.
Meaning and Purpose in Life (Not Goals) Protect the Brain
Write your life mission statement and not New Year's Resolutions.
Is spirituality a component of wisdom?
Wisdom has gained increasing interest among researchers over the last few decades as a biologically based personality trait relevant to physical well-being and mental health.
How Mindfulness Can Improve Relationships
New research shows how 10 minutes of mindfulness can help a relationship.
6 New Ideas From Psychology to Inspire Us in 2021
Tips for starting your year on the right foot.
Yoga can improve symptoms for people dealing with anxiety disorders
Researchers say yoga is actually more effective at treating anxiety disorders than standard stress management education. More than half of the study group who tried yoga for three months had a meaningful improvement in their symptoms.
What's Your Purpose? Finding A Sense Of Meaning In Life Is Linked To Health
Having a purpose in life, whether building guitars or swimming or volunteer work, affects your health, researchers found. It even appeared to be more important for decreasing risk of death than exercising regularly.
Work productivity improves after 30 minutes of fresh air outdoors, research shows
It won’t take long for you to reap the rewards of spending time in nature, especially if you step outside at work, according to a recent survey of 2,000 employees and 1,000 managers. The research concludes just 29 minutes spent outdoors results in a 45% increase in productivity.
The Simplest Way to Drastically Improve Your Life: More Sleep
Sleep can measurably improve your memory, overall cognitive performance, ability to learn new information, receptivity to facial cues, mood, ability to handle problems, metabolism, risk for heart disease and immune system.
Be mindful: Study shows mindfulness might not work as you expect
If dispositional mindfulness can teach us anything about how we react to stress, it might be an unexpected lesson on its ineffectiveness at managing stress as it's happening, according to new research from the University at Buffalo.
Mindfulness may help you become a nicer person.
Mindfulness — the practice of staying attuned to what’s happening in the present moment — is a bonafide health trend right now, and for good reason. Research suggests it can reduce stress, help with problem drinking, lower blood sugar levels and help people succeed at work. Now, according to a new study, it may even help you become a nicer person.
Bullshit Ability as an Honest Signal of Intelligence
The ability to navigate social systems efficiently is critical to our species. Bullshitting, a style of communication characterised by an intent to be convincing or impressive without concern for the truth, is ubiquitous within human societies.
Practicing Judo Could Improve Health, Social Struggles Of Children With Autism
According to a study by researchers at the University of Central Florida, practicing the martial art Judo is a viable option for helping children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) be more active and interact with others.