Love Your Pets? So Does Your Brain.
Love Your Pets? So Does Your Brain.
Pets light up our lives. Their fuzzy, colorful antics and warm companionship eases our hearts and minds alike. Pet owners have been saying this to anyone who would listen, but now science too has ample evidence that the bond between a human and ...
Why Being Kind to Strangers is So Important for Your Brain
Why Being Kind to Strangers is So Important for Your Brain
Kindness is great for your brain, and there are enough scientific, social, and cultural reasons behind that which perhaps you are already aware of. Indeed, one of the first values that parents everywhere try to build in their children is kindness.
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Your Brain and Love – Enemies or Best Friends?
Your Brain and Love – Enemies or Best Friends?
Love is a problem.
We can’t avoid it, we can’t reject it, and neither can we understand it fully. Not even science has all the answers. And love causes problems. All existing languages in the world have variously described this particular state of ...
Five Things that Inventors Do Differently
Five Things that Inventors Do Differently
From the prehistoric human who figured out striking two stones can create fire to Thomas Edison powering up the first light bulb, inventors have been carrying forward the human civilization through centuries and millennia. We often view them as ...
Reconnect with Your Old Friends. Your Brain will Thank You!
Reconnect with Your Old Friends. Your Brain will Thank You!
Ever wondered how we tend to grow apart from once-close friends and relatives in the course of our lives? There are many reasons why a friendship sours, and some of them are toxic and rightly cut off. But in our day and age, a lot of friendships ...
Meditation is Amazing for Your Brain. Here’s Why!
Meditation is Amazing for Your Brain. Here’s Why!
We live in a world where a thousand things scream for our attention every day. Financial pressures, demands of ever-changing technology, work-life balance – all of these eat into our headspace, and make our brains stressed, heavy, and tired. ...
Start Treating Your Problems Like Puzzles
Start Treating Your Problems Like Puzzles
Puzzles are fun.
Everyday problems, not so much. But if you think a little deeper, all problems are puzzles of one sort or another. They all arise from multiple things getting mixed up, and almost all of them can be solved with a little careful ...
What is Negativity and How to Overcome It
What is Negativity and How to Overcome It
Happiness is short, negative thoughts are forever. However much we yearn for happiness, i.e. positive emotions, we view the world through primarily negative lenses. We are more skilled in scanning for and finding threats than we are in catching joy. ...
Why Compliments are Amazing for Your Brain – and the World.
Why Compliments are Amazing for Your Brain – and the World.
Sometimes all it takes to brighten up our day is a kind word, a sincere praise, a grateful smile. We have all seen time and again that the simple act of appreciating someone’s effort can have a huge transformative effect on their attitude and ...
Hug More – It can do Wonders for Your Brain!
Hug More – It can do Wonders for Your Brain!
Hugs are one of the most intimate ways people connect with each other. We hug each other to express a myriad range of emotions – joy, warmth, affection, empathy, compassion, and sorrow are just a few. But no matter what we may want to express – hugs ...
