Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Carmen Viktoria Gamper
Tension release is a significant part of self-healing in children and adults, and it is unavoidable when we become more present with ourselves in flow experiences.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
All of us, even animals, need to love and be loved. We need it for basic survival, we need it for growth, both physical and emotional, and we need it for happiness.
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
All of us, even animals, need to love and be loved. We need it for basic survival, we need it for growth, both physical and emotional, and we need it for happiness.
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- Written by: Julia Paulette Hollenbery
Ancient Vedic texts describe the universe and everything in it, including us, as being made of bliss. Bliss is our underlying nature, discoverable through a focus on this moment of experience.
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- Written by: Julia Paulette Hollenbery
Ancient Vedic texts describe the universe and everything in it, including us, as being made of bliss. Bliss is our underlying nature, discoverable through a focus on this moment of experience.
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- Written by: Lee Lozowick
When most people think of the word "sex" they think of copulation, not Life. They think of what happens for a specific period of time with specific physical organs, (possibly including a little foreplay and afterplay), and they limit sex to that.
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- Written by: Bailey Gaddis
Suppressing fear-induced emotions infuses life into them, often causing a manifestation of depression or unpleasant physical symptoms. Here is a plan to liberate the emotions surrounding your fears so they can have their moment and then go bother someone else.
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- Written by: Jessica Stern, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Psychology, University of Virginia
Teens with more secure family relationships get a head start on developing empathy, according to my colleagues’ and my new study tracking adolescents into adulthood.
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
I've found all good communication boils down to just four simple rules. Whether it's with our spouse, kids, neighbors, or our boss, mastering these concepts will have us communicating with anyone about any topic, effectively and lovingly. There are also four main violations that create misunderstandings and fall-out (as well as hurt and anxiety).
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- Written by: Jude Bijou
I've found all good communication boils down to just four simple rules. Whether it's with our spouse, kids, neighbors, or our boss, mastering these concepts will have us communicating with anyone about any topic, effectively and lovingly. There are also four main violations that create misunderstandings and fall-out (as well as hurt and anxiety).
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- Written by: Andrew Shelling, University of Auckland
Your first time having sex and when you have your first child are memorable moments in life. But what influences the timing of these? One research team set out to discover whether our genes play a role.
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- Written by: Jill Rosen, Johns Hopkins University
Infants’ responses to surprising events like magic tricks are linked to later cognitive ability, researchers find. The first-of-its-kind longitudinal study of infant curiosity found that months-old babies most captivated by magic tricks became the most curious toddlers.
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- Written by: Megan Schumann, Rutgers University
Preschoolers are more likely to choose to gather more information about a topic if they know just enough about it to find it interesting, but not too much that it becomes boring, research finds.
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- Written by: Lawrence Doochin
Energetics are foundational to the manifest world we see, and only one unified field of energy exists with everything vibrating at different levels. There is nothing separate, regardless of appearances.
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- Written by: Lawrence Doochin
Energetics are foundational to the manifest world we see, and only one unified field of energy exists with everything vibrating at different levels. There is nothing separate, regardless of appearances.
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- Written by: Jennifer Watling Neal, Associate Professor of Psychology
Fertility rates in the United States have plunged to record lows, and this could be related to the fact that more people are choosing not to have children.
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- Written by: Esther Robards-Forbes - UT Austin
Researchers have discovered that when couples blamed the pandemic for their stress during lockdown, they were happier in their relationships.
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- Written by: Alan Cohen
I have been rethinking selfishness, the ego, and self-centeredness. In some schools of thought these are dirty words, nasty attributes to be subdued, transmuted, and overcome. But maybe they're not so bad. Maybe it's all how you look at them. Baseball star Reggie Jackson said, "The only thing I don't...
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- Written by: Jonathan B. Santo, Professor of Psychology, University of Nebraska Omaha
Schools that encourage their students to care for their classmates’ feelings and to peacefully resolve conflicts with their peers can lower incidents of bullying, according to our peer-reviewed study published in the International Journal of Behavioral Development in June 2021.
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- Written by: Valerie Ann Worwood
The human being thrives on touch. An enormous amount of research has been done in recent years, on both human beings and animals, in regards to touch. The results show that lack of touch ("cutaneous deprivation") can lead, not only to emotional disturbances but also...
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- Written by: Raphael Travis Jr., Texas State University
Already 62% of parents believe their children are behind in learning, according to a survey conducted by the National PTA and Learning Heroes.
