Category: Mental Wellness
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Your Body and Mind Have Very Different Learning Styles
Have you ever noticed your body reacting to a situation before your brain has even had a chance to process what is happening? Imagine you are in a new, healthy relationship. Your mind knows this person is kind and reliable. However, the moment they are five minutes late for a text, your heart starts racing and your
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Synchronized Brains Are Proven to Make People Feel Closer
This may sound like “scientists have finally proven something we’ve already known from real-life experience”. But here are the nuances we tend to ignore. Social connection is more than an effort, skill, or personality; it is more likely a matter of neural alignment. A 2022 study at UCLA integrated neuroimaging with social network analysis to
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Can You Really Lift Mood with Popular Daily Habits?
Take a brisk walk, write a gratitude journal, or dance to upbeat music—and magically, your day will feel brighter. Good wishes. But does it really work? Do they work for me? Our mood is not Siri: hey, mood, please lift yourself (though it may seem convenient). Rather, it’s a complex psychological and emotional interplay that
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We Regret More about What We Didn’t do Than Mistakes
Would you regret the chances you missed or the mistakes you’ve made? Unsurprisingly, many people regret the things they didn’t do, not the things they did but failed at, as they near the end of life. In psychology, what we didn’t take the chance to do may haunt us much longer and more strongly than
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Do More Choices Actually Make Us Less Free?
In 1975, the average American supermarket carried around 9,000 products. By 2008, that number had swelled to nearly 47,000, according to the Food Marketing Institute’s annual survey. Walk into a grocery store today, and you’ll face an entire wall of cereal options—organic, gluten-free, low-sugar, protein-enhanced… And you may be able to find 15 varieties of toothpaste
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