mental health

Traditional yoga classes can be modified to support clients who are dealing with trauma. This is one reader’s experience.

  Love feels no burden, thinks nothing of trouble, attempts what is above its strength, pleads no excuse of impossibility; for it thinks all things lawful for itself and all things possible.      (Thomas A Kempis)     Throughout A Course in Miracles (www.acim.org), that extraordinary manual on self-transformation scribed by the clinical research psychologist […]

It is easy to become overloaded with technology and neglect the rest of your life. Here’s how to get that technology under control.

Grief can be complicated, long-lasting, confusing or a form of preparation for the future. Luckily, you can get through it.

As soon as the treatment begins to work, the illness tries to lodge itself even deeper into your body, emotions or psyche. The result is that you start to feel bad. You may even start to feel very ill. Even more ill than before you sought help and this could continue for some time. Psychologically, because you feel so bad you begin to think that what you are taking is making you ill when this is not the case. This is called a healing crisis because the crisis is that you feel bad and are not aware that in fact you are – healing.

Can a pill reduce the “existential” pain of being alive, and do you want it to?

Two new studies show music has strong positive and negative emotional effects.

A University of Melbourne study shows that Kava reduces anxiety.

Botox can increase feelings of depression by blocking muscular feedback.

Exercise reduces stress and anxiety even when you have to do it.

Clenching your fist can improve your memory.

New research shows that when it comes being happy it is quality not quantity that counts.