What Type of Exercise Is Best for the Brain?
Exercise is not only extremely positive for the health of our hearts, it is also good for the brain. It is not just a way to keep us in good physical shape or improve our mood. It is also...
Being Mentally Overweight: our Thoughts and their Consequences
If you feel that your body is constantly tired, stiff or sore you may be suffering from being overweight. But here we're not speaking about physical volume, rather being mentally overweight. Having too many negative, inert and unproductive thoughts. During...
Chakras: 7 Wonderful Energy Centers
Eastern culture has identified energy centers situated in the human body called chakras. Here, different biological and psychological aspects of the way we relate to ourselves come together. When you balance your chakras, you put yourself on the path to...
The Effects of Stress on your Body – Symptoms you Should Know
The effects of stress on your body are more far-reaching than you would believe. If the tension and a negative mental state remain for prolonged periods then it will seriously affect our health, and trap us just like an insect...
The Silent Mind: The Secret To Relaxation
The silent mind is weightless, transparent, free and as shiny as the surface of the sea. Selfishness disappears, external pressures are extinguished and those internal whirlwinds of obsession and negative thoughts lose their intensity. Nothing is as healthy as...
5 Ways Your Mind Deceives You When Your Heart Is Broken
Hearts can break just as easily as bones. When this happens, your mind often deceives you. It drags you into despair and convinces you to cling to the smallest impossible hopes of reconciliation. However, little by little, your heart...
The Monsters that Lurk in our Minds
As children, they always told us that monsters only existed in stories. Nobody ever told us that they were actually real people and walked around in broad daylight. Like the person who first of all ravishes you, then abuses...
The Scale of Evil – From Self-Defense to Psychopaths
Michael Stone, a forensic psychiatrist and professor at Columbia University, is a point of reference as far as the knowledge of the "anatomy of evil" goes. It was he who developed the scale of evil, a tool which is...
The Insula, the Source of Our Emotions and Empathy
The insula is a region of the brain as mysterious as it is crucial to understanding human behavior. Some say it's where our "conscience" is located. Currently, neurologists can only say that this structure functions more like the source...
Working Memory – The Warehouse That Never Stops
We all use our working memory in all kinds of activities and daily tasks. When we work out the bill in the supermarket and when we take notes. When we try to calculate a percentage or when we have...