Crying Helps You Remember
If you think suppressing emotions are cool, think again. According to researchers of University of Washington and Stanford University suggest that suppressing emotions may actually hinder your ability to recall past events. During the study participants were shown a film depicting a married couple arguing. Subjects who hid their emotions during the viewing, remembered far less. Subjects also viewed slides of injured accident victims and were told personal information about each victims. The results showed that participants who suppressed their feelings recalled fewer details than the other participants.
Identity Crisis Faced By The Facebook Generation
According to a warning given to the Annual Meeting of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, this generation who use internet for everything and who have never known a world unless they surf on-line are growing up with a dangerous view of the world and their own identity. They are going through major identity crisis. People who born after 1990 have grown up in a world dominated by online social networks such as Facebook and MySpace. Many of these youngsters use Internet as the main medium to communicate. Their relationships are quickly disposed at the click of a mouse. Because of the online social networking, people find the real world boring and unstimulating. Because of this online mess, youngsters are going through the stages of vulnerable to impulsive to suicide.
Chat room communication reduced sensory experience; person’s expression/body language/ voice/tone aren’t there; and this can shape one’s perceptions of the interaction differently. Online session changes the perception to a dream-like state, and this unnatural blending of mind with the other person leads to entirely different meaning to friendships and relationships.
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Amazing Power of Yoga
Yoga is being used as mental health tool by many psychotherapists. Some of the physical poses can lead to unexpected emotional breakthroughs such as urge to weep. The recognition of the body, mind and spirit are important in the cure of trauma victims. The Walter Reed Army Medical Center is now practicing Yoga to help soldiers to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder.
Yoga’s also been used for a wide range of situations, including sexual abuse, domestic and family violence, chronic pain, depression, relationship issues, anxiety, grief and eating disorders. It can help cure diseases ranging from asthma, insomnia, heart disease, stress and weight loss.
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Reveal Mother Tongue By Brain Waves
All this time no one can read our thoughts, but some scientists proved that they can at least figure out the language that we do our thinking. Experts can figure out our mother tongue and the level of proficiency in the other languages before we even utter a word. This has been done by analyzing our brain activity while we read in our mind.
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Meditation Impacts Blood Pressure
Transcendental Meditation is an effective treatment for controlling high blood pressure, according to a new research conducted at the University of Kentucky. The practice of Transcendental Meditation was associated with approximate reductions of 4.7 mm systolic blood pressure and 3.2 mm diastolic blood pressure.
Music prevents from Stroke
Daily doses of one’s favorite tunes are shown to help speed up recovery from debilitating strokes, according to a study published last week by a group of researchers in Finland. The study shows that stroke patients displayed a significant improvement in verbal memory and mood after listening to music for a few hours per day as compared to those patients who did not listen to music. When the blood flow to the brain is obstructed stroke happens. Although it is not certain why stroke patients react to music the way they do, many researchers have their own theories.
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