Category: Living
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Sleeping. Accepting.
If we sleep in the first 24 hours after a traumatic experience, this may help process and integrate the distressing memories more effectively, as researchers demonstrate in a new study. Sleep could thus be used as an early prevention strategy for post-traumatic stress disorders. (1) Acceptance. That is the key. Trying to fight against the…
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Removing fear. Why?
Fear related disorders affect around one in 14 people and place considerable pressure on mental health services. Currently, a common approach is for patients to undergo some form of aversion therapy, in which they confront their fear by being exposed to it in the hope they will learn that the thing they fear isn't harmful…
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Living. Dying. Taking things as they are… Setting barriers.
Knowingly taking placebo pills eases pain, study finds. (1) A 600-years old tree finally died. (2) What can one say about a death? What can one do when he is ill? Try not to think of anything. Try to take things as they are. You see? Not too difficult. You do NOT see that oak…
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The value of boredom…
Feeling bored? It could be more beneficial than you may believe. (1) If you are one of those people who try to always find “what to do”, think again. Only when you are really bored do you find what you really like to do. Only when you are really bored do you actually let your…
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Doing nothing. Up in the clouds. [Being vs. Living]
A man who wrote a magazine about doing nothing. A man who actually stopped working in order to do nothing. A man who discovered beauty within nothingness… “Slowing down to appreciate clouds enriched his life and sharpened his ability to appreciate other pockets of beauty hiding in plain sight. At the same time, Pretor-Pinney couldn’t…
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