Stop blaming the geek toys!!!
March 14, 2015 Comments Off on Stop blaming the geek toys!!!

HuffPost –

In recognition of World Sleep Day and with the help of research firm KJT Group, Philips conducted a survey titled “Sleep: A Global Perspective” to help gain insight into the main sleep disturbances affecting people worldwide. They found that worrisome thoughts about work and economic or financial issues are the top two stressors keeping people awake at night. Speaking with almost 8,000 people across 10 countries, the research team gathered information regarding participants’ sleep times, wake times, daily routines, sleeping environments and perceptions of their work-life balance to determine the greatest obstacles in the way of developing healthier sleep habits.
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Perhaps you should give up on your goals?
February 24, 2015 Comments Off on Perhaps you should give up on your goals?

Next Web

Scott Adams, creator of office comic Dilbert, explains why goals suck better than anyone I’ve come across:

“… you will spend every moment until you reach the goal-if you reach it at all-feeling as if you were short of your goal. In other words, goal-oriented people exist in a state of nearly continuous failure that they hope will be temporary.”

James Clear has written about this as well. James explains how setting goals reinforces our loser mindset:

“When you’re working toward a goal, you are essentially saying, ‘I’m not good enough yet, but I will be when I reach my goal’.”
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How to really heal trauma.
February 21, 2015 Comments Off on How to really heal trauma.

Huffington post

The Washington VA is one of the few places veterans can find a form of meditation called iRest, named for integrated restoration. It’s a trauma-sensitive meditation adapted specifically for military service members and veterans with psychological trauma.

In the hourlong sessions with a dozen other vets, Craig has learned how to unclench, easing his mind and his pain.
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First steps for ending loneliness.
February 7, 2015 Comments Off on First steps for ending loneliness.

HuffPost

If you tell someone that you are feeling lonely, they will probably give you a list of a hundred things that you can do to meet other people. They may say, “If you’re feeling lonely, why don’t you just take up a new sport, join a dating site, go dancing or find a book club?” If only it were that simple!

What most people don’t realize is that loneliness is a complex problem. For starters, most of us have limiting beliefs that prevent us from meeting others. Many of us have a fear of rejection.
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And, this is your brain on weed…
February 3, 2015 Comments Off on And, this is your brain on weed…

Salon

What does marijuana do in the brain? It produces some excitatory behavioural changes, including euphoria, but it is not generally regarded as a stimulant. It can also produce some sedative effects, but not to the extent of a barbiturate or alcohol. It produces mild analgesic effects (pain relief ) as well, but this action is not related pharmacologically to the pain-relieving effects of opiates or aspirin. Finally, marijuana produces hallucinations at high doses, but its structure does not resemble LSD or any other drug formally categorized as a hallucinogen.
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How we make our children depressed.
January 13, 2015 Comments Off on How we make our children depressed.

Huffington Post

More than half of the 47 preschoolers diagnosed with depression displayed pathological guilt, compared with 20 percent of the non-depressed preschoolers. The researchers found that the children with high levels of guilt, even if they weren’t depressed, had smaller anterior insula volume — which has been found to predict later occurrences of depression. Children with smaller insula volume in the right hemisphere, related to either depression or guilt, were more likely to have recurring episodes of clinical depression when they got older.
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Perhaps you can make do on a little less sleep?
December 3, 2014 Comments Off on Perhaps you can make do on a little less sleep?

Forbes –

According to the Division of Sleep Medicine at the Harvard Medical School, the short-term productivity gains from skipping sleep to work are quickly washed away by the detrimental effects of sleep deprivation on your mood, ability to focus, and access to higher-level brain functions for days to come. The negative effects of sleep deprivation are so great that people who are drunk outperform those lacking sleep.
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And, this is your brain on… Pain.
November 28, 2014 Comments Off on And, this is your brain on… Pain.

ABC.AU

Gustin and colleagues found that people with chronic pain were more passive and less novelty-seeking than the controls.

“Chronic pain patients are less likely to want to go out and explore the world,” says Gustin.

Imaging found chronic pain patients had greater activity in parts of the brain involved in emotions, cognition and behaviour

In particular, they had more neuronal growth in the prefrontal cortex, which is a part of the brain linked to emotions, cognition and behaviour — including seeking out new experiences.
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Risks associates with getting high — no, not that kind of high…
November 20, 2014 Comments Off on Risks associates with getting high — no, not that kind of high…

MIC

Renshaw discovered research supporting his theory. Doctors from Case Western University, it turned out, were crunching numbers based on a similar hunch about altitude and suicide. In a 2010 study published in High Altitude Medicine and Biology, the Case Western group analyzed suicide rates across 2,584 counties in 16 states and found that suicides start increasing between 2,000 and 3,000 feet in all U.S. regions. The U.S. isn’t a special case – analysis of suicide rates in other countries, including South Korea and Austria, bore similar results.

Psychology research has also made a connection between mental health and elevation.
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Does loneliness create loneliness?
November 18, 2014 Comments Off on Does loneliness create loneliness?

Business Insider

The review suggests lonely people are sensitive to negative social outcomes and accordingly their responses in social settings are dampened. We know the former from reaction time tasks involving negative social words (lonely people respond faster), and tasks involving the detection of concealed pain in faces (lonely people are extra sensitive when the faces are dislikeable). Functional imaging evidence also shows lonely people have a suppressed neural response to rewarding social stimuli, which reduces their excitement about possible social contact;
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Session Notes

Stop blaming the geek toys!!!

Perhaps you should give up on your goals?

How to really heal trauma.

First steps for ending loneliness.

And, this is your brain on weed…

How we make our children depressed.

Perhaps you can make do on a little less sleep?

And, this is your brain on… Pain.

Risks associates with getting high — no, not that kind of high…

Does loneliness create loneliness?

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