Awe isn’t a luxury, it’s maintenance.
Life Kit
In her upcoming book, The Nice Life: How to Elevate the Everyday and Find Joy in What You Have, Miller argues that a nice life means noticing beauty, being open to curiosity, seeking community and more.
Read moreHighly Sensitive People
For HSPs, the volume on ordinary life is simply turned up higher.
Read morePlant Music!
Take a moment to listen to music... made from plants.
Composer and sound artist Helen Anahita Wilson began to experiment with recording medicinal plants after a breast cancer diagnosis. She explains the process of making music from these plants in London's Chelsea Physic Garden.
Read moreAltruism
Feeling Lonely
Here’s an interview with a loneliness researcher about the varieties of social isolation. Feeling lonely may be generally more dangerous than being alone.
Read moreNature Walks
New research published in Health & Place suggests that engaging in outdoor activities—even alone—might actually protect us from feeling lonely.
Read moreNature Sounds
A recent study by scientists in Germany, Peru, and the United Kingdom explored the features of nature sounds that elicit mental well-being.
“We still don’t really know how the diversity and complexity of sounds affects how people feel, or why some sounds may be more uplifting than others,” explained study author Kevin Rozario, a graduate student at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research.
Read moreMore on Dreams!
A conversation with a dream researcher about how dream content and recall may reflect personality and thinking style.
Read moreA Perfectionism Pandemic
The “Perfectionism Pandemic” is crushing young people. Our current achievement economy may deserve the blame.
Read moreDreams and Personality
These transformations varied from person to person, but the researchers were able to find patterns.
“Our findings show that dreams are not just a reflection of past experiences, but a dynamic process shaped by who we are and what we live through,” study author Valentina Elce explained.
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