Heal thyself: The power of mind over body
A free drug can help treat many disorders with no side effects: our minds. New Scientist reveals six ways to exploit its power. That might sound eccentric, but based on what we’ve learned about the placebo effect, there is good reason to think that talking to your pills really can make them do a terrific job. Simply believing that a treatment will work may trigger the desired effect even if the treatment is inert – a sugar pill, say, or a saline injection. Sources :
Myself & Co : Accro au smartphone : 4 conseils pour vous sevrer - L'Etudiant Trendy
Suivez les trendies Sur Facebook Sur Twitter Souvenez-vous... C'est grave, Docteur ? Prenez conscience que c'est devenu votre “doudou” “J'étais devenu dépendant des messages, que je guettais du matin à tard le soir, et passionné de jeux, se souvient William, 19 ans, en L1 de sociologie à Lyon 1. Laissez-le de côté de temps à autre Au moment de sa réorientation, d'une première scientifique à une terminale littéraire, Flora, 17 ans, a cherché des responsables à son échec. Andrea, 19 ans, étudiant en L1 de sociologie à Lyon 2, a fait de même en terminale. Tenez un journal de bord de votre “addiction” Elvire, 15 ans, en première S au lycée Sévigné à Paris, a tenu le journal de bord de sa relation à son portable pendant un mois. Limiter les applis inutiles Le journal a été un bon moyen, pour Elvire, de décrocher rapidement.
28 cosas que todos quisieran tener en su casa
1. Una regadera en el jardín para los días de calor 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. Visita la primera parte de esta lista aquí. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28.
A Simple Exercise to Increase Well-Being and Lower Depression from Martin Seligman, Founding Father of Positive Psychology
by Maria Popova You’ll need pen, paper, and a silencer for cynicism. “When [a man] has fair health, a fair fortune, a tidy conscience and a complete exemption from embarrassing relatives,” Henry James wrote in his diary, “I suppose he is bound, in delicacy, to write himself happy.” More than a mere philosophical contemplation, however, James’s observation presages the findings of modern psychology in the quest to reverse-engineer the art-science of happiness. No one has addressed the eternal question of what begets happiness with more rigor and empirical dedication than Dr. Close your eyes. This somewhat self-consciousness-inducing exercise, Seligman promises, will make you happier and less depressed a mere month from now. We think too much about what goes wrong and not enough about what goes right in our lives. He then offers his empirically tested antidote: Every night for the next week, set aside ten minutes before you go to sleep. Donating = Loving Share on Tumblr
The Mushroom Being Used to Suppress Cancer Tumors
by Mike Barrett Have you heard of the mushroom being used to boost the immune system and fight cancer? While there are countless foods and compounds out there being researched for their cancer-fighting abilities, the turkey tail mushroom is one food that has gained some spotlight as of recent. Specifically, the mushroom has been shown to be highly effective at suppressing prostate tumor development. The research, coming from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), focuses on a compound known as polysaccharopeptide (PSP), which is found in the turkey tail mushroom. Dr Ling, from the Australian Prostate Cancer Research Centre-Queensland and Institute for Biomedical Health & Innovation at QUT had this to say: “The findings are quite significant. While Lings research shows the potential for polysaccharopeptide to completely inhibit prostate tumor formation, he does note that his research doesn’t suggest that simply eating the mushrooms would have the same benefit. Sources: Image Credit
La cigarette au lever est la plus dangereuse
Plus un fumeur commence tôt à fumer le matin, plus le risque d’attraper un cancer oral ou des poumons augmente. Les chercheurs américains de l’université Penn State ont donc conclu que les fumeurs qui consument une cigarette juste après s’être levé ont les plus forts niveaux d’un facteur cancérigène nommé NNAL dans leur sang par rapport aux fumeurs qui s’abstiennent de fumer la première demi-heure, et ce quel que soit le nombre de cigarettes consommées dans la journée. Lors de l’étude, on a remarqué que 32 % des participants (sur 1945 personnes) fument leur première cigarette juste 5 minutes après s’être réveillé, 31 % dans les 6 à 30 minutes après le réveil et 18 % durant les 31 à 60 minutes (19 % plus d’une heure après). On pense que les fumeurs qui commencent très tôt le matin « tirent » beaucoup sur la première cigarette (en inhalant beaucoup)… Cela expliquerait les forts niveaux de NNAL.
41 Exceptionally Beautiful Product Packagings That Will Steal Your Heart
1. Gnome Bread Packaging www.losiento.net 2. Note www.corinnepant.com Choosing plastic wrap for non-perishable is often a choice that is unjustifiable for the real needs of the product. 3. www.jateconto.com 4. www.vicer.ru An effective way to ward off lunch snatchers! 5. Design: Donkey Products A completely different and funny aspect of tea bags you'd ever never imagined! 6. Designer: Hiroko Sanders A professional designer appreciates something that is attractive, surprising, new, simple and devoid of useless information. 7. Advertising Agency: BBDO Berlin Matches with a striking strip right on the panty. 8. Designer: Yeongkeun Whenever we eat bread, at the picnic, in the cafe or airplane, we usually use disposable butter. 9. Advertising Agency: Publicis, Singapore Who knew throwing a shoe box would become so difficult after Nike came up with this awesome football stadium themed shoe box design. 10. Designer: Jones Knowles Ritchie 11. www.seujeca.com Creative product packaging idea from Japan. 12.
The Benjamin Franklin Effect: The Surprising Psychology of How to Handle Haters
“We are what we pretend to be,” Kurt Vonnegut famously wrote, “so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” But given how much our minds mislead us, what if we don’t realize when we’re pretending — who are we then? That’s precisely what David McRaney explores in You Are Now Less Dumb: How to Conquer Mob Mentality, How to Buy Happiness, and All the Other Ways to Outsmart Yourself (public library) — a “book about self-delusion, but also a celebration of it,” a fascinating and pleasantly uncomfortable-making look at why “self-delusion is as much a part of the human condition as fingers and toes,” and the follow-up to McRaney’s You Are Not So Smart, one of the best psychology books of 2011. McRaney, with his signature fusion of intelligent irreverence and irreverent intelligence, writes in the introduction: The human mind is obviously vaster and more powerful than any other animal mind, and that’s something people throughout all human history couldn’t help but notice.
