This is Your Brain On Serotonin
Jacob Devaney – Understanding the cocktail of chemicals that fuel our consciousness.
TAG: mood
Researchers Uncover Connection Between Gut Health and Mood
Kristen Anderson – The more we look into this, the more we realize the importance of healthy digestion.
Dimensional Jumping
Ida Lawrence – Isn’t it possible that we came here out of love, to help end suffering, to be of service?
Mood, Food and Bipolar Disorder: A New Prescription
Pamela Peeke, AlterNet Waking Times If you’re one of the estimated 5.7 million U.S. adults dealing with bipolar disorder, you know the potent control it can have on your moods, energy and emotions. What you may not know is how much power you have to control it. Thanks to an emerging science called epigenetics, researchers have …
Vitamin D Improves Mood, Cognition and Pain Tolerance
Mae Chan, Prevent Disease Waking Times Without the sunshine vitamin, few of us would experience lives free of disease. Two new studies show that increased levels of vitamin D not only reduce the risk of developing cognitive impairments, but also improve widespread chronic pain. People with higher blood levels of vitamin D live significantly longer than people …
Research Mapping Human Emotions Shows Strong Mind Body Connection
Alex Pietrowski, Staff Waking Times Love makes us warm all over, and now scientists are creating body maps to prove it. A team of scientists in Finland has used a topographical self-reported method to reveal the effects that different emotional states have on bodily sensations. After five experiments and over 700 participants from Finland, Sweden …
How Your State of Mind is Affecting Your Well-Being
Paul Lenda, Guest Waking Times Most of us know that the environment has a tremendous effect on our physical and mental well-being but did you know that our thoughts directly affect the way we physically feel? Remember always that we live and exist as part of a vast, elaborate, and intricate matrix of consciousness where …
12 Different Approaches to Mood Boosting
Heather Callaghan, Guest Waking Times Were you surprised to see that 70% of Americans are on prescription drugs? A majority of them are anti-depressants which have dangerous and sometimes deadly results. Anyone who has ever visited SSRIstories.com knows what I’m talking about. Well-meaning doctors don’t often look beyond physical symptoms or even have time to inquire about …