Close brushes with dying and psychedelic trips can change the way we see the world, while offering clues about how consciousness works.
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Awe and Your Nervous System
Awe isn’t a luxury, it’s maintenance.
Neuroscience is catching up to what the Sng’oi never forgot: wonder isn’t an indulgence, it’s how the nervous system comes home.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A conversation with a dream researcher about how dream content and recall may reflect personality and thinking style.
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