Smile when they want you to frown, be happy when they expect to you to be sad, laugh when they think you’ll cry. Don’t live based on what others think or try to fit in, but always be in the best of yourself that’s what makes you outstanding.
– Blaze Olamiday
69 year old Buddhist monk Matthieu Richard is often called the happiest man in the world. Various MRI scans have been conducted on him to find out what keeps him so happy. These scans show really high, perhaps the highest levels of upbeat activity in his brain. Ricard, French by birth, completed his doctorate in […]
Clinical trials are testing whether oxytocin, sometimes called the “love hormone” for its role in intimacy and social bonding, has potential as a treatment for anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder. New research by behavioural neuroscientists Michael Steinman, Brian Trainor and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, suggests oxytocin may have different effects in […]
According to a new study practices like yoga and meditation and can help in reducing the need for general healthcare services by almost 50 per cent. The study conducted by Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital Institute for Technology Assessment and the Benson-Henry Institute infers that ‘Evoking the relaxation response or a physiologic state of deep rest, […]
There’s an idea I came across a few years ago that I love: My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance and in inverse proportion to my expectations. That’s the key for me. If I can accept the truth of ‘This is what I’m facing — not what can I expect but what I am experiencing now’ — then I have all this freedom to do other things.
– Michael J. Fox
Chennai floods have been one of the worst floods India has ever seen. As for Chennai, it is for the first time in last 100 years that such ravaging floods have hit the city. What really matters at the moment is the Government, private bodies and individuals coming together in the rescue programmes. Though the […]
Yoga comes to the help of prisoners at Yerwada Jail – the jail authorities have announced that the prisoners would be released early if they get top marks in an examination on yoga. The examination that would be both theory and practice can get prisoners released early by up to three months depending on their […]
A new study published in PLOS ONE found that the Transcendental Meditation technique and lifestyle changes both appear to stimulate genes that produce telomerase, an enzyme that’s associated with reduced blood pressure, cardiovascular disease, and mortality. Specifically, these approaches were found to activate two genes that code for telomerase, which adds molecules to the ends […]
Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It’s called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.
– Ashley Judd