Why Is Recognizing Needs and Values Important in Relationships?
Needs and values — the things we care about, the sources of our wants — matter because they are the contents of our core selves. They make up much of the terrain of our inner worlds. Needs and values are indeed highly interconnected, but there is an important distinction between the two.
Your Season Of Birth Is Stamped On Your DNA
People born in autumn or winter are more likely to suffer from allergies than people born in spring or summer. Nobody is certain why this is, but there are several theories. These include seasonal variations in sunlight (which could affect vitamin D levels), levels of allergens such as pollen and house dust mite.
Are Corn-fed Fish Less Healthy To Eat?
A large portion of the seafood consumed in North America is farmed. But the food those fish eat increasingly includes more crop-based ingredients, like corn, soy, and wheat.
5 Reasons “Live Each Day Like It’s Your Last” Is the Worst Advice
Ever been to a Death Cafe? They’ve been popping everywhere from Boston to Beijing, offering a congenial space where people gather to ponder mortality and the meaning of life over tea and cake. Having started in 2011, at the latest count nearly 3,000 Death Cafe meetings have taken place in more than 30 countries. The movement confronts an ancient existential dilemma: How
10 Black Women Innovators and the Awesome Things They Brought Us
People are celebrating the great achievements and contributions of women across the world. So what better time to pay tribute to black women innovators—who are all too often overlooked and excluded from our history books.
When Keeping a Quiet Mind is Inappropriate
Having a quiet mind is lovely, and there are some simple manual tasks that you can do with a quiet mind: washing dishes, raking leaves, sweeping floors. But there are other tasks that are a bit more complex, where keeping a perfectly quiet mind may be inappropriate or even unsafe.
Horoskop Denna vecka: April 11 till 17, 2016
This weekly astrological journal is based on planetary influences, and offers perspectives and insights to assist you in making the best use of current energies. This column is not intended as prediction. Your own experience will be more specifically defined by transits to your personal chart.
InnerSelf Nyhetsbrev: April 10th, 2016
We invite you to absorb the inspiration in this week's articles and allow yourself to be guided with inner clarity as to who you are and what you need to do in order to live the life that you are inspired to live... and be the person you are inspired to be.
Why Hypnosis Is Less Far Fetched And Far More Important
A new TV show would have us believe a powerful hypnotist can make us do whatever he says while we are powerless to resist or even realise. Channel Nine’s new game show You’re Back in the Room debuted to high ratings on Sunday night.
Why The Backlash Against Fish Oil Has Been Overcooked
As a young child I recall my grandmother giving me the largest spoonfuls of cod liver oil, coaxing me with the promise of an equally large spoonful of golden syrup. It was probably a throwback to her own childhood when the post-war government försökt provide infants with a cod liver oil supplement.
Why It Makes Economic Sense To Wait On More Offshore Drilling
From chants of “Drill, Baby, Drill” to outrage over the BP oil spill, offshore drilling has been highly controversial in recent years. Some view it as a vastly underused revenue source, while others see it as a grave environmental threat. In parts of the Gulf of Mexico, drilling continues
We Keep Flushing Valuable Thermal Energy Down The Drain
Every time you flush your toilet or drain the bath, you’re losing something surprisingly valuable: heat. It takes a lot of energy to warm up the water in the first place, and vast amounts of this energy simply disappear down and is lost in the environment.
What Pushes Our Buttons and What Can We Do About It?
When it comes to dealing with stress, everyone has an elemental style of dealing with it, and everyone has an ego. Our reactions are often as predictable as the sun coming up every day and going down each night. Whatever the cause -- we react.
Gråvatten Återvinning är en utmärkt strategi för torka
Många regioner i USA kämpar med vattenbrist. Stora delar av västvärlden brottas med måttlig till svår torka, medan Kalifornien är nu under det femte året av en av de mest extrema torkan i dess historia. Även icke-torra områden, såsom Sydostasien, är inte undantagna från vattenbrist.
Cleansing Family Emotional Clutter & Genetic Footsteps
The intimate connection we have with family gets embedded within our very being long before we can utter a word. Much of this initial wiring occurs in the right hemisphere of our brain in the first ten to twenty-four months of life. That’s when our brain begins to develop an emotional and social program.
These 3 Laws Might Reduce U.S. Gun Deaths By 80%
More than 90 people are killed by guns every day in the United States. In 2013, there were 33,636 gun deaths in the US. Civilians own approximately 270 million guns, roughly one “for every man, woman, and child,” as President Obama noted in an address to the nation in the wake of the shooting rampage at an Oregon community college last October that left 10 dead.
When Do Children Develop Their Gender Identity?
Gender is generally thought of as a stable trait: we are born male or female and we stay that way as we grow from small children to adults. It turns out that for young children, initial concepts about gender are quite
Ambition Turns Ruthless When We’re Told We Will Fail
For people who are driven to succeed at a certain profession, negative feedback about their talent or potential may lead some to act unethically.
Is There A Link Between Insomnia And Mental Illness?
Poor sleep can make us feel down, worried and stressed. So it’s no surprise that how well we sleep has a direct impact on our physical and mental health. Sleep problems such as insomnia are a common symptom of many mental illnesses, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Kan vi ersätta Politiker med robotar?
Om du hade möjlighet att rösta för en politiker som du helt lita på, som du var säker hade inga dolda agendor och som verkligen skulle representera väljarnas åsikter, du skulle, eller hur?