By Dr Neil Rushton This article was published in New Dawn Special Issue Vol 12 No 5 (Oct 2018) What are the faeries? Where do they come from and where do they go when they’re not interacting with their human observers? Faeries have been an important part of the folkloric repertoire for hundreds (perhaps even thousands) of years, and while they are portrayed in the popular imagination through faerie-tales and…
Laughing is good for your mind and your body – here’s what the research shows
By Janet M. Gibson | The Conversation Amusement and pleasant surprises – and the laughter they can trigger – add texture to the fabric of daily life. Those giggles and guffaws can seem like just silly throwaways. But laughter, in response to funny events, actually takes a lot of work, because it activates many areas of the brain: areas that control motor, emotional, cognitive and social processing. As I found…
Science Links Anxiety to High IQ & Sentinel Intelligence
Although Western medicine has radically transformed our world for the better, and given rise to some of the most remarkable breakthroughs in human history, in some ways it is still scratching at the lower slopes of the bigger picture. Only recently have our health systems begun to embrace the healing power of some ancient Eastern traditions such as meditation, for example. But overall, nowhere across the human health spectrum is Western medicine more…
How to Relieve Depression: The Importance of Nurturing Something in Life
When you assess your own life, consider it with the eye of a gardener. Underneath the surface lies rich, fertile soil waiting to nurture the seeds you sow. ~ S. Goodier It’s a pretty normal day. All is running smoothly and as planned. Outside the sky is blue and the birds are singing. But still … for one reason or another you carry a deep heaviness in your heart, a…
Your Breath Is Your Brain’s Remote Control
For centuries, yogis have been expressing the incredible benefits meditation can provide. More recently, meditation has become a more mainstream means of treating anxiety and stress, as deep breathing has been proven to calm the nervous system and reduce our heart rate. Avid meditators or individuals who practice breathing techniques typically report that such practices have the ability to silence or slow down the mind. This begs the question: How…
The Toxic Attraction Between an Empath and a Narcissist
When it comes to narcissists, all signs point to one universal trait: a narcissist is wounded. More often than not, it’s some event from a person’s childhood that causes them to feel worthless and unappreciated at some point in life, and make them constantly seek out validation. And along come the empaths, the healers. An empath has the ability to sense and internalize other people’s pain, and often take it…
Binaural Beats: Sound Technology for Consciousness
Imagine having a technology that can allow you to meditate like a zen Buddhist monk. Think for a moment how many benefits you could receive from being able to enter a deep thought-free state within minutes by merely pushing a button. Visualize for a second what you could program into your mind through the use of an almost instant alpha, theta or delta brain-wave state. Instant deep states of meditation…
This is What Sound Looks Like: Cymatics and Sacred Geometry
“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” ~ Nikola Tesla Cymatics is the study of visible sound via vibration of particles or liquid on a membrane. The following experiment demonstrates the observable patterns created when the membrane is vibrated at different frequencies. For more information about Cymatics and Sacred Geometry watch the following clip… Be Sure to Follow Science…
The Empath Blues: 4 Ways to Relieve Emotional Fatigue
According to wikipedia, “decisional fatigue refers to the deteriorating quality of decisions made by an individual, after a long session of decision making”. This concept has been studied extensively in psychology where people who have to make a lot of decisions as part of their daily job, like judges for example, become worn out over time and tend to make poorer decision later in the day. The mind becomes exhausted…