By Caren Osten Gerszberg — 2021
What is the vagus nerve, and how does it connect to our breathing and emotions? Learn the science around this key messenger of the nervous system.
Read on www.mindful.org
CLEAR ALL
Our heart deserves better than to be loaded down with never-ending stress. A certain level of stress can be beneficial and may lead to actual problem solving. However, a lot of our stress is unnecessary and even harmful.
Adults with disabilities report experiencing frequent mental distress almost 5 times as often as adults without disabilities.
1
If your business plan doesn’t include dealing with stress, you must not realize what you’re getting yourself into.
There are many reasons that art is a great stress relief tool, even for those who don’t consider themselves artistically inclined.
Surveys have shown that Americans are experiencing elevated levels of stress and anxiety during the coronavirus pandemic, which experts say could contribute to panic attacks.
Stressing the body makes you stronger—as long as you have time to rest and recover.
As a science journalist whose niche spans neuroscience, immunology, and human emotion, I knew at the time that it didn’t make scientific sense that inflammation in the body could be connected to — much less cause — illness in the brain.
Science is showing how immersion in nature speeds healing and acts as an antidote for many ailments.
The pandemic has stripped our emotional reserves even further, laying bare our unique physical, social, and emotional vulnerabilities.
Finland’s Arctic circle might not seem like a great place to run a marathon barefoot and in shorts—unless you’re Wim Hof. Hof, better known as "The Iceman," has attained roughly two dozen world records by completing marvellous feats of physical endurance in conditions that would kill others.