Healthy Mind

Mind-Set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect

Mind-Set Matters: Exercise and the Placebo Effect

Crum and Langer 2007 A Harvard University study testing if exercise improved health because of how we think about it found that in 4 weeks participants who were told their work as hotel room attendants was "good exercise" and matched "recommendations for an active...

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Wellbeing and Secular Buddhism

Wellbeing and Secular Buddhism

A major factor in my wellbeing has been to embrace the concepts and practices of mindfulness along with learning about the origins of these, that is the Dharma or the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama aka the Buddha. Personally, as a secular Buddhist, I'm not one for...

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