A healthy mind in a healthy body: mental health problems and solutions, scientific findings, and interesting facts on psychology and mental health. Incredible hypotheses about the human conscious and subconscious mind.
Whether most of us realize or not, the fact is that the human body needs sleep just as much as it needs to breathe. Like all machinery, the human body is susceptible to wear and tear, which needs time to recuperate, both physically as well as mentally. That is why…
Music therapy, or sound therapy, is the therapeutic practice of applying specific sound frequencies to the mind or body of a sick person. Is there any basis behind it? I recently met someone who has made a life out of selling instruments, teaching music theory, and practicing a method of…
Exercise has always been beneficial to health. It changes the structure of the body while improving chemical processes within. One lesser known idea, however, is that exercise may even be affecting the brain - both its mood regulators and its structure. The wonders of exercise Fitness changes the human being in…
It often only takes a simple change to the way you think to change your outlook on life and the energy you’re putting out into the universe. Having destructive thoughts can lead to destructive, angry behaviour and it may feel as though you have no control over it, but you…
Teens are just as vulnerable to developing mental health disorders as adults. In fact, some mental illnesses develop in the teen years. Other conditions, considered to be “disorders” rather than mental illnesses, such as oppositional defiant disorder, may exist in the teen alongside such illnesses such as depression, anxiety disorders…
From stress reduction to improved attention and memory, meditation is a practice that yields a large number of health benefits. Mediation has slowly been gaining in popularity in recent years, garnering a number of scientific studies to determine the specific effects the practice has on the body. It has been…
We’ve always been warned about the psychological and physical side effects of using psychoactive drugs, but UK scientists are now conducting studies with these drugs to explore their abilities in helping cure various mental health problems. Scientists have reported that cannabis has shown positive potential for helping treat ADHD (Attention…
Psychology is often a field that everyone has heard of, some people may know the general ideas and theories behind the subject and others may know it is “to do with the mind” and not much more. Whatever your knowledge of this science may be, you probably use psychology in…
