Cognitive Stimulation Therapy

I love writing upbeat articles about how eating more whole plants can benefit your health and help the environment. And I get excited to spread the word about healthy pleasures — things that taste good, feel good, and do good for our bodies and for our world. But then...

Professional cuddler squeezes profits from loneliness  The business is Indy Cuddles, and it's pretty much what it sounds like. For a small fee — $60 an hour — Kelly will come to your home and snuggle with you. Armed with knowledge from an illustrated book of cuddling...

Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market. Even worse: The new-music market is actually shrinking. By Ted Gioia Old songs now represent 70 percent of the U.S. music market, according to the latest numbers from MRC Data, a music-analytics firm. Those...

As Pythagoras discovered about 2,500 years ago, music is deeply mathematical, and it’s possible to represent melody using numbers and ratios. After finishing his undergraduate degree in 2010, Ed Newton-Rex went to visit his girlfriend, who was studying at Harvard. He...

Studies cite the physical, mental, and social benefits of volunteering—three ingredients to overall wellness. Volunteering our time can translate to significant physical benefits simply by getting us off the sofa, out of the house, and moving our bodies. Volunteering...

An inquiry is the process of discovering something unknown to conscious awareness. The purpose of inquiry as a practice is to gain deeper insight and understanding into your own essential nature. The inquiry process always begins with your present moment experience....

Students in The Netherlands have designed a solar-powered SUV that doubles as a small camper van to produce the ultimate concept car for off-grid adventure in sunny climates. Driving it 620 miles across Morocco, the Stella Terra as it’s called showed a wide variety of...

A generous woman decided to do something fun with her last wishes, offering her car to anyone who would come to attend her funeral. Her name was Diane Sweeney, a lover of family, faith, and her WV Beetle. Passing away suddenly in July of last year, she had told her...

Did "The Shining" scar you for life the first time you saw it? The classic horror movie has everything that could possibly creep you out and force you to run under your covers with no intention of ever resurfacing: supernatural forces, the slow-burning insanity of...

The concept of deep reading is similar to the practice of Lectio Divina for understanding scripture. Whether it is done individually or in a group setting, there are four essential parts to Lectio Divina: Read the passage Meditate on its meaning Ask for Revelation...