Cognitive Stimulation Therapy

Why Should You Contemplate More? The importance of experiencing your own existence. From the Greek philosopher Plato to the Buddha to modern psychology, the value of contemplation as a means of fostering well-being and wisdom has been known for a long time. Some of...

A Virginia woman was feeling sad. Her doctor prescribed her a cat. Robin Sipe’s eyes filled with tears as soon as her doctor entered the examining room. “My cat had recently died and I was feeling really sad and depressed,” Sipe said she told her pulmonologist, Earl...

A Man Pulled Some Unusual Art from a Dumpster, Thinking It’d Be Fun for Halloween Decor. It May Actually Be Worth a Scary Amount  Four and a half years ago, a mechanic pulled a trove of unidentified artworks from a Connecticut Dumpster, hoping to use them for...

Survey in 142 places around world reveals in which countries people take greatest pleasure in eating – and least The study asked about 1,000 people in 142 countries and locations, from Australia to Algeria, whether they had enjoyed the food they had eaten in the...

Happiness is a choice, not a result. Nothing will make you happy until you choose to be happy. Most people go through life thinking that happiness is something that happens to them as a result of success or something good happening, for example, getting a pay rise or...

Speaking a tonal language could boost your melodic ability, but at the cost of rhythm. Your native language could impact your musical ability. A global study that compared the melodic and rhythmic abilities of almost half a million people speaking 54 different...

There is no doubt that sound can stress us out. It’s impossible to ignore the wail of an ambulance or a needy baby, or the racket of a leaf blower on a fall morning. Even more subdued noises, like chewing or off-key humming, can be enough to put us on edge. But the...

Society often defines Empowerment as: “authority or power given to someone to do something”. This suggests that a person becomes empowered by something outside of themselves, that it is something given to them by another person. We often hear about being empowered by...

Natural environments are known to promote physical, mental, and spiritual healing. People can attain health benefits by spending time outside, often in remote places to “get away from it all.” Now research conducted by a University of Minnesota graduate student shows...

The U.S. space agency has partnered with ICON, a pioneering construction company to build dwellings using 3-D printers and concrete made from space materials. NASA is about to make yet another giant leap for mankind. According to The New York Times, NASA believes that...