Ideas, content aiding overall wellbeing, ease and fulfilment
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 18/09/2010 - 9:38am
It's to me quite amazing how much we can ignore some simple concepts that are so hugely important to our wellbeing.
In a LGGO meeting recently we got talking about what "great outcomes" really mean.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Wed, 22/02/2012 - 6:47am
Any conception of happiness that focuses on 'me' and 'my wants' is ultimately barren, Ross Gittins explains.
Most of the academic study of happiness relies on surveys that ask people to rate their satisfaction with their lives on a scale of, say, one to 10. That's a bit broader, but recent research suggests people's answers to such a question are too greatly influenced by how they were feeling at the time they were asked.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sun, 31/07/2011 - 2:30am
FINANCIAL stress is the equivalent of a cold shower.
A survey by Relationships Australia has revealed that people's sex lives improve along with their income - and that the magic number for satisfaction starts at about $80,000.
Only 44 per cent of people with a household income under $60,000 a year are sexually active, compared with 81 per cent of people with a household income of more than $80,000 a year.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Wed, 06/04/2011 - 11:53am
Meditation can deliver powerful pain-relieving effects to the brain with even just 80 minutes' training for a beginner in an exercise called focused attention, a study released on Tuesday found.
"This is the first study to show that only a little over an hour of meditation training can dramatically reduce both the experience of pain and pain-related brain activation," said Fadel Zeidan, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral research fellow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Centre in North Carolina.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Fri, 15/10/2010 - 8:39am
Scientists investigating gender differences in pain have found that not only do women report more pain throughout the course of their lifetime, they also experience it in more bodily areas, more often and for longer duration when compared to men.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Sat, 18/09/2010 - 11:05am
Here's more data to call into question the standard approach to dis-ease, of finding a quick pill or potion to encourage and facilitate health and wellbeing.
PUBLIC health experts have called for an independent body to monitor drug safety after it emerged that young children were more likely to end up in hospital because of side effects from a flu vaccine than they were from the disease itself.
Submitted by procreative-admin on Mon, 13/09/2010 - 11:50pm
Research confirms those who are physically competent, in such areas as balancing on one leg, rising from a seated position, live longer.
"Scientists at the Medical Research Council analysed the results of 33 studies into the link between ability to carry out simple physical tasks and age of death.
They found people who performed better at tasks including:
1) gripping
2) walking
3) rising from a chair and
