Mindfully Healing

It is also a generally protective factor against health problems. More intelligent people are at a lower risk of suicide, research finds. In fact, intelligence emerges as a generally protective factor against health problems. People with higher intelligence are also less likely to suffer heart attacks and have accidents. Dr David Batty, the study’s first author, said: “People with higher IQ test scores tend to be less likely to smoke or drink alcohol heavily, they eat better diets, and they are more physically active. So they have a range of

The obvious strategy for controlling emotions is not always the best, study finds. Sometimes it pays not to keep your emotions in check, research finds. While controlling your emotions is usually thought of as being healthy, it isn’t always. When there is something you can do about a situation, emotions help to motivate action. Because emotions encourage us to look for solutions, they can help us escape from difficult situations. If you reason the emotions away, then you are less likely to make the necessary changes. However, when there is

Both happiness and general well-being were boosted in the study of 395 people. Taking a few moments to stop and look at something in the natural environment is enough to make people happier, research finds. LIterally, ‘stopping and smelling the roses’, or in this case noticing anything in the natural world really does work. Both happiness and well-being were boosted by noticing things like a bird, a house plant, a dandelion in the sidewalk, or just the sun shining through the window. In the research, people took a photo of