Mindfully Healing

This personality trait is on the rise among the younger generation. The personality trait of entitlement can lead to chronic disappointment, psychologists have concluded. Entitlement is believing you are better than others and deserve more than them. Unfortunately people who feel entitled often enter a spiral of habitual behaviour that is toxic. From anger they tend to lash out at others, blaming them. At the same time they continue to tell themselves that they are special. Dr Joshua Grubbs, the study’s first author, said: “At extreme levels, entitlement is a

Small study sees improvements in those with ‘untreatable’ depression with no side-effects. Learning to control your own brain waves could be an effective treatment for severe depression, new research finds. The small pilot study found that a technique called neurofeedback helped severely depressed people whose depression had proved very hard to treat. Neurofeedback involves patients concentrating on a readout of their own brain waves. Over time, people can learn to control and change them. Professor Eun-Jin Cheon, the study’s first author, said: “Neurofeedback has been trialed with psychological conditions in

The real reason some people enjoy listening to sad music. Music that makes you cry gives pleasure, new research finds. This might help to explain the enduring popularity of sad music. The results come from a study that tested the cathartic effect of sad music. Participants in the study were divided into two groups based on their responses to four questions: “While listening to music, how frequently do you (1) get goose bumps, (2) feel shivers down your spine, (3) feel like weeping, and (4) get a lump in your