by Shawn Radcliffe | Jun 25, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga
Most people will be exposed to a traumatic event at some point in their lives, either directly or indirectly. In one global survey by the World Health Organization, 70 percent of people had experienced at least one such event, with an average of three per person. This...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Jun 11, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga
Recently I wrote about common barriers to practicing mindfulness such as illness, doubt, or laziness. Many of us have experienced at least one of these when sitting down to meditate or even when deciding whether to go to a yoga class. But there are also wider social...
by Shawn Radcliffe | May 28, 2020 | Health, Meditation, Yoga
Anyone who’s taken a yoga class already knows that it can reduce stress. The same holds for mindfulness-based stress reduction programs (MBSR), whose name says it all. But what if you combined the two? Can mindfulness and yoga together provide even more stress relief?...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Dec 3, 2018 | Health, Medicine, Science
Most people have experienced sadness at some point in their lives. These moods are often fleeting, but people with depression can have a hard time breaking free of the downward spiral that accompanies this illness. They may even have trouble imagining that breaking...
by Shawn Radcliffe | Dec 3, 2018 | Science
When people take the psychoactive drug MDMA, commonly known as ecstasy, they become happier, more social and feel closer to others. A group of researchers studying this drug recently found that octopuses may respond in a similar way, in spite of how different they are...