Touch, Love And Caring

Running Out Of Time

Hearing that your illness cannot be cured is a devastating experience.  Rather than using the dreaded words “terminally ill”, the Koreans describe it in a more compassionate way, namely as “running out of time”.  As a matter of fact, all of us are all running out of time, and we

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Smiling Is A Powerful Mood-booster

“The smile is the shortest distance between two persons.” Victor Borge. The act of smiling has intrigued scientists over the ages. The best-known earlier study in this regard was a French study on smiling, whose findings were published in 1862. The French anatomist Guillaume Duchenne studied emotional expression by stimulating

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Gratitude

Keeping a gratitude journal seems to be one of the latest self-help fads doing the rounds.  Is this just another trendy self-improvement activity?  Apart from a “feel-good” experience, is there any scientific proof of the value of keeping such a journal, and what would the value be? What is gratitude?

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What Makes A Happy Life?

Have you ever wondered which factors contribute to a good life? Why do some people live happy lives? And others not? A study tracking the lives of 724 men over the past 78 years has come up with some very interesting findings. This Harvard Study of Adult Development has found

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The Chemistry Of Intimacy

A bumper sticker from the hippy era in the Sixties read: “Candy is dandy, but sex don’t rot your teeth!”   Apart from the “feel good” emotional benefits, are there are any other physiological benefits for your body? Hugging: Hugging increases levels of oxytocin, the so called “love hormone”, which

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Touch, Love And Caring

THE CHEMISTRY OF INTIMACY A bumper sticker from the hippy era in the Sixties read: “Candy is dandy, but sex don’t rot your teeth!”  It would be such a bonus when something that feels so good, is really good for you.  Apart from the “feel good” and other emotional benefits,

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