"Learn how adjusting your thoughts can change your health—from the “mother of mindfulness” and first female tenured professor of psychology at Harvard.
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Can changing your thoughts improve your health? We tend to live our lives as though our ailments—our stiff knees or frayed nerves or diminished eyesight—can change only in one direction: for the worse. Award-winning social psychologist Ellen J. Langer’s life’s work proves the fault in this negative outlook as well as the healing power of its alternative: mindfulness—the process of active noticing where we are not bound by past experience or conventional wisdom."

The Mindful Body
Thinking Our Way to Chronic Health
By Ellen J. Langer
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/705365/the-mindful-body-by-ellen-j-langer/

#psychology #clinicalpsychology #geriatrics #depression #health #reminiscencetherapy #mindful #book

The healing power of reminiscing
https://blogs.bcm.edu/2025/01/27/the-healing-power-of-reminiscing/

#psychology #reminiscencetherapy #geriatrics #depression #healing

Apart from a few low level paintings I haven’t felt like posting much lately. Lack of money hasn’t helped my mood either. I’ve also entered into a blocked phase and convinced myself that I I’ve forgotten how to paint and can’t do it anymore.

But I’m determined to overcome this, somehow, by doing pencil sketches of people and attempting some ink paintings (both disastrously). I have to get back to my training, and get the pipeline up and running again.

#artblock #blocked #depression #artist

DATE: April 27, 2026 at 02:30PM
SOURCE: GOODNEWSNETWORK.ORG

TITLE: ‘Lightning in a Bottle’ Transforms Methane into High-Demand Methanol Through Breakthrough Process

URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/lightning-in-a-bottle-transforms-methane-into-high-demand-methanol-through-breakthrough-process/

By harnessing tiny bursts of plasma—or “mini lightning bolts”—in glass tubes submerged in water, chemists have discovered a new way to turn natural gas into liquid fuel. Utilizing literal “lighting in a bottle” the team from Northwestern University successfully converted methane directly into methanol in a single step. Methanol is a versatile, high-demand industrial chemical […]

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URL: https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/lightning-in-a-bottle-transforms-methane-into-high-demand-methanol-through-breakthrough-process/

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#psychology #depression #goodnews #goodnewsthread #happy #happynews #SpreadJoy #PositiveVibes #CommunityLove #SpreadLight #goodnewnetworkorg #positivescience #science @goodnews

FDA Approves Human Trial for Brain Implant Targeting Treatment-Resistant Depression

📰 Original title: A Brain Implant for Depression Is About to Be Tested in Humans

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View full AI summary: https://killbait.com/en/fda-approves-human-trial-for-brain-implant-targeting-treatment-resistant-depression/?redirpost=5e0fb9b4-c7cb-46ba-ab8b-d1611ad0d7bd

#neuroscience #brainimplant #depression #neurotechnology