Mental fatigue has psychological triggers − new research suggests challenging goals can head it off (theconversation.com)
Productivity: Are We Okay? (www.youtube.com)
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1 Hour | ASMR : Healing Cat Massage and Happy Purring for Focus, Relaxation, and Deep Sleep (www.youtube.com)
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The Missing Apex of Maslow’s Hierarchy Could Save Us All (bigthink.com)
When the night is too short. Bedtime procrastination, self-compassion, and sleep in a daily diary study - PubMed (pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
The Hidden Powers of Everyday Ritual (thereader.mitpress.mit.edu)
New psychology research identifies belief in one's equal rights as a key mental health factor (www.psypost.org)
Learning to Accept Discomfort Could Help You Thrive (www.scientificamerican.com)
Council Post: How Can Writing Help With Self-Development? (www.forbes.com)
Anger Has Benefits for Attaining Goals (www.apa.org)
How to start having more fun | Psyche Guides (psyche.co)
Regulating emotions during negative experiences may lessen troubling memories (medicalxpress.com)
Suppressing negative thoughts may be good for mental health after all (www.cam.ac.uk)
Meditation is more than either stress relief or enlightenment (www.vox.com)
How coin tosses can lead to better decisions (www.bbc.com)
Mister Rogers Had a Point: Routinely Greeting Six Neighbors Maximizes Wellbeing Outcomes (www.goodnewsnetwork.org)
Celestial seasonings sleepytime tea has no overt effect on me
Ingredients in order: chamomile, spearmint, lemongrass, tilia flowers, blackberry leaves, orange blossoms, Hawthorn, rosebuds
Some preliminary studies suggest that a chamomile dietary supplement might be helpful for generalized anxiety disorder. (www.nccih.nih.gov)
There’s very little information on chamomile’s effect on insomnia. A 2019 review of six small studies included only one study on insomnia. That one study found that chamomile had no benefit for insomnia. The same 2019 review looked at five studies on chamomile’s effect in non-insomnia populations. The review concluded that...
Regular daytime naps linked to bigger, healthier brains (newatlas.com)
Can parents give their children too much attention? (theconversation.com)
Nicotine is unusual in comparison to most drugs, as its profile changes from stimulant to sedative with increasing dosagesl
Nicotine is unusual in comparison to most drugs, as its profile changes from stimulant to sedative with increasing dosages, a phenomenon known as “Nesbitt’s paradox” after the doctor who first described it in 1969
Preemptive drinking 7 shots before trauma can reduce flashbacks. But 3 shots increase rates of flashbacks (www.sciencedaily.com)
So if you know with 100% certain you’re about to be tortured for 5 minutes, not a bad idea to get hammered. But if they wait til you sober up a little then torture you, it’ll be worse.
Spicy food helps with depression (www.infoonaging.com)
Alcohol consumption activates cortisol both during consumption and after (en.m.wikipedia.org)
Which is why it’s a poor anti anxiety thing and poor sleep aid
How people wake up is associated with previous night’s sleep together with physical activity and food intake (www.nature.com)
