Yoga insight on memory & karma
According to yoga science, mind and body are in constant interaction. There isn’t a point where the body ends and mind begins. They are considered as a single, integrated entity. In yoga, health is...
Category: Psychology
What if your psychiatrist prescribed a trip in the forest vs antidepressants?
As a common practice in Japan, “Shinrin-yoku” are short visits to forests that allow to breath in volatile substances which improve overall immune function. A walk or trip in the forest corresponds to natural...
Does Cannabis increase creativity?
Can we measure and locate creativity in a specific brain area? To answer the above questions, we must first address creativity; its definition, and its implications. Creativity can be widely defined as the ability...
From natural selection to social selection
Since the rise of culture, evolution has taken a particular direction. It cannot be said anymore that natural selection is shaping evolution in its biological definition. What is natural selection? Natural selection is the...
The place of nature in our behaviour
We are at an ecological tipping point where studies suggest that once the earth will have warmed up by 4°C, negative retro controls will turn into positive ones (1). Meaning that certain ecosystems, such...
