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How Disasters Thousands Of Miles Away Can Trigger PTSD In Kids

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Written by: Jonathan S. Comer and Anthony Steven Dick, Florida International University

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Our latest research uses brain scans to show how simply watching news coverage of disasters can raise childen’s anxiety and trigger responses in their brains that put them at risk of post-traumatic stress symptoms.

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Here’s How To Get Children Moving

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Written by: Alison Owen, Staffordshire University

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Research from around the world has examined the extent that COVID-19 restrictions have had on children and their levels of physical activity.

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Teaching Children To Understand Others’ Perspectives

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Written by: Matt Shipman, North Carolina State University

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Children are capable of discerning an insincere apology, and insincere apologies are not conducive to encouraging forgiveness. The apology needs to make clear that someone understands why what they did was wrong. This, in turn, makes other kids more likely to give them a second chance.

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Here Is The Best Way To Counter Hate Speech

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Written by: ETH Zurich, University of Zurich

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It’s possible to curb online hate speech by inducing empathy for those affected, research on “counterspeech” finds.

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Freeing the Female Orgasm

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Written by: Al Link and Pala Copeland

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Women's capacity for orgasm seems almost limitless. Why is it then that many women are frustrated rather than satisfied? Why is it that for so many loving couples, the female orgasm remains an elusive dream; one in which she's perhaps become resigned to sex that's..

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Transforming Sexual Energy with Taoist Practices

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Written by: Mantak Chia

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To be a Taoist is to experience life as a harmonious flow of life energy. In the traditional Taoist terms, this flow in humans is from breath to sex essence to spirit. It flows both visibly and invisibly, in a never-ending cycle. Regardless of your attitude toward life...

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How The Pandemic Has Changed Dating, Sex, And Love

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Written by: Barbara Brosher, Indiana University.

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The pandemic has caused a dramatic shift in people’s priorities when it comes to dating, sex, and love, according to an annual study on single adults.

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So You Think Nobody Is Interested In You?

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Written by: Molly Dannenmaier, UT Austin

people are interested in youWe wrongly assume that other people are somewhat indifferent towards us, so we avoid more intimate conversation, thinking it would be awkward,

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Can Parents Make The World A Better Place By Teaching Creativity?

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Written by: Sareh Karami, Mississippi State University et al

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Creativity involves the production of ideas that are both new and also useful or effective. This definition makes it sound as though creativity is quite positive. And often it is.

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Can You Really Make People Be Nice To You?

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Written by: Bradley T Hughes, John Flournoy, Sanjay Srivastava

How To Make People Be Nice To You

When two people meet for the first time, they tend to see the other person as having a similar personality to their own.

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How to Make Spiritual Contact with The Other Side

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Written by: Mark Anthony, JD

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Everyone is capable of perceiving spirits and intuitive messages. The key is learning to recognize the presence of spirits and the signs they present, accepting the reality of the contact...

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How to Make Spiritual Contact with The Other Side (Video)

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Written by: Mark Anthony, JD

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Everyone is capable of perceiving spirits and intuitive messages. The key is learning to recognize the presence of spirits and the signs they present, accepting the reality of the contact...

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Healing Negative Experiences Through Tension Release

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Written by: Carmen Viktoria Gamper

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Tension release is a significant part of self-healing in children and adults, and it is unavoidable when we become more present with ourselves in flow experiences.

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Healing Negative Experiences Through Tension Release (Video)

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Written by: Carmen Viktoria Gamper

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Tension release is a significant part of self-healing in children and adults, and it is unavoidable when we become more present with ourselves in flow experiences.

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Loving Relationships and a Peaceful Soul

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Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

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All of us, even animals, need to love and be loved. We need it for basic survival, we need it for growth, both physical and emotional, and we need it for happiness. 

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Loving Relationships and a Peaceful Soul (Video)

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Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com

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All of us, even animals, need to love and be loved. We need it for basic survival, we need it for growth, both physical and emotional, and we need it for happiness. 

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Pleasure: The Medicine of Sensing and Being Here Now

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Written by: Julia Paulette Hollenbery

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Ancient Vedic texts describe the universe and everything in it, including us, as being made of bliss. Bliss is our underlying nature, discoverable through a focus on this moment of experience.

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Pleasure: The Medicine of Sensing and Being Here Now (Video)

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Written by: Julia Paulette Hollenbery

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Ancient Vedic texts describe the universe and everything in it, including us, as being made of bliss. Bliss is our underlying nature, discoverable through a focus on this moment of experience.

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Does Genuine Sex Education Require Esoteric Techniques?

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Written by: Lee Lozowick

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When most people think of the word "sex" they think of copulation, not Life. They think of what happens for a specific period of time with specific physical organs, (possibly including a little foreplay and afterplay), and they limit sex to that.

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Essential Tips for the Journey: Release Fear and Take Care of Yourself

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Written by: Bailey Gaddis

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Suppressing fear-induced emotions infuses life into them, often causing a manifestation of depression or unpleasant physical symptoms. Here is a plan to liberate the emotions surrounding your fears so they can have their moment and then go bother someone else.

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Teens with secure family relationships pay it forward with empathy for friends

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Written by: Jessica Stern, Postdoctoral Research Fellow of Psychology, University of Virginia

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Teens with more secure family relationships get a head start on developing empathy, according to my colleagues’ and my new study tracking adolescents into adulthood.

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