Health and Happiness Tips: Nature, Blue Space and Science
Being in blue spaces - the science We’re familiar with the term ‘green space’, and how it does us good (see my blog here [...]
Health and Happiness Tips: 5 ways to Happiness – Part 1
Today's blog is all about how to be happy... 5 fabulous, fool-proof ways to feel happier - based on science Like most people, you [...]
Health and Happiness Tips: Beliefs, Placebos, Health and Happiness
Welcome to the health and happiness blog. Today we are looking at beliefs. There’s often some confusion about what I mean by 'beliefs’ as [...]
Health and Happiness Tips: Oxytocin, Hugs, Health and Happiness
Welcome to the health and happiness blog. This week’s topic concerns a hormone that not many people know about, called oxytocin. Oxytocin’s role in [...]
Health and Happiness Tips: Priming, Negative Bias and Intention
Welcome to today’s blog on the importance of Priming, Negativity Bias and Intention. This is being posted on Monday morning in the UK, to help [...]
Health and Happiness Tips: Self-compassion
Welcome to today’s blog, all about self-compassion and self-kindness. This is being posted on Monday morning in the UK, to help you start your week [...]
Music and health: Research papers
Music references There’s a wealth of research into the effects of music on health. Here are some that show the range of reported effects. [...]
Music and emotions
I came across an interesting article today on how music affects the brain. All musicians know the difference between a major and minor chord, [...]
Vic has her entire future riding on the next 3 days…
You may have noticed that Facebook has a new trick; it re-posts your memories from 1,2,3 or more years ago. Yesterday it posted one to [...]
Come to my lecture: this monday Nov 4th Cheltenham
If you're free monday night and want to get on with having a great life then switch an evening in front of the tv for [...]