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A [new study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29616846) indicates that people who meditated over an eight-week period had a striking change in the expression of 172 genes that regulate inflammation, circadian rhythms and glucose metabolism. And that, in turn, was linked to a meaningful decrease in their blood pressure.
Harvard Study: Clearing Your Mind Affects Your Genes and Can Lower Your Blood Pressure
Richard Knox
While in graduate school and mulling relationship problems, Marc Berman did something that felt faintly ludicrous: He walked up to an oak tree and started talking to it.
Society Needs a Doctor’s Prescription for Nature
Oliver Milman
That means reckoning with what’s called ambiguous loss: any loss that’s unclear and lacks a resolution. It can be physical, such as a missing person or the loss of a limb or organ, or psychological, such as a family member with dementia or a serious addiction.
Your ‘Surge Capacity’ Is Depleted — It’s Why You Feel Awful
elemental.medium.com
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