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Both extraverts and introverts need solitude to recharge — although introverts prefer to have more alone time, psychologists find.
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While 'peer pressure' is often linked to experiences of children or teenagers, researchers say young adults continue to succumb to similar pressures of social conformity in everyday situations.
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EMOTIONAL CONTAGION LEADS TO SOCIAL WELL-BEING
Emotional contagion is another factor at play in the kindness phenomenon.
According to researchers, emotional contagion is where one “catches” the emotions of others. So if you’re feeling particularly cheery for example, others around you are likely to become more cheerful
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KINDNESS CAN BE CULTIVATED
According to Steve Siegle of the Mayo Clinic, kindness is “a quality of being you can cultivate.” This is particularly good news for those who are confused about how to be intentionally kind.
Looking at kindness from the perspective of the person who’s being kind, Siegle tells us kindness boosts the feel-good hormones, serotonin and dopamine, and “can decrease blood pressure and cortisol, a hormone directly correlated with stress levels.” So not only are we positively impacting others, kindness is a well-being medicine for us too.#
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On the eve of the battle, Arjuna asks Krishna to drive his chariot between the two armies. Swami Kriyananda writes: “Krishna became Arjuna’s charioteer. Symbolically, what the chariot represents is the human body, the horses representing the five senses. . . . Arjuna invited the Lord to guide the chariot of his life, holding the reins of his senses and steering his course through the coming battle. Thus, the devotee also must try always to see God alone as the Doer of all his actions.
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SADHU EVERYMAN
Swamiji calls Arjuna “Sadhu Everyman,” for he represents our own inner warrior who must fight to reclaim our soul kingdom. Though we ask God to drive the chariot of our life, it is we who must fight the battle with all of the strength and courage we can summon, for the opposing army of material consciousness is very powerful. Still it is God alone, whose presence we invite into our life, who determines our final victory.
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Physicalism is a relatively new phenomenon in the history of our species; before the birth of the Scientific Method in the late 18th century, everybody accepted a worldview centred upon the supernatural, and a divine purpose to reality. As science and industry and technology made rapid progress, improving the quality of human experience, we became ready to abandon the divine (which had been shackled via religion to social control) as irrational superstition. Yet the leading edge of science is now coming to realise that there is vastly more to the Cosmos than the Newtonian paradigm can explain. The concept of consciousness as 'Big C' (cosmic scale) and 'small-c' (as experienced by ourselves individually) is crucial here. The two must intersect and align for effects to be noticed. I believe in the evolution of consciousness. In terms of research, I would posit that the consistent 0.15% to 0.2% above-chance results recorded across vast number of experiments on human subjects will, over decades and centuries, tend upward. Over millennia, we will be able read one another's minds, and by then, no one will question it. Will we make it over millennia? Yes we will. [With emphasis on the 'will'.]
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Your genes change before you’re even born, and as you grow, epigenetics helps determine which function a cell is going to have in your body. Your epigenetics as a newborn were different than they are now. While science is working out the kinks, it’s thought that your choice of lifestyle can influence whether your genes are more likely to work with you or against you. This study is an example of that, showing that it’s possible to offset genes that predispose you to premature death by living a healthier lifestyle by a significant margin. In this case, up to a staggering 62 percent.
The findings are published in BMJ Evidence-Based Medicine.
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