Several small studies have shown that sound frequencies from things like tuning forks and even humming cause nitric oxide to be released in our cells.

form, demonstrates “the complexities with which our brain constructs the world in and around us, because it unifies thought and language, music and imagery in a clear, manageable way, most often with play, pleasure, and emotion.”

poem that truly resonates with us does so at a neurological level by stimulating the areas of the brain that are associated with meaning-making and the interpretation of reality.

If this stress response isn’t quickly resolved—if she takes this experience home with her over the weekend—then she moves into the second stage, known as adaptation. Here, the body prepares for the long haul by continuing to secrete stress hormones, which can lead to insomnia, muscular pain, indigestion, and even allergies or a small cold. She migh

In 2015, Pulitzer Prize–winning poet Mary Oliver sat down with Krista Tippett, host of the popular podcast On Being.

This is what’s known as social prescribing, and it’s happening in the U.K., Canada, and the United States. Physicians, psychologists, social workers, and others are prescribing singing classes for stress, museum visits and concert tickets for anxiety, and nature walks for burnout—offering prevention and intervention.

aesthetics into your life and see how it changes your mood. The list is endless and the results are immediate.

In each of your feet, you have more than 700,000 nerve endings that are constantly taking in physical sensation. Touch receptors in your skin connect to neurons in the spinal cord by way of sensory nerves that reach the thalamus in the middle of the head on top of the brain stem.

“Black and Indigenous people don’t experience post-traumatic stress disorder. We experience persistent and pervasive traumatic stress. It’s ongoing,” Resmaa says. “White body supremacy weathers and erodes the brain architecture. It weathers the endocrine system. It weathers the musculoskeletal system. It weathers the reproductive system. It is the