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The Effects of Collective Trauma

Posted on March 29, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

The Effects of Collective Trauma Is our society sick? …[Gabor Mate, MD, writes in The Myth of Normal that normal mental health is a myth because our society is not healthy.] Has our society been sick for hundreds, if not thousands of years? [“Today’s culture stresses the body, burdens the immune system, and undermines

Quantum Entanglement and YOU

Posted on March 6, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

Quantum Entanglement and YOU Have you noticed that the recent Nobel for Physics was awarded for experiments that confirmed a phenomenon known as “Quantum Entanglement”? While the concept of quantum entanglement has been around for more than 80 years, scientists are only just able to definitively prove its existence as the foundation of our reality, and

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health changing humanity's future, Einstein, future initiative, Oneness, physics, quantum entanglement

NEWS: On Voice Hearing

Posted on March 2, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

There are communities in which hearing voices frequently is common and expected, and in which participants are not expected to have a need for care. This paper compares the ideas and practices of these communities. Voice Hearing in Community We observe that these communities utilize cultural models to identify and to explain voice-like events—and that

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Psychosis hearing voices, mediumship, mental health, mental illness, psychosis, voice hearing

What is Mind vis a vis Mental Health?

Posted on January 25, 2023 by Emma Bragdon

Mind Defined …At a meeting of 40 scientists across disciplines, including neuroscientists, physicists, sociologists, and anthropologists, the aim was to come to an understanding of the mind that would appeal to common ground and satisfy those wrestling with the question [of what it is] across these fields. After much discussion, they decided that a key

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health Dan Siegel, mental health, mental illness, mind, mindfulness, self

Group Meditation Decreases US National Stress

Posted on December 24, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

A seventeen-year landmark study finds that group meditation decreases US national stress World Journal of Social Science published a study showing that group practice of the TM and TM-Sidhi techniques by ?1% of a population decreased multiple stress indicators in the U.S.. Scientists call for a group to create world peace. MAHARISHI INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY IMAGE: SIZE

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Meditation create peace, group meditation, meditation, sidhi, sidhi meditation

What the Science Shows

Posted on October 20, 2022 by Emma Bragdon 2 Comments

Science Speaks and Relies on Open Discussion Since there has been little debate in the major media to discuss diverse points of view on the science concerned with how to manage the pandemic…It’s time we create places for discussion. Science speaks! Please feel free to add your perspective below. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. has

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Research children's health defense, luc montagnier, pandemic, robert f. kennedy jr., robert malone, science

Two Books Re: Adding Spirituality to Mental Healthcare

Posted on September 29, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

Dr. Powell Many health problems arise from emotional and spiritual suffering and need to be addressed at a deeper level than technology and medications. Research findings and clinical experience increasingly reveal that spiritual factors have a significant part to play in recovery from illness. Dr. Andrew Powell, a UK psychiatrist, has been deeply engaged in

Posted in Integrative Mental Health Andrew Powell, awakening, dr. powell, Global Hospital and Research Centre, janki foundation, mental health, psychiatrist, psychiatry, spirituality

Exercise & Mental Health 2022 Report

Posted on August 30, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

Hot off the press, this report summarizes the last three decades of research on the links between exercise and mental health. Does Exercise Impact Mental Health? Briefly: Existing scientific research overwhelmingly indicates that exercise and physical activity benefit mental health. 89% of all published peer-reviewed research between 1990 and 2022 found a positive, statistically significant

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Research depression, exercise, fitness, integrative mental health, mental health, movement

Depression NOT Linked to Serotonin Imbalance!?

Posted on July 25, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

“The main areas of serotonin research provide no consistent evidence of there being an association between serotonin and depression, and no support for the hypothesis that depression is caused by lowered serotonin activity or concentrations.” * Depression: A Serotonin Deficiency? For decades now people have been led to believe that depression is caused by

Posted in Integrative Mental Health, Mental Health anti-depressant, antidepressants, chemical abnormalities, chemical imbalance, depression, Joanna Moncrrieff, Mark Horowitz, serotonin

Update: What’s Most Effective vs. Depression?

Posted on May 6, 2022 by Emma Bragdon

Early in the pandemic depression tripled, from 8.5% just before to 27.8%, then skyrocketed to 32.8% in 2021. For Perspective… Depression Rates Soar In the U.S. in 2017, an estimated 17.3 million American adults, or 7.1% of the adult population, experienced at least one major depressive episode. The highest rates were reported among those

Posted in Depression, Integrative Mental Health anti-depressants, depression, evidence-based medicine, exercise, integrative mental health, major depression, psychiatric medication, suicide

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