For the new study, Grant and Rainville exposed 13 Zen masters and 13 comparable non-practitioners to equal degrees of painful heat while measuring their brain activity in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. The meditators reported feeling less pain than the control group. In fact, the meditating group reported feelings of pain at levels below what their neurological output from the fMRI indicated. In other words, their brains were receiving pain signals, but they weren’t translating them into actual feelings of pain....

How Mindfulness Plays a Role in Sleep Many healthcare workers are under more stress now than ever. While previous studies have examined the role mindfulness may play in helping us get a better sleep, in this case, researchers at the University of South Florida asked the opposite question: They wanted to see if medical staffers’ quality of sleep might be linked to how well they paid attention. To do so, they monitored the sleep habits of 61 full-time nurses for two consecutive weeks....

Show your husband you’ve missed him with this simple note and sweet treat! My husband was due to arrive home after being gone for a few days. We wanted to show him that we had missed him in a fun way. I picked up some donut holes from a local bakery, set them out on a plate, and wrote this quick note. Pretty cheesy but he loved it and knew we had really missed him....

My favorite season to cook with onions is in springtime when you can get them fresh. Fresh onions are a little milder than their dried counterparts because the drying process concentrates heir flavor. Regardless of which variety you use, onions are a flavor powerhouse. They can form the base for a hearty soup or stew, they can shine as the star of a dish, or they can be used sparingly as a garnish, adding zing to any meal....

Love Assumi Northeast Viral Video Love Assumi Northeast Viral Video As per the latest insights of cops, 5 offenders from Bangladesh including a lady have been captured by the police on Thursday. They have an association with the attacking, badgering, and assault of lady cases in Ramamurthy Nagar, Madras. The video was viral in North-East, India. Afterward, when the argument was documented against them, the Assam police gave the photographs of guilty parties via web-based media and furthermore, vowed to compensate any individual who will give the data to the police....