Certain Uncertainty Volatility. The times are out of joint, with nearly certain uncertainty stalking people’s thoughts. People tell me of sleeplessness unprecedented since 9/11, of aimless worry keeping up those who have slept well throughout their lives. Is their concern hurricanes, floods, global climate change? The nation’s three wars, or its paralyzing political deadlock? The […]
Using hypnosis (Carin Friedman 8/31/11)
THE MANY USES OF CLINICAL HYPNOSIS by Carin Friedman Imagine a simple, harmless, non-evasive treatment that can resolve a multitude of emotional and physical symptoms. Hypnosis, or hypnotherapy, is a mind-body technique that has the potential to bring about remarkable and enduring healing quickly – often in as little as one to three […]
Is Rest Critical to Creativity? (8/23/11)
Where Is Music in the Mind? You may never have heard of Charles Limb. He’s a otolaryngologist and musician with joint appointments at the Johns Hopkins Medical School and the Peabody Institute, one of the nation’s finer music consrvatories. He wants the cochlear implants he puts in people’s ears to hear music better, and figures […]
Will my TV kill me? (8/17/11)
Does Watching TV Shorten Your Life? Twenty one point eight minutes of lost life for every hour watched. That’s the precise measurement coming from a widely reported Australian study of watching TV. Based on 11,000 adults, they estimate that Australian males, averaging 2 hours of TV a day, will see their lifespan decrease by 1.8 […]
How to sleep in the heat (8/15/11)
It’s Hot Out There There are riots, financial meltdowns, fiscal crises. It’s hot out there. Global climate change may be a myth to some non-scientists, but most models of global weather predict greater volatility – more extreme hot weather and cold, more floods and hurricanes – for a long time to come. And then there’s […]