Yantras: Energy and Colour To Help Understand Our Existence
February 24, 2010 | Consciousness
There are several theories about the use of yantras – whether in terms of energy and colour, or their association with certain mantras. Understanding our existence could throw some light on mantras and their significance.
Why Music Training Should Not
Be Cut Out of School Curriculums
February 22, 2010 | Sound
At the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting, a Northwestern University neuroscientist will argue that music training has profound effects that shape the sensory system and should be a mainstay of K-12 education.
Positive Emotions Protect
Us Against Heart Disease
February 18, 2010 | Happiness
People who are usually happy, enthusiastic and content are less likely to develop heart disease than those who tend not to be happy, according to a major new study published today.
Can Scientists Measure Love?
February 11, 2010 | Love
Can scientists try to get to the bottom of long-term romance and how it affects our emotional and physical well-being. Leave it to science to take all the fun out of something as cosmically pure as love.
Changes in The Brain Linked
To Altered Spirituality
February 10, 2010 | Consciousness
Changes to specific parts of the brain boosted levels of spiritual thinking and feeling in patients, a finding that adds new insight into the connection between religious attitudes and the physical makeup of the mind, researchers say.
Music As an Expression of Knowledge
February 4, 2010 | Sound
What we know could be approached in four ways: introverted, ambiverted, extroverted, and what I call ‘ultra-extroverted’.
Music is one way in which all four methods are used. It is hard to find a person who does not like music and hence music is an effective unifying force.
Is Realization A Chemical Reaction?
February 3, 2010 | Happiness
The thought process is a continuous activity. The development of specific neuronal networks may be responsible for the conditioning that occurs. Belief systems, behavioural traits and even temperament are all effects of conditioning.