Understanding the Science Behind Romantic Love
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- Written by: Gery Karantzas
Romantic love is a complex emotion shaped by historical, cultural, and biological factors. It encompasses passionate and companionate love, each evolving over time and influenced by personal experiences and societal norms. Understanding the mechanisms of love can enhance relationships and provide insight into how affection changes throughout life.
Cannabis and Memory: Understanding the Complex Effects
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- Written by: Ian Hamilton and Elizabeth Hughes
Recent research reveals the complex relationship between cannabis use and memory. While THC may impair short-term memory, CBD could offer protective benefits for neurodegenerative diseases. The impact of cannabis on memory varies greatly depending on the type and dosage, highlighting the need for a nuanced understanding of its effects.
Life's Purpose Through Meaning Extraction
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- Written by: Guillaume Thierry
The quest for life's purpose often leads to unsatisfactory answers. This article explores how the human brain's innate drive to extract meaning shapes our understanding of existence, influencing everything from language to our interactions with the world. It suggests that the pursuit of meaning may itself be the essence of our existence.
Exploring the Benefits of Floor Sitting for Health
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- Written by: Nachiappan Chockalingam and Aoife Healy
Sitting on the floor has been a natural resting position for humans throughout history, offering potential health benefits like improved posture and flexibility. While scientific evidence is limited, many health professionals advocate for floor sitting as an alternative to conventional chairs, suggesting it may help alleviate lower back pain and maintain spinal curvature.
The Journey of Barlaam and Josaphat: Buddhism in Christendom
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- Written by: Philip C. Almond
The Legend of Barlaam and Josaphat illustrates the profound connection between Buddhism and Christianity, showcasing how the life of Siddhartha Gautama was transformed into a Christian narrative. This tale, popular in medieval Europe, highlights the ascetic ideals shared by both religions and their influence on Western spirituality over the centuries.
Astrological Overview and Forecast: June 1 to 7, 2026
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- Written by: Pam Younghans
This week brings powerful cosmic shifts as dwarf planet Ceres takes center stage, joining with liberating Uranus and harmonizing with compassionate Neptune. These alignments inspire us to speak our truth while nurturing others with open hearts, whether through advocating for human rights or simply experimenting with new approaches to nourishment and care. Meanwhile, the approaching Uranus-Node square challenges us to break free from old patterns of criticism and worry, choosing instead compassion and trust as we navigate surprising revelations that could rewrite our personal stories.
InnerSelf Magazine - June 01, 2026
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This week we explore the quiet erosion happening within us—from the stories we tell ourselves about how we should look, to the mental patterns that drain our peace, to the deeper conversations we're avoiding about honesty, connection, and what truly matters. Healing begins when we turn inward with curiosity rather than judgment.
Being Honest with Ourselves and Others in an Age of Deception
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell, InnerSelf.com
In a world filled with carefully crafted images, half-truths, and misinformation, honesty can feel like a radical act. Yet true peace of mind doesn't come from maintaining appearances. It comes from aligning our words, actions, and inner truth. Discover why honesty with ourselves and others remains one of the most powerful foundations for trust, authentic relationships, and inner peace.
Don't Say A Word!
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- Written by: Marie T. Russell
When we decide to go on a diet, or quit smoking, etc. we tell our friends. We think that this will help us attain our goals more easily. After all, we told our friends and family, so we try harder to succeed... Well, new research shows that the opposite is true! You're better off not saying a word! Read this article to find out more.
Seek and Ye Shall Not Find: Getting That Will Make Me Happy
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- Written by: Julie Tallard Johnson
Happiness is often pursued through external possessions or experiences, but this quest can lead to disappointment. True fulfillment originates from within and is cultivated through ongoing engagement with life, rather than through specific outcomes. Exploring the nature of happiness reveals that it is an active, moment-to-moment experience, rather than a destination.
Hantavirus: What It Is, How People Get It, and How to Stay Safe
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- Written by: Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
You are cleaning out a dusty garage or an old shed, and it feels like a perfectly ordinary afternoon chore. But tucked inside that pile of old insulation or behind that forgotten box of holiday decorations, there could be something invisible and genuinely dangerous waiting. Hantavirus is one of those health threats that most people have never thought about until they absolutely have to, and understanding it could make all the difference.
Why So Many Women Feel Unseen During Birth and Breastfeeding
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- Written by: Beth McDaniel, InnerSelf.com
Imagine going through one of the most physically and emotionally demanding experiences of your life, and then discovering that the research meant to support you was never really designed with your experience in mind. That is the reality for millions of women navigating childbirth and breastfeeding. Their stories, their pain, their questions, and their wisdom have been systematically left out of the science that is supposed to serve them.
InnerSelf Horoscope May 24 - May 30, 2026
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- Written by: Clara Corwin, InnerSelf.com
This week the Moon travels from Virgo through Libra and into Scorpio, building toward a Full Moon on Saturday that will illuminate everything you've been working toward since late April. The Sun sits in early Gemini, Mercury is already ahead of it in the same sign, and Uranus hovers at the very first degree of Gemini — all of this creates a restless, questioning energy. We're in the thick of a conversation season, a time when the air itself seems to demand clarity. Venus moves steadily through Cancer, deepening bonds and attachments, while Mars in Taurus provides ballast — slow, steady, grounded work beneath all the chatter.
InnerSelf Magazine - May 25, 2026
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This week, we invite you to consider the intersections of courage and clarity, of small daily choices and the larger forces shaping our world. From the kitchen table to the corridors of power, from the simple act of choosing what to eat to the deeper work of recognizing what's enough, these stories explore what it means to live intentionally, awake to both our personal paths and our collective moment.
Trump: The Accidental Environmentalist
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Under an administration that spent four years shouting "drill, baby, drill," U.S. greenhouse gas emissions dropped to their lowest levels in decades. Global renewable energy adoption is now accelerating at a pace that would have seemed impossible just five years ago, and the man most responsible for that acceleration never planted a single tree or installed any solar panels. This is the story of how one presidency, through sheer force of dysfunction, did more to advance the climate movement than a generation of polite environmental legislation ever managed.
How to Prevent Frailty as You Age and Turn It Around If It Has Already Started
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- Written by: Robert Jennings, InnerSelf.com
Somewhere around their seventies, a lot of people start shrinking in ways that have nothing to do with height. They grip things a little less firmly. They hesitate at curbs. They stop trusting their own legs. Medicine has a name for this: frailty. And here is the part nobody tells you plainly enough — most of it is not inevitable, and a surprising amount of it is reversible with tools so simple they seem almost insulting.
How Pollinators Protect the Health and Income of the World's Poorest Farmers
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
A landmark study published in Nature has put hard numbers on something ecologists have long suspected: insects do not just fertilize flowers, they sustain human lives. For smallholder farming communities in Nepal, pollinators were found to be directly responsible for nearly half of household farming income and more than a fifth of critical vitamin intake. Lose the bees, and you do not just lose honey — you lose the economic floor beneath millions of the world's most vulnerable people.
How Financial Stress Works and What You Can Actually Do About It
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Money stress does not arrive once and stay put. It rises and falls with each paycheck, each unexpected bill, and each week you spend a little more than you planned. A new study tracking hundreds of workers across thousands of weeks reveals that financial stress is episodic, nonlinear, and surprisingly sensitive to small dollar amounts, which means the way most people try to manage it may be fundamentally misaligned with how it actually operates.
Why Access to Air Conditioning Is the New Measure of Poverty
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
There is a fact about modern poverty that almost nobody wants to say out loud: dying from heat is now, in large part, a function of income. As climate change pushes average temperatures into ranges that the human body was never designed to tolerate for extended periods, the ability to cool your home has quietly become one of the starkest dividing lines between those who are safe and those who are not. The air conditioner, once a luxury appliance, is now infrastructure for survival.
Can Psilocybin Safely Ease Depression and What the Latest Research Reveals
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
For decades, the conversation about depression treatment has circled the same well-worn options: antidepressants that take weeks to work, therapy that requires months of commitment, and outcomes that remain frustratingly inconsistent for millions of people. Now a molecule derived from mushrooms that indigenous cultures have used ceremonially for thousands of years is sitting at the center of one of the most significant psychiatric research shifts in a generation. The question is no longer whether psilocybin does something remarkable in the brain. The question is whether we can use it safely, systematically, and without losing what makes it work.
How To Design an Edible Garden for Any Size Space
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- Written by: Alex Jordan, InnerSelf.com
Most people assume that growing food requires acres of land, a rural address, or at minimum a backyard with decent soil. That assumption is wrong, and it has kept millions of people from one of the most practical and quietly radical acts available to them. The truth is that edible gardens scale down just as effectively as they scale up, and understanding the underlying design logic makes all the difference.
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