Ever felt your heart race the second your inbox pings? You’re not alone. When pressure hits, our brains tend to spiral with anxious thoughts like “What if I messed up?” or “What if they’re waiting on me?”

Apart from the obvious fact that we feel a lot better, what other advantages does happiness offer? Happiness appears to have many other advantages.

Fads aside, there truly isn’t a “better” or “best” time to make changes and ditch certain bad habits

We’re nearing the end of the year, which means energy levels are lower than usual, but this is no reason to panic. That feeling of burn-out and increased stress levels around this time of year affects a good percentage of people.

A hobby is something that you do for fun or pleasure. You do it during your free time, and you don’t get paid to do it. Since hobbies are leisure activities, a lot of people discard hobbies as a “luxury” they can’t afford.

Children in the developed world watch an average of 4 hours of TV a day. Should parents be concerned about how this may be affecting their children’s brains and behaviour?

Visualisation describes the practice of trying to change one’s outer world through changing one’s inner world, or thoughts. This type of technique runs through many spiritual practices and self-help manuals and is advocated as a way of achieving exalted aims

Humankind’s love affair, indeed obsession, with chocolate has lasted since the wonders of the humble bean, from the Theobroma cacao tree, were first discovered by humans as far back as 1900 BC in Mesoamerica.