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Sleeping vs. cuddling after sex. If you are a sleeper, here is some good news to tell your cuddling partner. According to a recent study published in December in the Journal of Social, Evolutionary, and Cultural Psychology, the tendency to fall asleep first after sex is associated with greater partner desire for bonding and affection.
Our life experiences, the highs, the lows, and everything in between not only shape us, and stay with us, but the experiences can influence our emotional set point throughout our adult life, according to new research.
Embarrassment Study Yeilds Interesting Results
A new embarrassment study helps explain why people feel embarrassed when they observe other people's flaws and social miscues.
This vicarious embarrassment can occur even if the person you're watching doesn't feel any embarrassment, shame, or discomfort, according to the study published April 13 in the journal PLoS One.
The love hormone oxytocin, known to be plentiful in lactating women and released by men and women during orgasm, appears to do much more than what has been previously thought, like boost empathy, increase trust, build social bonding, while decreasing stress and anxiety according to new research.
A focus mind can equal a happy mind according to new research. In the happiness study researchers have been able to show that when people's minds drifted from the task or activity at hand, they reported being less happy than when they were fully focused in whatever activity or task they were doing.
Staying sober in social situations can be difficult when it seems that everywhere you turn there is a social event where drinking is expected and often part of the norm.
Meditation is a discipline of consciousness that has been practiced for over 5,000 years 
by many different cultures by people from around the world. Meditation can be broadly defined as any activity that keeps the attention pleasantly anchored in the present moment. Practicing meditation and positive thinking can improve your life on many levels, spiritually, emotionally and physically.
Mindfulness Meditation Featured
In mantra and breath meditation, you focus on a word or your breath
and try to empty your mind of everything else. This mental clearing is what most people mean when they refer to meditation. But there is another kind of meditation, a practice Buddhists call vipassana or sometimes called mindfulness, or insight meditation.
thoughts, actions or motivations. Mindfulness involves bringing one's awareness into the present moment (from the past, the future, or some disconnected train of thought).
Life Experiences Effects on Who We Become
Our life experiences, the highs, the lows, and everything in between can have a profound effect on who we become, as well as our health, according to a new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.
The study suggests that, in addition to our genes, our life experiences are important influences on our levels of depression, and anxiety.
