Mindful repetition of a mantram, a sacred word, effectively reduces symptoms of combat-related posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and insomnia, results of a randomized controlled trial show.

It’s a very satisfying thing to learn that there’s a word for an experience you didn’t know could be described by a word. Learning that, for example, clinomania is an “excessive desire to stay in bed” ...

'Increase' and 'decrease' are serviceable English words, so why is it my mission to winnow them from the prose that I edit daily? As a technical editor in a university department, I do not demand ...

This post is Part 18 of a series of posts on the psychological and practical benefits of daily practice. In this series, I’ll explore the elements of daily practice, varieties of daily practice, ...

If you are a parent of a toddler, you are surely familiar with the feeling of hearing the same word over and over again in one day. It could be the word “amma,” “no,” or the name of a favourite toy.