insert_link Lifestyle Are you really in love? How expanding your love lexicon can change your relationships and how you see yourself Language can steer your heart in unexpected ways. VLADGRIN/Stock via Getty Images Plus Georgi Gardiner, University of Tennessee What is love? Could those feelings you label as love be something else? What about infatuation? Obsession? A passing fancy? Being smitten? Enthrallment? Beguilement? Lust? A crush? A squish? Platonic admiration? Why do people categorize some attachments as romantic love but not others? Suppose Holly meets someone on vacation. They quickly become […] today14 February, 2024 20
insert_link Health / Medical Stressed out? Why mindfulness and meditation help us cope with the world By Lucy Draper-Clarke, University of the Witwatersrand In a world fraught with anxiety, stress, and environmental and humanitarian disasters, people are looking for ways to cope. Many have turned to practices originating in ancient eastern philosophies for guidance. Among these is mindfulness, which is linked to meditation. Lucy Draper-Clarke, researcher and author of The Compassionate Activist, spoke to health & medicine editor Nadine Dreyer about looking inwards and cultivating compassion, […] today10 January, 2024 36