At some point today, you will most likely walk. You may even go for a walk. It’s one of our greatest gifts, and when we manage early in life to use our legs to get around, it’s cause for celebration. Parents call their parents just to report on the event. The very fact that walking— or whatever form of ambulation you use to get around—is so central to our lives makes it a ready focus for mindful, meditative attention....

Our hair isn’t the only thing that needs to be kept clean in order to maintain a healthy scalp. Your hair tools like your hairbrushes and combs should be cleansed on a regular basis. Your hairbrush can attract a lot of debris, oil, and dirt that creates an unhealthy environment for your strands. Whether it’s your boar bristle brush or detangling brush, washing your hairbrush is simple. The cleansing tools you’ll need to clean your brushes can be found right in your home....

Wet Waves vs. Side-Swept Waves Before we dive into that glistening tub of gel, it bears noting that for big-ticket evenings, Hollywood still, hands-down, loves a formula. Red carpet events usually bring out glitzy, feminine, tried-and-tested looks that check all the boxes of movie star glam: romantic hair, airbrushed makeup, velvet skin, a coif (usually all at once). Side-swept curls and all bouffant everything are staples for formal events—and no shade, because they are all classics for a reason—but it certainly sets the stage for more avant-garde trends like the wet waves look to shine way brighter....

Here’s the recap: On a cold January morning, in a Washington DC metro station, a man with a violin played six Bach pieces for about 45 minutes. While he played, approximately 2,000 people went through the station, most of them probably on their way to work. Six adults stopped for a short while, one of them recognizing the violinist. Twenty-seven people gave him money (a total of $52.17). A number of small children seemed interested in stopping to listen, but parents tugged them along hurriedly....

Despite its unapologetic, classist references, it is, at its core, the ideal look if only we weren’t bogged down by the wear and tear of everyday, 9-to-5 drudgery. Rich girl hair is hair that gleams with a healthy, freshly blown-out shine, but with an ever-so-slight bend, as if it’s been slept in till noon (because what workweek?). The whole look is uptown polish, but with a downtown twist. Whether it’s called rich girl hair or upgraded normcore, we’re all about anything that makes us look chic, but with a low-key glam....

Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about ’em, click here. But before we get to the mom-approved goodies, we HAVE to give a giant shoutout to Carisa from Messes to Memories for designing such uber-beautiful printables for us! Seriously, we could not have made this idea happen without her magical touch. Thanks again, Carisa! A Way to Say, “Thank you, Mom.” Alright, let’s dive in! You may be asking exactly what to do for Mother’s Day and how it might ever be possible to tell Mom just how much you love and appreciate her....

That’s a question Jared Minkel, assistant professor and director of the adult behavioral sleep medicine program at Brown University, answers in this video from Happify. “One of the most common difficulties with getting to sleep is people just can’t turn their minds off,” Minkel says. “You might be tired and sluggish all day, but you lay down in bed and all of a sudden your mind just starts going and won’t stop....

Married to a Spender? Married to a Saver? It seems like, in most marriages, people are either one or the other. Savers feel nervous about their lack of a cushion. Spenders feel strapped down and confined. So how in the world do you make it work? How can you put your differences aside and balance the books – both in your check book AND your marriage? According to this infographic, spouses normally aren’t on the same page regarding money in their relationship....

But Louis Cozolino, professor of psychology at Pepperdine University, is deeply engaged with another idea. In Timeless: Nature’s Formula for Health and Longevity, he emphasizes the positive impact of human relationships. “Of all the experiences we need to survive and thrive, it is the experience of relating to others that is the most meaningful and important,” he writes. His thinking grows out of the relatively new field of interpersonal neurobiology, based on the recognition that humans are best understood not in isolation, but in the context of their connections with others....

Men’s Hair Care Products You Need to Look Your Best 1. Best Products for the Shower First, add your own hair cleanser to your regimen and stop using hers. Opt for Men’s 2-in-1. Dove Men Fresh & Clean Fortifying 2-in-1 Shampoo + Conditioner delivers visibly thicker and stronger hair. Not only will you save time, but you’ll love the sophisticated men’s fragrance. No more smelling like a bouquet of flowers! So you’re a real low-maintenance guy....

A lot of naturalistas opt for using D.I.Y. concoctions like rinsing with oil for treating their hair types because it’s budget-friendly, cost-effective and easy. However, there are a few things you should know before immersing your hair into a pool of oil. Read on to learn how you can add this beneficial step into your natural hair care routine, why you should be doing it and what oils to use:...

The sensational euthanasia angle crowded out the scientific story about the remarkable advances being made in connectomics—the science of figuring out a brain’s complete wiring diagram—and the once-absurd dream that it might one day be possible to upload a mind into the cloud, Ray Kurzweil-style, achieving cyber-immortality. Although “it will be at least 50 years before the first human mind is successfully uploaded and 100 years before it’s routine,” Hayworth said, he regards it as not only scientifically possible but ethically imperative....

Campbell has shown up for others in her work as a hospice nurse, chair of the Acute and Specialty Care department at the University of Virginia School of Nursing, and hospice chaplain. Lately, she’s found a renewed sense of purpose. At a hospice conference, she wandered into a room offering refreshments and soon realized she was at a presentation about LGBTQ+ healthcare. The presenter was a trans man who shared a story about a hospital stay where he had to be cared for in a bed in the hallway because nurses weren’t sure if he should go in a shared room with men or with women....

This “it’s-work-to-seem-fine” coping mechanism illustrates just one way in which depression complicates your life. Not only are you exhausting yourself pretending to be OK, you may find it hard to rally support from friends, family, and coworkers who only see how well you seem to be functioning. While there is rapidly growing recognition of the very real difficulty and damage caused by depression, the stigma of past decades and centuries lingers....

You are the… Everyone needs some words of affirmation once in a while (learn more about words of affirmation by clicking the link at the bottom of the post). Tell your sweetheart what he means to you today with this cute quick-and-easy printable quote idea! Disclaimer: This post contains affiliate links. To learn more about ’em, click here. The inspiration for this cute, quick and easy, DIY gift came while on an airplane....

“We know that being mindful is really good for a lot of explicit cognitive functions. But it might not be so useful when you want to form new habits,” says the Georgetown study’s leader, Chelsea Stillman, in a Sunday NYT Magazine article titled “Breathing In vs. Spacing Out.” The author of the article, Dan Hurley, also the author of Smarter: The New Science of Building Brain Power, sums up the study this way: it’s up to us to find the balance between “breathing in” and paying attention (which is equated with practicing mindfulness) and “spacing out,” or letting our attention go....

Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence, by Daniel Goleman In today’s world of Internet bombardment, it’s easy to become distracted by social networks, video games, and emails to the exclusion of more important activities, like having an uninterrupted conversation or finishing a work project. What is this costing us as a society? A lot, writes bestselling author Daniel Goleman. In Focus, Goleman makes the case that paying attention is a lost art form that needs resurrecting, especially for our kids....

Her delight was refreshing, and it didn’t alter the underlying fact that she felt heavy-hearted and off-kilter because of the state of the world. She nonetheless found momentary joy in a bowl of cherries. Joy can be like that—small, unassuming, disarming. It’s hiding in a cherry, a song note, or a pair of comfortable shoes. Often, we have to coax these small moments of joy into our awareness. We have to let our guard down and allow them rub up against us like a purring cat....

Evolution must have had something else in mind, though, or sadness wouldn’t still be with us. Being sad from time to time serves some kind of purpose in helping our species to survive. Yet, while other so-called “negative emotions,” like fear, anger, and disgust, seem clearly adaptive—preparing our species for flight, fight, or avoidance, respectively—the evolutionary benefits of sadness have been harder to understand…until recently, that is. With the advent of fMRI imaging and the proliferation of brain research, scientists have begun to find out more about how sadness works in the brain and influences our thoughts and behavior....

Dr. Jutta Tobias Mortlock outlines how anticipating stress as a team and responding collectively can transform workplace challenges. 5 Ways to Navigate Workplace Stress as a Team 1) Brainstorm around your challenges As a leader, share a personal concern about an upcoming challenge and invite team members to reciprocate. Where do concerns overlap and diverge? What do individual team members focus on? How can the team prepare to master the challenge together?...