Box of delight

According to a new study out of Michigan State University, writing about your feelings may help you perform an upcoming stressful task more efficiently by freeing up cognitive resources that would otherwise be used to reduce stress during the task itself. This is the first neural evidence suggesting that expressive writing provides relief from cognitive overload.

“Eastern medicine” and “Western medicine”—the distinction is a crude one, often used to misinform, mislead, or grind cultural axes rather than make substantive claims about different theories of the human organism. Thankfully, the medical establishment has largely given up demonizing or ignoring yogic and meditative mind-body practices, incorporating many of them into contemporary pain relief, mental health care, and preventative and rehabilitative treatments.

Feeling sad, mad, critical or otherwise awful? Surprise: negative emotions are essential for mental health

The workplace can be source of positive and negative emotions. Here are 5 negative workplace emotions and how to deal with them.