One of the most well-known findings in human oxytocin research is its beneficial effect on "mind-reading", i.e., inferring others' mental states just from the eye region in the Reading the Mind in the Eyes Test (RMET).
As a pioneer in the field of psychotherapy with Eating Disorders and body image disturbance, I have developed a keen understanding for the dynamics of shame and trauma and its effect on mind, body, spirit and behavior.
It also has soothing effect on brain and mind thus relieves fatigue and anxiety.
Complementary and alternative approaches (now called integrative healthcare) have indeed been shown in rigorous scientific studies to have some major effects on mind and body health.
It's films like these that can have such a profound and unexpected effect on young minds.
When a film was made envisioning the assassination of President George W. Bush, did Mr. Krugman protest its possible effect on diseased minds?
"I think that we cannot listen to the word 'globalization' for years and years without its having an effect on the minds of young people," says Mr. Frappier.
The Vatican newspaper "L'Osservatore Romano" launched a full-scale attack on the film, labelling it an "incitement to evil crime and vice," deploring its effect on "unsafe minds," and roundly rebuking Fellini for trying to "moralise through immorality".
A common criticism of pornography is that it has a lasting effect on the minds of regular viewers by shaping the way they think about sex and encouraging aggressive behavior.
Mindfulness is one of the easiest, yet hardest things to do and has such a positive effect on our minds and bodies.
