It works by switching off nociceptors in the peripheral nervous system, and therefore preventing pain signals getting to the brain. This represents a potential new breakthrough in a world which has ...

Readers respond to the question of how prayer or intention has helped them make it through periods of great physical pain.

As part of Xpress' annual Wellness Issues, we asked six local poets to share their thoughts on the benefits of slowing down and being present in the moment.

This year, the world's biggest happiness study will see 30,000 volunteers try different joy-boosting activities, to find out ...

If we read Ditlevsen’s poems through the lens of Lessing, you could say that Ditlevsen’s so-called sentimentality is a poetic anachronism that functions as a subversive tool, an anachronism on a par ...

The words of these Black poets cut to the core of the human experience and the realities of being Black in America ...

One chronically overstimulated guy headed to a silent meditation retreat to spend ten days tuning into his psyche. That’s when the real noise began.

Ever wonder just how many real-world references there are in the history of Magic? Join Nick Wolf as he starts counting from ...

NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Irish poet Pádraig Ó Tuama about a new poetry anthology he edited called "44 Poems on Being with Each Other" and his own collection called "Kitchen Hymns." ...

Belief is your safe passage—the door through which all healing resides. Why? Because your perception is your reality. Believing in the science of TMS ( tension myositis syndrome) sends a message of ...

He lays out the case for why such a system still represents “the best way to organize and direct the deep tensions that ...

In his gothic-surrealistic works, the artist casts his characters not as autonomous artistic agents but as acquiescent, adaptable instruments ...