pain

Alternative treatments are often better for noncancer pain, the study found.

A little goes a long way.

Meditation with a mystical edge? Don’t knock magick ’til you’ve tried it.

They have more casual sex, too.

This could lead to new pain relievers that mute the sensation without increasing the risk of addiction.

If you want to feel less pain, meditate more often. According to this new research, it can genuinely erase the emotional reaction to pain. And since it’s long been said by coaches and some doctors that most pain is within the mind, here’s scientific proof to back that assertion up.

What are you capable of? David Goggins’ amazing and grueling feat of persistence shows how tough the human mind can be.

Everybody wants to be happy, right? Who wouldn’t try to get as many pleasurable experiences as they could? Well, if this philosopher is right. You wouldn’t. 

Scientists are finding that loneliness has real medical consequences, and the brain sees it as pain.

A new study raises troubling questions about the use of commonly prescribed opioid painkillers.