Emotional stress

Caffeine-free and packed with benefits: The drink you should consume at least once a day

It is delicate, slightly sweet, and highly refreshing – and it is packed with health benefits, meaning even one cup a day is enough.

Green tea
 Cats and dogs, illustrative

Who's a good boy? Study suggests interacting with pets may not improve stress, negative emotions

Israelis in a bomb shelter

"I am functioning, but I have no energy for anything": The phenomenon threatening Israelis

One of the most significant factors in accelerated aging is chronic stress

The 4 things that make you age – and you have control over them


What do music's chills reveal about your brain?

What causes over 55% of people to experience chills while listening to music? Let's delve into the scientific explanation behind this fascinating phenomenon.

 55% of the population experienced a sensation while listening to music

Stress makes vaccines less effective - Israeli study

TAU’s groundbreaking study shows that tension enhances antibody quantity and quality but impairs immunological memory.

 Person getting vaccinated.

Can practicing mindfulness support daily emotional processing? – study

“Mindfulness benefits individuals’ present experience, and might directly promote higher-level processing of emotions," the researchers wrote in their study.

 An illustrative image of mindfulness meditation.

Tips to better your emotional intelligence and become a better person

Emotional intelligence is essential for self-improvement and bettering your health and social relationships. Here are four basic principles from an 80-year study that can help.

 FOCUS ON the positive in others.

Stressed? Here's 17 quick ways to calm yourself down

You can't completely avoid stress in life, but you can learn to manage it better. There is no doubt that we'd be more satisfied living lives full of peace and calm instead of pressure and stress.

 Stress (illustrative).

How can you help your child when you don't know what's wrong?

When kids are in a certain mood, a parent's role is first of all to give tools to deal with what their feeling, and not necessarily to solve all their problems.

 Child chewing gum.

How does social media impact your emotional health? - study

The study offers a new empirically tested model for understanding how our use of social media is associated with a cluster of specific personality and behavioral traits.

Woman with smartphone is seen in front of displayed social media logos in this illustration taken, May 25, 2021.

7 ways to offer support and Jewish strength to friends or loved ones facing cancer

This is especially the case for young people who might never have had a family member or friend diagnosed with cancer before.

 Illustrative image of a breast cancer ribbon.

10 ways to deal with feeling overwhelmed and help ourselves

While exhausted and overwhelmed as a country, it behooves each of us to rise up in spite of our malaise, and come up with an action plan that strengthens us all.

 FOCUS ON the positive in others.

Good news reports can make negative news more bearable - study

The authors said they hope their results would push the media to incorporate more positive coverage and constructive or solution-oriented framing for complex, important issues.

 Good news reports: Can they make the bad news more emotionally bearable? (Illustrative)