Spiritual News

Psychobiotics: When Fermented Foods Become Medicine for the Mind

informa@spiritual.it (Staff Spiritual) (Spiritual News) — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Grandmother's kefir, the miso of Japanese tradition, German sauerkraut, Korean kimchi, Indonesian tempeh, the kombucha that has conquered supermarket shelves around the world: fermented foods that cultures far removed from one another have cultivated for millennia, often attributing to them virtues that went well beyond nutrition. Digestive virtues, certainly. But also — in the intuitions of ancient physicians and in sapiential culinary traditions — something more subtle: an effect on mood, on… (following)

Tai Chi: The Moving Meditation That Protects the Brain and Regenerates the Body

informa@spiritual.it (Staff Spiritual) (Spiritual News) — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Three hundred million practitioners across more than one hundred and fifty countries. This is not the reach of an Olympic sport or a global gym chain: it is the current worldwide diffusion of Tai Chi Chuan, the ancient Chinese martial art that over recent decades has crossed oceans and cultures to become one of the most scientifically studied tools of integrated wellbeing in the world. And the results of that research are redrawing the way we think about movement, aging and the health of the… (following)

Writing to Heal: Science Rediscovers the Therapeutic Power of the Written Word

informa@spiritual.it (Staff Spiritual) (Spiritual News) — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Someone has always done it instinctively: opening a notebook in difficult moments, entrusting to paper what cannot be said out loud, tracing words as if digging a channel through which emotion can finally flow. For decades this practice was relegated to the private sphere — the adolescent diary, the intimate gesture that required no explanation. Today, scientific research is taking it seriously, and the evidence emerging is more solid and more nuanced than anyone could have expected. Expressive… (following)

Eating Green to Feel Better: The Surprising Effects of Plant-Based Nutrition on Mental Health

informa@spiritual.it (Staff Spiritual) (Spiritual News) — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

There is an idea gaining ground with increasing scientific solidity in international research — one that could rewrite the way we think about the relationship between food and the mind: what we put on our plate influences not only the health of our body, but also that of our brain, and in ways far more direct and rapid than previously believed. At the center of this quiet revolution is plant-based nutrition, studied with growing interest not only for its cardiovascular and metabolic benefits,… (following)

Intermittent Fasting and the Brain: How Stopping Eating Can Make You Think More Clearly

informa@spiritual.it (Staff Spiritual) (Spiritual News) — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

There is an apparent paradox at the heart of one of humanity's oldest dietary practices: temporarily stopping eating can, under certain conditions, better nourish the mind. Ritual fasts, spiritual abstinences, periods of Lenten observance and purification: every great religious and sapiential tradition has recognized in voluntary fasting something more than simple deprivation. An act of inner cleansing, a threshold toward more lucid states of consciousness. Today neuroscience is beginning to… (following)

Meditation and Cellular Aging: When the Mind Protects DNA

informa@spiritual.it (Staff Spiritual) (Spiritual News) — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0200

Imagine being able to act on your own aging not through drugs or surgical interventions, but through the quality of attention you bring to your inner life. What until a few decades ago would have seemed like mysticism — or at best an evocative metaphor — is today the subject of serious scientific research, published in the most authoritative journals in the world. And the data emerging from that research is rewriting our assumptions about the boundary between mind and biology. At the center of… (following)

Yoga and Self-Esteem: How Inhabiting Your Body Transforms Your Mind

informa@spiritual.it (Staff Spiritual) (Spiritual News) — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0200

There is a question that anyone who has ever begun practicing yoga knows well, even if they rarely put it into words: what happens, deep down, when you learn to be inside your body instead of fleeing it? The answer emerging from the most recent scientific studies is surprising in its concreteness: you begin to treat yourself better. Not as a motivational slogan, but as a measurable psychological process, with a clear direction and identifiable mechanisms. The link between yoga practice and… (following)