According to the story, an ingenious CEO and her team invented a female personal sexual pleasure device—yes, a vibrator—that, somehow, operates hands-free and produces “blended orgasms,” which sound like fruit smoothies, but apparently are orgasms achieved by simultaneous inner and outer stimulation. Inventor Lora Haddock claims she fell off a bed the first time she felt one. That experience sent her on an engineering quest to produce this double pleasure on demand....

One of our favorite toys for teaching basic breath awareness is the Hoberman sphere, a geodesic dome that can be folded and unfolded. We call this tool the breath ball because we can mimic the movements of breathing through the dome’s movements: as the dome folds inward, we imagine the out-breath contracting; as the dome expands, we imagine the lungs expanding on the in-breath. The Hoberman sphere might be more remarkable than the fidget spinner....

Try This Guided Meditation for Body and Mind Try This Guided Meditation for Body and Mind For this practice, you can sit or you can stand, or you can lie down. Just get comfortable, with your back relatively straight, your body relaxed and your heart open. Noticing How the Mind Affects the Body Noticing How the Mind Affects the Body If just thinking about a lemon can make your mouth pucker, can you imagine how thinking about other things affects our bodies too?...

Results from a study published in The Journal of the American Medical Association show that primary care physicians who participated in a year-long course on mindfulness became less burned out, less emotionally exhausted, and more empathetic toward patients. Seventy physicians enrolled and participated in the four components of the course—mindfulness meditation; writing sessions; discussions; and lectures on topics like managing conflict, setting boundaries and self-care. For more on this, read the article in The New York Times....

It squeezed out some tough competition to win this award It squeezed out some tough competition to win this award That is not only our opinion, though, as our readers seem to agree. Despite the fact it’s quite affordable, it has a lot to offer. On top of that, it has a 6.1-inch display, and relatively thin bezels, which makes it kind of compact. It squeezed out the competition in the form of the ASUS ZenFone 9, Samsung Galaxy S22, and Sony Xperia 5 IV in order to win this award, if you ask our readers....