There's no need for an expensive retreat to practice meditation. Try it on your lunch break to recharge your mind and body. Launching straight back into work in the New Year can be challenging, but learning how to meditate can help you stay focused. Feel free to roll your eyes right about now, but numerous studies have shown that meditation can boost creativity, improve sleep quality, and manage stress . "Meditation is a practice to calm the brain by recentering our attention, most often on our breath," says Mel Mah, an instructor at the meditation app Calm .

"We looked at'Battlefield 2042' and said, 'Hey, we really want to push the sandbox forward. What's the most innovative way we can do that, to push the market forward, to push our own franchise forward?'" Gabrielson asked rhetorically in a later interview with The Washington Post. "The first thing we said is, okay, we're going to reimagine all-out warfare. Up the player count, up everything else to really deliver that kind of high scale, epic warfare experience. And then we said there's probably more ways for us to innovate and push further.

Have you ever laid wide-eyed in bed, convinced the rattle of a pipe or the creak of a floorboard was actually caused by something much more sinister? While it's easy to attribute these spooky sounds to the supernatural, researchers now believe sleep could be the cause of late-night ghostly sightings. In an article for the Conversation, Professor of Psychology at Goldsmiths University, Alice Gregory set about to determine how anxiety, REM sleep, and'exploding head syndrome' could offer a scientific explanation for late-night paranormal occurrences. It is during the REM (Rapid Eye Movement) stage of sleep when you are most likely to have vivid dreams. At this stage your body is also paralysed, perhaps as a safety mechanism to stop us acting out our dreams so that we don't end up attempting to fly (Stock Image) If you believe in the paranormal you might not be surprised if you hear stories of deceased loved ones appearing during the night, huge explosions heard just as someone is drifting off with no obvious cause, and other peculiar occurrences.

We've all been told that anxiety can ruin performance. But according to a new study, small doses of it at work can make you better at your job by keeping you focused and motivated. A total lack of anxiety in the workplace, while perhaps rare, may even lead to an unmotivated workforce, researchers claim. Workers who overcome their anxiety and channel it into their jobs may make more effective employees, research suggests. The discovery was made by researchers are the University of Toronto Scarborough (UTS), who looked at the results of previous research on anxiety.

Asked to give a speech in front of an audience, many people experience sweaty palms, a dry mouth and rising sense of panic. Whether it is singing, playing an instrument or taking part in an amateur dramatics production, there is a very real fear in front of an audience of'choking' or forgetting the words on stage. But, believe it or not, we actually perform better when people are watching than alone because having an audience boosts our motor skills, researchers have revealed. Asked to give a speech, many people experience sweaty palms, a dry mouth and rising sense of panic. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University asked participants to play a tricky computer game involving moving a cursor to reach a cross hair target at the optimum speed.