【推荐2】Many of us feel anger throughout the course of our daily lives.    1     If you find yourself getting angry often, yoga can help you to manage the feeling while you are at work or at home. It can help both calm you down when you feel angry and manage anger in the long term.

Develop a regular practice. Practicing yoga regularly will go a long way toward helping you manage your anger. Try to go to class or practice a routine at least three times a week. Practice for an hour to an hour and a half when possible.    2    

Join a class if you are a beginner. Sometimes it can be helpful for beginners to practice yoga with others to know the types of routines they can try.    3     However, if you have a competitive personality, practicing in a group might be bad for your efforts.

    4     Focus on the breath is the central part of yoga practice. It is necessary to focus on your breath to get the most out of the yoga poses you are trying. Take your time, and continue the exercise until you feel calmer.

Keep yoga journals. Keeping a yoga journal allows you to see over time how yoga is affecting your anger. It can also be a place to show the pleasure and frustrations (挫折) of yoga after your regular practice.    5    

【推荐3】It can be difficult to start a hobby. You may have come across one that requires you to buy costly equipment.     1     Find a low—cost hobby and pick something that is interesting and doesn't require a lot of materials to start.

Begin a collection.

Many different collections can be started with little or no cost.     2     Look for rocks, plant leaves and flowers. Take a walk along a beach and look for sea glass. Another way is to begin to choose an object you wish to collect, such as bottle caps you've found on the ground.

Start an art or craft（工艺）project.

    3     Writing, drawing, and more will likely be available to you simply by using what you already have on hand. Look around your house before you begin. Often unused materials can give you an idea for project or help you complete one at a low cost.

    4     Think of a subject you'd like to learn. Search out classes in your area. Your local community center or library may offer new classes for free on anything from square dancing to programming, and you can also search local colleges and businesses for inexpensive classes.

Listen to music.

YouTube contains a large quantity of music you can listen to for free. In addition, you can discover music you like by using online radio stations or services.     5    

【推荐1】The Peer Education Project

The Peer Education Project is a school-based programme that aims to give young people the skills and knowledge they need to safeguard their mental health, and that of their peers (同龄人). By training older pupils to deliver mental health lessons to younger students, we intend to include the programme in the school course as a key source of support to young people experiencing mental health problem.

Why is peer education helpful?

·Young people always turn a deaf ear to adults and are more willing to listen to their schoolmates.

·Young people may feel more comfortable asking questions of their fellows.

·Peer-delivered programmes can provide accessible role-models and advisers.

·The Peer Education Project uses existing social networks to exercise influence and maintain the influence beyond the classroom.

What does the project teach?

·It introduces mental health as something that we all have, like physical health.

·It encourages students to think about ways to stay well, how to seek help and support friends.

·It introduces some common wrong opinions about mental health, and deals with the discrimination (歧视) against people with mental problems.

Our new PEP platform

The PEP platform is designed to be a one-stop shop for The Peer Education Project. Register now to access the resources you will need to introduce mental health into your school course.

Contact us

We are currently working to bring the project to more schools. Call or email us if you’d like to take part, or to find out more about what’s involved.

【推荐2】If music makes you smarter and exercise helps you to think, surely exercising to music can turn you into a clever person.

A team of scientists from Ohio State University did experiments on 33 volunteers who were getting better from heart disease after operations. They found those volunteers who exercised while listening to Italian musician Antonio Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons did much better on language ability tests than without music. It is also used in medical fields for patients who have had head hurts because of its moderate tempo(舒缓的节拍).

“Exercise seems to cause positive changes in the nerve(神经) system and these changes may improve the learning ability of people with heart disease,” said the psychologist Charles Emery, who led the study. “And listening to music is thought to enhance understanding. We just wanted to put the two results together,” he added.

The volunteers said they felt better emotionally and physically after exercising with or without music. But their improvement on the test doubled after listening to music during exercise. Scientists have proved that music can be good for health and education. It helps reduce stress and sadness, encourage relaxation or sleep, wake up the body and improve memory and thoughts.

Scientists have been studying the results of exercise to music on learning and understanding since the early 1950s. By 2000, psychologists were using Mozart’s music, especially his violin pieces, to help children with speech disorders. Mozart was chosen because his music is not overexciting and has clear structures. A study showed that students who listened to Mozart’s violin pieces and exercised went on to get higher marks in an IQ test. With important exams drawing near, your parents will not probably allow you to listen to music or play sports. But perhaps now you have good reasons to argue with them.

【推荐3】Unlike well-trained dogs that are able to distinguish (辨别) between common orders like "sit" and "stay", some "Gifted Word Learner" dogs can associate objects with words.

One year ago, Shany Dror and her colleagues at Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary discovered that some dogs have an obviously excellent natural ability to acquire object names. To study this further — how many words they can learn in a certain period of time and whether they can still remember the words after an extended period — they looked for more "Gifted Word Learner" dogs online and, in the end, they found six qualified dogs.

The researchers sent each dog's owner six new toys. Owners then had six days to teach their dogs the names of the toys with their usual methods. These generally involved playing with the dog and each toy, often for just half an hour a day. At the end of the six-day learning period, the research team used online video conferencing to test the dogs' abilities to pick out each toy by name from a number of old and new toys. Each owner sat with their dog in one room and told them to fetch a given toy from a second room. All the dogs successfully brought back at least five of the six new toys. The team then sent another 12 new toys and repeated the process. All the dogs successfully brought back at least 11 of the toys.

Afterwards, half the new toys were stored for one month, and the other half for two months, and the dogs were tested again after each storage period. Five of the dogs remembered all the toy names after one month, and four dogs remembered all or almost all of them after two months.

Dror says these dogs, which are raised in the home like human children, provide an excellent animal model (模式) for studying the way humans acquire language. An animal model offers a basis of comparison for understanding which language-learning skills are specific to humans, and which aren't. "We want to understand what makes humans different," says Dror.