What does science say about photography and happiness? After completing Yale University's Science of Well-Being programme, fine art photographer Maja Kerin found the research that confirmed what she had known intuitively for years — that pausing to notice beauty, camera in hand, genuinely changes how we feel.

The belief that you must earn rest before you deserve it is perhaps the most damaging idea our culture has given us. A reflection on creativity, stillness, and permission. By Maja Kerin.

The Daily Pause is a 10-minute attention reset you can do at work using extended-exhale breathing (4 seconds in, 6 seconds out), mindful noticing, and optional phone photography to restore calm, focus, and creative clarity.